The Anomalies

Meet the Anomalies: LUSTER wants the ultimate form ofthe American dream-- rock stardom-- despite being a 24year-old black man living in the ghetto with his crack-dealing brothers. OPAL is a sex-crazed party machine despite being an 80 year-old white woman. EMBER hates the world and wants to destroy it despite being a six year-old white girl. RAY loves America and all of its inhabitants despite being a middle-aged Iraqi man. AURORA is frigid and deplores young people despite being a sexy white Satanic teenage girl confined to a wheelchair. Just when you thought everything in this tired, olduniverse had been done, these five got together andbecame the best of friends despite living in a smallMidwestern town primarily inhabited by tiny-minded walking stereotypes. And now these misfits have formed a band, a band sodifferent, so utterly unpredictable that they mightjust be able to slip between a crack, rise above theirsmall-town existence, tour the world, and in the process make us all reconsider our stale, old conventions.

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