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jimmy talksalot
Special user
new orleans
747 Posts
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Posted: Oct 3, 2007 11:59am
If you're a beginner and are lacking resources I have set up a blog that teaches how to be a sidewalk performer if any bodies interested.
jimmytalksalot.blogspot.com
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Mitch Schneiter
Special user
West Linn, Oregon
666 Posts
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Posted: Oct 3, 2007 1:00pm
Nice site and very good information. Thank you for making it available.
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Bill Nuvo
Inner circle
3094 Posts or
2744 Posts
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Posted: Oct 3, 2007 3:21pm
Great info. Like the video with the flip stick work. Nice.
http://www.nuvoentertainment.com
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johnnymystic
Inner circle
North Adams Ma.
1576 Posts
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Posted: Oct 3, 2007 3:31pm
Added to favorites, thanks Jimmy!
I drink cheap tequila and vomit
I cannot eat hot wings...acid reflux
I never inhale 
I can put a field dress on a deer
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ed rhodes
Inner circle
Rhode Island
2321 Posts
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Posted: Oct 3, 2007 11:49pm
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On 2007-10-03 11:59, jimmy talksalot wrote:
If you're a beginner and are lacking resources I have set up a blog that teaches how to be a sidewalk performer if any bodies interested.
jimmytalksalot.blogspot.com
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Thanks Jimmy. Put that in my list of faves and will check it out when I have more time.
"He was born with the gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad." - Rafael Sabatini, Scaramouche
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johnnymystic
Inner circle
North Adams Ma.
1576 Posts
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Posted: Oct 3, 2007 11:53pm
Mandrake, you should've taken the time immediatly to read it all...TWICE.
Hopefully you saved it to favorites and are reading it all avidly RIGHT NOW THIS VERY SECOND!!!
NOT later...when you have more time.
I drink cheap tequila and vomit
I cannot eat hot wings...acid reflux
I never inhale
I can put a field dress on a deer
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ed rhodes
Inner circle
Rhode Island
2321 Posts
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Posted: Oct 4, 2007 5:50am
Yeah, thanks. I'll work on that.
"He was born with the gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad." - Rafael Sabatini, Scaramouche
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Sammy the Kid
Veteran user
Southern Illinois
314 Posts
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Posted: Oct 4, 2007 12:01pm
I have been street entertaining for a couple years now (only in small town Southern Illinois but I can still draw a tipping crowd) and there's a lot there that I'm learning from. Jimmy, where were you when I was learning the hard way? You could have saved me a LOT of trial and even more error by blogging sooner. Great info, brother!
Sammy the Kid
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hou_dini
New user
84 Posts
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Posted: Oct 4, 2007 6:46pm
Jimmy, excellent. Thanks. Sammy, I went to SIU-C many years ago. Where you located in S. Il?
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Josh Peters
New user
Wisconsin
64 Posts
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Posted: Oct 5, 2007 12:39pm
Wow, this is great information. Thanks Jimmy, I love the videos.
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fishwasher
Inner circle
B'ham uk
1232 Posts
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Posted: Oct 5, 2007 3:12pm
Thanks Jimmy...that is some good stuff
Sayn lay narn, marli?
http://www.bizarremagic.net
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ldl1017
Elite user
409 Posts
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Posted: Oct 5, 2007 6:55pm
NIce job. Very helpful
“I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.”
Billy Joel
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Pete Legend
Inner circle
Ireland
1228 Posts
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Posted: Oct 9, 2007 1:25pm
Great Work!!
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honus
Veteran user
354 Posts
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Posted: Oct 17, 2007 11:47am
Jimmy, I'm sure there's a ton of great information on your site, but I have a very difficult time reading it. Your poor spelling, punctuation, capitalization, and grammar make it almost impossible for me to understand you.
Maybe I'm just getting old. (Okay, probably not "getting."  )
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BenHFarrar
Regular user
102 Posts
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Posted: Oct 17, 2007 12:29pm
Jimmy's use of language is what makes the blog. No body wants to read something which is written like a textbook. Its up to jimmy how he writes his blog...and I think hes done a really good job.
If you don't get on with his writing style, then mabey is blog just isn't for you. No body else minds.
Ben Hart, AIMC
Twitter: @itsbenhart
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manal
Inner circle
York ,PA.
