Mated to the Alien Alpha

look like text from a crappy printer. It’s based

a’s neck. All I could think was lame. “This is like a

s bass. “Whatever. You have pink

why it’s in black and white. Moondust is my middle name. Ziggi Mo

to get in the zone,” Spike said. He

d to Carlos “Hotsauce” Rivera. “Forget what I said

wary. “Whatev

nt note, the Igu

oom shaped bong. This one smelled like a dank skunk. He scoured the floor of

” Cyrus yelled over the blare of my r

d arms. I wasn’t exactl

ver my solo, making a V with his d

u’re rage-murdering my ears,” Carl

tsauce,” Spi

dude,” Carl

dbare couch near the entrance. He closed his eyes and took a drag from his joint. Exhaling, he picked at a thread in the couch. “Music is like a flower, y’know?

ke Otzi the Iceman would say. You can’t tell me a bog body frozen for thousand

burned,” I

I gave him the middle finger.

ned roommate back to our apartment, wondering the whole

the suburban dad from our concept album commits suicide with a George Foreman grill in Loudoun County, one of those starched collar and chino clad mu

th version of my lyrics and tos

esk, wondering how I would ever sleep tonight with Cyr

ction, my bright pink bangs askew: “Get it together. You’re days away from performing your

efforts, no in

e verge of breaking, ready to kick her roommate out, wonde

ust shaved his head and joined one of those totally not legit completely white Hindu monasteries in Annandale without any e

ecause he said he was an artist. It also helped that Cyrus, as I said, looked like something from a romance novel, one with like a millionaire playboy on the cover or like maybe a hot Viking warlord. Maybe t

His fingers had been stained with paint and he was dressed in all white, down

- but then I made the mistake of taking him to one of the Iguana Knees’

ie. He would collect cast-off shoes from the gutter and cardboard from recycling bins, then go dumpster-diving for more materials. Come morning, the haphazard objects would be forged and soldered and sewn together into new creations and displayed in