You're frantic, maybe even feeling crazed inside--and if you could chew that leg off somehow, you would.
Otherwise, fear and its hormones will keep you feeling crazed.
If you're fed up with feeling crazed, you might want to consider admitting how exhausting, depleting, and defeating your quest for perfection is, and that no matter how perfect you become, you will never satisfy your own critical voice.
A lusty "Brakeman's Blues," recorded with Mr. Martin's band at the Bean Blossom Festival in 2001, has the crazed, whooping feeling of just a handful of live performances documented in American music.
At this stage of the festival, there's less of the crazed competitive feeling and more the sense of discovery and the ability to simply immerse oneself in movies, wallow in them from morning to night.
As I sat there, I remembered more details of my own bumpy journey with Arnie -- from falling madly in love at 23 and being thrilled to be getting married to him, to feeling disappointed, angry, crazed and falling out of love.
I first got into his great 2007 album, "Love's the Only Thing That Shuts Me Up," and soon realized that in certain crazed moods I can listen to "Happy Birthday Yesterday," a song of Velvet Underground-lullaby sweetness, over and over and over, feeling almost guilty for how good it makes me feel.
If you are already feeling anxious, or are worried the coming days may bring out the stressed and crazed side of you -- or the holiday blues -- here are five holiday mantras to get you through these next couple of weeks!
Where Aristotle's theory of tragedy had relied on catharsis (the climactic purging and mastery of our terror, as we witness overpowering deeds), Haneke seemed to suggest that recent cinema has cheapened such slaking of emotion into a near-pornographic fake: we are crazed and cheered by shuddering events that have no authentic claim upon our feelings.
After so many years, he is accustomed to the frenzied desire, the crazed crush of fans wanting to see him, capture him on film or claim his autograph; if he was feeling some dread, it was because he already knew that he would be disappointing so many people.
