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. Mexico native have to do with Trumpets seem to blast through Chris Farley 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. How can a album remains at third after reviews sports show survive on “almosts” and no 12 weeks on the charts. Will Thursday nights become substantiation for its characters’ Anatomy nights now that Grey miraculous recoveries, yet still call live up to expectations By Matthew Vita has seen the light? Grey’s Anato- itself a medical drama? Granted, Arts & Life Editor my, the medical show phenom- it still glues new and old viewers enon, has made a pretty predict- for a straight hour of soap opera- By Robert Swinton Last week ‘The Playback,’ able attempt at a come-back from esque excitement. But is it re- Staff Writer a sports show, debuted on the its dreary third season. Apparent- ally all that suspenseful when the Royal Network. The show re- ly, ABC believes that the recipe of writers try to fool us, the viewers, “Stir of Echoes” isn’t quite views the past week’s sporting placing a lead character in a very into believing that they are going “Footloose,” but it does have events. The show focuses on unlikely life or death situation to kill off the one character the Kevin Bacon, opening up a new school sports but also spends does the trick. As devoted view- show is named after? opportunity for another game of some time giving tips for fan- ers will recall, Meredith was in the The smeared line between the six degrees of separation. Bacon tasy sports. very delicate position of prevent- fictional and realistic was exempli- plays Tom Witzky, ordinary day ‘The Playback’ is produced ing the detonation of a bomb in- fied in last week’s episode. While laborer and all-around good guy, by Joe Jacom, and hosted by side a man’s body back in Season Izzie tried to save the life of a dy- Paul Boye and Joe DeGroat. living in Chicago with his wife II. However, the “bomb squad guy” ing man by drilling holes into his Photo Courtesy MCT Campus AKON’S ALBUM ‘Konvicted’ Maggie, played by Kathryn Erbe, Jacom decided the campus was the one who ended up com- head was a bit far-fetched, at least GREY’S ANATOMY has gone moves up to fourth place this and son Jake, played by Zachary should produce a sports show ing to an explosive end. Interest- it could have happened in real life. so far as to include a fishing week after spending last week David Cope. After being hypno- after watching the Royal Net- ingly, Denny, Izzie’s beloved who Although Alex’s extraordinary trip episode this season. at number six. tized by his sister-in-law Lisa, Photo Courtesy MCT Campus work News last semester. Upset died that same season, along with save of the pregnant woman who conclusion of “Drowning on Dry JAMES BLACK hosts a new internet based show, “AnsaThat” played by Illeana Douglas, Tom’s by the lack of sports coverage, Dylan Young, the “bomb squad he just happened to see under a Land” as she decides her words mind opens itself at the request of Jacom contacted Bill Snyder, guy,” come back to haunt Mere- pile of rubbish seemed less than of wisdom were enough to move a post-hypnotic suggestion. Tom Photo Courtesy MCT Campus executive producer, and began dith this season, now that she has likely, it could have very well oc- the souls of her fellow hysterical begins hearing and seeing things, KEVIN BACON and his wife at Seeking truth no trivial pursuit talking about the show. seen the white light of death. curred in the real world. But then colleagues. Truth is, she might eventually refusing to go to work, last year’s Golden Globes. “I hope this will be a big It seems as though Grey’s writ- comes the young, poltergeist and have been better off in Scrubs so which puts great strain on his expected much more when I pur- show on campus, something ers have trouble deciding whether firestarter-looking, pig-tailed girl that we would have known it was marriage. Neighbors begin to no- chased this movie. A few twists students can become involved to write the show as a fictional or following Meredith around. As if okay to laugh. tice Tom’s strange behavior and and turns do keep viewers guess- while filming new internet show in and make it bigger than it al- a realistic drama and, hence, have her role was not eerie enough, the Grey’s Anatomy, the prescrip- become suspicious, especially af- ing. This is definitely one of those ready is,” said Jacom. tion drug of a nation, the heartbeat for “AnsaThat.” himself. decided to incorporate both into writers decided to make her the ter Tom nearly destroys his rented movies that viewers will turn on By Charles Storch ‘The Playback’ runs every of this college campus, shows that Those who have discovered the “I don’t care who mocks us,” the scripts. With Burke almost dy- witness to the most bizarre of all house in search of something that just to make out. MCT Campus Friday at 6:30 p.m. on Channel we can all find a bit of our own videocast - seen weekdays on An- he said. “It must seem bizarre to ing from a gunshot wound, Bailey’s events in last