have you ever forgotten to eat at work and left super late so you end up eating McDonalds? the worst. However the best sprite on the market.

I know I usually write about music but I’m about to talk a bit about like ok, good, great. And then just trash, and I’m going to use the French wine system to do it.

Tonight I was having a conversation with two girls at the bar, one whom lives around the corner and frequents the restaurant. Some guys were hitting on her and when they left I said don’t you have a boyfriend anyways, she goes wellllll not really. Weird the first time I met her a gentleman introduced himself as her boyfriend. he lives in Detroit she lives here. I said ” I knew it cause” and then I said never mind. She asked me to continue and I said I shouldn’t, but I always do what I’m not supposed to so fuck it. I said I knew it because I flirt with you and you keep coming back. Her friend said good luck she’s a tough one to crack, and I said “respectfully, I prefer a challenge, and I know I could if I wanted to” It was a cocky moment of self worth.

Based on the “boyfriend” I met, I mean cmon, it would take a single date. Her friend said “it’s gonna take more than a sexy thick mustache” which really threw me off. Anyways I said listen, I’m grand cru, and the rest of the men she spends time with are like new world chardonnay. They didn’t understand, and you probably don’t either.

Around this time of year when they start to get ready to pick grapes in France there’s 3 levels.

1. cru or village level
2. Premier cru
3. Grand cru

Grand cru is the best of the best, premier cru is second, village level is 3rd. To put it into an easier perspective we have all 3 levels from a producer of chablis aka French chardonnay. Their village level is $75 a bottle. The premier cru, $150. The grand cru? $300

And then of course you have new world chardonnay. New world chardonnay comes mostly from California, is big, oaky, and buttery, it’s truly disgusting. It’s meant for middle aged women that are poor and I know that’s harsh.

I basically said I am grand cru, and what I mean is once you have grand cru you don’t really want anything else, it gets to the point you’d rather spend the extra money. If you blind tasted a chablis grand cru and a Kendall-jackson chardonnay side by side.. The kj chard doesn’t hit the same as the grand cru, and no pun intended.

This is all to say, I had this really weird moment where I actually said to someone something I never say out loud out of fear of sounding like a cocky dickhead. I said you’re not really going to find men better than me especially at our age. Because most 28 year old men are boys, and I am not. It took a lot of effort and suffering to get here, but I feel as though I’m the full package and maybe that’s delusional. I always see the 666 rule online for women looking at men. easy I’m 3/3. But aside from things that don’t matter, I’m a man in the sense that I can be as violent as needed, but I can also be soft and vulnerable. Most men can do one or the other. I also won’t really chase you because if you want to be in my life welcome, and if you don’t, I don’t have the time and energy to try to convince you, it’s your loss.

Don’t get me wrong I’ve met people, even recently, who when I met I knew were too good for me, and that’s most people, but I’m also slowly coming to realize I’m a bit better than I give myself credit for. Cheers to grand cru.

Where the skies are gold not gray,

J.