Oh, "Fifi" is every bit as bad as I am... She's the one who caused the panic at King's Cross Underground station and caused "The Anaconda Incident" to enter so heavily into London Transport Police records... Not to mention the subsequent panic on the train when the aforementioned giant snake prop emerged suddenly from the overhead luggage space whilst the train went over some particularly uneven tracks... which was apparently quite distressing to our fellow passengers who didn't know it was up there. At least, I assume they were distressed given the improbable velocity with which they all left the carriage.
And she's been just as prone as I have over the years to "testing" creature suits by wearing them at dead of night in unsuspecting suburban locales. If the general public flee in terror, we know we've got it right.
But I digress...
Hans Rudi Giger was a unique artist and his death is a sad event.
But like all truly great artists, he lives on in his art - with the Aliens, and Sil from Species, lurking about me here, as well as many of his books and images, his presence is still, well, er, present...
Immortal, at least in so long as the stagnant tatters of (so-called) human civilization continue oozing their way toward inevitable extinction. And perhaps even then, as transmission waves leach outward from the Earth, a thousand years from now when humanity is long gone, fragmentary signals from "Alien" may reach some distant world where the local wildlife is startlingly similar and thus confuse extraterrestrial zoologists for decades...
Thanks for the inspiration, H.R.G.