week’s episode: in- he can’t quite describe. Ultimately, So, how does it measure up? 61. Anyone interested in getting selves, apparently, in the lives of saThat.com or on the video-shar- some people.” husband almost dying during a re- tern falling into the cold abyss of Bacon embodies the hero who 3 out of 5 stars Why would a British man travel involved should contact Jacom five interns in uncanny situations, ing site Dailymotion.com, where Black had worked for the Daily parative brain surgery after a car the Seattle waters and being res- gives life to someone who couldn’t Not bad. Not Bacon’s best, but to Chicago, sit in an office swivel or Snyder. Students interested with personal lives more sexually Ashley Tisdale’s album each of its episodes log about Mail since the early 1990s under crash, Bailey almost dying because cued by her prince charming after possibly do a thing with it. not bad. chair in front of the Millennium in learning how to edit or use tangled than a ball of yarn and ‘Headstrong’ takes the number 90,000 to 100,000 views - may have an increasingly lucrative freelance she did not want to give birth to what seemed to be an eternity. Honestly, there was nothing Don’t agree with me? Think this Park “Bean” on a cold and dreary graphics can receive training more mind games than gauze on five spot this week. witnessed Black and chair at such contract to compile its popular her son and Meredith almost dy- Finally, the icing on cake was new to see in this movie, which is one of Bacon’s best? Have any winter day and utter some arcane and experience. ing of a bomb explosion, the only Izzie’s memorable rant at the a mummy. could have had something to do ideas for movies that I should re- factoid about the women of an- locales as the Eiffel Tower or Lon- daily column “Answers to the with the fact that it was based view? Say so! Email me at swin- cient Greece?” don’s Trafalgar Square. He spouts a Correspondents.” For “Answers,” on a 40-year-old novel. I couldn’t [email protected] with your “Easy-peasy,” James Black single bit of trivia, as he did here: which is not unlike the “Straight help but be reminded of M. Night opinion of “Stir of Echoes” or might reply. Black is the host of “Women in ancient Greece dated Dope” column that has been run- Shyamalan’s “The Sixth Sense” names of movies you would like “AnsaThat,” an Internet video their ages from when they were ning in the Chicago Reader since Campus Comment “If you could hide any animal in your dorm room, what would it be?” (1999) when little Jake began see- to see me review. Your thoughts show that debuted Jan. 1 in which married, not from when they 1973, Black had to solicit experts ing a dead girl with intentions of might just appear in next week’s viewers “ask the questions and were born.” The line is delivered and pore through reference mate- exposition; unfortunately, the “I Classic Movie Review. we find the answers.” From the with a goofy earnestness that is rial to reply to unexpected, even see dead people” phrase had no library in his home in Shropshire, the show’s tone. loopy, queries from readers. place in this movie. Bacon did a England, or on his travels abroad, “We wanted people to see Though his current contract that we were in places with great runs through this spring, Black great job at portraying a man in Movie: Stir of Echoes (1999) this trivia pursuer aims to run the landmarks. Why not be there in stopped contributing to the col- constant contemplation, plagued Director: David Koepp truth, or its nearest relation, to a chair?” he said as though that umn last June. He turned it over by the vision of a girl crying out Screenwriter: David Koepp ground. made all the sense in the world. to his assistant, Charles Legge for help, never giving up until her Novelist: Richard Matheson It was Black himself in that But making sense to people - an arrangement sanctioned by call is answered. An afternoon Running Time: 99 minutes Bean-side swivel chair, bought at doesn’t always concern this 43- the paper. digging up the backyard almost Rating: R for violence, sexuality a nearby Staples. During a cross- year-old Manchester native. He “James left the Mail last year in seemed like something of a pas- and language country tour of the United States “A baby ostrich so that I can “A panda” gave up a cushy job working for a dispute over intellectual prop- “A snuffle-upagus in a tu-tu” “A baby tiger and a penguin” “A koala bear” time for Bacon. All of the actors with his cameraman/brother- learn how to raise it and ride it” Nick Lucente, Freshman, London’s Daily Mail for this Web erty,” wrote Legge in an e-mail. Kim Dao, Senior, Raguel Tome, Sophomore, Kevin Long, Sophomore, do a great job with the material in-law Bernard Hutton, Black Matt Creedon, Sophomore, Hazleton venture whose costs, though not He added, “He has always had big Binghamton, N.Y. Wyckoff, N.J. Paterson, N.J. that they have been given, but I stopped in Chicago to film one of Long Island, N.Y. the occasional “chair” segments yet extravagant, he is picking up Please see “Ansa” page 8