Word: manic
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...seen a typical Black performance--as the manic record-store clerk in High Fidelity, the manic but sweet wannabe rock star in The School of Rock or the manic and sadistic half of Tenacious D, the world's most delusional folk-metal duo--this might seem like a revelatory moment, as well as a good time to put in a call to child services. Black, 37, can be irresponsible and gross and all those other things associated with burly comics since John Belushi first belched his way into moviegoers' hearts. But for Black, chilaquiles moments are actually pretty rare...
...birth parents were manic depressives. I'm adopted. In my junior year of high school, when I was 16 years old, my parents filed for divorce at the same time that I was taken off medication for epilepsy. That same pill acts as a mood stabilizer, but we didn't know I had bipolar [disorder] at that point, and I'd been on it since...
...September 2000, I was more and more manic, depressed and paranoid. The pills were not helping. I said, I can't do this anymore. I was tired, I was tired of fighting the disease, I was tired of myself, I was tired of looking at myself in the mirror. I hated myself. It was that simple. I was angry with the world, I was angry with bipolar, I was angry with my parents for making me take these pills...
...good idea. The first game I try--Miyamoto walks me through it, which to a gamer is the rough equivalent of getting to trade bons mots with Jerry Seinfeld--is a Warioware title (Wario being Mario's shorter, fatter evil twin). It consists of dozens of manic five-second mini games in a row. They're geared to the Japanese gaming sensibility, which has a zany, cartoonish, game-show bent. In one hot minute, I use the controller to swat a fly, do squat-thrusts as a weight lifter, turn a key in a lock, catch a fish, drive...
...soldiers in Iraq. The joke’s blatant offensiveness inspired uncomfortable laughter initially, but as the moment of silence dragged on past the two minute mark the crowd settled into an unpleasant funk. Luckily, the musical recovered from that blunder and finished with the same manic energy with which it began. “Maude and Harold” was an affront to decency, a celebration of obscenity, and an assault on the values and institutions that most people consider sacrosanct, and that’s precisely why it was so thoroughly enjoyable. Some plays slaughter sacred cows?...