Hello folks here in this wonderfull dungeon,
Can bizarrists be bizarre without being a little bit excentric or weird?
Just a question.
yes, I think of myself as being excentric.
greetings,
Cirrus

YES !
Me and the girl that floats over me in my bed at night...says Yes,Yes,Yes !!!
Also my little creepy girl Spirit Guide says yes too !

We all agree !

Gary

Hmmm, I think you'd have to be a little eccentric to be interested in the phenomena, folklore, and myths that provide so much of the framework of bizarre magic. I guess you could be a mundane & uninteresting and do bizarre magic, but it would seem inauthentic I think. I would characterize myself as a non-conformist...how about the rest of you?

Is this a question or an observation? I'm sure I'm not the only one who's been observed before.

It is both I think. I love being excentric and I don't do anything special to be that way. Also I'm a non-conformist, because I am, I don't like to draw between the lines of the mundane, that's to easy.

I sometimes have to remind myself that to the rest of humanity I must be a little... odd. "Normal" for me is seances, tarot cards, and out of body experiences. I have to try to remember that for the vast majority "normal" is office job, soap operas, and football.

I know which one scare *me* the most!

...and true eccentric and interesting people consider themselves (usually) pretty quiet and ordinary...

Mr. Voodini
I agree with you. I also know who scare me most. Any new books?
Cheers
Roni

Well. I'm ordinary.

Right?

Huh?

HUH?

HUH!!??!!!

David

Hi Roni! I'm slaving away (?) at the moment with a new one that centred around Kiss of the Clairvoyant. I'll be in touch when I have a copy for you to take a look at, if that's okay?

See you in November at Tab?

Hhhmmmm....an interesting quandry. I think that those of us who delve into the darker realms of our art
definitely have a little extra something. Eccentricity? Perhaps. There is something that is inside us all that sets us just a little bit apart from the masses....and I like that.

I am certain that everybody who considers themselves bizarre magicians, distance themselves from the other magicians and even mentalists and cosider them as people who do magic with an attitude off "Look-what-I-Can-Do".
I for instance got upset because people always tried to figure out how I did something. That's why I'm going to start doing magic with a story woven between the magic.

I didn't consider myself eccentric for a long time.
Not until I asked my friends, family and associates how they might describe me.
Much to my chagrin they used the word eccentric many times when weird failed to fit well enough.

I don't think one could be interested in Bizarre magick without being a tad bizarre themselves.

It's good to know a place where people of the same mind can meet share their stories and exchange their ideas.

I am not rich enough to be considered 'eccentric".

First of all you don't need to be rich to be eccentric I had a teacher: a very brilliant man, who was like a walking wikipedia. He knew everything in my mind and he wasn't rich at all.

I recall being described as intelligent, wise, with broad knowledge of things and being mysterious, in my mind everything a man (or woman) needs to be a bizarrist.

I never thought of myself as a bizarrist until people told me I was one. I just liked the fine line between making an audience squirm and laugh.

I never really considered myself eccentric, weird, or a bizarreist. I just don't know anything I love better than to be elbow deep inside a cadaver. Isn't that normal?

I must admit I've caught myself chatting merrily away at parties about ghosts, seances and magic, only to look up and discover that most of the people in the room are looking at me as if I've grown an extra head.
Or like that scene in Clue/Cluedo where Mrs Peacock starts talking and nervouly babbles away until she looks up and notices that everyone is staring at her with their jaws slack
Hmm, note to self: Must watch "Clue" again soon.

*Flames! Up the side of my face!*

Weren't Bizarrists goth before goth became a trend? I always thought the Adams family were the coolest family on their block, so I don't think bizarre magicians are eccentric, I just think they're cool. Even on the Café, this is the coolest place to be...warm people...cool place. (And a little dark too).

The cool people here, are the ones that are deceised without them knowing it themselves yet.