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Interview No. 1 (ARCHIVE)
CAB ELLIS
Connor takes the stage at Baby’s All Right, sporting a piece of black fabric as a choker necklace, a black-and-white-checkered gingham shirt and scuba-diving wetsuit pants that he cut into shorts. “Nighttime OCD,” their set opener, begins and Connor’s eyes dart upward, his under-eyes lined with bright red pigment. His stare resembles that of an addict who’s just lost his latest fix to the wind.
“Wondering does this repetition get me anywhere — number 8 rhymes with great so that’s what I’m gonna BE.”
Screaming the last word, Connor smacks the microphone against his forehead and opens his eyes wide, jutting his jaw out and shaking his hips as though he’d just sat in a pile of fire ants. Some people laugh, others stare, transfixed by his uninhibited strangeness.
I sat down to interview Connor a few weeks prior to his Baby’s All Right show. We met at Marion Hopkinson playground, a park Connor frequents…
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