Discuss.

I dig.

he's a wank

I watched his first special and thought it was cool, but now I pretty much have zero interest in him

Overrated

I prefer Penn & Teller.

Kinda cool in a really fu[size=2]c[size=2]ked up way.

I remember seeing a special on him. My favorite part was when he said that sometimes when he went up to random people on the street and asked to do a trick for them, not everyone responded 'positively'. Then followed like five clips of people walking away from his request kinda spooked/looking at him like he was crazy.

I dunno, I thought it was funny.

Psssssh... He only held his breath for 7 and a half minutes. What a pussbag.

Blaine gets mad props from me. He's cool in my book.

I don't know what it is about him, he's just out there. Some of the stuff he did, like earlier he supposedly took out 2 teeth from some girl, then put them back. She even put her tongue in the hole where they were supposed to be.

That was some crazy, strange ****.

Blaine is the only Magician who I can't figure out. Not even a little.

Me too. He's either doing magic tricks that are way more advanced than anyone else, or he's an alien. Both are equal as of right now.

I've always thought Blaine was a pompous, self-important douchebag... maybe he still is, I dunno, but that **** tonight was incredible. There's nothing phony about that... I gained a tremendous amount of respect for him tonight.

What's wrong with being a pompous, self-important douchebag? All of my heros are.

So, I'm still a hero to you, right?

If he's going off being pompous, you should be his god.

I was at one point. But, we haven't spoken in a while.

I haven't spoken to god in a while either. We used to be tight back in the day, but I changed from Heaven's hood to Earth's hood, and you know how it goes when you move.

kinda sux he couldn't pull it off tonight. I was definetly rootin for the guy

I bet he lost alot of $ not being able to pull it off. Im sure he had some contract stipulation where he earned a certain amount of $ if he broke the record.

The key is an intergallactic shuttle bus. I have a couple of seats left if you want a lift.

Eh, I'm good. I made some enemies back in my old hood, and they can only smite me so much down here. If I go back, I'll wish I was in hell.

Jason Garfield is my #1 hero, right now. I love the man.

You can't hold your breath for that long or you will suffer brain damage.

something like that.

- Jordan

Maddox will reclaim his throne, once his book comes out.

You will pass out and start breathing again before any brain damage occurs.

This is true and why Blaine is a master of mind over body. Your instictual drive to live is incredibly difficult to overcome.

Did you guys see Colbert talking about Blaine the other night? He was like, "We all know magicians don't reveal their secrets, but not David Blaine," and then he quoted Blaine who said, "I have a catheter if I have to go Number 1, but I don't plan on doing anything else." Colbert then said, "See that kids? Magic."

I love that dude.

David Blaine = David Copperfield sans charisma.

And I am not saying Copperfield was drenched in charisma (Claudia Schiffer notwithstanding)

As much as his up-close "street magic" leaves me absolutely gobsmacked at times, his big stunts are a total waste. Granted, he hasn't done a stupidly theatrical "Bermuda Triangle" type thing like Copperfield (he is still doing actual stunts) but I have really tired of how much emphasis is on whatever static torture he has chosen to inflict on himself.

Blaine is very cool and I'd hit it twice, if I was a chick.

Who the hell is paying him to do this stupid shit?




QFT

Besides Criss Angel and David Blaine, you guys should also check out Cyril Takayama.

Nah. Besides, if he did lose a lot of money, he can just take $100 to a casino and play roulette, win 5 times in a row and leave with $3200. Like with that one clip he did with those two chicks. I'm pretty sure after he gave the women the money, he was gonna get some lovin for the night...but I guess not. Maybe he did...heck..why doesn't he just do the roulette thing for a living.

Also, the fact that he failed this stunt really does mean that he isn't some phony who will always do big stunts with such small risks. I think this guy is trying to become some sort of super human or something...his big stunts really don't have anything to do with being a magician, but it just seems to me that those stunts are for the world to see how much his body/mind can withstand in extreme situations. But you could tell he was very upset that he couldn't break the record.

as a magician he's amazing, the other stuff he does is just kinda strange

What does this Cyril guy do?


Also, David Blaine's "big stunt" always sucks, Criss Angel pwns him in every way.

I'm pretty sure NBC paid him so much to do some many specials.

Why did you QFT that? It's not like there is anythign I would go back on there.

QFT = Quoted For Truth


I agree with what you said. Some of the stuff he does on the street is pretty cool, his big "stunts" are retarded.

He's the best magician I've ever seen and I've seen a lot. He does absoultely amazing things, but yet he's still kind of a wank. Does that defy logic or what?

Cyril does much of the same stuff, but in Japan.
It's kind of hard to describe, but they are kind of different tricks and still pretty amazing. go to youtube.

The guy really amazes me sometimes with his card tricks, etc. Some of his "street magic" are obiously camera tricks, like when he puts his hand through a glass window...but all the slight of hand **** is sick.


As for his most recent special, I think he made a big mistake. Trying to hold your breath while moving (taking chains off) and doing after being under water for a week is retarded. People who have broken the record and stuff train to make their lungs bigger (or have naturally large lungs), and then usually meditate and such to lower their heart-rate to near death levels. It's just impossible to get close when your expending physical energy.


That being said, I have a lot of respect for him that he made it to 7 minutes. When he was near the end and his face was convulsing as he was fighting off the urge to breathe, it looked pretty scary.

That last special was lame -- way too much buildup, it could have been 1 hour instead of two and not lost a thing.

He does do some pretty cool tricks, I ran across some info on the internet that explained a lot of his earlier ones.

As far as that tooth trick went, that girl had to have been a plant of some sort, she was really missing a tooth and he took out a fake one. Even knowing that the part at the end where he blew the tooth back in was cool.

What I don't like about Blaine is that his specials imply that in some way he actually has magical powers, rather than just being good at slight of hand. I hate that ****.