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Sunday, October 29, 2006
Warning: The follow is not for the queasy
David Blane freaks me out.
I am convinced he is not of this world. Or at least the normal part of it. I've come to believe there are people on this earth who are special and have "talents" (I'm not talking about the show Heroes..thought it's an awesome show) and David Blane must be one of them. I haven't seen much of David Copperfield and I know he's a talented magician, but his tricks usually consist of tricking the mind's eye and things like that. David Blane is on a whole other level. It's not only his public stunts: living in a cube of ice for a week, standing on top of a freestanding beam for I don't know how long, and then his latest stunt of living 7 days in a sphere filled with water.
I've seen (on TV) him LEVITATE. I don't think that was the magic of TV; there were real people freaking out in the different places he did it. Then one time he took this lady's watch, made it disappear and then reappear after about 5 seconds BEHIND a glass window of a jewelry store that was closed.
Just now I saw him PULL OUT two teeth from a girl's mouth WITH HIS HANDS - the girl could put her tongue in between the spaces - and then he just blew a puff of air at her AND THE TEETH WERE BACK IN HER MOUTH. This was all at a Las Vegas casino with tons of people around. Ok - maybe the girl was in on it somehow. I'll give you that. But how did the teeth get back in her mouth when he blew at her!?
Oh. My. God. The man just put a sewing needle THROUGH the middle of his hand.
I couldn't find that video since the special is airing on TLC right now. But here's some other clips of him. The chicken one (the last of the three) is sick, fascinating and freaky all at the same time.
David Blane freaks me out.
I am convinced he is not of this world. Or at least the normal part of it. I've come to believe there are people on this earth who are special and have "talents" (I'm not talking about the show Heroes..thought it's an awesome show) and David Blane must be one of them. I haven't seen much of David Copperfield and I know he's a talented magician, but his tricks usually consist of tricking the mind's eye and things like that. David Blane is on a whole other level. It's not only his public stunts: living in a cube of ice for a week, standing on top of a freestanding beam for I don't know how long, and then his latest stunt of living 7 days in a sphere filled with water.
I've seen (on TV) him LEVITATE. I don't think that was the magic of TV; there were real people freaking out in the different places he did it. Then one time he took this lady's watch, made it disappear and then reappear after about 5 seconds BEHIND a glass window of a jewelry store that was closed.
Just now I saw him PULL OUT two teeth from a girl's mouth WITH HIS HANDS - the girl could put her tongue in between the spaces - and then he just blew a puff of air at her AND THE TEETH WERE BACK IN HER MOUTH. This was all at a Las Vegas casino with tons of people around. Ok - maybe the girl was in on it somehow. I'll give you that. But how did the teeth get back in her mouth when he blew at her!?
Oh. My. God. The man just put a sewing needle THROUGH the middle of his hand.
I couldn't find that video since the special is airing on TLC right now. But here's some other clips of him. The chicken one (the last of the three) is sick, fascinating and freaky all at the same time.
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This past summer when I was at the CNE we were walking by this guy who was doing "card tricks". There was a crowd of people in front of him but no one behind him so we figured we got a pretty good view. He proceeded to pretend to fling a card that was between his fingers out but then it "disappeared" and becuase we were standing behind him we saw that he had actually concealed the card in his palm!! To the person in the front it would look like the card disappeared into thin air. Man, if I was a kid and I saw that I'd be so disillusioned about how fake it turned out to be. I was mad to begin with, what a cheesy "magician!"
Besides, magicians don't exist :)