AS Review - May 27, 2014

AS Elections: What’s behind the decline in voter turnout?, p. 5 “We’re hilarious and we can’t help it:” What it’s like as a woman in the malecentric world of comedy, p. 6 Explore identity at The Naked Truth On Stereotypes, p. 9 Manatee Commune is ready to rock summer music festivals, p. 12

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IN THIS ISSUE NEWS 4 Afro-Brazilian Festival

Western’s Capoeira Club offers a chance to learn capoeira and other AfroBrazilian dances

9 The Naked Truth on Stereotypes

An event centered around exploring identity and breaking down stereotypes

STUDENT LIFE 5 AS Elections The Associated Students responds to low voter turnout in the spring elections

12 Manatee

Commune Q&A with Grant Eadie, who is booked for some huge summer music festivals

FEATURES 8 Women in comedy A look at how femaleidentified students stand out in male-dominated comedy clubs

12 Babes, the

service pup Meet Western senior Cort Anderson and his service dog, Babes

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REVIEW Kylie Wade Kelly Mason Isaac Martin Trevor Grimm Andrew Wise C Hayley Halstead Dominic D’Angelo Designer Keghouhi Bedoyan Adviser Jeff Bates

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Kids speed down the zip line set up in the Old Main Quad during Back 2 Bellingham on Saturday, May 17. Photo by Trevor Grimm // AS Review

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EVENTS Erotic Poetry Night May 27 // 7-9 p.m. // Old Main Theater // $2 w/ WWU ID & $3 w/o Explore sexual expression through spoken word, dance and performances at this safe-space event sponsored

by AS Sexual Awareness Center, AS Women’s Center and Voices for Planned Parenthood Club.

Ask A Cop! May 28 // 6-8 p.m. // AW 304 // Free Utilize this opportunity to socialize with local police officers - hear their experiences, ask them questions and enjoy coffee and doughnuts with them.

Hosted by AS Legal Information Center.

Jeopardy Magazine Release Party May 28 // 7 p.m. // Whatcom Museum Lightcatcher Building 250 Flora St. // Free

Wednesday Night Concert Series: LAKE w/ Secretary

2014 American Red Cross Benefit Concert

May 28 // 8 p.m. // UGCH // Free

May 30 // 6-7:30 p.m. // UGCH

Come see LAKE perform at the final concert of spring quarter’s Wednesday Night Concert Series at the Underground Coffeehouse. This event will also celebrate KUGS 89.3 FM’s 40th anniversary.

Suppor t the WWU Red Cross Club and the American Red Cross Mt. Baker Chapter by donating and attending the free 2014 American Red Cross Benefit Concer t.

An Evening with Al Madrigal May 28 // 7 p.m. // TBD // $8 w/ WWU ID & $12 w/o AS Productions Special Events presents stand-up comedian Al Madrigal, a regular correspondent on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and current star on NBC’s About A Boy. Come for a night of laughs.

Multicultural Day May 29 // 5-7:30 p.m. // Red Square // Free

Hip-Hop Saved My Life May 31 // 7:30-10 p.m. // PAC Concert Hall // $5 w/ WWU ID & $8 w/o Join WWU Hip-Hop Association and Sini-GANG in celebrating hip-hop and transforming the negative connotations associated with the genre at the SiniHHA Showcase. The event will feature performances from both dance groups.

Afro-Brazilian Festival May 31 // 9:30 a.m. - 6 p.m. // Carver Gym D // Free w/ WWU ID & $5 w/o

Celebrate the different cultures that make up Western’s community at Multicultural Day. Learn about the diverse cultures on campus and enjoy multicultural performances.

Learn the Afro-Brazilian martial art of Capoeira and other dances at the AfroBrazilian Festival hosted by Western’s Capoeira Club. For more information, check out p. 4

May 28 // 6-7 p.m. // Fraser 2 // Free

Stand Up Comedy Klub Show

The Naked Truth on Stereotypes

Enjoy free laughs from Western’s standup comedians as they perform with animals from Animals as Natural Therapy.

This event is free, but donations will be accepted to benefit Animals as Natural Therapy.

