tommy jordan, wearing the right thing in the right place
July 10, 2010
tommy, a dear friend and an amazing talent, an endless well of energy, ideas and enthusiasm. tommy is never far from a positive spin on a situation, which would be a good lesson for me to notice (especially after knowing him for 17 years) if i were the kind of guy who assimilated those sorts of lessons. in late 1996, when told that his record label had changed their minds about allocating $100,000 for him to make a music video, he decided to make one himself, for free. geggy tah was on the road at the time, but at various points they would stop, go to circuit city, buy some tapes and put them in the demo cameras on display there. they made an entire video inside of circuit city for likely under a hundred bucks.
tommy jordan, lemons into lemonade. (see below)
tommy has been a tricky guy to photograph, as he almost never stays still for very long. years ago i swore he was most himself in a still photo as a motion blur. somewhere out there steve croes has a photo of me literally chasing tommy down the streets of north hollywood, trying to get him to stop moving long enough to do PR photos for geggy tah. these days, though, the moments of stillness are more frequent and every once in a while i catch something a little less blurry.
also it should be noted that the way to his heart is with ridiculous amounts of tabouli. in case you’re wondering.
circuit city “lotta stuff” video below, as well as – somewhat randomly – a woman hula hooping to tommy singing “holly oak”.















