Me and Mickie James Jonathan Cape July 2008
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Me and Mickie James: The Cast Con - cheese shop owner - ‘Some of these cheeses are booby-trapped.’ Ivan Norris-Ayres - musical impresario - ‘It would require some nudity and a matter of intercourse with a person of the contradictory sex if you know what I mean?’ Gus - a giant - ‘She gave me her heart and it is torturing me. Please. Take it.’ Ishtar - an Iraqi - ‘Whatever you do don’t go into this room. It’s very important, yes?’ Penelope - a magician’s assistant - ‘For his next trick Harlan Harlan will disappear up his own ass.’ Harlan Harlan - a magician - ‘I’m a magician. I think like a magician. I think that one day she’ll disappear.’ Koji - a Sumo wrestler - ‘I wonder if you could help me. I need someone quite desperately to manipulate my intestines.’ Jurgen - kitchen manager on a cruise ship - ‘There’s two things you need to know about me. One, I drink my own piss. Two, you do wrong by me, I’ll make you drink it too. With a straw..’ Octavio - a world famous opera singer - ‘I want to be a castrato. If I don’t do something, then my career will be over.’ Suc - a transsexual - ‘I’m a transsexual, not Rambo.’ Roger Korman - ‘You’re going to be massive. I’ve got this feeling.’ Mickie James - hunchback and keyboard player in Down By Law - ‘I want you to like me for who I am.’ Me - singer in Down By Law - ‘There are more important things than money. We’ve got that gig with Shawaddywaddy. We’re going to be rich.’
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