Welcome to Xtracurriculars, a video series highlighting San Francisco State students and their unique hobbies, passion projects, and lives outside of campus. In a city as diverse as San Francisco, it only makes sense to showcase some of the wide-ranging interests of our student body.
This first episode follows Erick Mayen Perez and friend, roommate, and collaborator Luke Gonzalez. The two sophomores spend most of their hours outside of class in their kitted-out bedroom studio playing and recording high-energy, fuzzy rock music for both of their solo projects — Ph3romon3s for Perez and Heavy Bev for Gonzalez — as well as their three-piece band The Poker People, all of which fall under the umbrella of the collective they formed, Cannon Mouth Collective. Coming off the thrill of a recent Ph3romon3s album release and the anticipation of an upcoming show at The Depot, Perez and Gonzalez have been working overtime to put on the best shows that a pair of hungry college kids possibly can.
![Hashem Mishal using an angle grinder to cut a drill bit, in the SAE team’s garage at SF State on Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2024. “We don't get anything from the school other than this workshop,” Mishal said. “Our advisor, he runs the shop, and he also works with us to try and get as [many] opportunities as possible. So it was really nice, in helping us get this space, but all the tools are just some of the guys’ or third parties’. I don't know where these tools came from, but a lot of it was sponsors, donations from alumni. Right now, all the hardware we’ve been paying out of pocket for the time being.” (Jonah Chambliss / Xpress Magazine)](https://xpressmagazine.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Chambliss_F1_001_LEDEPHOTO-1200x800.jpg)
