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...beginning--the Soul Coughing Web Page. Here, you can take the first step to being a stalker and get a little personal information about the band. Eventually, you start hanging around the site long enough to start posting on their little bulletin board (visited by some guy named Dave Matthews...or maybe it's just another stupid Internet psuedonym thing). And then you decide to attend one of their concerts, you twenty-something white person who can do that Blues-Traveler-concert-goer undulating thing that you're supposed to do with bands like this...
...only experience with Soul Coughing comes from a brief encounter after they opened up for The Dave at the FleetCenter earlier this month--a venue unsuited for their musical style and their crowd, too. That combined with the heavily rotated "Soundtrack to Mary" (which one sometimes will hear after "Missing" on Kiss 108 and before any Mariah song) sums up what I was expecting...
Maximus is a haven for at least one Harvard student. Dave Valdez '98 says, "Maximus is a lot more like home. You're just playing and having a good time and that's where I come from...
...introduce myself expecting to be laughed at, but he is respectful and sincere. His name is Dave, he's 15, from Somerville. I ask him about politics and his answers are coherent but indifferent. Trying to tease something out of him, I lay out a scenario: Dole wants to crack down on marijuana, making it harder to get and more risky to possess. Clinton, on the other hand, sounds like he's going to do his damnedest to take cigarettes out of the hands of kids. I tell Dave people like him need to pick their poison, so to speak...
...Dave shrugs off the question. "I stay away from drugs," he says, and for a moment I'm stunned by the stupidity of my assumption. I recover to ask him if that means he favors Dole but he's still unmoved. "I don't buy cigarettes," he explains, "I just bum 'em off friends. I'm trying to cut down, actually." He shakes his head at the ground, tossing his wild hair back and forth. "I've got to run track in the spring...