The Genii Forum

Brian Morton

Frankly, I thought Lisa was robbed on the last one. Hal didn't do what he was asked -- that, in the end, should be what it comes down to. If I drive into a McDonald's and ask for a cheeseburger, if they give me a fish sandwich, they fail . If an agent calls me and says they want a snake escape, I do...

Brian Morton

I understand your point. But I guess reading this means you never had a problem with money. some ( me >_< ) just don't have it and use all their money to pay the insurance, school, food, the ( goddamn ) rent. paying for this is ok. investment like u said. But it would be sooo much 'easier' if it wo...

Brian Morton

Nourdin, Magic is more than one or two parts, but remember, in the end, it's a performance art. Which means the end goal is to entertain the audience ... with good technical ability. If you spend all your time on learning sleights out of Erdnase, you'll make what the kids call a great "move mon...

Brian Morton

As far as I'm concerned, she could have rolled a Zig Zag around the room and still have been performing strolling magic. Denny Haney once told me that Harry Blackstone Jr. used to do the Zig-Zag in Playboy Clubs, which were cabaret-style, and the audiences were so close, it might as well have been ...

Brian Morton

"The profession of magician is one of the most perilous and arduous of the imagination. On the one hand, there is the hostility of God and the police to be guarded against; on the other, it is as difficult as music, as deep as poetry, as ingenious as stagecraft, as nervous as the manufacture o...

Brian Morton

And why then did you ask, Richard?

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Brian Morton

Doc Dixon wrote:My pants were "smoking"? Brian, my brain is currently seizing up from the jokes I'm not allowing myself to type here.

I'm here to help. My work is now done.

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Brian Morton

Social norms come and go. But when you make something vanish and reappear repeatedly that could burn a hole in your skin, that's a lot more impressive than making a similar shaped object disappear. Ah, so that's why your pants were smoking last time I saw you. I really wanna see that act when you g...

Brian Morton

I'd like to jump in here for a minute, from a somewhat different vantage point. Richard lives down in the heart of professional DC, which has been a very nonsmoking-oriented area since at least the 19 years ago when I left that area for here in Baltimore, so I'm not surprised at his opinion of the r...

Brian Morton

I believe it's already in its second printing.

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Brian Morton

Arrived today in Baltimore, which is early for me/us by about four days (I tend to get it right about the 19th).

Wow -- who did that article on "Illusions?"

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Brian Morton

Glenn,

As someone with an interest in card swords (and I own an El Duco), it it possible you could provide, or steer us to, a picture of the Merv Taylor sword? I'm also curious as to why you consider the Taylor to be superior, and what your criteria are.

Thanks!

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Brian Morton

I know I've been bust with a lot of things, but I notice that I usually get my GENII on the 19th or 20th of the month. It's March 2nd, and I haven't gotten my copy here in Baltimore yet.

Just sayin'.

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Brian Morton

Arrived in Baltimore yesterday, 10/18.

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Brian Morton

After the show at his recent run of "52 Assistants" in Washington, DC, Ricky Jay stayed after the show (backstage) and signed all purchases made of his books at the intermission. If you bought a book, the staff put a Post-It note with your name on it, and it was brought out to you with an ...

Brian Morton

Bob -- you already did. :D

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Brian Morton

Spellbinder posts: Eleazar's book is finally complete and available. I have to admit that I'm to blame for your skepticism. When I started the site in 2003, Eleazar was five and I wrote the "Mystery of the Scrying Inkwell" with him as the main hero since there are few magic fantasy books w...

Brian Morton

Roth's "Tuning Fork" and Gertner's "A Familiar Ring" both are all about sound....

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Brian Morton

Bond's game vs. Le Chiffre was chemin de fer, a form of baccarat.

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Brian Morton

Hey, look over there! Someone thought up a new variation on "Triumph!" ::runs::

:D

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Brian Morton

I hate the word "patter."

