Future Bible Heroes Music Group

"I think my brain does work a bit differently from other people's," says Future Bible Heroes songwriter Stephin Merritt, asked about the delightfully weird notions on the group's second album, "Eternal Youth," in which aliens fall in love with Doris Day and an old virgin meeting Jesus chastises him for being a pervert. The prolific Merritt, best known as leader of longtime indie rock favorite the Magnetic Fields, cites his recent reading of James Baldwin's "Another Country."

"I think my brain does work a bit differently from other people's," says Future Bible Heroes songwriter Stephin Merritt, asked about the delightfully weird notions on the group's second album, "Eternal Youth," in which aliens fall in love with Doris Day and an old virgin meeting Jesus chastises him for being a pervert. The prolific Merritt, best known as leader of longtime indie rock favorite the Magnetic Fields, cites his recent reading of James Baldwin's "Another Country."