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...people who witnessed the show could argue with the fact that the numbers from When I Woke, Rusted Root's first LP, brought out more joy and enthusiasm than anything else that night. "Virtual Reality," from the album Remember and the soundtrack to the movie Twister, got the crowd moving as the first song of the evening, but the slower, funkier rhythms of "Cat Turned Blue" from When I Woke elicited a lot more screams of approval and subsequent groovings. "Laugh as the Sun," the deliciously hypnotic song that followed, proved a little too intense to dance to, but that...
...began after a block of three songs from Rusted Root were played in succession. The band realized that the crowd needed to hear something familiar for rejuvenation--and Lord Almighty, did they get it. Donovan started the drum intro to "Martyr," the most deliriously happy song on When I Woke, and was soon followed by Glabicki's playing of the opening guitar riffs. The crowd, quite simply, went wild. The energy practically shot through the roof--suddenly jocks in baseball caps, hemp-wearing, adolescents and men with very long bears were jumping up and down in gleeful unison. Glabicki...
...asked for my special birthday discount (10 percent) to replenish the emergency reserves formerly built up by my older roommates. I went out to dinner and decadently ordered enough courses to make Nero blanch. I lingered in Grendel's downstairs and I didn't care that I woke up warm and peaceful the next day well into my section taking place far away in the Barker Center. I was new and older. The boundaries marking my passage are random and dismissable, but I'd rather not dismiss them. Instead I'll revel in those things which make a collection...
...friend of mine once woke up at 5 a.m. on a Saturday morning in the spring to watch Harvard race, only to realize that the crews battle upstream for two kilometers--so that one can watch the start or end of a race, but never both. Crew is definitely not a spectator sport...
Colleen Moore, a freshman forward on the Harvard women's soccer team, pinched the Quakers collectively and woke them from their sweet slumber with one swift kick on an overcast weekend afternoon...