Mystery "The Pickup Artist" on VH1

Tonight was the first episode of "The Pickup Artist" on VH1
staring Mystery (Erik Von Markovic). It was very funny and
entertaining.

I first met Mystery in June of 1999. I drove to Toronto to
meet up with him and some other guys for a weekend.
After returning home, I posted this field report in the
alt.seduction.fast newsgroup.

June 21, 1999

Friday night I met up with Mystery, his friend Tal, and his cousin, as
well as Hawker and his friend John. We talk shop for a while and then
get busy. Mystery runs into an old girlfriend of his. What a doll.
Mystery and Tal talk to a number of women. Hawker and John and I go
menace some others. Mystery and I do his camera gig with a couple
women. Mystery approaches this one cutie who is with some big guy.
She soon forgets about the guy as Mystery shows her the disappearing pen
trick and some other things like his ability to know what she wrote on a
peace of paper. Hawker and John leave to check out a different place.
Mystery, Tal, his cousin, and I leave to go to a sports bar. We chat
with a few. Whenever Mystery demonstrates his magic, a small crowd will
gather, or he will simply gather up some people and then start
demonstrating. After they are all impressed he moves on the hot woman.
As it is getting late, the pickings are getting thin. I see this
slender brunette in a group of people and go start chatting her up.
Turns out she is with 3 girl friends who unfortunately are not as
slender. The guys who are trying to make the moves on the group start
dropping off as I talk to the women. I motion Mystery over. He comes
in and entertains them with his magic. They love it. I ask Mystery if
he wants to continue with these or just go out to breakfast. He wants
to continue, so we keep working them. Then he demonstrates another
trick for the slender woman. She is amazed and asks him how he did it.
He tells her to back up into between his legs and he asks her if she can
keep a secret. She says Yes. He whispers into her ear: "I can too."
She jumps out and exclaims: "You're cruel!" All the women ask: "What
did he say?" Then he does a trick for one of the other women where she
has to hold his hand. She says: "You have big hands." He says: "Oooh,
let's not continue on that line of thinking!" Mystery takes the women
one at a time to the corner and levitates a bottle for them. They love
him. The bar is closing and everybody spills out into the parking
garage. Mystery is talking to Tal and his cousin at their car. I get
the women to take us home with them. I tell some guys who are still
trying to hit on two of the women to get lost. I motion Mystery over
and we get into the woman's van. On the way there, Mystery and the
slender woman are in the back seat making out. At the women's house, the
two drunk blondes pass out. Mystery and I talk with the two brunettes
for a while and then Mystery goes for a dip in the Jacuzzi. The two
brunettes go to bed. Mystery goes to the slender brunette's room to get
a T shirt and never returns. I ride the sofa. hehe

Saturday, Mystery and I go out to lunch. We talk shop for hours. We
cover every topic on the art of pick up. Mystery has dedicated every
aspect of his life to only one thing. Getting women. He is very
intelligent and driven. It is interesting to hear in person the things
I had enjoyed reading about in the ng, like the Elvis script and the
pictures opener and many many more that he has not yet written up. He
may appear very cocky in the ng, but in person he is a very pleasant
sociable person. I discuss what I had learned from Ross' course, and
how it has changed how I go about it all. We compare and contrast
various strategies. He is very very talkative and can invent a story on
the spot.. He insists he is not a natural, but instead, has worked on
making himself talkative. His goal is to have the best of the best. I
tell him he needs to write a book. Let's hope he does. I am confident
that some day we will see him on Sunday evening national television.

David Shade