Why am I stuck in magician Hell?

Tonight I am gonna talk to you about mad skillz. Not so much technical card manipulating skill but things to further such a venture. Learna bit of juggling. Learn a bit of fire handling. Learn dexterity challenges like spinning a pen around your fingers. (Ala that guy in Goldeneye) Why? It actually helps in hand eye co-ordination. I personally have been playing video games a very long time and have a fairly good relfex now cuz' of it. (And a rotten brain. Dammit they were right... that and the blind thing too. Guess I really should have stopped doing that hunh?)

Magic is not so much an art as it borrows from other arts making it a bit of the old theater. Magic by itself is just moves, tricks, techniques, and apparatus. To make it entertaining or effective you must use dance, acting, mime, movement, comedy, make-up, and many other various performance ideas. It's very fitting magic steals from other performance... just as other magi steal from each other, it is inherent in the system. It's axiomatic. (look it up.) All cats are bad.

So it is up to you to take it upon yourself to further yer art by furthering your skill and education. Look at the more famous performers. They all had a style that was their own and outside influence. Albeit a few decades behind sometimes. That is another problem with magic. Many magi don't keep up with the times. Why is this? Because magic is heavily influenced by other mediums. It takes a while for it to seep into the eyes and by that time it is old news. Especially with music. Without people like Alice Cooper, KISS, or Ziggy Stardust a ot of the modern performers would not be like they are. Penn was very influenced in his youth by the Velvet Underground and Bob Dylan. Look at the way he turned out.. again,a few decades later. It takes a while for this stuff to seep in and get the influence out there. With this trend tho' it scares me to the amount of hip hop magi might start popping up soon. I shudder to think about it.. (Shudders.)

So what to do? Keep up with the times by opening yer mind to influence and experiences of ALL types. Try stepping outside of yer little reality and see what the world really does have to offer. Always keep an open mind.. but no so open it falls out of yer head..ok?

Bizzaro.