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ACROSS
1 Victorian
5 Like much 67-
Down
10 Bay of Bengal
setting
14 Extinct pigeon
relative
15 First name in
puppetry
16 __ jar: lab glass
17 Hold banned in
amateur
wrestling
19 Take one’s leave
20 Make sure of
21 Stretched to the
max
23 Reggae cousin
24 Premier League
athlete
28 Apply gently
31 CBS-owned
cable sta.
32 Pond gunk
33 Prefix with
footprint
34 Pulls down
37 Winter pick-me-
up?
40 Innocents
44 Mite-sized
45 “Tut-tut!”
46 Actress Tyler
47 Important
stretches
50 Beef cut
51 Maple syrup
source
52 Influential teams
57 Louisville Slugger
wood
58 Comfy footwear
59 Jewish scholar
63 Swindle
65 April golf
tournament, four
of whose winners
appear in 17-,
24-, 40- and 52-
Across
68 Movie plantation
69 Sea-born jewelry
material
70 “Right now!”
71 Song and dance
72 Urgency
73 Snoopy

DOWN
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docs
2 Libertine

3 Onetime Palin
collaborator
4 Feathers one’s
nest, in a way
5 Full of: Suff.
6 Gp. with Sharks
and Penguins
7 Decorator’s asset
8 Cheering like
crazy
9 Hangers in
lockers?
10 Justice Fortas
11 Figures in 9-
Down
12 “Very nice!”
13 A proposal may
ultimately lead to
one
18 Lasso loops
22 Dr. Mom’s forte
25 Spiced tea
brewed in milk
26 Toe woes
27 Mustang, for one
28 Chapter 11 factor
29 Berry in faddish
supplements
30 Star of a classic
sitcom set at a
Vermont inn
35 Imprecise degree
36 Like provolone
piccante

38 1998 Sarah
McLachlan ballad
39 Initial request for
an answer?
41 Brontë heroine
42 German actor
Jannings
43 Some outdoor
grills
48 Slot machine part
49 __ tape
52 Macaroni Grill
selection

53 Acting honor
54 Golfer Lorena
55 AOLers, e.g.
56 “Paradise Lost”
figure
60 Spanish smooch
61 Lingerie catalog
buys
62 Car trip game
64 Some advanced
degs.
66 Floor pad
67 Part of IPA

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Toro y Moi bores 
on latest release

New direction on 
‘What For?’ is a 

wrong turn

By YARDAIN AMRON

Daily Arts Writer

Before his third album Any-

thing in Return garnered the 
critical praise 
it did, before it 
even dropped 
Chaz Bundick, 
Toro 
y 
Moi, 

said 
— 
with 

the 
certainty 

of one David 
Foster Wallace 
on 
taking 
a 

cruise — that writing the album 
was fun, but he would never do 
it again.

“I’ve seen artists turn into 

characters, and I don’t want to 
become the ‘pop music guy,’ ” 
Bundick once said in an inter-
view 
with 
Pitchfork. 
“Pop 

music is awesome, but I like to 
keep changing it up … I’m not 
worried about repeating myself 
— I’m more worried that I’d just 
get bored.”

Sagacious words from the 

then-26-year-old. Boredom is a 
universal human fear no doubt. 
But unlike us common folk who 
cope with boredom’s chains 
via Facebook and Caribbean 
cruises, Bundick seems to have 
figured out how to evade the 
affliction altogether, at least 
musically … well, at least until 
now.

A brief tour: Listening to 

Bundick’s four records chrono-
logically is a testament to an 
artist who detests pigeons and 
dreads holes, and refuses to 
play in the neat genre boxes 
us critics create. The dreamy 
slink of his 2010 debut Causers 
of This — considered founda-
tional to the rise of chillwave 
— was followed starkly a year 
later by the velvety funk of 
Underneath the Pines, which 
proved Bundick could compose 

for more than a laptop. Then, 
in 2013, he released the weirdly 
danceable and unclassifiable 
Anything in Return, which Ian 
Cohen described on Pitchfork 
as a composite of everywhere 
Bundick had taken Toro y Moi 
to date.

“So there’s silky R&B, roll-

er-rink pop, bubblegum funk, 
tasteful chillout music, all uni-
fied by a voice that’s grown 
more confident with time,” 
Cohen wrote.

What 
For? 
is 
Bundick’s 

sharpest departure from every-
thing Toro y Moi has been, 
and his disappointing attempt 
at a throwback ’70s pop radio 
record. The album opens to the 
zoom of racecars on a track, 
speeds through ten songs in 
barely 36 minutes, and never 
really slows down to catch its 
breath. When the music stopped 
after my first listen-through, I 
kept waiting for it to start again, 
hoping Bundick had included a 
hidden track or something. It’s 
hard to believe this is the same 
guy who’s credited as a founder 
of chillwave.

