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Ordinary novelists have readers. Thomas Pynchon has decoders. Anyone who has ventured into the manic densities of Gravity's Rainbow or Mason & Dixon knows the drill. You comb through his superabundance of historical data and scientific arcana. You adjust your nerve endings to operate at his mad frequencies. Day after day you resume the steep ascent of his achievement and just hope to make camp before nightfall...
...tough adjustment. Williamson developed emotional problems; doctors whispered about manic depression and even schizophrenia. He drank and chased women and bounced from job to job, clinging to the delusion that his career wasn't over. He had a knack for making the worst of his bad luck, and his luck was terrible...
...Veracruz--and synthesizing them into a fluid, singular brand of rock en espańol. The song El Fin de la Infancia puts brassy Mexican banda music to a ska beat. Eres is a pop ballad served straight. And Chilanga Banda is a nod to funk. It makes for manic concerts. This two-disc set captures Tacvba's epic 15th-anniversary blowout in Mexico City...
Blain is a manic, mouthy merchant of mangosteen. "No commute. No dress code. I never have to leave the house. I've found my dream job," she says. She envisions XanGo paying for her son's education, homes in Manhattan and Paris and "the freedom to pursue my artistic side." As for XanGo's health benefits, Blain is a believer. "My friend's father had pancreatic cancer," she says. "After XanGo, he had much more energy...
...content to rely on competent electronic drums, synthesizer flourishes, producer Nigel Godrich’s occasional esoteric grace notes, and, most notably, Yorke’s achingly flexible voice.And yet, it is an album that stands up to repeated examination. While “Eraser” lacks the manic fluctuations of favorite Radiohead tracks, and while Yorke’s voice slips rarely into his characteristic Brit-sneer, its expression of its creator’s singular vision—lyrical, musical, and otherwise—makes it one of the most intriguing albums of the past summer.TV...