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Reuben The Great · Joined: 11 Sep 2007 Posts: 245

What do you love the absolute most about magic? If you could eliminate everything except for one thing, what would it be?

Mine would be just picking up a deck of bikes and getting together with other magicians at a restaurant or something. There's something about the feeling of milkshakes, new decks of cards and magic theory that I love when I do this. A couple of times I've done this with Ben, not serious work or anything, but I love the feeling of it.

What about you?

PS. NExt week, me and Mike have scheduled a jam session at "Neighbours", a restaurant near us, which is appaerntly the perfect place to jam according to Mike- nice inside, warm, great food and best of all, they sell bikes!

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Michael Kras · Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2009 7:19 pm Post subject:

Milkshakes? What are you, a sock-hop loving teenybopper?

Anyways, for the love of magic... I love a damn good session now and again, ESPECIALLY with ze Train. Great learning experience.
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Reuben The Great · Joined: 11 Sep 2007 Posts: 245

Feels good to be wanted!

Mike, go on msn, important.
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Reuben The Great · Joined: 11 Sep 2007 Posts: 245

And what the hell is a sock hop? And why can't people like milkshakes without being teenyboppers?!
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Liam · Joined: 30 Dec 2007 Posts: 424

i like sessioning, sure, but "If you could eliminate everything except for one thing, what would it be? " No way would it be sessioning. I would elinimate everything but performance. I would stop learning, provided that was the price i had to pay to continue performing. The fact that you would rather talk about a perform art then perform it is... odd to say the least.

Reuben The Great · Joined: 11 Sep 2007 Posts: 245

I was sort of counting that people would exclude performing, its the most obvious one.

And if you don't like sessioning that much, you obviously haven't had a SERIOUS jam session before (or at least not with the Train)
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Liam · Joined: 30 Dec 2007 Posts: 424

i love sessioning, but its not my favourite thing about magic

Ben Train · Joined: 03 Jul 2008 Posts: 268

First, thanks you two- makes me feel warm inside.

So, I'll let something out of the bag- I have an invite only group for young magicians. To get in the group you have to be between drinking age (since the events tend to happen at pubs) and 30ish.

We meet once a month, talk magic, show tricks, and perform. It's a lot of fun.

What would I keep? I'm not sure. I love spending time on my own, thinking/developing/studying. I also love time sharing my own ideas, and seeing others. And I love performing for laypeople OR magicians.

But there's a high I get, that's incomparable when I perform my own material, developed over jam sessions and perfected through private practice, for people. So, can I keep those, and get rid of the BAD stuff?

Ben

BrianMillerMagic · Joined: 14 Aug 2007 Posts: 543 Location: New York State

Hey Ben, I'd love to join you for some of these sessions you speak of. I assume they're in Toronto? I'll have to get some bookings in Toronto this summer that I have an excuse to get there (and get paid simultaneously - always a plus when I travel), then we can meet in person finally and session it up.

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