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mike cookman

His card trick Twister is pretty good. I also like his Only One Shuttle Pass Coins Across.

mike cookman

Hey Mark, if Harry doesn't sign your copy, I'll be glad to sign it. Hope I don't get sued.

mike cookman

I saw Tim Conover perform at the bar where Scotty York used to perform, and he was terrific. Nice guy, too.

mike cookman

Gary Kurtz' Flurious is a fun coin thru hand type of thing.

mike cookman

Dai Vernon liked David Roth, that's good enough for me. I think Roth is cool. And he's pretty good with those coins. :)

mike cookman

Say, that's pretty cool, Paul. Thanks. Happy holidays to you.

mike cookman

Paul Gertner's That's Ridiculous is a pretty magical routine.

mike cookman

I like Dean Dill's Coins, glass, and silk. It does require a table, but I thought I'd mention it, anyway. :)

mike cookman

Another good teacher of mine has been experience in performing.

mike cookman

I like Darwin Ortiz' joker assembly in Darwin Ortiz at the Card Table. I forgot the name of it, though. I, too, like Masque from Focus.

mike cookman

I've got lots of magic teachers; my book shelves are full of them. I learned to play guitar the same way. :)

mike cookman

I read "Prey," too. Good book. I have also been reading Phil Goldstein's Focus, which has lots of good card magic. Fun.

mike cookman

Peter, you've got it! Tom Hanks as James Bond!

mike cookman

Jeff, great point. If Brosnan played Bond the way he played his character in The Fourth Protocol then he'd be much closer to the "real" Bond. But what audience wants to see that? We want explosions and cars and action and stupid lines. By the way, I agree with Mark Ennis about Ricky Jay.

mike cookman

I think Adam Sandler should be the next James Bond.

mike cookman

Also Columbini has a video all about stuff you can do without a table. I can't think of the name of the video, though. It's on his website.

mike cookman

David Roth produces a rock to end his terrific Stonehenge Coin Assembly.

mike cookman

You can see Kurtz do that card vanish Tenkai thing on his Creating Magic video. It's really cool. Not easy, but cool. :)

mike cookman

I love to do Roth's Shell Coins Across. Some may scoff because it is easy to do, but it is very magical. So there.

mike cookman

I like both the Roth and Kurtz versions.

mike cookman

Mark Ennis makes good points about the Darwin Ortiz torn and restored card from Cardshark. I like that routine, too. I like the Williamson Torn & Restored Transposition, too.

mike cookman

Derek Dingle has a good one in The Complete Works of Derek Dingle.

mike cookman

Gary Kurtz' Hypothetical Possibilities is a sort of Ambitious Card effect with a time travel theme, ending with a card previously placed in the wallet changing to the selected card. Very cool. I wish I'd though of it.

mike cookman

Didn't Erdnase start it all with his Burger King aces?

mike cookman

Gary Kurtz has a good rendition in his lecture notes, Notes From the Summit.

mike cookman

Thanks, Mark. Mark Ennis knows top quality magic when he sees it. You should see his "Oil and Water."

mike cookman

I'm amazed nobody put me on any of the lists. I guess I'll have to work harder.

mike cookman

Whenever the Darwin Ortiz book is available I will buy one. :)

mike cookman

Karen Beriss is right..almost. After Lisa Menna, it's Mel Gibson and Steve Martin. And Mike Cookman.

mike cookman

Harold, it sounds to me like ALL of your magic is good, since you constantly get requests to do more. And I still think it's up to the magician to say "when," in those social situations. I wasn't kidding in my first post, when I said to do one more and then say "ok, that's it for now....

mike cookman

Good points, Lance. I am happy when people want to see more magic; makes me feel as though I did a good job.

mike cookman

My reply was genuine.

mike cookman

They want one more trick? I would do one more trick and say, "Ok, that's it for now."

mike cookman

This is such a cool thread. I could babble on for hours, but who has that kind of time? Pete and Nicholas make such excellent points here that I should really shut up. I regularly perform Carney's "Everywhere, Nowhere, and in Your Face" card trick. He sets up the ending with a bottom palm,...

mike cookman

Very well put, Bill. I agree, it is important to bring something of yourself to whatever you do. I do a coin assembly with ideas I learned from David Roth and Paul Cummins. I call it "Chicago Matrix," just to call it something, but I would never claim it was "original" with me. N...

mike cookman

I'll have to read that Peter Samuelson piece. If that's the case, then I have come up with quite a bit of stuff. The comparison to musical notes is a good one...but some composers have sued others for "stealing" melodies. :p

mike cookman

Coinmagic is one of my favorite books. I would have bought it just for the Geoffrey Latta section. His Wild Coin No. 3 is lots of fun.

mike cookman

Well, then, Lance, you got me there.

mike cookman

That's just what I meant, what Mike Gallo said, though he said it better than me.

mike cookman

My thoughts, for what they are worth, and most likely nothing---the "take" hand--for me the right hand---should be very convincing. The audience should believe the coin was "in" that hand, then it is gone..then not in the left hand, then they don't know what to think...if the aud...

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