The Life and Times of Bill Alves

"I've been out here longer than you have," he says. "We were this tiny thing down there jumped around between the screenings of the different, you know, graffiti and doing that." He was born in Ohio but moved to L.A. City as a teenager after graduating from high school with an A-plus grade point average. After working at moving furniture for a time then driving air freight, Alves decided to try his hand at performing on stage.