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6 Trivia: How 7 much do you Beirut heads in folk direction Billboard BY ALISON SWETY gypsy feel gives the album a mes- Staff Writer merizing quality. It is refreshing Top Five know about to be able to call an album “musi- What does a 20-year-old New cal,” and Beirut is musical indeed. Chris Farley Mexico native have to do with Trumpets seem to blast through Arts Life Balkan brass music? Not much, every song, and piano winds & MCT Campus but that did not stop Zach Condon through the background mix in from forming a one-man band by a profusion of exotic instruments How much do you know about the name of Beirut in 2006 and and Condon’s eerie, hypnotizing ‘Factory Girl’ works very hard late comedian and actor Chris releasing two European and folk voice and you have got yourself Farley? inspired albums, “Gulag Orkestar” an intoxicating album. BY JOSEPH A. KOIVISTO ships with Warhol and Quinn. Be- ter that was moving and unique. ambiguous and unnecessarily ide- and “Lon Gisland EP.” The album’s lyrics are difficult 1. Farley had an undeniable fore too long, Sedgwick finds her- Pearce did an absolutely amazing alistic. But with a world-famous Many independent online mu- to distinguish at times, and tend Staff Writer Midwestern accent that likely self in a mental institute but not job of creating Andy Warhol for songwriter breathing down your sic sources, such as Pitchfork Me- to dwell on typical themes such came from his childhood and The typical American love sto- without a small gleam of hope. film. He completely captured his neck, perhaps ambiguity is the dia, have been giving generous as love. The album redeems itself, college years spent in which ry. Small town girl moves to the The audience, however, is left eccentric and playful mannerisms best you can shoot for. amounts of hype to this young though, with the strong assort- THE LATEST album from Fall state? big city. Girl meets the artistic with a brief epitaph explaining while depicting him as an explor- The film attempted to take on musician. Beirut has also caught ment of instruments and a world- Out Boy heads straight to a. Wisconsin the top its first week on the man of the moment. Sparks en- her death one year later. atory artist, constantly changing, a story of mythic proportions, de- the eye of independent music fans ly sound not heard too often on b. Michigan charts. dearing friendship. Starts doing With such a heavy story, the stylistically and socially. picting the life of an artistic muse via the Internet. In an interview this side of the ocean. The song c. Minnesota speed. Meets the music man of characters of On the oth- and a tragic with New York Magazine, Condon “Postcards from Italy” stands out d. Illinois the moment. Falls in love. Starts this film play er side of the character in the commented, “I think I share mu- as very light and enjoyable, and 2. Farley was in a successful class doing heroin. Falls out with artist an integral role spectrum is tale that is the sic with a very specific group of other songs seem influenced by that started their “Saturday Night friend. Does more heroin. Spends in the story as Hayden Chris- 1960’s. While people. I play for those who want PHOTO COURTESY The Band’s OFFICAL SITE bands such as Neutral Milk Hotel Live” careers in 1990. Which one all her money. Falls out with mu- a whole. The tensen’s por- much of the to hear something energetic and BEIRUT’S FIRST album “Gulag Orkestar” has been named to and the Talking Heads. Overall, it of the following didn’t start on sician boyfriend. Dies in a mental directorial staff trayal of “Billy movie is cre- true and beautiful in music again. multiple “best of 2006” lists. is a debut album deserving of its the show in 1990? institute at age 28. Wait, what? should have Quinn.” Quinn atively crafted But perhaps people just like that leges, according to New York Mag- Condon’s mature, eerie voice often hype. a. Chris Rock “Factory Girl” is the story of settled for no is a pseudonym and genuinely I am 20 and fresh-faced. Maybe azine. Condon traveled to Europe makes it hard to believe that he is In an interview with the Asso- b. Phil Hartman then “It” girl Edie Sedgwick (Si- less than skilled for folk song- moving, I could if I had a beard, they would have and stayed with a cousin in Am- a 20-year-old American. Accord- ciated Press, Condon commented, c. Adam Sandler enna Miller), fashionista and 1960’s and consistent ster Bob Dylan, not escape the been harder on me.” sterdam where, according to the ing to Beirut’s Official Website, “I’m almost looking for the next PHOTO COURTESY MCT PHOTO COURTESY MCT