Doug Bybee<\/a>? He and I lived in McCollum Hall together. He got involved with KJ and as I became better friends with him, I became more interested in the station. I watched\u00a0all of the different tabling events happening. I am really into music and KJ is\u00a0really into music\u00a0so\u00a0I just figured that we would meld really well together.<\/p>\n![\"Carlos](\"http:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_5489-300x169.jpg\")
CO: Who are some of your favorite musicians right now and in general?<\/strong>
\nCC: <\/strong>Right now, I have been getting a lot into jazz-hop. My favorite band of all time is Tame Impala. I absolutely love them. I saw them live at Austin Psychfest and\u00a0I saw them again when they came to Kansas City at The Uptown. Another one of my favorites would be Flying Lotus and in the past year I have really gotten into this band called Dungen. They are Swedish and are sort of a psychedelic prog-like band. Honestly, they just sound like Tame Impala but Swedish. I also really like Jimi Hendrix. I am in into psychedelia in general.<\/p>\n![\"Carlos](\"http:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_5492-300x169.jpg\")
CO:<\/strong> What got you into that music?<\/strong>
\nCC:<\/strong> I started playing guitar when I was fourteen.\u00a0I was always into guitar-oriented music but never into heavy metal or anything super technical. I was listening to a lot of Radiohead and Modest Mouse my senior year of high school. Then I came to college and I was introduced to Tame Impala. I have not looked back. It was just a style that stuck with me. I just loved how expressive it could be, with\u00a0love for all the effects and way they could be used.<\/p>\nCO:<\/strong> You also said that you are a film major. How did you choose that?<\/strong>
\nCC:<\/strong> I always liked film and watching award shows with my mom growing up. I was\u00a0involved in my video broadcasting class in high school and I became an executive producer. I found that I was really good at it, so I decided, “Why not do for a living?”<\/p>\n![\"Carlos](\"http:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_5487-300x169.jpg\")
CO:<\/strong> Did you have any childhood obsessions?<\/strong>
\nCC:<\/strong> I did and it is still an obsession of mine. Nothing to do with movies, but I love the Legend of Zelda. My favorite color is green just because of the Legend of Zelda.\u00a0I think it is just the idea of fantasy, you know? It is about\u00a0how creative and conceptual that world was, and how it really influenced how I look at things. I am really proactive when it comes to ideas. I think that being introduced to such a whimsical world kind of got my gears going.<\/p>\nCO:<\/strong> And you chose to KU for…?<\/strong>
\nCC:<\/strong> It was the closest school, plus, I love Lawrence! I saw a Matt and Kim show my junior year in Lawrence and I was like, “Man, this place is the best.” I was just really into it. Honestly, there is a type of person I am and what I am into. Nobody else in Leavenworth is into that, so I wanted to go to a place where I could find a lot of people like me. That is also another reason I joined KJ. I was just sort of floating around at KU, not really dedicated to anything. Finally, I found an organization that reflected a lot of what I thought.<\/p>\n![\"Carlos](\"http:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_5490-300x169.jpg\")
CO:<\/strong> So you made a good decision?<\/strong>
\nCC:<\/strong> Yes, definitely. I think going to KU was probably one of the best decisions I have ever made. I have really awoken in a lot of different ways, especially\u00a0socially and consciously.\u00a0It\u00a0really just expanded how I view a lot of different things for the better. I am woke.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Off the Mic Name: Carlos Calderon DJ Name: DJ\u00a0Carlos Position: Arts & Culture\u00a0Staff, DJ Staff DJ Shift: Rotation (Thursdays, 12-3PM) Year: Junior Major: Film and Media Studies, sociology minor Favorite Color: Green Hobbies: Playing guitar From: Leavenworth, KS Chad Onianwa: How did you first get involved with KJHK? Carlos Calderon: Do you know Doug Bybee? He and I lived in McCollum Hall together. He got involved with KJ and as I became better friends with him, I became more […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1599,"featured_media":44080,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3224,15],"tags":[4757,4758,3144],"class_list":["post-41654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-culture-interviews","category-featured-on-kjhk","tag-carlos","tag-carlos-calderon","tag-off-the-mic"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_5495.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Name:<\/strong> Carlos Calderon