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taffy wrote:

themagicwand wrote:I wouldn't perform pen through bill to a real life audience personally.

Me neither!

Nope nor me

When you do walk around / table hopping you will always get mixed responses. I am surprised that you have never had a turn down before. I don't mind the turn downs if they are polite, you do get some downright rude ones though. And because of who you are you can't respond so I just put the rude ones down as being ignorant people and get over it.

The ones who want to explain every trick can be annoying but given that most of them are nowhere near the mark it can be quite funny. I have had some incredibly complicated explanations for desperately simple tricks thrown at me. There is a section of the population who seems to think that all magic tricks involve it being "up my sleeve" which is a hoot. I have only ever used a sleeved item as an end to Hopping Halves, nothing else.

I can now judge how a group are going to be by their reaction to whatever I open with. If I have a difficult group I simply restrict myself to very few, and sometimes only the one trick, then I move on.

Many people vehemently hate magic, surpised you haven't met them before. It sounds like you had every nightmare spekky in one gig.
Back in the David Blaine explosion era we used to buy pocket tricks from a guy on a market stall. We saw him in a nightclub (off-duty, not gigging) one Saturday night and called him over to magish a little. No one believed him when he said he could levitate like Blaine. Off he went a few paces and hovered for a while a couple inches up. We were suitably impressed, but of course there are people who begrudge anyone getting this kind of positive reaction. One of the guys at the table was so crooked that when the magician said "and put your card back in the deck" the card in question was being burned in the ashtray. Some mothers do 'ave 'em.

The people who really annoy me are the ones who just want to skrew things up for you. turning things over and grabbing the deck out of your hand. the ones who say i know how to do that and just are dam right rude. But there are people out there who enjoy magic for what it is. Thats what keeps me going.
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