James Euringer {Jimmy Urine}

I stood in the front row, clutching a sign that said, "MSI is my religion," and thought nothing could get any better than this evening. Then Jimmy leaned toward the edge of the stage, winked, and shouted into the microphone:

— Hey, in the striped sweater! You look like you're ready for anything!

And the crowd turned around. I was wearing a striped sweater. And I was really ready... well, at least for an autograph.

Five minutes later I was already sitting in the dressing room on a speaker box, and Jimmy, having pulled off his stage jacket, was conspiratorially whispering:

"Listen, I've got a problem. I urgently need to smuggle a hamster into the studio, but the security guard knows all my hamsters by sight. Can you tell me this is your hamster?"

"My... hamster? " I asked, looking at the tiny creature nervously gnawing on the corner of his rider.
— Why does he eat paper with the label’s signature?

“That’s his style, ” Jimmy answered seriously.
— He's an art director at heart.

We went out into the corridor, I hugged the hamster to my chest and in the most confident voice said to the guard:

"This is my pet. His name is Bass. He's sensitive, so don't stare at him too hard."

The guard blinked. Jimmy added quietly:

"She's from the press office. She has access to all the rodents."

James Euringer, commonly known as Jimmy Urine, is an American musician, keyboardist, vocalist for the American band Mindless Self Indulgence, and a founding member of the band The Left Rights.