So today in my gamers united club at OCCC we had a pizza party and in the cafeteria there was this magician/illusionist dude.
He was pretty good I must say. He had 2 students come up and blindfold him with 2 quarters over his eyes, a doublethick cloth blindfold, and 7 pieces of duct tape.
Then he had the audience take out some pre-handed out index cards and write a few things on them. First thing was the funniest moment in your life, second was a number, 3rd was a question, 4th was your name and a nickname if applicable.
So he goes through his routine, having them in a bowl next to him and grabbing them at random and rubbing them on his forehead, calling out names and people in the audience responding. At first I figured "Well, I guess he's just using common names that pop up in every day" but then he started answering the questions and telling people to stand up and when they weren't standing but said they would to stand up, or to uncross their arms or some such, or describing how they answered their questions.
Pretty neato.
Then... he called my name.
My name is FAR from common at being Jarett DeLorenzo.
I had answered the questions as follows
Funniest experience - When me and Josh were sitting at the dinner table at my moms house and she almost realized we were gay but we just snickered to ourselves.
Number - 126. No significance, I was just being a dick and random.
Question - How do I find the right guy? (or something like that)
Name and Nick - Jarett DeLorenzo and my new fur chars name as my nickname.
He called out my name, asked if I was there, I stood up and said "Hi" about to wonder if he was gonna spill to like, 300 people from my college if I was gay but somehow not believeing him, then he stops for a second, thinks and is like "Hmm... well... I can't read this one" so I passed it off as "Ha, he fucking sucks".
After the show I went up to him and asked him "Well, you told about everyone else, why couldn't you 'read' mine?" to which he replied along the lines of actually knowing and not wanting to embarrass me, which kinda left me wtf'ing.
But yeah, that was a pretty good guy. I'm not usually one to fall for illusionists and their ilk, but this was some pretty grade A stuff for a college to host, and I've seen some magicians at hotels who's tricks are a joke. This guy was damn good I must say.
Some of his other tricks included identifying objects brought up to him (without him touching them) from the audience. IE a pack of cigs, which he actually named the brand, a laptop, noting it's contents of porn, a D20....
Man, I don't care, this guy rocked. I want to say "Well, he must've been able to see" but again, he didn't really *look* at the index cards, he crumpled them up and rubbed them on his bald head. No one can read that fast, even if they weren't coated in blindfolds.
So for once, I don't call shenanigans. I call a good show.
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