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Special to THE HAM hl.Ul;l\ James Beard, left, and Will Bovender bring unusual instruments and lyrics to the local music scene in their band Daemon Flushboy. 1 Special to THE GAMECOCK Kirsten Dunst and Orlando Bloom’s performance in Cameron Crowe's new movie couldn’t save it from being a flop. ‘Elizabethtown’ reeks of failure (Harjone Riddle FOR THE (iAMECOCK I ★ out of ☆☆☆☆☆ “Elizabethtown,” starring Kirsten Dunst and Orlando Bloom, must be one of the worst movies ever made. After writing and directing such films as “Jerry Maguire” and “Almost Famous,” Cameron Crowe shows that after previous success, not all attempts are created equal. Neither an ounce of the appeal of his two other films nor the lovability of the characters can be seen in “Elizabethtown.” It is downright dry, long and just plain terrible. “Elizabethtown” begins with Drew Baylor, played by Bloom, losing his job after the major shoe conglomerate he works for loses almost a billion dollars on the shoe flop Drew designed. Drew goes home to kill himself after his “fiasco,” but in the process of his creative suicide, his phone rings incessantly. His sister tells him their father died, and his body is in Elizabethtown, Ky. As the oldest, Drew has to go to mouie«g MTV celebrity visits local radio sports show to talk college football with Rich Taylor Alexis Arnone THE MIX EDITOR Die-hard “Real World” fans listen up: tune in to Rich Taylor’s show, “The Sports Drive with RT” today at 4 p.m. Taylor, a local voice for ESPN radio, will interview “Real World: Philadelphia” star M.J. Garrett. Taylor started at USC as sports editor for The Gamecock and WUSC sports director. Moving on to local news station WOLO while still an undergraduate, he got his shot helping Terry Chick with broadcasting. After working with Phil Korhblut on “Sports Talk,” a statewide show, he got his own show on ESPN Radio. “The Sports Drive” is primarily about the Gamecocks, Clemson Tigers and other college and professional football -teams. The show is consistently 90 95 percent sports, deviating occasionally for good music. A contest sponsored every week called “Pick 'em” attracts fans. Listeners can call in to the station and give scores for Carolina, Clemson and Georgia games. Winners could receive a $300 cash. “So far nobody has won, and we’re just dying to give away this money,” Taylor said. Taylor and Garrett started their friendship when Taylor lived in Nashville, Tenn. This is particularly good timing for Forget standard 3-chord songs — student band delivers unique hodgepodge of sound Devon Ulceh FOR THE GAMECOCK Daemon Fiushboy is one of the most audibly inaccessible bands around, and the band’s songs are not catchy in the traditional sense. Instead, the band’s music challenges its audience to think while listening. The unique brand of improvisation surprises the listener with every note, never settling for what is expected. Daemon Fiushboy is experimental to the most literal degree. The band’s songs are purely improvisational, captured only by a tape recorder. The band members play without structure and traditional chords, leaving bare inspiration to freely wander through sound. The random attack of organ and guitar “should strike the listener and performer both as a long-forgotten song, perhaps made up when one was a child,” said Will Bovender, a fourth-year psychology student and band member. The band’s improvisational style discourages the tired writing process, allowing the band to be unexpected rather than what the subconscious listener wants to hear. The band members have found that chord progressions restrict songs to a certain sound. ‘“Too often you can guess a band’s next chord simply by the two before it,” Bovender said. “And it’s hard sometimes to not Unconsciously go to that ‘correct’ chord, unless you ignore chords altogether.” The band’s apocryphal history began when James Beard, a fourth-year Russian student, and Bovender shared the same holding cell in a detention center. The two found they had much in common — both were high school valedictorians and both had been forcefully detained earlier that night — and decided to start a band. The name came from the Flushboy FLUSHBOV • 9 Get ‘Real’ with star, ex-football player the show, as the Gamecocks gear up for the Homecoming game against Vanderbilt. Garrett has a bond to our opposition. “He’s a weekly guest on my radio show to talk about SEC football. He was a wide receiver at Vanderbilt, which is why he’s coming today,” Taylor said. Taylor promises sports fans the show will be dedicated to mostly football and, of course, the Gamecocks. Fans of the show should not be dismayed to find out Garrett is most famous for his stint on the MTV reality show. “He knows his football. He was a legitimate SEC starter,” Taylor said. ' On recent visits to campus promoting today’s guest, Taylor found the reaction RADIO • 9 Special to THE UAMECOCK MTV “Real World: Philadelphia” star visits local radio show to talk about college football.