One regret, perhaps, is that "House had a very busy, loud life and it was a very quiet work that needed to have some humility, which it didn't really have the chance to have".
"Either that or burned down, one of the two of them," said Mr. Hauquitz, 79, echoing the sentiments of other Hamptonites who live near nightclubs that throb to loud life on summer weekends.
I've had my fair share of traumas -- I'm sure you have, too -- and if I could learn to tamp them down and thereby prune my thorny lived-out-loud life a little, I'd be more than happy to.
Over the years it's the collective excitement of loud, life changing music, and that basic introduction to a culture I would go on to pursue, that seems to be what the experience boils down to.
"He wasn't a loud, life-of-the-party kind of guy, but he always sought out the person in any situation who wasn't comfortable, and made them feel welcome," said his sister Colleen Kelly.
With Charles Ives (1874-1954), make that louder than life.
His movies may have calmed down, or grown up, and they are fashioned with more structural nicety than those of any other current director, yet much about them remains not just larger but louder than life.
JAMES GANG Heavy Metal: Louder Than Life Hopscotch/Shock Q: Did you hear about the heavy metal player who locked his keys in the car?
Iannis Xenakis died in February, but his music goes on loud with life.
"I laugh out loud, my life's a mess," she sang in "Heartstopper," which seesawed between brisk bravado and pensive intervals.
