Jordan Firstman

Kate Berlant, The Death of Dimes Square, Shawtie Bae, and more.

November 6, 2023

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Jordan Firstman is a Los Angeles-based writer, actor, and comedian, and the star of Sebastián Silva’s latest film, Rotting In The Sun, which premiered at Sundance earlier this year. Besides having written, produced, and acted in projects such as Search Party, The Other Two, Big Mouth, and Ms. Marvel, Jordan got famous for his viral Instagram series of impressions and character sketches back in 2020. He was recently profiled in publications including Vanity Fair, The Hollywood Reporter, and interviewed by Robert Pattinson in an article for Interview Magazine that is too good. The satirical and meta black comedy Rotting In The Sun is available to stream on MUBI and Perfectly Imperfect readers can check it out for free with this link. Jordan has great taste, and lucky for us, he’s here to tell us what he’s been into.

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Bruce wagner - the marvel universe

I’ve been shouting this queens name for the last year and I’m not gunna stop. The marvel universe was the last piece of art that made me fall to the knees, stay on my knees, suck till it was finished, leave bruised. Fat Joan forever. He’s a genius, he’s hot, he’s my dad and my mentor and my muse. He also wrote “Maps to the stars” and it has a 15 year child actor saying faggot jew (or is it jew faggot?) in it!!! It’s mia wasikowska’s most iconic performance. I would die for bruce wagner with his cock in my mouth. He’s straight too ! His girlfriend Jamie is an angel too. I wanna have dinner at sunset tower with them every night.

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Shawtie Bae

Oh my gatos ! In this point of view, shawtie bae is richness, famousness, Gucciness, dulceness, sometimes sadness, but always entertainmentness. She is my favorite tiktoker of 2023. Anyways ! Dis gurrrrr. These are all shawtie bae original phrases. I don’t think people realize how hard it is to make a catch phrase that sticks. Shawtie bae has a new brilliant catch phrase every 2 weeks. Her running through a 2000 person crowd of fans at the mall with a military security team is peak culture.https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPR7LMoJV/https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPR7LMoJV/

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The death of dimes square

Ur done bitch ! The plan didn’t work! Saying the word based is 8-10x more cringe than me doing an impression of bananas breads publicist.

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Martine Rose

It’s just the coolest. Deep deep levels of cool ingrained in her. She should have gotten the Louis Vuitton gig over Pharrell. It’s kinda the only thing I wanna wear. It’s so effortless.

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TLC they are calling it I think?

Idk it’s a new drug I tried at whole festival in Berlin. It’s a derivative of 3mmc or 4mmc but it was goooood. I took it right before Juliana huxtables set and mama she was flyin.

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“Joni” by sza

She didn’t put in on SOS but it’s one of my favorite sza songs ever made. She posted it with a video on her Instagram. It makes me cry.“I can't stop till my shit shineI can't stop till I rеach myPerfect…Tic-toc, till it go awayTime waits for nary manI rеgret all the things we said in hasteKnowing the golden hour awaits for meTwilight calls my name”God bless you sza. you changed my life.

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Niki Takesh’s close friends story

Sorry you can’t all be granted access but she is making me LOL more than any other close friends on IG. I love her.

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“Kate” by Kate berlant

A transcendent theatre experience. I knew it would be genius because it’s Kate but I literally couldn’t sleep the night I saw it thinking about the layers of brilliance. It’s like space, you wanna understand it, but it’s so vast in its scope that it starts to hurt and you start to feel small if you think too deeply about it. So you just have to laugh.

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Haribo world mix in the fridge

I like my gummies super hard and cold. The world mix is great because it has everything, although I don’t love the ones with the white kinda nuggety texture in the middle. I never eat those.

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Tom Ford bronzing gel

Mix with a little light moisturizer in your palm and it’s the best glow of your life. MEN… use this. I wear it almost every time I go out.

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