Neurotic - the best word to describe The Life Effect. Not for those who cannot stomach desperation, lovesickness, impulse, hysterical run-ons and stabbing repetition, self-deprecation and other such traits of a self-proclaimed "Escape Artist." Suffocated in matters of the heart, the head, the hand and histrionics, it's either love or hate - but whichever one it is, it hits hard.