You Can Do Magic
July 26, 2007 | permalink
I went to a magic show the other night. The Waistcoat Man has been studying the art of prestidigitation (and getting quite good, I might add), and had a bunch of tickets to the last New York show of a friend of his, Maritess: The Queen of Magic. The only catch was that anyone he brought had to drink their bar minimum, so as not to cut into her take. Which was a trial, Gentle Readers, but I persevered and drank my drinks. I'm tough like that.
It was a good time. I hadn't seen The Waistcoat Man in quite a while, and it was great to spend some time with him. The Director and The Laughing Girl were there too, as well as a few of The Waistcoat Man's friends from another circle that I didn't know.
The show was also pretty good, though I was sitting at a bad angle and could see some of the workings of the tricks. Maritess' banter was quite funny, and her slight of hand was very well done. The Laughing Girl mad a comment at one point that made me laugh loud enough for Maritess to hear, and since I caught her attention of course she made me come up on stage for one of the 'And now I need a volunteer' bits of the show. I got to be the 'sender' of psychic vibrations to another volunteer. He was able to tell, with his eyes closed, where she touched me. Three times in a row, even. Pretty impressive stuff.
I used to do a bit of the old slight of hand myself, many many years ago, but I lost interest at some point. I'm not really sure why, now. Not that it really matters. About all I can remember how to do now is pull a coin from behind someone's ear.
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a few years ago, i went to see momus perform at a bar in san francisco and he pulled me up onstage to perform a magic trick. he had me pick a word at random out of the marquis de sade's "justine" and write it on a piece of paper while he stood with his back to me.
then, he guessed the word - correctly. unfortunately, i can't remember what the word was.
i still can't figure out how that trick is done - although i kind of don't want to know, since that would destroy the magic. but then, i kind of do, because I KNOW IT'S NOT MAGIC. ahem. yes.