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Since the thread I was going to comment in has been closed due to religion-based bickering and general myopic mother****ery, I'm just going to pose the question to the boards here. The general attitude seems to be an abandonment of scripting, personas, characters, and context with a...

Thank you for having a sense of humor about it. Most people get really pissed off when I bring that up. In your next video, try to give us some context. As I said, your effects are mechanically sound, but they need that theatrical dressing to give the act some life.

I think that depends entirely on one question. Are you asking them to believe or to suspend their disbelief?

You're asking for advice from a crowd that thinks juxtaposing Daniel Garcia with ninjas is the pinnacle of comedy. What did you expect? Anyway, an interesting effect. And, the editing aside, at least the framing here was closer to competence than normal. What context do you put this is? I'd...

Cutting you off right there. Christ, no wonder it's so ****ing hard to get these kids to perform. Even I'm not this much of neurotic perfectionist.

About a dozen. If that.

I think you might need to look more at the symptoms. Have you noticed the fact that when asked, most people here will say something along the lines of, "I'm a card guy, but if I don't have my cards I'll do some coin tricks or mentalism." The majority of this forum regards coins as a...

Which begs the question: Is your opinion important enough than anyone needs to hear it? The answer of course is: no.

I clicked off half-way through. It's bad enough you had the camera point at your junk more than the cards, but did you have to be wearing gym shorts too? My ****in' eyes... Of what I was able to watch before I was overcome with the urge to stab my own eyeballs, the effects were mechanically...

There is no way to get around it. You can read and practice all you want, but your first performances are going to suck. You learn from them. That's the way it goes.

Banachek was talking about this at the lecture. When I have money again, I'll be adding it to my library.

Note the adjective "most" in that sentence. "20 Master Plots: and how to build them" "Semiotics: the basics" "The Hero with a Thousand Faces" "Please Understand Me"

Oh hell... I'm not drunk enough to deal with this kind of drama today.

Better to get the sleights handled before you start buying gimmicks. If you absolutely have to spend your money on a coin gaff, get yourself a coin bite/folding quarter or a Scotch and Soda. They're versatile, easy to use, and are reasonably inexpensive.

L&L have a DVD in their World's Greatest Magic series dedicated to the Card Stab. Johnny Thompson performs and teaches the Malini version, and there's several others, including a variant from Daryl using a newspaper.

There's the occasional Bollywood flick that's okay. My problem with musicals is that most of them are just insipid.

The only thing I plan on telling High School Musical is, "I will break you."

But by extension: "Don't tell me how your characters feel. That makes me angry!"

Why is this not locked? Why are people replying to year-old posts?

They're well aware of what I'm like. And for reasons I'm still not entirely certain of, they tolerate the headaches I create.