MEMORIES: OPX/MJ & Friends (The 2010s)

The previous year (2009) closed out with major tragedy at every turn, however with a little time and a lot of love, the B'ham Underground persisted with an injection of new blood, reunion of old blood and an end to any bad blood.

ANOM!LE/Rocksolid and Magic City Sirens burlesque troupe did eventually united for several projects over the next few years until MJ left the burlesque scene in 2012 to continue his own musical work and to mourn the recent passing of his own father that June.

The same year, love returns for a while to MJ's life and he and his fiery-haired counterpart, Pam "Sonic Warfare" Johnson (both being DJs and Electronic musicians) spent the next few years refilling the ANOM!LE ranks under the new banner, the STARSHIP Creative where he began to DJ ethereal Drum n' Bass for the next few years in his own dance party series as yet another persona, "Seraph!m".

As Godfathers to MJ's best friend, Chris Artificial's surviving son, Kiran, MJ and his brothers-in-arts kept watch over him ever since, regularly meeting together to celebrate Chris' and their friendship and his ongoing love and devotion to his only son.

In 2016, MJ drops his debut album "Love Dimension" as Synthwave crooner, MJ Darling which furthered the daunting challenge set back in his 2009 Hip-Hop era for MJ to finally tie together all the various names, themes and styles into one cohesive body of work called the "STARSHIP Creative Universe".

During this period, he hung among co-creators, local comic, Jackie Brown, David Jean/DJ Daywalker, Patrick "DJ MP5" Jackson, Mason "Jenova" Harris, Matt Triola, Steven "J Rodamus Prime" Smith, Nikita Strickland, ex-Magic City Siren-turned-vocalist and Nola Bombshell dancer, Kimberly Strange, and longtime colleague, Felipe' Santiago, a.k.a. Adeejaycalledphlip, who became his closest friend until 2021, when Felipe' suddenly fell sick and passed away from stage 4 metastatic Pancreatic Cancer within just 2 short weeks of finding out the shocking news.

Photo highlights from that decade.