Vampire Weekend At Bernie Sanders Rally
After last month’s singalong between Bernie Sanders and Vampire Weekend, there’s more news. Pitchfork reports: ‘”I have a question for the audience,” said Luis Calderin last Friday morning, looking out onto a sea of Northwestern students. They seem prepared for his predictable refrain: “Are you feeling the Bern?!” About 100 young voices cried out in affirmation. Just then, I looked up to the third floor of the building behind Calderin and noticed a twenty-something smoking a bowl outside his window. It seemed all too appropriate: Calderin, the Arts, Culture, and Youth Vote Manager for the Sanders campaign, was standing in front of the Phi Gamma Delta (a.k.a. FIJI) fraternity house to introduce Vampire Weekend’s Ezra Koenig and Chris Tomson. On any given day, the affable brothers of FIJI can be found wearing a little too much tie-dye and smoking spliffs on their porch using custom lighters that read: “FIJI: We’ve been going ‘green’ for years.”‘