1335 Posts
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Posted: Oct 17, 2007 1:25pm
Actually..... it is a little difficult to read for reasons honus stated ,but it is well worth the effort as the blog is full of great info and advice, which in my opinion makes the blog valuable, not the idiosyncratic use of spelling,punctuation,capitalization and grammar.
Jimmy doesn't need defending ,he is very outspoken and his knowledge and experience and success speak for him......but thanks anyway Ben.
Life is too important to take seriously.
james@jamesmanalli.com
www.jamesmanalli.com
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jimmy talksalot
Special user
new orleans
747 Posts
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Posted: Oct 17, 2007 8:15pm
Honus,
it's my form of code for the initiate and I'm embarrassed to say it's also lazyness.
yes I'm more then poor spelling and grammar and I'm tryin to fix some of it but part of it is to agravate the uptight so they'll stay away from the knowledge because lord knows you don't wanna hafta indure some shallow hypersensitive uptight freak's idea of a good time when your watchin what he calls a show. uptight people, bad entertainers.
I would rather them just go out and fail completely and give up and go back to his real job were BORING is passable and tolerated for an hourly wage [as long as they can file good and got good grammar].
don't get me wrong I have a high regard for the civility, wisdom, and educated wit but not so far that it gets in the way of entertaining expression.
honus, please don't don't take this wrong and thanks for the criticism I think it's constructive but I would have prefered if you would have critiqued the content instead of fixating on something shallow.
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manal
Inner circle
York ,PA.
1335 Posts
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Posted: Oct 17, 2007 9:29pm
See, I told ya
Life is too important to take seriously.
james@jamesmanalli.com
www.jamesmanalli.com
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BAH1313
Elite user
Ohio
445 Posts
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Posted: Oct 18, 2007 12:57am
Yeah and the font is all wrong...
Seems kind of trivial compared to the info contained therein doesn't it Honus?
Jimmy, you write like a lot of us think. Keep it up man!!!
You're all pro!
I am truly blessed to have a job where people are laughing all the time and everyone believes in magic....Come to think of it, I'm blessed to even have a job.
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ed rhodes
Inner circle
Rhode Island
2321 Posts
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Posted: Oct 18, 2007 5:57am
I would suggest that if the presentation is poor enough, then what's being presented suffers no matter how good the information itself may be.
Having said that, and being aware that there are some gaffs on Jimmy's blog, I certainly didn't have any trouble reading or comprehending it.
"He was born with the gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad." - Rafael Sabatini, Scaramouche
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jimmy talksalot
Special user
new orleans
747 Posts
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Posted: Oct 21, 2007 1:17pm
Mandrake01,
point taken.
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Dynamike
Eternal Order
20629 Posts
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Posted: Oct 22, 2007 12:30am
You should make a selling DVD out of it.
Dynamike
Oakland County Magician Macomb County Magician Wayne County Magician Detroit Magician Detroit Clown
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Danny Hustle
Inner circle
Boston, MA USA
2394 Posts
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Posted: Oct 22, 2007 12:41am
They said The Cellini book was awful too because of all the spelling errors. Of course, none of the guys that said it was crap were actually street performers.
If you are worried about spelling you might want to try another type of entertainment. Because trust me when I tell you, bad spelling is just the tip of the annoyance iceberg when it comes to street performing. If bad spelling bothers you, your first run in with a bucket drummer will have you homicidal.
Check out the table hoppers section. Table hoppers in general are excellent spellers, and never run into bucket drummers. They also dress better (for the most part) than street performers. They get all the hot chicks too!
Finally, Jimmy, brother, I've never had a problem understanding you. Love you man, and keep writing it down!
Best,
Dan-
Professor Danny Hustle Boston Magician
The Busker's cafe - open for business
"MT is one of the reasons we started this board! I’m so sick of posts being deleted without any reason given, and by unknown people at that." - Steve Brooks Sep 7, 2001 8:38pm
Reinstate J.R.!
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RobertBloor
Inner circle
The Socialist Republic of the USA.
1051 Posts
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Posted: Oct 22, 2007 12:55am
Tabel hapers cant spel eyether.
Jimmy's stuff is real good. I enjoy reading it.