Laugh out loud with Stand Up Comedy Klub at their last Underground Coffeehouse show of the quarter. See a variety of comics perform at this free comedy show.

Join Jeopardy Magazine in celebrating its 50th anniversary. There will be free drinks, snacks and a reading performance of the magazine.

Hyucks for Pups

May 29 // 7 p.m. // UGCH // Free

June 1 // 7 p.m. // VU MPR // Free Join the AS Ethnic Student Center and AS Social Issues Resource Center in breaking down stereotypes through a variety of performances. For more information, turn to p. 9

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Western’s Capoeira Club brings dance experts to campus for a day of learning and celebration

By Andrew Wise Are you ready for some rhythm? Check out the Afro-Brazilian Festival in Carver Gym D on Saturday, May 31. The event will be hosted by the WWU Capoeira Club with support from the department of theatre and dance and will include classes in capoeira, samba and West African dance.

The festival is free for students, $5 for community members and $10 for the festival and the dinner that will follow it.

WWU Capoeira Club president Lindsey Gard said there will be lessons in all three forms of dance.

“Everyone’s welcome, whether you’ve done it before or haven’t even heard of it,” Gard said.

Gym D will be jumping with dancers from 9:30 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Capoeira is an Afro-Brazilian martial art

dance form. Its origins are in Africa, but it traveled to Brazil with slaves carried by the Spanish. The dance, which involves a lot of combat-inspired moves, was used by enslaved people to surreptitiously practice fighting, while overseers thought they were dancing.

“There’s so much history and culture, it’s really rich. Capoeira isn’t just movement, it’s the community and the music,” Gard said.

Mestre Silvinho, who teaches Western’s Capoeira Club and is also a leader of the International Angola Capoeira Foundation, will be leading the capoeira portion of the day. Silvinho has been teaching in the Seattle area since 2004. He taught capoeira and AfroBrazilian music to homeless youth in his native Brazil prior to teaching in Seattle.

Gard said that many of the people who attended the event a year ago were capoeira enthusiasts who sought out the opportunity to have a class with Silvinho, but she said new people would be able to jump in and learn

along the way.

Samba will suit beginners as well, with easy moves for everyone, whether you can swing your hips or not.

Manimou Camara will teach the West African dance. Originally from New Guinea, Camara now teaches in Seattle. He has been a part of some of the most renowned West African dance companies in the world, primarily as a percussionist, and is now the artist in residence at Seattle Public Schools, teaching classes all over the state.

Gard said that this event provides a unique window to a culture through a slightly more exciting avenue than a textbook.

“Everyone is welcome to engage in unique cultural practices first-hand by singing, dancing and eating together,” Gard said. “So much of the time in academia it examines cultural practices from a distance and students are not able to connect with the material through the lens in which they view it.”

Poster By Izaac Post // AS Publicity Center

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The AS Elections: What’s behind the decline in voter turnout?

By Dominic D’Angelo Every spring the Associated Students holds elections to determine who will sit on next year’s AS Board of Directors. The seven members of the board vote on issues affecting student life, tuition prices and how the money allocated to the AS will be spent.

In the 2013 spring election, 1,935 votes were cast for AS president. This year, only 1,057 votes were cast in the presidential race. The number marks not only a decline from last year’s voter turnout, but also means that only around 7 percent of the student body voted in that race. In some of the other races, the vote totals were in the 900s. To explore why voter turnout was so low this year, we sat down AS Elections Coordinator Nic Doherty and AS Communications Director Mason Luvera.

Nic Doherty, AS Elections Coordinator Q: How is voting marketed and how has your office tried to engage voters?

The elections this year included three weeks of campaigning, with one of those weeks being voting. We put up posters, paid for Facebook advertising and put up fliers on the on-campus news boards. We also sponsored candidate debates and put individual candidate profiles in on-campus newspapers. This year we expanded the number of polling stations from one to two, putting one on south campus. We also expanded our online operations. Additionally, this was the first time that we did campaign style posters for Get Out The Vote drives.

Q: How do you feel about the fact that only between 900 and 1000 students voted in most races?

The number of students that voted this year is really disappointing. It’s in line with the downward trend we have seen in recent years.

With the increase in publicity we were hoping to stop that trend.