PHOTO COURTESY MCT d. Tim Meadows art scene staple. It recounts her actors. Howev- who, according feeling that Condon’s first experience with Associated Press, a Serbian artist “Gulag Orkestar” combines the random influence,” such as music CAMPUS CAMPUS CAMPUS 3. One of Farley’s most climb from typical college girl to er, the perfor- to a New York GUY PEARCE Sedgwick was music was playing the trumpet in listened to Balkan gypsy music use of horns, violins, cellos, uku- from Ethiopia, Algeria, Macedonia SIENNA HAYDEN memorable skits with “Saturday the status of personal muse to pop mance quality MILLER stars Post article, plays art icon turned into a CHRISTENSEN grade school, and he started mak- in the apartment above Condon. leles, mandolins, glockenspiels, and Brazil. Night Live” featured him in an art pioneer, Andy Warhol (Guy of the cast in in “Factory would not al- Andy Warhol terminal victim plays a char- ing synthesizer recordings at 15, This music, along with dark, Yu- drums, tambourines, congas, or- According to the Ba Da Bing NORAH JONES’ new album audition for the Chippendales Pearce). Along the way, she is intro- this film varied Girl” as Edie low the use of alongside for the sake of acter based on according to New York Magazine. goslavian films by Emir Kusturica, gans, pianos, clarinets and accor- Website, Beirut has just released ‘Not Too Late’ drops from first dancers with which famous guest duced to music’s golden boy, Billy so greatly from Sedgwick his actual name Miller. the story. Per- Bob Dylan His first record, under the band inspired Condon to record “Gulag dions. Surprisingly, the standard the “Lon Gisland EP,” which con- to second its second week on star? Quinn (Hayden Christensen), who actor to actor due to the films haps she was name Real People, was inspired Orkestar” once he was back in guitar is not included in this list. sists of a few new songs including the charts. a. Keanu Reeves appears to be the ideological op- that while some produced stun- implication that he was responsi- the emotional plaything for the by The Magnetic Fields, and the New Mexico. Condon recorded the album on his “Elephant Gun” and “Carousels,” b. Patrick Swayze posite of Warhol. Where Warhol is ningly moving characters, others ble for Sedgwick’s eventual men- New York art scene, or maybe her following year, Condon recorded Beirut released its first and only own, but according to Wikipedia, and a new rendition of “Scenic c. Ewen McGregor ambivalent and cute, Quinn is se- created mildly amusing cardboard tal collapse and death. Knowing life was truly self-destructive and a doo-wop album inspired by full-length album to date, “Gulag the live roster also includes Perrin World.” Both “Lon Gisland” and d. John Goodman rious and concerned. Along with cutouts. The best word must be then that Christensen was aiming plagued with mental illness. Even Frankie Lymon and the Teenag- Orkestar,” May 9, 2006 on the Ba Cloutier, Jason Poranski, Nick Pe- “Gulag Orkestar” are available on 4. In “Tommy Boy,” Farley plays these competing ideals, Sedgwick given to Sienna Miller and Guy for Dylan’s character and quips, if this does not come out in the ers, according to Wikipedia. He Da Bing record label. The global tree, Kristin Ferebee, Paul Collins, the label’s Web site and Beirut’s a goof who inherits his father’s struggles with habitual drug use Pearce for their portrayals of Sedg- his portrayal seems one-sided film, the artistic craftwork and dropped out of high school at 16 and gypsy influences are certain- Jon Natchez and Kelly Pratt. music is also available on the business. Who played his dad? and a lavish lifestyle that quickly wick and Warhol, respectively. and generally displeasing. Amid masterful acting makes this film and later dropped out of four col- ly noticeable on the album, and “Gulag Orkestar’s” folk and band’s Myspace page. a. Paul Newman saps her funds. As she descends Miller squeezed every drop of per- homophobic comments and high- worth seeing. Certainly watch b. James Caan more and more into her extrava- sonal energy and emotion into this minded rants against materialist “Factory Girl”, but take the story c. Dan Aykroyd gance, she can no longer support role, creating a truly tragic charac- culture, the portrayal of “Dylan” is with a grain of salt. her lifestyle or her clashing friend- d. Brian Dennehy New show on ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ begins to lose hold Royal Network BY GABBY SaNABRIA two characters who actually died DAUGHTRY’S SELF-TITLED ‘Stir of Echoes’ doesn’t Staff Writer came back as ghosts.

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