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Issue date: 11/14/06 Last Updated: 12/26/07

The crowd got involved when Blau asked students to sing "In Your Dreams" in a trance-like fashion, while Blau repeated thought-provoking phrases such as "choices," "questions," "elections," "weapons" and "truth" in a slow and dreamy sequence. Another song took a different direction in which Blau broke out in almost Beatnik-style, free-verse poetry over a looped recording of his own beats.

Blau kept it quirky, fun and interesting and collaborated with the Mt. Eeerie frontman, doing a D+ cover in a soothing harmony. At the end of the show, Jason Anderson in a three-piece band got the crowd's blood pumping again, bringing students up and out of their seats after the dream-like mellow performance by Blau.

Anderson began singing softly, almost as if whispering in the crowd's ears when gradually the sound began to build and eventually burst into a loud, banging clamor of guitar and drums. The music flooded the HUB, sounding almost shrill, chaotic and intense, yet somehow all the noise came together to make sense as a complex array of sounds. The guitars screeched, scratched and rattled as Anderson's voice sounded almost reminiscent of the frontman of Nada Surf's voice.

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