Obviously that didn’t happen. It’s a sign that we are going to have to make significant changes in the AS in the years to come with regard to candidates and elections.

Q: What’s your personal opinion as to why students didn’t vote this year?

I feel like students this year were less concerned with the issues on the ballot as far as referendums go. Usually when something like fee increases are included we see a lot of turnout. This year there weren’t any of those measures. I think another problem though is that students generally don’t know what the AS board positions do.

Q: What do you think can be done in the future to increase voter engagement?

I think making the Board of Directors into an organization with higher profiles. Further, the demonstrative lack of student engagement in AS events is something that we need to address as an organization.

Mason Luvera, AS Communications Director Q: How is the voting branded and promoted throughout campus?

The elections period is branded by a couple of different areas. It’s through the Representation and Engagement Programs, but it also goes through the Communications Office. We do it with a bit of a different approach. We do all of the strategic communication and try to make sure that there is equal access to all of student media. We do this with on campus things like the Western Front, but we also use things like social media.

Q: What was your ultimate reaction to the fact that only between 900 and 1000 students voted in most races?

I think we were disappointed that only 900 or so students voted.

Obviously it was our plan to get 100 percent student participation, so to see turnout go down again it is disappointing. Our office discussed why that was and we concluded that there must be other reasons within the AS that are causing the decline. We don’t really know what it is, but we do know that the Associated Students is looking into it.

Q: Do you have any ideas on how more students could be reached next year?

Our student body is ever changing. New students join, old students leave. It’s hard to create any standardized branding campaign that will work every year. There are constants like Facebook, Twitter and email. But what the students are interested in changes every year.

So it’s difficult for any communications strategy to be implemented when you don’t have that baseline consistency. For next year we are going to utilize our office to communicate with the elections director and emphasize the importance of elections and what the board members do. This year we spent a lot of time telling students to get out there and vote, but not explaining what they were voting for. So a big emphasis for next year will be rebranding the candidates and the positions into things that the students can understand and feel invested in.

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“We’re hilarious and we can’t help it”

What it’s like as a woman in the male-centric world of comedy

By C Hayley Halstead & Kelly Mason The comedy world is no longer a boysonly club. Women comedians are taking over the stage, television and… Western? Almost.

Western has three major outlets for all things comedy: the Dead Parrots Society improv group, Western’s sketch comedy show You Would! and Stand-Up Comedy Klub (SUCK), all of which allow students to share jokes and laughs, hone their comedic skills and perform in front of an audience.

Although most of the members in the groups are male, the women that are involved aren’t afraid to step into the spotlight.

Junior Katie Heath owns the stage as the only woman in the cast of 11 that make up the Dead Parrots Society. You Would! and SUCK have a stronger female presence. Junior Anna Snedden and sophomore Summer Storholt are up-and-coming comedians in both You Would! and SUCK. Though it does make them stand out, they don’t let their gender stop them from pushing themselves to be the funniest person in the room.

“It’s definitely challenging because I think guys are considered funnier than women, but women are just as smart and just as funny,” Storholt said. “I think that stereotype should no longer be a stereotype.”

Storholt and Snedden say that while their gender hasn’t slowed them down from entering the world of comedy, it does sometimes govern what people expect from them.

“Some people think it’s weird to have female comedians,” Storholt said. “I love proving them wrong.”

Snedden and Storholt describe their humor as somewhat crude, not afraid to cover a variety of topics from sex to poop.

“Most of the people who have come up to

me after a set are girls and they’re like, ‘Oh I really liked your vagina jokes.’ Guys don’t really compliment me on those ones because I think it makes them feel uncomfortable – which I like,” Storholt said. “I like being able to cross the line and tell it how it is. I don’t hold a lot of stuff back.”

When they do venture into the type of jokes people don’t see coming, the results

interesting, the feedback you get.”

Some people think that female comedians use crude jokes to appeal to a male audience, but Snedden says that’s not the reason she prefers them.

“My best joke is about Weird Al sex dreams, which is usually a big hit. It’s just the nature of me,” Snedden said. “It’s not me trying to appeal to a male audience, which

Comedian Anna Snedden discusses life, death and relationships before You Would!, KVIK’s live sketch comedy show. Photo by Isaac Martin // AS Review

can be very different than how people react to male comedians.

