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I have only your word to go on for that. And I have no idea who the hell you are. Do the math. It's a literary reference. One of my favorite villains. "The Gormenghast Novels" by Mervyn Peake specifically. They were adapted into a TV miniseries by the BBC about ten-odd years ago featuring...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnMBix9Zq5o This is the lead single Elevate from the debut album of The Winery Dogs, a new supergroup composed of Richie Kotzen (Poison) on guitar and vocals, Billy Sheehan (whole bunch of stuff) on bass, and Mike Portnoy (Dream Theater) on drums... and it bloody...

I'm not sure I'm clear what you're looking for (which could be a product of sleep deprivation on my part), so let me just cover all the bases to play it safe. If you're judging the quality of reactions by volume, you're doing it wrong. Energetic responses are nice ego boosters, but stunned...

Unfortunately money is too tight for me to acquire these with the exception of one. Still, just my initial skimming of the PDF reveals gold. A lot of people are going to read that text and not use any of it, thinking of it as a lot of fluff and nonsense. Fools.

Your trailer was a bit vague in that it told me nothing. Came across as trying too hard, honestly. And really, for Halloween shows, you should be advertising as early as July. You're so close to the zero hour now, why did you wait this long? EDIT: Beyond that, calling your show schizophrenic...

The Bell Witch is an entirely separate story from the Blaire Witch. Music nerd aside, Mercyful Fate wrote a song about it. King Diamond rules. Where on the East Coast? If you pass through Pittsburgh at any point we should meet up. I'm working on wrangling a deal with a local haunted...

If they use those skills to steal another performer's audience in the middle of his show? Yes. Again, it depends entirely on whether it's enriching your life or controlling it. In middle school and high school, I had no life. I was an obnoxious social retard with extremely narrow...

I quote this all the time, but to build on what krab is saying, there's a line from Kurosawa's The Lower Depths: "The things we love define us." Assuming that, what do you think it says about someone that they can only have one love or hobby or passion?

Vampire Santa to be more specific. Just popping in to remind everyone that I'm still shamelessly pimping Val Lewton's films. There's a whole boxed set of his movies and you should totally buy it because they're great. If you want to do spooky Halloween stuff, you need to learn from the...

I hate doing things on short notice. I have a show ready to go tonight, but if I was called up for a last-minute booking to do a show tomorrow night, I'd ask that person if they read the copy where I stated all shows must be reserved no less than 2 weeks in advance? I enjoy the process of...

Same reason people make fun of nerds: they don't see the value in it or how it in any way enhances someone's life. You prove them wrong by creating value. People don't make fun of Peter Jackson. Yeah, he's a nerd. But he's also a nerd who won 11 Oscars.

That's one reason all mentalists should know how to cold read. Cold reading is a demonstration by the performer, but it's distinctly about someone else and (generally) trying to make them feel good about themselves. That's one of the reasons I make it a point to contextualize my readings based...

Apparently this is just my own personal idiosyncrasy but I'm of the belief that fun should not automatically translate to, "I don't have to do a good job, so I won't." I seem to be the only one around here who thinks that completely phoning it in when I know for a fact I'm capable of doing...

The way most guys do it? The reactions I've seen tend to be, "Wow, cool!" for about a minute, and everything after that is, "Okay... now what? Is this going somewhere?"

I see. Well, that actually diminishes the chance of my trying in the event of another mentalism contest because putting together a video on such short notice brings to mind the phrase "half-assing" which drives me up the wall. I didn't submit this time because I only had my cell phone and the...

You could just go ahead and submit and see what happens. It's not like there's any real consequence if it turns out to be wrong.

Yeah, it's not going to happen this week. Without any decent video equipment, I have only my cell phone, which is pretty awful for video. I tried a test and it was unusable. Oh well. Some other time perhaps. It might seem anal retentive of me, but if I'm going to put performance videos on...

Figures this would come up the weekend when I don't have access to my preferred video equipment. Never let it be said I'm a poor sport. You actually took a suggestion (whether from myself or someone else), so I'll ante up. I'll see what I can do Sunday morning to get a video together of my...

As long as we're on the topic of Yule time ghost stories, do a Google search on the word "oskorei."

That's magician thinking. To be a mentalist, you have to adopt a new mindset. It's not about the tricks, it's about the systems, which comprise both mechanics and performance theory. Obscure is not necessarily better. The classics are classic for a reason. Start with Karl Fulves'...