My main bone with the 

album is its lack of a defin-

ing moment. Even the singles, 
“Buffalo” and “Empty Nest-
ers,” which have Bundick’s new 
band at its best, aren’t really 
memorable. And for all the time 
Bundick spent trying to write 
catchy melodies, there’s no song 
on the album truly tempting 
to return to, no refrain to stick 
in our heads, no groove that 
makes us want to dance, no real 
surprises. The album naturally 
fades to the background and 
doesn’t demand my attention. 
In a word, What For? is boring.

Call it hipsterness or what 

you like, but the Bundick aes-
thetic is appealing — he once 
told Rookie Magazine he likes 
White Vans, hiking, mid-cen-
tury Danish furniture, Weezer, 
The Blue Album by Weezer and 
rock documentaries, in that 
order. And while the beachy 
guitars and traditional fills on 
What For? fit the ’70s aesthet-
ic Bundick is aiming for, the 
album is missing the weirdness 
and awkwardness that made 
Toro y Moi so great in the past. 
Bundick may have been so con-
cerned with escaping his own 
boredom, that he actually ended 
up writing a boring album.

CARPARK

Not pictured: Moi.

Grace Helbig moves 
to the small screen

By KAREN HUA

Daily TV/New Media Editor

From “What’s up, fuckers?” to 

“I don’t know,” Grace Helbig has 
become the queen of multi-media 
since her earli-
est 
YouTube 

days eight years 
ago. Now, she is 
the New York 
Times 
best-

selling writer of 
a self-help book 
for millennials, 
“Grace’s Guide: 
The Art of Pre-
tending to Be a 
Grown-up;” she 
has a top-rated 
audio-video 
podcast, “Not too Deep;” she is 
the one-woman production team 
for It’s Grace, her YouTube chan-
nel with over 2 million subscrib-
ers. She has experimented with 
new media, film, improvisational 
and stand-up comedy, screen-
writing – and now, television.

“The Internet’s awkward older 

sister” took her quirky sense of 
humor to the small screen, where 
she has her own talk show on the 
E! network, where she is now 
the only woman on late-night 
television since Chelsea Handler 
stepped down. Helbig describes 
it 
as 
a 
“curious 
introvert’s 

nighttime talk show #notsexual.” 
She has always predicted that 
the 
Internet 
and 
television 

will eventually enter a happy 
marriage, while still retaining 
their independent identities – 
and her show now merges the 
two in “a beautiful sandwich.” 
“The Grace Helbig Show” should 
be the epitome of everything 
Grace herself is – a preservation, 
yet magnification of her idiotic-
idiosyncratic personality.

The show is set in a Los Ange-

les home akin to Grace’s real resi-
dence where she shoots her web 
videos. Unlike all other late-night 
shows, her decision to not use a 
live audience reflects her Inter-
net-introversion, or as she puts 
it, “TGI-Fuck going out, we’re 
staying in where we’re safe from 

physical and emotional dangers.” 
Though her lack of a live audi-
ence may seem to create greater 
distance between herself and her 
viewers, she uses social media 
instead as a virtual connec-
tion to her audience. What new 
media (and especially vlogging) 
is all about is creating a realistic, 
though virtual, sense of reality 
and acquaintanceship, which she 
emulates in her new TV show. 
Grace chooses not to alienate 
herself as a “celebrity” with fans. 
Rather, her show emits a homey 
vibe more like a Friday night 
hang-out among best friends. 
With late-night shows like Seth 
Meyers or Jimmy Fallon, even at 
their live tapings, the audience 
feels more aloof than ever before.

Grace begins the show with a 

“Let’s Browse” segment where 
she covers the week’s pop culture 
news – attempting to talk sports 
and all things relatable in her 
typical frenetic fashion, where 
she does not try to hide her lack of 
true knowledge about the topics. 
Even when interviewing celebri-
ties, she strives to learn about the 
mundane quirks that draw them 
closer to us, instead of promoting 
their fame to isolate them even 
further from viewers.

Unlike other late-night talk 

shows that attempt to create seam-
lessness, trying to hide their tele-
prompters and crew members, 
“The Grace Helbig Show” is very 
conscious of itself. As Grace stated 
in an interview with USA Today, 
“There’s no trying to hide that 
there’s a crew involved. I (want) the 
fourth wall to be destroyed. I want 
the audience to feel like they’re on 
set; they know the director, they 
know the camera guy, they know 
the boom operator’s favorite type 
of deodorant.” On YouTube, Grace 
is a one-woman production team 
– directing, writing, starring and 
editing all of her own content with 
complete control. However, even 
though she now must work with 
a creative team, the show is still 
inherently so Grace. Grace typi-
cally improvises all of her content 
in her web videos – and though she 
may be following a slightly more 
structured script on her show, she 
still manages to seem like her free-
form, spontaneous self. In her You-
Tube videos, much of her humor 
comes from her editing style, and 
the show follows suit with erratic 
jump cuts and purposely hyper-
dramatic sound effects.

