Will was a musician, and very suave. He was always involved with one girl or another, and would say things like [when I brought up the well-known singer Diamanda Galas], "Oh yeah, Di -- I've been friends with her a long time." He also had a bit of a heroin habit, and I couldn't help but be interested in watching him shoot up in my roommate's bedroom. He discovered I took painkillers, though, and one day I got a phone message from him that started, "Oh hey, Ben, how ya doing ..." and after a minute or so got around to, "Well, you see, I have this little problem, and I'm at work so I can't quite talk about it, but I know you might be able to help me out and ..."