Ditto. "Patter" is for birthday party tyros, slum-magic instruction sheets and non-performers.

"Scripts" is for workers and professionals.

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Brian Morton

Well, it's hard to giuve a full impression of your act via a web-transmitted video shot on the shoulder and full of too many transitions. For starters, like I said -- who are you? What's with the mask? If you really are supposed to be some sort of "wizard," why are you messing around with ...

Brian Morton

1. Slow down. You're obscuring the magic.

2. Who are you trying to be? What are you telling the audience about you?

3. Get your cameraman a tripod, and ease up on all the fancy transitions -- less is more.

That's just for starters....

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Brian Morton

Saw in it NYC as well -- take the whole family and enjoy the heck out of it! Worth every cent!

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Brian Morton

Arrived today, 8/16 in Baltimore (which is actually a few days ahead of its usually arrival -- normally I tend to get it on the 19th or 20th)...

And Daryl's face is rubbing off on my fingers, but that might have something to do with the 64 percent humidity today...

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Brian Morton

Terrence, to quote Richard one more time: I want everyone to feel free to post any thoughts they have on this issue HERE on this Forum, not only on a Forum that is accessible ONLY to members of the Magic Castle and that is subject to potential censorship by the very people who are being criticized. ...

Brian Morton

Pete --

Rectum? You damn near killed 'em! :whack:

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(It had to be said.)

Brian Morton

Kevin, when you were doing the testing and were stripped naked and baying at the moon tonight -- what direction were you facing? ;) Seriously -- I once felt the same way you did about headset mics. I came out of many years in radio and broadcasting, and I felt that headset mics make you look like a ...

Brian Morton

Gotta start somewhere.

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Brian Morton

Couldn't tell you -- I sold mine as part of a package with ad flyers from "On The Stem" and my copy of "Cards As Weapons." I think the book was the real draw -- the rest was icing. ;) (And for the record, Ricky sold them for $5 during the candy pitch at the start of the second ac...

Brian Morton

Pete Biro writes: are there any restaurants in the big eazy? Pete, Are you kidding ? International man o' the world that you are, and you've never eaten in N.O.? Say it ain't so? The food in N'Awlins is so good and so plentiful, they hand you the ten pounds you'll gain in a bag right as you step off...

Brian Morton

True, David -- normally the Wall Street Journal comfines its most awful writing to the editorial page. :D

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Brian Morton

I think it's that people are moving away from video.

That and I know we're all still digesting the fact that you own 25 Tricks With A Svengali ... :D

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Brian Morton

Since my piece on Criss Angel's WWE show has been linked here, I won't elaborate on it (although it was a few years back, and I'll give him credit that anyone and everyone can improve). That having been said, I don't have cable, so I haven't seen his show. However, on a private blog, some friends of...

Brian Morton

Hey, Wayne! If you're selling any of those memories I have from those Wheaton Plaza shows of yours in the mid 70s, I want a cut! :D

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Brian Morton

Kevin, What can I say? "Wow" for the guy's audacity, for starters. The photographer you dealt with clearly wasn't a real professional -- I'm guessing he was a "stringer," someone who shoots for a paper either by assignment (event by event) or goes to events, takes photos and then...

Brian Morton

Nathan,

It's on my list too. Just one inch closer to the day I have to kill you.

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Brian Morton

It was interesting to see Jamy sans Fumanchu.

Hulk Hogan has a Fu Manchu. I believe what Jamy had was considered a "VanDyke."

technically and hirsutely yours,
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Brian Morton

Okay, Mark -- spill it. Which issue?

(I've got YEARS of the things sitting in the magic room...)

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Brian Morton

JeffyZ wrote: Grab an average magic book for beginners and you'll find the same advice. Were that only the case. If it was, they might be following it, and then magic wouldn't be the red-headed bastard stepchild of the variety arts. Every time a magician walks into a magic shop and asks, "What'...

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