Hello saucy, Stevie T, with the fractured recall of a man wrecked by prescription drugs, uttered the following:

I first met Mike in Antwerp in 1989 when I was sent to cover the shooting of "Anti- Oedipus!"

Oh, Stevie. You and I both know it was six months earlier at that Brother Beyond PA in Shepshed. I was in charge of greasing the mic-stands and you were looking after the Jaffa Cakes. You - resplendent in ‘Chase Me’ beret and olive tank-top, me - nervous in my bubble-perm and Morgan Fairchild-emblazoned Parka. The BBs did their stuff, we zipped up the body-bags together and stumbled into the East Midlands night. It was well past 10 o’clock when we parted, three and a half tumblers of cherry brandy down the line... With a look precisely half-way between utter vacancy and shrieking sexual confusion, you clasped my shoulder just as my cab rolled up and whispered in my ear: "This time next year, Rodders - we’ll be willionaires". To this day, I’m haunted by that phrase. And the ghost of Arthur Askey.

Mike was later awarded the highly-coveted Golden Phenome prize by Gothenburg's "Planckspenker" magazine, for his contribution to cinematic esoterrorism.

Hrmph. An incomplete Esso ’78 World Cup commemorative coin set (*no* Arie Haan, *no* Dominique Rocheteau), a bag (family, shop-soiled) of fun-size Toffee Crisps and a voucher to have any blood relative remixed by Front 242. That lay unredeemed in a desk drawer well past its expiry date, natch. What’s wrong with plain vanilla, unreconstructed CASH for God’s sake ? Sub-particulate audio-toxicity - it’s a mug’s game. Next time - how I met Tim Hopkins in a Southend guest-house in ’83; he a billiards hustler with a growing interest in Islam and a customised moped, me fresh outta chokey with a body full o’bruises and a brain full o’Matt Bianco. P!O!P!, arson and a change in Catholic doctrine ensued. St<d> M<k> __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one place. Yahoo! Shopping: http://shopping.yahoo.com +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+