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No we're not. I'm a metalhead. I even compose my own music. I know the difference between death metal and black metal because I care enough to want to know how its made. I extend the same to other sub-genres of metal such as power, doom, folk, Viking, thrash, speed, etc. As an example, the...

Choke on it.

If you're a native English speaker, you better have a damn good excuse to communicating like you're typing blindfolded with a tack hammer. RD is Mexican and speaks English as a second language, and his grammar still curb stomps yours. Anyway, I've been following most of Lamont's threads...

On the flip side of the coin, I tend to lose interest in two-handed cuts within the first three seconds. The routine usually does little to pull me back in. Both forms suffer from supreme pomposity and a complete lack of connection with the audience. So I say of both flourishing and XCM...

Certainly, this phenomenon is not exclusive to the internet. However it is my belief that it is a much more prominent danger here than elsewhere. The reason being that most amateurs seldom show their work to anyone outside their friends and family. Since they have no true confidence in their...

My specific point was that on the internet it's very easy to take fawning flattery as criticism. It has the effect of building up your ego, but not through any true sense of accomplishment. Thus your unwarranted self-image is made of glass and you become very defensive of it. The longer this...

All aboard the Tangent Express. Next stops: Manhattan, Toledo, and NotMyPointville Mental note: to properly communicate sarcasm, must use more bad grammar, spelling errors, and ugly vB code.

Saying that a web series follows the formulas found in television is not a good thing in my book. Since Mystery Science Theater 3000 was canceled there have been a grand total of maybe 5 or 6 shows that didn't suck.

Grammar nazi moment, but an appraisal is an evaluation of the worth or value of a good or service. In the context you were using, you were thinking of words like praise, flattery, or possibly even platitudes. Some people are so dependent on the parasites that the only cure is to be...

One of several reasons why you should proceed with caution. Huh... You said that in a non-pejorative manner. It's like you understand and yet you don't.

That's the main reason I brought up Peter Gabriel. When music videos were first getting started, most musicians hated the idea. Peter endeavored to bridge the gap between experimental film and music and his music videos are still incredible 20 years later. Sledgehammer is still the music...

You know me. I'm a bitter, cranky, miserable Slav (in other words, a Slav) with a chip on his shoulder and an axe to grind about some new pet cause every couple of months. I seldom if ever pull a punch and I don't suffer fools gladly. Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw of the popular web series "Zero...

I almost always do a mind-reading effect with a deck of cards, which is more mental magic than mentalism. Gets better reactions than almost anything I do because I dress it up in theatricality. Mentalism doesn't differ from magic in what you make people believe. It's a different theatrical...

It won't. It depends entirely on you. Art can't speak for itself because everyone just projects onto it. The creator has to speak for himself. That said, the best scripting is compressed, witty, and concise. Silence must be timed and measured to create the proper amount of tension and...

Honestly, I do not expect anybody to actually take this. I will explain why in a moment. Once again, I'm not participating because I have neither the time nor the resources immediately available to do this. Anyway, I've remarked now and again that the constant attempts to shut down...

That's just it. Docc used to be a bizarrist who does almost exclusively mentalism these days. Kenton has his hands in pretty much every pie there is. Both men have very distinctive styles. Kenton is much like an Old World sorcerer or mystic. He himself is a very spiritual man, and creates...

I hate to be the one to tell you this but geek magic doesn't push the boundaries of the mind so much as those of the stomach. It's shock entertainment, not a rite of passage involving peyote.

For the sake of argument, how do you classify Docc Hilford. But if you're if you're doing what is ostensibly a mind reading routine, then you seriously screwed up if someone is asking you to contact the dead. Either way, you ****ed up the theater of it all. Classify Kenton Knepper please...

There are shots other than close-ups at waist level. Music is not a necessity. If music is used it should match the on-screen action by rhythm and flow. Most stock special effects available in editing programs are terrible. Never use them. The various types of shots are extreme wide shot...

Water under the bridge. To be honest, I don't even like that video. The picture is awful and my speech is too stilted. I'm trying to get a better one recorded. If you're really trying to take advice, listen to this: Though not particularly original, this theme curb stomps most other...