-Robrt
"That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government,"
-The Declaration of Independence
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Wayne Whiting
Regular user
173 Posts
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Posted: Oct 22, 2007 6:41am
Bucket drummers are annoying, but yesterday afternoon I had an experience that topped a bucket drummer. A man was walking down the center of the mall singing "Jesus Loves You" and "Amazing Grace" at the top of his lungs. When his voice got tired, he played taps on his harmonica. He happened to walk by right when I had my first decent tip. The advice from this forum "to have something to say for every situation" crossed my mind, but nothing came to my lips. To make it worse, when he saw my crowd he just got louder and more disruptive. I thought, "well, he's just exercising his right to free speech just like you are."
Perhaps I should have run out and done a silent act to the tune of "Amazing Grace" like Jimmy would have done.
Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. Thomas Edison
www.terrylagerold.com
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Danny Hustle
Inner circle
Boston, MA USA
2394 Posts
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Posted: Oct 22, 2007 8:39am
Wayne,
In that situation the best, general purpose, comeback would to have been to look at him like he was a weird, and possibly dangerous, alien creature, and without breaking YOUR eyes away from him, stage whisper out of the corner of your mouth to your audience, 'DON'T MAKE EYE CONTACT! HE'S PROBABLY FROM (insert closest rival town here) and lost!."
That is a good one to have in your pocket for disruptions like that. When he hears your audience laughing at him he will move along....or flip out and physically attack you in a homicidal rage, either way, you win! Welcome to the street.
Best,
Dan-
Professor Danny Hustle Boston Magician
The Busker's cafe - open for business
"MT is one of the reasons we started this board! I’m so sick of posts being deleted without any reason given, and by unknown people at that." - Steve Brooks Sep 7, 2001 8:38pm
Reinstate J.R.!
©1999-2013 Daniel Denney all rights reserved.
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Yellowcustard
Special user
New Zealand
719 Posts
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Posted: Oct 22, 2007 12:10pm
Hi Jimmy your latest post on your blog is great. I am at the moment finding my feet on the street and been thinking how I can take a show in a case or even better my pockets, so I can rock up early and as it get busy with street busker do bigger and better I can pop of shopping and then go back when it’s a bit quieter. These observations and comments have inspired me massively thank you.
Enjoy your magic,
and let others enjoy it as well!
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jimmy talksalot
Special user
new orleans
747 Posts
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Posted: Oct 22, 2007 1:54pm
Yellowcustard,
thanks.
what your looking to do is pretty much what I've been doin for awhile, but I would suggest you browse around my blog's older posts and pick and choose some titles you like. a lot of guys start at the first one and go from there.
the reason I'm saying this is because the blog is set up weird so you can't really see a table of contents and I'm not sure what to do about that yet.
when I was workin spain I had no bag I just wore my suit and when I needed money I would just stop walking on the sidewalk and bang out a show and then go on about my business.[of course that's europe not here we know how hard that is here]
here I like to care my dr.bag w/ a small sign and rope in it. I slap the sign on the out side w/velcro lay out my fat 15' rope and go to work. the bag is also good for caring water and mints and if I don't want all that stuff in my pockets I can throw it in there too.
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marty.sasaki
Inner circle
1117 Posts
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Posted: Oct 22, 2007 2:29pm
While I agree that the mis-spelling, lack of capitalization, and sometimes missing punctuation doesn't seem to have much, if any, of a negative effect on the presentation, I think it is a sign of just being lazy. Most of the time capitalization is easy, as is most punctuation, and with the add-ons one can get decent spell checking.
Nothing wrong with being lazy, or being lazy in certain ways, Thomas Edison claimed that being lazy was the key to his inventiveness, if he wasn't so lazy he wouldn't have become an inventor. But saying that the mistakes are part of the process is just denial. Just admit you are too lazy to get it right.
Having said all of this, I do think that the blog is a great resource. Thanks for spending the time and effort to post it, Things like this blog, and the Café have really increased my enjoyment of this art.
Marty Sasaki
Arlington, Massachusetts, USA
Standard disclaimer: I'm just a hobbyist who enjoys occasionally mystifying friends and family, so my opinions should be viewed with this in mind.
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jimmy talksalot
Special user
new orleans
747 Posts
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Posted: Oct 22, 2007 4:55pm
I wonder if they were suspicious of mark twain
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