Possible Clues:

• Life form is male, hidden under newspaper?
• Yellow sea bird half destroyed is beginning to move -- it's alive
• Being as roaming's out …
• A grim son, weird life form!
• Something that lives on zero margins, perhaps
• Jimi Tenor's 1999 album
• Living animal or vegetable
• Can the body deal with footnotes, perhaps?
• Being a church musician, substituting mass for final piece
• Church musician's short mass, an individual creation