"I think by doing things to excess, you kind of, like, can crack them open and have fun".
But here and there she scales back the excess: "That Kind of Love," cut with the bona fide 70's singer Betty Wright, is simple, crisp pop without too much mannerism, and so is "U-Haul," produced by the dependable Missy Elliott.
"The complaint alleges that I somehow violated campaign finance laws by facilitating an excess, in-kind contribution," Cohen told the Times.
They form when the body creates excess collagen (a kind of scar tissue) at the injury site.
"The funeral, like the man himself, was largely a celebration of misanthropy, vanity and excess of every kind," he intones.
More than most writers, the circumstances of Malcolm Lowry's death are peculiarly relevant to a consideration of his work, since excess of every kind was both his method and his subject.
If you can get fresh peas, buy lots and blitz any excess into a kind of pesto with fresh mint, a little feta, some toasted almonds, plenty of black pepper and olive oil.
It is also worth noting that providing the basics to ensure a high quality of life is not a formula for excess or the kind of economic calamities befalling parts of Europe today.
I didn't much care for "Wolf," but every time I describe it to someone he says, "I want to see that!" Many people are going to be made happy by the wild, hyper-vulgar exuberance, the endless cruddy behavior (swindling, drugs, whoring, orgies, dwarf-tossing, more swindling), and the fully staged excess of every kind.
True, Scorsese missed an opportunity to tell a great morality tale about the price of excess, but the kind of people whose life goal is to enrich themselves at any cost so they can pal around with chimps or fling midgets about for an afternoon's entertainment are unlikely to have been swayed by such a film anyway.
Others, whose sofas often entertained Leith's slumbering form, would wake in the morning to find drinks cupboards and fridges emptied: 'I didn't mind the bottles of port and the scotch,' one friend recalls, 'but he would eat all the cheese in the house, too, anything he could find.' These tales of excess had a kind of shadow life.
