{"id":39475,"date":"2015-11-11T02:00:21","date_gmt":"2015-11-11T08:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/?p=39475"},"modified":"2015-11-10T23:40:28","modified_gmt":"2015-11-11T05:40:28","slug":"off-the-mic-duo-with-malicious-intent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/2015\/11\/11\/off-the-mic-duo-with-malicious-intent\/","title":{"rendered":"Off The Mic: Duo with Malicious Intent"},"content":{"rendered":"

Off The Mic<\/strong><\/h2>\n
\"Malicious<\/a>
Left to Right: CJ and Judge Dredd<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Name: <\/strong>Connor Janzen
\n<\/strong>DJ Name: <\/strong>CJ
\n<\/strong>Status at KU: <\/strong>Transitional Graduate Student
\n<\/strong>Major: <\/strong>Architecture
\n<\/strong>Minor: <\/strong>Philosophy
\n<\/strong>Favorite Color: <\/strong>Charcoal<\/p>\n

Name: <\/strong>Josh Gaston
\nDJ Name: <\/strong>Judge Dredd
\nStatus at KU: <\/strong>Graduate student
\nMajor: <\/strong>Teaching English as Second Language (TESL)
\nEmphasis: <\/strong>Linguistics
\nFavorite Color: <\/strong>All shades of blue<\/p>\n

DJ Shift: <\/strong>Malicious Intent, Saturday at\u00a010pm-12am
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n

Flammy Huo:<\/strong> First up, why did you guys choose to join KJHK?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Connor Janzen:<\/strong> There had been an elapsed period when the\u00a0Malicious Intent program had not actually been running. So Jake Waters, my friend from high school, was Programming Director here at the time and he said \u201cHey, no one\u2019s hosting this program and I know that you love metal music. So why don\u2019t you come and host the program?\u201d I was drawn to KJ just because there\u2019s a really open-minded community here. They kinda let you play the music that you enjoy the most, and I think that\u2019s really cool.
\nJosh Gaston:<\/strong> I was born and raised in Lawrence, actually. So I started listening to KJHK randomly one night and Malicious Intent was playing. It was probably when I was 14 years old and I was like, \u201cWoah, there\u2019s metal music on the radio. This is insane.” So I just continued my listening to KJHK, mostly Malicious Intent, until one of my best friends in high school started hosting the show. KJHK has been a big part of Lawrence\u2019s history and KU\u2019s history for a while now.\u00a0Malicious Intent has been a part of that as well.<\/p>\n

FH: It\u00a0sounds like you both have a history with KJ. So do you guys just DJ or are you involved in other parts of the station?<\/strong>
\n\"Malicious<\/a>CJ:<\/strong> Last year, I joined the content staff, so I publish articles on the website as well. I\u2019m still doing that this year. My schedule\u2019s very hectic and unpredictable. I spend a lot of time just with my degree, and they\u2019ll all of a sudden say, \u201cHey, you probably need to spend ten hours to work on your project between like Monday to Wednesday, so go ahead and do that.” I actually do like the content staff because I work in web development and stuff like that. Last year I worked with John Dillingham, he was the Content\u00a0Director then. Now it\u2019s Mason, who I was also in high school with, so that is\u00a0really cool. I\u2019m still writing articles that are focused primarily on metal music and stuff to do with our show. Just this last week, we published an article of a reunion show with a lot of past Malicious Intent DJs. I had a lot of fun doing that.
\nJG:<\/strong> I work with Arts and Culture staff, so I just finished a restaurant review of Hank Charcuterie, the local butcher shop. Now\u00a0I might start writing a piece on local entrepreneurs,who are making their own products and selling them.<\/p>\n

FH: I know both of you are not professionally in the media or journalism field. What made you want to be a DJ? Just because you guys enjoy music?
\nCJ:<\/strong> That\u2019s pretty much it, I think. I\u2019ve probably listened to at least six hours of music a day since I was in elementary school. Music is a huge part of my life. Being able to come here and play the stuff I like for people, that\u2019s really a big draw for sure.
\nJG:<\/strong>\u00a0I have a really difficult time with silence. I also listen to a lot of music. I\u2019ve been listening to metal since I was probably 12 or 13 years old and I\u2019ve been listening to other styles of music for varied periods of time. It\u2019s just a passion of mine.<\/p>\n

