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...Alkmaar, just north of Amsterdam, it still is. Located near Edam and Gouda, where two of the Netherlands' most famous cheeses are produced, Alkmaar hosted one of the world's largest and longest-running cheese markets, starting in 1622. The commercial trade ceased 15 years ago, but the frantic buying and selling is re-enacted every Friday from April to September for more than 100,000 tourists annually. At 10 a.m. in Waag Square, in front of the historic weigh house that now incorporates the Dutch Cheese Museum ($3.30; (31-72) 511 42 84; www.kaasmuseum.nl), a local rings a bell...
...Well, it’s always a little frantic and the team that’s up always forgets that they’re up,” Stone said. “You think you would play with more confidence, but sometimes you’re squeezing it and the other team is playing with reckless abandon...
...Geminni,” the album’s final segment, the jarring shift is made, to be diabolical, to spaced-out rock—the Queens of the Stone Age in fast forward with a sprinkling of stadium-sized riffs that would make Eddie Van Halen proud. The frantic, fervent horns still make opportune appearances throughout the proceedings, assisting the rollercoaster-through-the-underworld vibe ably and even veering into jazz-style improvisations at some points...
...multimedia commercial for the man, the myth, the Loser. Witness the “cover art” (covering what? It seems to exist only for the sake of iTunes), depicting a Gameboy being played into an amp, and the gleefully cheap-looking video for the title track, the frantic “GHETTOCHIP MALFUNCTION (Hell Yes)” (the track titles, like the music itself, spurns anything lowercase...
...Bode Mobile." He recently started his own talk show on the Sirius satellite-radio network, on which he can chat about skiing and partying in a "fairly core" way. Despite his growing exposure, Miller says he is not designed for stardom. In fact, the media interviews, the frantic fan adulation and the obligations to sponsors--all of which he lumps together as "distractions" from the ski racing he loves--are beginning to wear thin...