What’s Wrong with J McLaughlin: Episode 5

1. I am STILL waiting to be discovered.

2. Most of my best stories aren’t even true.

3. I’m a liar, a cheat, and a thief.

4. I chain smoke.

5. I adore cheap mayonnaise.

6. I am secretly proud of my terrible table manners.

7. I haven’t had sex in over a year. Maybe two years. Actually, 6 years.

8. I can’t stop scrolling!!!

9. I just want people to think I’m cool.

10. I am a loser.

& I want to tell you all about it.

J McLaughlin is a mean, funny, petulant, weird queer old maid obsessed with understanding and unpacking anxiety, ecstasy, true love, dark thoughts, inner peace, death, desire, enlightenment, sex, smoking, drinking, fear, rage, paranoia, guilt, greed, pleasure, failure, egomania, megalomania, & other people.

Four out of 5 robots agree: “J McLaughlin’s desperate megalomania will make you feel better about your own problems.”

Credits

Written by – J McLaughlin

Performed by – J McLaughlin

Accessibility .

Sensory warnings: Haze

Content warnings: Adult language, sexual content, themes of consent, drugs of alcohol use, depictions or mentions of violence (surrealistic depictions of rage-fuelled revenge scenarios), potential nudity.

About the Artist

J McLaughlin is a shy, queer anarcho-bourgeois musician and performer. They have been entertaining, enthralling & occasionally unsettling burlesque, drag, stand-up, theatrical & music audiences for over 30 years. Working from deep within an incandescent cathedral of optimistic rage, McLaughlin’s solo performances use intimate narrative, dark humour, & surreal ribaldry to de/reconstruct the cognitive dissonance of living within a cisheteronormative imperialist white supremacist capitalist patriarchy.