Eden Powers Interview

February 10, 2015

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Okay Eden, what was the best thing to happen to you in the past 24 hours?

I saw some of my old Eugene homies, rad dudes I grew up skating with. And watching that pushing plywood edit with Smolik in it. That shit was tight.

So yr from Eugene, OR?

I’m from Corvalis. But I would go and skate in Eugene a lot.

How long do you think you can manual?

Shit as long as the hill will go for. That one you filmed was probably the longest.

Where you were missing yr front wheel?

Yeah that was like, 5-6 blocks. I could’ve kept going if the hill did. I’d like to find out…

What do you do for work?

Uh, shit. I gotta figure that out right now. I’m in between professions. I do a bunch of random shit, I did a skate camp up in Portland all summer. And then I was doing the beet harvest, and then bike messaging in the city. Now I got some money saved up and I just gotta see what the next move is. Might be teaching kids how to swim.

Teach kids how to swim?

Maybe.

Were you a big swimmer as a kid?

No, my friend does it now and he says it’s super easy and he could probably get me the job. I’ve actually been doing nothing but piling out.

Would you rather be able to do a standing backflip, or a triple kickflip every time?

Triple kickflips are gross. I guess backflip would be more fun.

What’s up with Capture?

That’s my homies company out of Portland. It’s super rad. I love those dudes, I got their back, they got my back. Just a small grassroots company, and dudes are just real ass skaters. Hopefully you’ll be able to buy those boards outside of Portland soon.

What does yr dad do for NASA?

Oh shit. Honestly I don’t know much about that. I just know that he doesn’t work for NASA directly, he works for a project funded by them. It’s something to do with a program that’s supposed to replace the space shuttle. In the next ten to twenty years they’re trying to get civilians to the moon and Mars, and land on meteors and shit. So he just works out some technical shit with like water, and going to the bathroom.

Shitting in space?

Yeah, something like that. Something about going to Mars, hopefully one day I’ll have a ticket so holler at me.

Are you super into space?

I mean I’m pretty spacey.

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Do you believe in aliens?

Pfftt, obviously. Anyone who doesn’t believe in aliens is fucking dumb. How can you think that in this infinite universe there’s only one tiny spec of life? I feel like no one really cares about that shit though, I even ask my dad about it and he doesn’t care and he’s working on the space program.

Do you think aliens have already came to Earth?

Oh yeah, they’re here all the time. I guarantee it. People are gonna find out soon. I don’t want get all into it…

What do they want with us?

I don’t know! I don’t know much, I just know that they come here all the time, there’s been way too many reports, and I know people who have seen UFOs and shit. I haven’t personally… I don’t know what the fuck is going on, but I know they exist.

So what are some of yr more outlandish beliefs?

Dude I don’t even wanna go into that, cause I’ll just sound like a crazy person.

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What’s up with the lingerie bar on Clement street? When you bailed on the session and you went to this little bar where Asian girls dress up and serve you coffee.

I don’t know, you got the story mixed up. They weren’t even dressed up, I was kinda disappointed. But when I went to Japan they had all sorts of crazy maid cafes and shit. People over there pay money just to hang out and talk to girls. They’re like hookers but they don’t even touch you.

So when you went to Japan you bought a talking hooker?

I mean you don’t buy it, you pay for like a half hour. And I did go.

Just to talk?

Dude it was so stupid, cause I don’t speak Japanese and the chick I was trying to talk didn’t speak any English. But they pour you drinks while you’re talking at least.

Was the skating good?

There’s honestly not as many spots in Tokyo as I thought there’d be, but it snowed too. You just gotta know where to go and where not to go in winter. But I did get to skate some rad shit and it was cool.

Whats the best conspiracy theory you know?

Damn there’s so many good ones. I’m gonna have to think about that for a minute… Can I hit that?

What’s the nicest thing you’ve ever done?

Man, I don’t know. I’ve been thinking about that lately, you know being a better person, helping people and shit. But really I don’t do too many nice things. I tell girls they’re beautiful a lot.

Got any new years resolutions?

No, just to not blow it.

Aight one more time, favorite conspiracy theory?

The JFK one is too cliche, but I mean there’s AIDs, there’s crack, there’s JFK, there’s MLK, Biggie, Tupac… Oh I’m really fascinated with the one about the reptilians… I don’t even know if you should print this… but the one where the Illuminati has this reptilian race that controls all the world governments and banks and they live in the moon. And that the moon is an artificial object that they created, it’s like they’re satellite. I’m not saying I believe it, I’m just saying it’s a fascinating theory.

Got any long term goals?

Not blow it with chicks all the time.

Aight lemme see yr lighter.