![The Godless Chronicles (Part 2)](https://mitcz.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/godless02-450x260.jpg)
(if you missed Part 1, you're gonna be lost) UPDATE : I've added a video of a full Godless performance right over here, if you're interested. Over the course of a few months, we performed quite a bit. I had to be sneaked in to a few of the venues, being that I was barely 17 and the rest of the band was in their early ...
![The Godless Chronicles (Part 1)](https://mitcz.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/flyer-450x260.jpg)
Godless was an industrial band in Phoenix in the late 90s, of which I was made a semi-member. Technically I was never part of the band, but I was associated with the band and I performed with them as what amounts to, basically, stage decor. Not that I minded it, I had a blast and I learned a lot and made some lifelong friends out of the whole experience. I wouldn't feel ...
![The “Dude” Family](https://mitcz.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/dude_family-450x260.jpg)
It's apparently common for children to have imaginary friends, and I recall thinking my doll Koos-Koos could hear me, but up until around 11 years old, I also had an entire imaginary family. They were the Dude family. To be a little more clear - it was actually just me who was the entirety of the Dude family. (this whole story is making me sweat with embarrassment cause I've never talked about this before, but ...
![Two Times I Almost Died Doing Something Stupid](https://mitcz.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/trash-450x260.jpg)
Neither of these stories is long enough in its own right, but since they're on the same topic - maybe the two combined will be worthwhile. Story 1 The summer before my junior year, I worked at a movie theatre - part of a chain in Phoenix called "Harkins Theatres" (yes, this is where I met Jennifer). It was a shit job, and this was ...
![My First Girlfriend](https://mitcz.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/kissing-450x260.jpg)
This is a story about Pam. You might remember her from the end of my Origin Story. As I'd mentioned at the time, her and Bill had broken up. It was a very amicable breakup in hindsight - being that I knew nothing at all about dating at the time, it didn't seem that weird, but now as an adult I'm ...
![Happiness is a Sandwich on Your Own Sofa](https://mitcz.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/sandwich-450x260.jpg)
Few things in this world can compare to the joy and freedom a young person experiences when they spend their first few days in their first adult home - a place with their name on a lease, no parents anywhere in sight. Freedom. And responsibility. But, let's focus on the freedom. The summer after I graduated high school, my mom and her husband were out of town a lot - which ...
![Falling Into a Lifelong Career](https://mitcz.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/code-450x260.jpg)
It really wasn't my intention to be in my mid-late 30s primarily as a web designer, secondarily as a comedian. I thought I was supposed to be a lead singer in a band. In some alternate universe, I'm screamin' out the hits. Maybe in that alternate universe, I can actually sing. So, how did I end up making websites for the past ~20 years? Well, it's kind of about a girl. Odd ...
![Math is Confusing When You’re Tripping](https://mitcz.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/cooler-450x260.jpg)
In my first apartment, when I was 19, we had quite a few LSD parties. Some of them were epic, others were a disaster. Such is the way when you're inviting way too many people into a 2-bedroom apartment to lie around in the dark and "expand their mind". My roommate at the time - Jim, the lead singer of a local band - didn't like doing acid. He preferred ...
![You Can’t IOU The Bank](https://mitcz.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/iou-450x260.jpg)
When I was 19, I bounced around from various shit jobs. Telemarketing, freelance design, convenience store jobs, temp work, you name it. I was living in my first apartment with 2 girls - one that I'd worked with at a movie theatre in high school, Jennifer, and her friend (let's call her Tammy, I don't remember her name). Jennifer was the source of a lot of anguish in my ...
![I Did Some Gay Porn Once](https://mitcz.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/gayporn-450x260.jpg)
When I was 20, I lived in a 2-bedroom shithole apartment in the semi-ghetto of Phoenix. This 2-bedroom apartment was $455/month. This is when a 1-bedroom in a normal Phoenix suburb would average about $700/month, so you can imagine how shitty the area was. With rent that cheap, I never held down a job for the entire 8+ months I lived in this wretched, stinking, shithole apartment. Instead, I got by on whatever means I could. ...