“There’s different expectations for the content of your comedy,” Snedden said.

“After my first stand-up set one of my friends told me I had too many dick jokes, I was like I don’t think there’s a limit to dick jokes. It’s

people might assume I’m doing, it’s just me being me. I have to tell some stupid poop jokes, everybody has to.”

Snedden says another obstacle female comedians face in predominately male groups is just finding ways to get female characters into sketches.

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“I find myself having to ask the boys, ‘Can that character be a woman? Does he have to be a male? What benefit is having no women in the sketch? Is it really funnier that way?’” Snedden said. “Sometimes it doesn’t change, but it inspires conversation about the importance of women in comedy.

Women don’t have to be an afterthought.”

Despite some of the challenges, Snedden says she has never felt excluded from the comedy clubs on campus.

“I’ve never really felt limited, I’ve just felt alone. You can feel like the only girl in the room because sometimes you are the only girl in the room,” Snedden said. “But I feel like I’ve really been able to grow at Western as a comedian. I thought I would never have the courage to do stand-up, but it was men

“I like being able to cross the line and tell it how it is. I don’t hold a lot of stuff back.”

-- SUMMER STORHOLT

who pushed me to do it.”

Snedden says having women in comedy can start to break down some of the other barriers women face.

“It’s important for other women because there’s the issue between females that we’re constantly fighting with each other for power,” Snedden said. “We’re not supposed to like women until they prove that we should like them. It’s very competitive – not just in comedy, in life. But we’re funny, we’re hilarious and we can’t help it.”

Storholt agrees that the only thing that it should take to belong in the world of comedy is a good sense of humor.

“Good comedy should be good comedy, Sophomore and student comedian Summer Storholt unleashes her comedic prowess on the regardless of gender,” Storholt said.

Viking Union. Photos by Trevor Grimm // AS Review

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Last week on campus: Zip lines, music festivals and more

Left: Joji Harada performs at End Fair in the Fairhaven Auditorium on Saturday, May 17. Right: A science demonstration makes a splash in Red Square at Back 2 Bellingham. Photos by Trevor Grimm // AS Review

Left: A Hawaiian dance is performed about a stubborn donkey at the Hui ‘O Hawai’i Luau in the Viking Union MPR on Saturday, May 17.

Center: Students and other community members walk in Relay for Life on Saturday, May 17. Right: Kids and kids-at-heart enjoy the amusements in Red Square during Back 2 Bellingham. Photos by Trevor Grimm // AS Review

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Explore identity at the Naked Truth on Stereotypes

By Andrew Wise // Poster By Jesi Maakad Not to be confused with Bellingham’s naked bike ride, the Naked Truth on Stereotypes will take the stage in the Viking Union Multipurpose Room at 3 p.m. on June 1. The event, cosponsored by the Associated Students Ethnic Student Center and Social Issues Resource Center, is an innovative theater production featuring an ensemble of students telling their own stories of isolation and identity.

ESC Coordinator Polly Woodbury has worked alongside SIRC Coordinator River Reier to fund the event. Woodbury said that they have received funding from five different academic departments along with some AS funding.

The students performing in the event were chosen through an open casting call and audition on April 18. Last weekend, they went through an intensive group program with Western Alum Stephanie Hazelrigg, the event’s creator, and other facilitators, completing identity exploration activities and writing activities. Woodbury will be on stage discussing her own identity.

“There’s such a huge variety of what will be talked about and the stereotypes that will be presented and then debunked, just broken apart,” Woodbury said. “As for me, it fluctuates. I’m racially ambiguous, people think I’m all types of things and it is hard for me to affirm my identity. It’s about affirming who you are, not just saying, ‘people think I’m this.’ It’s about asking, ‘who am I, really?’”

Woodbury says the process has helped her come to terms with that question.

“I’ve just been a lot more mindful of who I am and where that comes from. For me, who I am comes from who came before me, like my parents and my community. That’s really important. So I’m constantly thinking about my interactions, how I talk, what I’m talking about, [asking] does that really reflect who I am and what I stand for? I’ve just been a lot

more mindful,” she said.

