Customer Review: Ho ho ho, Christmastime is back.
Almost every year, radio station KROQ releases a Christmas album for charity, hosted by deejays Kevin & Bean. This was the 2003 Christmas CD. It features Christmas songs and comedy routines. Many of the recordings here are original to this album. Most of the songs are good and most of the comedy is funny. Here is the complete track listing: 1. "Christmastime in the 909" - Greenbrier Lane 2. "Yellin' at the Christmas Tree" - Billy Idol 3. "Kwanzaa" - "Karl Malone" 4. "If You Were Born Today" - Jimmy Eat World 5. "Christmas in Vegas" - Kathy Griffin 6. "Feliz Navidad, Part One" - Don Francisco 7. Merry Christmas - Pennywise 8. "Kevin's New Year's Wishes" 9. "Jingle Bells" - Richard Cheese and Lounge Against the Machine 10. 2000 Miles - Coldplay 11. "Jason Biggs' Holiday Message" 12. "Rock You Hard This Christmas" - The Dan Band 13. "One for the Ladies" - Charles The Security Guard 14. "Crazy for Christmas" - Crazy Gideon 15. "Give the Jew Girl Toys" - Sarah Silverman 16. "Mole's Christmas Wish" 17. "All I Want for Christmas Is You - My Chemical Romance 18. "Xmas" - The Walkmen 19. "Donald Trump" - The Christmas Apprentice 20. Andy Dick & Willie Wisely - Happy B-Day J.C. 21. Face to Face - Merry Xmas 22. Jerry Springer - Pink Flamingos 23. Super Steve With The Whole Enchilada - Feliz Navidad, Part Two 24. Switchfoot - Old Borego 25. "Shaquille O'Neal" - Holiday Heat 26. Snow Patrol - When I Get Home For Christmas 27. Bean's New Year's Wishes 28. William Shatner - It Hasn't Happened Yet 29. Loquecia's Christmas Review 30. "Andy Rooney" - Did You Ever Wonder?
Magic is an art of several kinds, we know. Generally, close up, conjuring, mentalism and stage shows are the categories. Sleights of hand and illusion magic (sleights on stage!) are yet another. Some even divide magic according to the props used - cards, coins, ropes or apparently bigger instruments and so on.
Classification becomes complex when it is done in terms of the effect produced: transformation, transposition, telepathy, vanishing, appearing and what not!
Have you ever noticed that even amid such a fascinating diversity, magic is an art of socialism? In magic, the trick you perform using a coin or a feat you accomplish using a huge illusion prop, leaves the same shock of amazement in the minds of the viewers. This is one aspect of that socialism.
Whatever preparations you do, how much you talk, whatever backdrops you use, to measure the value of your performance, the layman has got just one occasion: the moment when the effect emerges. Yes, nothing but only the effect prompts your spectators to certify the magic they see. If the effect fails, everything fails - the speech, the decors, the music, the costume, all turns vain.
A rich magician should not necessarily gain audience praise simply because he has invested a lot, unless he takes care of the beauty of his effects. A financially feeble magician, on the other hand, may earn more accolades simply for being so perfect with his effects. Thus magic upholds another aspect of socialism.
There was a magician, who at first used to get not the money he expected, but what the organizers decided. Undeterred, the magician invested a good part of his meager income for replenishing more cute effects. The demand increased. At last he got the ball in his court. He got that freedom to pick the most appropriate client and most legitimate fee. Remember, this is magical socialism. In magic opportunities are equal.
In magic, not the money, but your creativity makes you a prudent investor.
[Prepared by K.P. Sivakumar on behalf of magician Gopinath Muthukad as an editorial for June 2008 issue of Vismayam Magical News]
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