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Which is generally why you shouldn't let try to impress other magicians. You'll just end up depressed and wanting to murder them in their sleep. It's best focusing more on just performing for lay people.

Yeah, never understood that either.

Never understood the purpose or idea being pen manipulation.

Nope. word count

Depending on your style. If you are a gambler you could go the route of saying you marked the card. Sponge Balls. Yeah, those are lame and rather silly.

You really need more than a simple weekend to absorb the material on the DVD. Before you even begin trying to put people into inductions, just have your friends and everybody do the Magnetic palms/hands thing and follow along with what Anthony says. The more you do that, the better your...

Yes do this and you will most likely be yelled at and treated like crap for being a complete asshat.

doing Psychology Homework. Playing Wii. etc etc.

Piracy is bad. Tho a lot of the tutorials on youtube are pretty much ignored by the masses. I don't know anybody who wants to see a stuttering 14 year old babble through the video, with the camera being fuzzy or focused on his crotch. I do know there are a few tutorials on things like...

Most likely if they want you to stay, they'll either sit you at the kiddie table or some place else. It's usually best to eat before you get there, chat with the people there and etc. I don't think you NEED to do an effect with your business card. You've already made an impression on them and...

Wal-Mart: The land of screaming children and low wage earning parents. Go to Wal-Mart if you want to learn why you see some parents going literally insane.

Wait they spent 74 grand on this DVD? Seriously? How to spend 74 grand on something that would and SHOULD only cost you like maybe a couple hundred at most. Hell I don't think ANY other magic DVD's out there spend anywhere close to 74 grand on their projects. Specially not one for just a single...

Fundamental's: If you plan on doing stage mentalism. 13 steps to Mentalism: If you plan on doing any type of Mentalism. Practical Mental Effect's/Magic: If you want to learn some really old school stuff. Switchcraft: Most Mentalist will tell you that you NEED to learn Billet work. Which...

Yes and so does a crap ton of other moves as well. That can accomplish the same thing with less effort. Work Smarter, Not Harder.

You're better off working on other moves that can accomplish the same thing with less effort. Sure the pass is great if you like it when people burn your hands, but the majority of people out there won't do that unless you are an extremely boring person. Which I can tell that you probably are...

No he was horrible. Otherwise he wouldn't have gotten black listed from Carson. He also flubbed a ton of effects on Live TV and his ego wouldn't let him realize it.

Orsen Welles was into Mentalism back in the 70's and 80's. Tho from what my sources have told me. He was a royal pain in the ass to work with and was pretty bland and boring. Apparently he also bored the crap out of Johnny Carson (who was also magician before he was a talk show host.) that he...

You should come up with your own patter. Scripting Magic gives you a general idea of what a magic script would look like. IE: The format and everything. That way you know how some of the top guys do it and you can do just go from there. The thing is that you shouldn't rely on stock one liners...

They're really not that much money besides maybe 10-15 bucks and there are like two different kinds. I'd explain what they are, but it would be exposure. You'd have to look them up yourself. But there is a lot you can do and I have heard good things about the Lincoln Best Boon.

What's wrong with your name? It's not like people are going to laugh at it or anything. If you want you can simply go with "The Amazing" Andy. The Astonishing Andy. or use your real first name and come up with a different last name that suits your fancy.