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nusHBOv • conunueD mom toilets that once operated in the Blatt P.E. Center. Shortly after, the boys created Platypussy Records, which has released a sampler featuring Daemon Flushboy’s music. The band has most recently released “The Hardest EP You’ll Ever Have to Listen To” in 2004, “State Tengo Champion” in spring 2005 and the latest, “Danger Girl & the Escape from Dreher Island." Each release allows the musicians to send Out his own sound waves across uncharted landscapes, taking each twist and turn as they come unexpectedly. “State Tengo Champion” is considered to be the band’s best, and contains the crowd favorite “Teabaggin’.” The band describes “The Hardest EP You’ll Ever Have to Listen To” as “what may be the least accessible album in history.” Neither member has been able to listen to the whole EP in one sitting. The latest release, “Danger Girl & the Escape from Dreher Island,” is the result of a WUSC promotion, where the winner gets to pick what an album will be written about. The near future holds great things for Daemon Flushboy, with the band’s intentions to take their music on tour within the next year and play local shows. Even if the band ends, collaboration is still an inevitable option for Beard and Bovender. In Beard’s eyes, “Daemon Flushboy will exist, so long as people acknowledge its existence.” Daemon Flushboy’s next performance will be at a private Halloween party at the Red Rock Opium Den. For a possible invitation to the party or to listen to new tracks from the release, visit the band’s Web site at myspace.com/daemonflushboy. Comments on this story? E-mail gamecockfeatures@gwm. sc. edu RHDIO • COnTinUED FROmn overwhelming, especially from those of the female persuasion. Taylor expects a large turnout to the informal “meet and greet” before the broadcast. “It’s like being out with Mick J agger. It’s unbelievable the attention he gets,” Taylor said. Between 3 and 4 p.m. fans of Garrett are encouraged to come with cameras and questions. “The Sports Drive with RT” will broadcast live from the Gamecock Stop, located at 1928 Rosewood Drive. If you can’t make it to the “meet and greet,” you can still catch Garrett on “The Sports Drive” found on 93.1 FM from 4 to 6 p.m. Call 803-239-ESPN (3776) to participate in the show. Comments on this story? E-mail gamecockfeatures@gwm.sc.edu irouie • conTinucD froiri * Kentucky to settle matters. Begrudgingly, Drew puts his suicide plans on hold and flies to the small Southern town. On his empty flight, Drew befriends the flight attendant Claire, portrayed by Dunst. Claire apparently sees something in Drew and gives him her phone number. Drew’s journey of self renewal and self-discovery occurs during the course of the few days that he visits his Elizabethtown family and friends, comes to terms with his father’s death and gets to know the supposedly one-of-a-kind Claire. Whether Drew goes "home to commit suicide depends on whether he can grasp his life’s meaning while in Elizabethtown. Bloom found his fame with movies such as “Pirates of the Caribbean” and the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy, and while these were entertaining if not riveting cinematic pieces, Bloom embarrasses himself in “Elizabethtown.”He doesn’t relate Drew to the audience in any form or fashion. Drew should be desperate, possibly emotional, and according to the plot, mesmerized by Claire, but Bloom fails in all of Drew? ■ characterizations. >Dunst is an actress most people either love or hate. There isn’t much in between for her, and unfortunately for Dunst, most viewers won’t love her in this film. Claire’s accent, supposedly Kentuckian, fades in and out, making her inconsistent in the simplest part of her character. Her quirks, supposed to make her lovable, make her annoying instead. It is confusing why Drew finds her so enthralling — she’s practically nauseating. Susan Sarandon plays Drew’s mother Hollie, and while delivering a fair performance as the downplaying but grieving wife, Crowe gives her little to work with. Like Claire, Hollie seems unrealistic, and ridiculously silly in a comedic speech at her husband’s memorial service. Crowe has made a reputation out of writing, directing and producing unique and thought provoking movies, but Elizabethtown looks and feels like a bad “Garden State.” “Elizabethtown” copies the plot almost to a sickening degree without any of the witty and funny one-liners “Garden State” offered. The' storyline of “Elizabethtown” is all over the place. Several scenes feel as if they are thrown in randomly with little consideration of the - * film’s actual plot, and the film is also extremely drawn-out. If the film had been 30 minutes shorter, it might have been “better, but the story and characters would, still lack believability. Viewers who risk their attention spans and actually brave seeing “Elizabethtown” will almost inevitably want to leave long before the movie is over. In the opening montage of the film regarding his dying career, Drew has a voice-over about the difference between a failure and a fiasco. This montage proves to be a prophecy not only about Drew’s career, but the entire movie. Crowe’s “Elizabethtown” fails with his fiasco. Comments on this story? E-mail gamecockfeatures@gwm.sc. edu <. W. , y . . ■ . • ... .. • > . :i . - -■ • ■ ■ ■ * . 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Sunday BREAKING CADENCE, DEXTER DANGER, MOTION PICTURE DEMISE, SLOPPY MEAT EATERS, ANOTHER CASTLE: 6 p.m. New Brookland Tavern, $7 under 21, $5 over “DONNIE DARKO": 3 p.m. Russell House Theater “HAPPY ENDINGS": 3, 7, 9:30 p.m. Nickelodeon Theatre, $5 matinee, $5.50 with student ID. 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