Tim Drys memoir of a life in arts rises and falls through the worlds of art school mime and pop where he tours with Gary Numan and makes a high-wire appearance on stage with Duran Duran. He plays monsters in Return of the Jedi and Xtro makes a globetrottery of expensive commercials works with Joan Collins Rutger Hauer and Mick Jagger presents a food programme on Channel 4 and experiments with drugs to channel the ghost of Baudelaire as he begins a literary career.