The first time I saw Jordy Marilyn was on the cover of DIG magazine in Baton Rouge.

Relocating from Berlin , Germany, where beautiful, creative, colorful and freaky people are in abundance, to Baton Rouge to live with my 90 year old grandmother ,my girlfriend & 3 legged dog , I knew it was going to be an adjustment from my creative , social scene, to a much more subdued environment,  that is an understatement to say the lesast. 

 

 

For anyone not familiar with Baton Rouge, let me paint a picture. It's the home of home of Jimmy  Swaggart ministries,LSU football, guns are encouraged, as is camoflage ensembles, tigres and fleur dis lis are in no shortage..So seeing someone on the cover of a local magazine, looking like a black Leigh Bowery,  was like a breath of fresh air , and a life line , the article was about his fashion label, and all photos of him were glorious.I felt better knowing this person existed, and better yet , lived in my new town. I thought, I HAVE TO KNOW THIS person. So I tracked him down , and we met. We became instant friends.

 

 

I suggested we make an EP, I would do the music, we could put out a picture disc, see what happens. And while we did do one song together ( You can hear in the music player on the Mangina home page). I have been moving at turtle place on the EP, JORDY however  has been moving full speed ahead with a new song "Canibal Creamery" (produced by Travis Leeper of Ganz Feld ) and a new video filmed & edited by Henry Cobb & Tommy Nichols of Left-E-Video. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mangina:Jordy what was the concept of your video? 

 

Jordy: I drew alot of inspiration from some of my favorite drug and crime movies, movies like Gummo, Pulp Fiction, Requiem for a dream, Set it Off. I'm a low budget bitch, and in a way - a lot of the films i just mentioned appear to be "low budget" visually, but they stick with you once you watch them. I've never heard someone say 'yeah i saw Gummo once, but don't really remember anything about it.' I wanted to create a video that didn't cost any money to make but was still "trippy", powerful and a bit horrifying too. It shows a day in the life of a cannibal living in the south, different activities he/she participates in during that day.  They are some hidden messages in the video, but i think it stands better if i don't say anything about them. I think people will appreciate it more that way. Hank Cobb and Tommy Nichols of Left-E-productions shot it for me and they were so supportive of my vision, when I told them i wanted to have shirtless guys puking ice cream, their immediate reaction was 'HELL YES'. Its safe to say my concept worked, it's gotten almost 1,000 views in just two days and i'm very proud of that. I worked with my good friend and part time lover Ganz Feld on the production of the track. I was SUCH a fan of his music, and when I approached him with the idea of doing a sort of witch house, chopped and screwed track, he also was immediately onboard.

 

Mangina: You have quite a collection of tattoos ranging from "rock and roll nigger" a big ass american flag in the shape of a pot leaf, an upside down cross, a devil and the newest addtion "Hood witch" 

What does hood witch mean to you?  

 

Jordy: Hood witch is the essence of who i am. I'm from the south and I relate to the salem witch trials a lot. Some people accuse me of being evil, whether i am or not, they can't do shit about it. Back then i would've been hung JUST because i was being suspected of evil doing. I practice some witch beliefs while others I believe to be shit. It also describes my style too, I've met a ton of witches and they all look the same to me. My style changes often, but hood witch is the overall message of who i've become.

 

Mangina: When I first read about you, it was about your fashion label, can you tell me about that?

 

IMBEANCE at first was JUST a fashion production. I produced club kid fashion shows which are largely inspired by the fashion shows Leigh Bowery used to produce. They're outlandish, they're unapologetic, they're tacky, they're beautiful and mind-blowing at the same time. I create each piece by hand, some are from scratch, some are thrift store finds that i give a new purpose in life so to speak. Nowadays IMBEANCE has grown and it's more than a label, its my collection of work and a party to some people i guess. I've done fashion shows, I've done performance art pieces and now i'm creating and collaborating with my friends on new music. I've learned how the other two art forms - fashion and performance - can sort of bleed through the music. So that's my main focus right now, the music and it's presentation. 

 

Mangina: Seems like when you organized a party, the coolest , most stylish, interesting people of Baton Rouge would crawl out of the woodworks, and suddenly it was like being in a new city. How did you do that? 

 

Jordy: Years and years of being the most openly queer kid in Baton Rouge and making my sexuality the last thing i talked about. People want to see your flaws, i've learned; that's the difference between just a "fierce bitch" and a cultural leader. I want to be a cultural leader, I never tried to act as if I was above the common human being, and people respect that about me and its what attracts most people to me i think. The DIG magazine cover helped my career a lot too. Since I've lived in Baton Rouge, I don't think I've ever seen any publication find someone that represented the underground community without selling out and watering down who they are for an article. Plus I'm a really chill mother fucker, I enjoy the stage and the costumes and all that, but I also enjoy smoking a blunt and kicking it with my friends and fans. I don't give a fuck if you dress up or not, I look deep inside people. Between that and my stage presence I guess it makes for an attractive person I guess?