Reier is not planning on being in the production, but helped during writing circles and other activities during the group program with Hazelrigg and the other facilitators.

“We do a lot of activities that involve movement in the process of helping us talk about our stereotypes and work through that,” Reier said. “Stereotypes are usually words, but we want to get at how that has a physical effect on people. I think it just gives people more freedom to express themselves in ways that maybe they aren’t able to in classrooms.”

Both Woodbury and Reier hope that attendees leave the show aware of their own tendency to buy into stereotypes and with the ability to stop themselves from doing so.

“We want people to come away trying to be more aware of how we stereotype other people, because it is a subconscious thing that we do, but also to recognize the way that stereotypes do impact people and shape the construction of our identities,” Reier said. “Our goal is to get people thinking more consciously and critically about it, and trying to actively disrupt stereotypes.”

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Living at slug pace: Andrew Wise confesses his love for banana slugs

By Andrew Wise // Design By Keghouhi Bedoyan It was a very late night. I made the sleepy walk toward my dorm. I took the stairs toward the Ridge slowly, with deadlines and due dates rattling around my brain. I stared down at my feet as I walked, focusing on each concrete step, when suddenly my foot paused in mid-air, hovering six inches off the ground. Below it was a long, slimy, mild-yellow pilgrim, making his own slow progress home.

I’m not from the West Coast originally, but while

squeezed like a tube of toothpaste by a car.

The life of a slug happens at a different pace. Its concerns are few and everything else is just an existential journey.

So no, I did not step on the slug. I, instead, sat a couple of steps above and watched it. It didn’t seem to mind. As I watched it, I considered the insignificance of the deadlines and due dates. I realized that the truly necessary parts of my life are as simple as that of the slugs - love, food and a very close relationship with the ground beneath my feet. If I could only slow my existence down to slug pace and see, taste and smell every moment in a completely present state, some sort of nirvana would surely be within reach.

Suddenly - well, maybe not suddenly, it took several minutes - a second slug emerged closely following the slime trail left by the first. Slugs code information in their slime about where they’ve been, where they’re going and whether or not they’re in the mood for lovin’. There’s actually research being done to use slug slime like a microchip and code hundreds of gigabytes of information in a quarter-sized disc of slime. But all this new slug was concerned about was some slug love.

I didn’t stick around to watch. I love slugs, but that would have been a bit strange. I finished my long trek home and crawled into bed a little less worried about meaningless things. My thoughts were focused on love, food and adventures - the keys to slug bliss.

So as you walk or run or bike around this city and this part of the

camping on Whidbey Island, I awoke one morning to find a bright yellow slug hanging out in my shoe. Thankfully, I spotted the little guy before shoving my foot in the shoe. After careful extraction, I set him on the ground and spent some time watching him go about his slug business. I say “him,” but slugs are hermaphroditic, so assigning gender is really an assumption in this case.

The other people I was camping with were all from Washington and they were confused by my fascination “Try, at least for a moment, to slow yourself down to slug with the thing. Slugs are, as one person pointed out, bapace, to feel the ground under your feet, the sun on your sically a stomach with a foot that eats people’s vegetable back and the air moving in and out of your lungs.” gardens.

But I think they are a lot more than that. The slug’s aimless migration in search of food and love mirrors our own, only it is a lot better at taking its time. And yes, a lot of slugs pay the world, make sure to keep an eye out for slimy sojourners. Try, at least price for their indifference to the ever-present dangers of life, especially for a moment, to slow yourself down to slug pace, to feel the ground life near any sort of human settlement. They are strewn here and there on under your feet, the sun on your back and the air moving in and out of campus after a rainy day, half crushed by a shoe, split in half by a bike tire, your lungs. You might find slug slime to be a trail worth following.

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Meet Babes: Man’s best friend is also man’s savior

Western senior Cort Anderson plays with his service dog, Babes. Photo by Trevor Grimm // AS Review

By C Hayley Halstead When a cream-colored Labradoodle runs through campus enthusiastically greeting students, Western senior Cort Anderson trails behind, grinning at his best friend as she puts smiles on people’s faces. Her name is Babes and she is a two-year-old fifth generation Australian Labradoodle.