\"Malicious<\/a>
Judge Dredd: Victim of Flash Photography<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

FH: What brought you both into metal music?
\nJG:<\/strong> I remember very specifically sitting in my dad\u2019s car, at the gas station, Philip 66, on the corner of the sixth street. It was specifically at this spot that I heard Metallica on the radio, and it was one of their older tracks that was really heavy, a song called, “One.” I was blown away. I was like, \u201cWhat is this? This is insane.” I just like the way that metal kind of explores the darker side of the human experience, and how it can sound other-worldly and transcendental, but also other bands sound very visceral and very real. So there\u2019s kind of a wide variety of sounds that you can hear and that\u2019s another thing that I really appreciate about metal.
\nCJ:<\/strong> For me personally, it was around the same age. I always listen to rock music and stuff that was slightly more aggressive that you can sort of get access to on radio. By the time when I was 12 or 13, I really started to take guitar playing seriously. I would stay up really late at night to watch Headbangers Ball on MTV because the musicianship was really impressive to me. I didn\u2019t really like the raspy or growling vocal at first, because it can be really intense, and my parents didn\u2019t like it either. I had to sort of hide that for a while. But what I remember was sort of seeing the musicianship at work. When I can see that, I become inspired to improve myself as a musician. Going forward, I started to listen to more and more aggressive bands. To a lot of people, it all sounds the same. But to someone who grew into the genre, I think you become accustomed to all the tiny little nuisances. So something that was important to me was that the music grew with me.<\/p>\n

FH: It really seems like you both love music a lot.\u00a0What kind of a role does music play in your life and how does it impact you?
\n\"Malicious<\/a>JG:<\/strong> It\u2019s the soundtrack to my life. Whatever style of music I\u2019m listening to, you can match a mood that you\u2019re feeling. It\u2019s kind of therapeutic in a way. If you\u2019re having a crappy day then you can listen to music that will make you feel happy but you can also listen to music that will help you explore why you feel crappy. I don\u2019t know, there\u2019s something about the power of music that brings people together but also allows you to explore yourself. I find that\u00a0particularly intriguing and magnetizing.
\nCJ:<\/strong> Similar answer. If I\u2019m going from\u00a0one place to another, whether be walking, riding a bus or driving, music is on all the time. When I\u2019m at home, music is on all the time. So those are things for me that allow me to focus, that allow me to channel different emotions. Sometimes I literally shut the lights off in my bedroom, turn on the soul-sucking black metal album, and just lose myself in it, because believe it or not, it\u2019s really meditative. It allows you to sort of sink into yourself and understand who you are. If I didn\u2019t always have it in the background of everything I was doing, I think I would feel emptier. It\u2019s been so important to me for any rough stretch that I\u2019ve had, or even for any super great, happy or successful stretch of my life that I\u2019ve had, there\u2019s been something there for me at every turn and that\u2019s really irreplaceable in my life.<\/p>\n

FH: What are your quests?
\nJG:<\/strong>\u00a0Beside seeking the Holy Grail, my quest is to experience as much of the world as I can and to hopefully teach people. I\u2019ve been teaching abroad for a few years and I want to continue doing that. It\u2019d be nice to inspire people inside and outside of the classroom.
\nCJ:<\/strong> Since the Holy Grail was elusive, I will revert to some of my passions. So since I\u2019m studying architecture, I got into that by\u00a0being interested in the aesthetic and spatial relationship between people and\u00a0buildings. That\u2019s actually morphed into an idea about helping people. I\u2019ve been doing some non-profit work for the last four and half years of my life. My best buddy\u00a0and I founded a\u00a0non-profit<\/a> last year and we spent sometime in the summer over in Nepal, volunteering at a school. I guess that\u2019s just one example of how I found myself being fulfilled by helping other people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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