I am almost officially ready to chuck the idea of online dating. I don't know what the hell has happened to the online population since my last foray into the cyberspace dating scene, but people I'm finding now or totally fucking worthless. I had a friend of mine tell me she had found someone on match.com. I've checked them out before and the people there are about as interesting as a spoonful of oatmeal. Pretty much every profile reads like this, "I like movies and going out but I also like reading books and staying in too." Congratulations, you've qualified to be in the top 99% of the human race. Way to go Skippy! I swear the site that I'm a paying member of is going to get a surprise. I've been toying with the idea of rewriting my profile and letting those boring, weak, and generally mindless members know what I actually think of them. I'm thinking of starting with the subject line of, "Why are all the pretty girls fucking stupid?" and going downhill from there. Basically just letting them know why they will never qualify as being good enough for me, humorously of course. Sound a bit extreme? Good. Someone needs to shake them up. I honestly think it would be rather amusing to show them someone who isn't about to kiss their ass and have the attitude of, "oh please pick me!" Of course, this isn't too far from the truth anyway. Finding someone who actually piques my interest is getting pretty rare.
Speaking of rewriting profiles, I need to update this one to include the ventriloquism and magician stuff. Yep, I'm a magician, or at least I used to be before I started my current job. For one thing, not having a set schedule pretty much screws up performing. So, since I'll have a nice, set schedule of 8am to 4pm I can rejoin the IBM, that's International Brotherhood of Magicians not International Business Machines. The other thing is that my standards for my performances are extremely high. There have been very few routines that I've done that I've been really happy with. Also, I've never seemed to quite find my niche as far as magic goes, well, until recently. Remember that friend I told you about who was going to give me the ventriloquist dummy? Well, it turns that he probably already tossed it out because he couldn't find it anywhere (bastard), but he did find a bunch of his dad's old magic stuff. I think I mentioned the videos last time. I was expecting to get about half a dozen or so. I got a couple of dozen, along with another couple of dozen books and a trunk full of magic apparatus. Most of the magic stuff is just small things, I did get a dove vanish box that I'll never use and a couple of other things. Well this prompted me into going through my old notes, ideas and files when I found my notes for a trick called the Indian Mango Tree. This trick has pretty much been elevated to mythic status in the magic community, similar the Indian Rope Trick and as far as I know no one performs it outside of India. I looked for years to find out how to do this trick and I finely tracked down a couple of books, one published around 1940 and the other published in 1927 that had the explanation. Looking over these notes is when it hit me what my niche was. The official term, well the one that I came up with anyway, is Experimental and Legacy Magic. Legacy refers to magic done in the Golden Age of Magic (early to mid 1900's) and the Vaudeville era or earlier that has fallen out of fashion and generally not done anymore. Experimental is just that, experimenting with current magic and present it in a radically new way.
Well, that's all for now, it's my day off and I have about eight boxes of crap to go through to either trash or send to Goodwill.
Speaking of rewriting profiles, I need to update this one to include the ventriloquism and magician stuff. Yep, I'm a magician, or at least I used to be before I started my current job. For one thing, not having a set schedule pretty much screws up performing. So, since I'll have a nice, set schedule of 8am to 4pm I can rejoin the IBM, that's International Brotherhood of Magicians not International Business Machines. The other thing is that my standards for my performances are extremely high. There have been very few routines that I've done that I've been really happy with. Also, I've never seemed to quite find my niche as far as magic goes, well, until recently. Remember that friend I told you about who was going to give me the ventriloquist dummy? Well, it turns that he probably already tossed it out because he couldn't find it anywhere (bastard), but he did find a bunch of his dad's old magic stuff. I think I mentioned the videos last time. I was expecting to get about half a dozen or so. I got a couple of dozen, along with another couple of dozen books and a trunk full of magic apparatus. Most of the magic stuff is just small things, I did get a dove vanish box that I'll never use and a couple of other things. Well this prompted me into going through my old notes, ideas and files when I found my notes for a trick called the Indian Mango Tree. This trick has pretty much been elevated to mythic status in the magic community, similar the Indian Rope Trick and as far as I know no one performs it outside of India. I looked for years to find out how to do this trick and I finely tracked down a couple of books, one published around 1940 and the other published in 1927 that had the explanation. Looking over these notes is when it hit me what my niche was. The official term, well the one that I came up with anyway, is Experimental and Legacy Magic. Legacy refers to magic done in the Golden Age of Magic (early to mid 1900's) and the Vaudeville era or earlier that has fallen out of fashion and generally not done anymore. Experimental is just that, experimenting with current magic and present it in a radically new way.
Well, that's all for now, it's my day off and I have about eight boxes of crap to go through to either trash or send to Goodwill.