rented a handler aka best friend, someone he was hooking up with for a while before they decided a text message in the middle of the night with a random address and the faint smell of paint thinner and self-loathing clinging to their skin after wasn't what they were looking for after all, musicians to play with, venue security that knows him by name, people who've inexplicably let him into their lives and find his overall existence endearing enough to keep him there, and like, a variety of personalities to round out his friends group for some free mind expansion without the lasting side effects of hallucinogens