On YouTube, Grace is famous 

for her hilarious “collabs” with 
other YouTubers – and her show is 
merely an extension of the natural 
chemistry and brilliant comedic 
timing she exudes. As her first 
guest, she brought Aisha Tyler, 
who is nowhere near any type of 
A-list, but still a talented, highly-
respected 
actress-comedienne. 

Even though they spoke about 
Tyler’s podcast and work, their 
conversation was far more casual 
and personal, never falling into 
the sort of free advertisement most 
late-night shows often provide 
for guests. Grace later introduces 
another YouTube personality like 
herself, the German DJ, Flula, 
whom she enlists to create an 
eccentric theme song for her show. 
During his segment, they even 
leave the usual set to shoot in his 
car – a refreshing change of scen-
ery from the stagnant couch space 
usual talk shows stick to. It also is 
especially exciting to see a guest 
list of underrated celebrities in an 
amalgam with new media stars.

Unfortunately, though the show 

tries very hard to preserve Grace 

just the way she is, because she 
is on television for a much wider 
audience, she is not able to fully 
be her awkward, unrestrained, 
uncensored self by dropping an 
“eat shit” at any random moment. 
The semi-scripted nature of the 
show becomes more apparent 
when she interviews her real-life 
best friend and fellow YouTu-
ber, Mamrie Hart, host of “You 
Deserve a Drink.” There is a subtle, 
yet slightly uncomfortable sense 
of tension as they work through 
clearly rehearsed segments of 
prepared information to laugh on 
cue. Especially during their seg-
ment “Deal,” when they watch 
YouTube videos together as they 
normally would on a live Friday 
night YouTube livestream, it’s 
hard to believe or imagine them 
preparing themselves to laugh at 
content they have already seen and 
prepared. For the small screen, 
Grace is forced to become, in part, 
someone poised and trained for 
the camera – a persona that highly 
contradicts her usual discombobu-
lated personality.

On YouTube, we love Grace 

because she isn’t grace-ful; she 
wears the same groutfit for a week 
in a row without showering, yet 
she still produces hilarious content 
that makes us hurl in laughter. We 
feel comfortable curling up with 
her while we stay in on a Friday 
night in our pajamas because she 
is always on social media, tweet-
ing that she is doing the same. 
But now, because we have a look 
behind the scenes, we see that a 
three-woman team dolls her up 
in lavish garments and jewelry 
far more expensive than the items 
she vlogs about buying on sale at 
Forever 21. Her hair and make-
up are too perfect for the Grace 
we know to care about. If the 
purpose of the show is to stay in 
with her on a Friday night like 
she says, viewers wouldn’t feel 
as “at home” in her “house” as 
they would with the Grace they 
do know. Who looks that good at 
home with their best friends?

Finally, Grace signs off her first 

episode with a compilation video 
of clips her viewers have created 
– just another way she incorpo-
rates the audience so well. While 
Grace’s foremost aims are to 
maintain her own creative style 
over all else, she still wishes to 
work with her viewers, from 
their suggestions for set décor 
to guest lists and even content 
ideas. As she told Entertainment 
Weekly in an interview, “That’s 
kind of what social media is for 
— it’s a two-way conversation. I 
would be doing myself a disser-
vice if I didn’t continue that con-
versation with (the viewers).”

Television and new media 

are always looking to expand in 
unprecedented directions, and 
for the sake of being slightly more 
revolutionary, at least Grace is 
trying something new even if it’s 
not perfect. Just as Grace signs 
off all her YouTube videos with 
her tagline, “I don’t know,” she 
doesn’t know exactly what her 
show will become, but she aims 
to bring her audience along as lab 
assistants. Just as she has experi-
mented with a variety of media 
in her rise to recognition in Hol-
lywood, she has a beautiful free-
dom to just experiment with this 
cross-hybrid of mediums on her 
new show.

After all, her sole goal is 

just to “make something that 
doesn’t suck.” And for her high 
aspirations, that is exactly why 
we love Grace.

TV REVIEW

A-

The Grace 
Helbig 
Show

Series 
Premiere 
Fridays at 
10:30 p.m.

E!

B

What For?

Toro y Moi

Carpark

E!

“But who did naming Grace Hedwig?”

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