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Melody Stellar and the Lizards from Venus

My girlfriend's search for a new roommate may be over, as Friday we met with a girl from Taiwan to show off the half-empty apartment. The girl's name is Melody. As to be expected, she brought a friend for backup. Her friend's name is Stellar. I've heard that it is normal for Taiwanese people to have American names, but it's not very common for American people to be named after nouns and 80s slang-terms. I really wanted to point that their names together sound like some kind of pop group, but I figured it would only confuse them. So I kept it to myself, and I have toyed with the name in my head since Friday and come up with an entire history for this imaginary group:

AMG Expert Review-
Melody Stellar came together in 1996 as the pairing of college friends Anna Melody and Nicole Stellar. One majoring in music and the other in astronomy, the two decided to form a musical outfit out of their shared love for such bands as Devo, Black Flag, Amadaeus Mozart, Tortoise, The Commodores, and the Muppet Jug Band. Upon realizing that neither played any instruments, they recruited local experimental band The Lizards from Venus to provide music for the songs they wrote, which featured lyrics of cloy optimism and baseless metaphors. After playing local venues with the singers and gaining a small following, The Lizards inevitably dissolved, but the band's producer and creative force Matthew Foxglove stayed with Melody Stellar until they signed with Micro Fish records in 1998. Foxglove left to persue a solo career but would later return to produce their first EP. As the pop duo steadily gained popularity so grew Stellar's cocaine fixation, resulting in Jim Morrison-esque rantings during live performances of songs like "My Bubblegum You" and "We're the Turtledoves of Spectacular Kool-Aid". After releasing their debut EP, "A Love that Kills", in August 1999, Melody Stellar took some time off to deal with Stellar's drug problem and mental lapses, but they were back in the studio in no time recording a new full-length album. "AT-ST Walkers in my Bed" was released in early 2001 to mixed reviews, and the duo achieved semi-stardom in Russia, China, and Greenland. Melody Stellar kept busy in 2002, touring with Japanese rockers Bullshit and releasing a second album, "123 Fuck", in December.

Heh. Heh heh.