So I checked out the Neil Strauss book

[NHY]

I've read the book as well. Its a good and interesting read ( and occasionally funny as well ) but at the end of book, when Neil moves out of Project Hollywood, he tells out how there are now so many of people that basically ' mini - mes' of himself who joined RSD, those idiots sacrificed their indivduality for the sake of trying to get laid! BIG MISTAKE in my books!

Need to read it again, actually.

no, I wouldn't pay an stupid amount of money either to go to one of those seminars, RSD was made out to look like a cult by the end of the book so NO THANK YOU!

 

[john_1234]

maybe it's a positive thing that neil is revealing some aspects of the game. here's why

i once watched a magic special on television. now this wasn't any typical copperfield/blaine magic special. this masked magician demonstrated complex stage illusions and then revealed the secrets behind each illusion! it was a trip.

other magicians were angry that the masked magician revealed the complex magic secrets. at the end of the magic special, the masked magician took his mask off and revealed his identidy. he acknowledged the fact that magicians around the world were upset about revealing the secrets behind the illusions. but the masked magician had a great point: he pointed out that the secrets to the magic stage illusions were decades old, some even centuries old. magicians have been performing the same magic routines over and over again for decades/centuries. audiences around the world have been seeing the same tricks over and over again. the masked magician revealed the old magic secrets in order to motivate magicians to create & perform new magic illusions rather than performing the same boring century old magic illusions.

same goes for strauss. i think it's a good thing he's revealing all the routines: the cube, friend's test, certain lines, etc. a ****load of guys out there run the same lines. ****, i've even used some of his material. but seeing strauss on kimmel blabbing about this stuff is a positive thing because it forces/motivates us to come up w/ our own material.