Babes is more than just a pet, she is Anderson’s companion and service animal.

Service animals are trained to help perform tasks for those with disabilities. At Western, service dogs are permitted in university buildings to assist individuals with physical, mental or sensory disabilities.

In the eighth grade Anderson was diagnosed with diabetes. When he moved away from home and came to Western, he decided he wanted to get a service animal.

Anderson met Babes’ litter when they were only two weeks old. He saw Babes and says he

instantly felt a connection.

Babes is now trained to react if something happens to Anderson. In an emergency, Babes will alert attention to the situation in order to get Anderson help.

“If anything happens to me, she’s a tag,” Anderson said. “If something happens to me, she is another body people will be aware of if she’s running around.”

Babes is in the process of learning how to be a diabetic service alert dog. Dogs can be trained to detect changes in blood sugar that might be dangerous. Anderson is training Babes to do so by slowly exposing her to samples of his blood. Ultimately, she will be trained to paw or go to Anderson in the event that there is an issue with his blood sugar.

Babes is equipped with a service jacket with contact information in the event of an emergency.

Typically, people are urged not to touch service animals in order to prevent distracting

the animals, but Anderson says Babes is great at interacting with people and he encourages the Western community to get to know her.

“She puts smiles on people’s faces and that’s the goal,” Anderson said.

Anderson said that he sometimes encounters people who don’t understand why he needs a service animal, but that for the most part the Western community has been open minded and welcoming to Babes.

“A lot of teachers are really great about it, and they’ll get to know her and realize she’s just like a person,” Anderson said. “She talks a lot with her face. She has great facial expressions. She’s really humanistic.”

Anderson’s roommates say it’s easy to see the strength of their relationship.

“The relationship is all about synchronization. She knows how he is feeling and he knows how she is feeling,” said Adam Bortfeld, Anderson’s roommate. “They’re like a unit in a lot of ways.”

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Manatee Commune gets ready to rock summer music festivals

By Dominic D’Angelo // Photo By Lauren Stelling Western sophomore Grant Eadie is the force behind Manatee Commune, a local band that’s about to play some pretty big stages.

Eadie is set to perform at Capitol Hill Block Party and Bumbershoot. Before he spends a summer blowing people’s minds with his soloelectronic sets, we sat down with him to discuss his inspirations, his plans for the future and what’s behind the name Manatee Commune.

Q: How did your sound come to be?

Honestly, it really came from just who I am. It’s really just a culmination of everything that I like. I like a lot of Gold Panda, Bonobo, I also listen to a lot of Tycho which is super chill electronic, but the same time I’ve had this big classical influence. So when I started producing I wanted to capture all of these artists that I listen to, but also use all of the skills that I had learned. It kind of just came together.

Q: Why the name Manatee Commune?

I couldn’t really think of anything too original, so I was sitting at my computer one day in the Ridge dorms in freshman year, and I was on Reddit and I saw this GIF of a manatee making contact with the glass of its aquarium.

I like manatees a lot as it is, but that GIF itself just captured it for me. I came up with manatee and I wanted to do a tribute to Animal Collective’s style because I was really going through a Merriweather phase at the time.

So I wanted to do ‘Collective’ but collective sounded too cheesy, so I went with commune.

I thought that’s a great name to start out with.

this many people want to be at something that I’m doing before so I’m really excited for that.

I guess I’m mainly nervous since I’m back to back with a bunch of signed artists. I’m playing with Wu-Tang, like that’s ridiculous!

it is really limiting. You only have so many hands. I have this idea in my head, but its really difficult to translate that to a live setting where everybody is dancing and being loud.

One of the things I really like is when I make a Q: How do you feel about your success really great transition and I make contact with and the big festivals that you are playQ: What are you excited to do in the some kid who is just having his mind blown. ing at? future?

I love making people’s minds get blown. So I The big ones that I have lined up are Capitol Probably the biggest one will be to really guess the objective would be to create a set that Hill Block Party and Bumbershoot. I feel main- hone my artwork. I’m still working on how to I could look out upon the crowd and see that ly excited, also really nervous. I’ve never had perform live, and as an electronic musician everybody’s minds are getting blown.