Word: franticness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...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...
...move-in day approached, Vaghar sent a series of bizarre e-mails and then placed a frantic phone call to Christmas...
...Lionel, which gives me the names of two catalog companies. Both places are sold out until the new year, although a customer-service manager chirpily tells me that if I'm patient, she will send me a free holiday boxcar with Santa on top to put under the tree. Frantic, I dial hobby shops across the country. Nobody has the train, and some owners share theories why. Although none blame the scarcity on Lionel's recent bankruptcy, two shopkeepers tell me that workers in China, where the sets are made, are getting back at the U.S. for screwing up trade...