 

Mangina: Do you have any plans to organize events in Chicago? 

 

Jordy: Most definitely! But, I've gotta dig and find the real beautiful, authentically - innovative people here first. Just like I did in Louisiana. 

 

Mangia: Are you aware you are criminally attractive, possibily the best looking and most stylish creature in Baton Rouge (myself  and GF excluded) , and now you are gone.... devastating....

 

Jordy: I am just now becoming aware of my sex appeal. In a lot of ways I don't feel exactly physically attractive, but I do feel sexy. Its like Dr Frankenfurter from Rocky Horror Show. I feel like I look disturbed, and when you see how unapologetic i am about it, that's what makes it sexy. 

 

Mangina: why did you leave BR? Why chicago? 

 

Jordy: For the sake of my artistry I had to go. It took me about 6 six or seven years to reach the point I reached just before leaving. I love BR and I made of awesome friends and got to work with some incredible people. Truth is though, I don't really have another six or seven years to spare. That city is growing, but in small doses. If I would've stuck around Jordy Marilyn and IMBEANCE would have suffered and to be perfectly honest with you it probably wouldn't have a pretty ending, hell i may still have a ugly ending. But I owed it to myself to see where else could I thrive and grow. I had a opening in Chicago to move, so I took it. I may stay here a year, two years, who knows. I just know that I want to get inspired and watch my evolution as an artist continue and in order to do that i had to get out of BR. I feel like I did my part in the south though. I hope I had an impact on someone's life down there.

 

Mangina: All the most talented and gerogeous artists I know are almost always NOT having sex. 

Is this true for you too? 

 

Jordy: I find that out alot too. Not the case for me however. I probably enjoy sex more than the average american. It inspires me, and of course it's always safe. I'm a sucker for guys with long hair who look like they're dying, and Lurch Addams from the Addams Family. 

 

Mangina: Top, Bottom or Switch?

 

Jordy: Both. Most people probably see the way I dress and make assumptions about my sex life. But I'm not ALL feminine. My masculinity usually is shown mostly during sex. Something comes over me and I do feel the urge to pound a guy roughly in the heat of passion. Then afterwards I like to put on a dress and heels and black lipstick and smirk at him from across the dinner table like his good little gal. 

 

Mangina: I know you are inspired by horror movies, can you give us a list of your top 5 favorites.

 

Jordy: I'd have to say All of the chucky series first, I have a tattoo in tribute him. Rob Zombie's House of 1000 Corpses, which i also have a tattoo in tribute to. Silence of the Lambs. The Conjuring. and to be cheesy, the Scream series, which i strangely get turned on when watching. I don't know, maybe it's hot chicks getting axed that does it for me...nah it's that creepy telephone voice.

 

Mangina: What inspires you? 

 

Jordy: rockstar girlfriends. aliens. female rappers. guys who have prince alberts. horror films. Elvira. flaws. transexuals. strippers. human evolution. space. Marina Abramovic. Alice Glass. really fucked up videos and photography. cheap and tacky fashion. Nick Knight. Girls in the hood. the movie party monster or any drug film. Chucky. milk. acid experiences. mentally insane people.

 

Mangina: Any live shows on the horizon?

 

Jordy: Not yet. I've only been in Chicago two weeks. I'm taking this time to refine my stage presence, really discover what i want my sound to be like as far as the music is concerned, get inspired by the work of others, I'm also writing music and finishing up some tracks I started in Baton Rouge. I participated in an female arm wrestling league in Baton Rouge called BRAWL that I loved so damn much, I was their ring girl and it pained me to move and know that I wouldn't be able to be apart of the BR league anymore because getting to be a ring girl is like a dream for a guy like me. Rebecca (the founder of the BR League) referred me to the Chicago league however, and I just sent them my photos and videos as a ring girl hopeful. Fingers and legs crossed I get it. 

 

Mangina: What can we expect to see from you this year?

 

Jordy: Good question. You'll find out soon i guess. I'm already thinking of future ideas as far as my style goes. I will of course keep putting out music, and redefining the presentation of the music as well. I'm not too sure what's in store for me in Chicago, I'm just going to keep eating my bathsalts and saying my prayers.

 

Mangina: Anything else you want to include? 

 

weird faggot for life right here! and if anyone sees Ethan Kath of Crystal Castles tell him I want his dick.

 

Jordy has since moved from Baton Rouge to Chicago, but no matter where you are in the world you can follow what he is up to online here.