Paraplegic from a freak accident for which Gideon tacitly blames his son, who was 9 at the time, his mother died at home in the bathtub.
After Pippa miscarries and Patrick is, so he claims, rendered infertile by a freak accident (for which he wrongly blames Victor), he adopts a dachshund called Dexter, which Pippa describes as his "baby substitute".
New York had been Zedd's territory since 1976, the place where he met and collaborated with people like Kern, Jack Smith, and Lydia Lunch and the only place where he could have made the filmic freak-outs for which he's famous: They Eat Scum, Thrust in Me, War Is Menstrual Envy.
So she made seven freaks, for each of which Enki found a place in society and a living.
I'm not talking about the "let your freak flag fly," live-and-let-live vibe for which the city is famous.
His unmatched passion has helped: being a plant freak is a full-time job, an all consuming obsession, a disease, he says, for which there is no cure.
From Venezuela via Los Angeles, Mr. Banhart became the figurehead for freak-folk, which, as it turned out, wasn't that freaky after all, just folksy.
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At the end of the video the hashtag "WirSindAlleFreaks" briefly flashes, which is German for "We Are All Freaks".
The crown jewel, though, is "Freaks and Geeks," which existed for just 18 perfect episodes and was, conveniently, not only an underdog show but also a show about underdogs.
