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Saturday, August 20, 2005

Buster Comes Home Tonight!!!!!!

Can't wait to pick my boy up at the airport this evening! I talked to Cricket (his mom) this afternoon and she was sad to see him leave. I'm glad they had a good summer together, I was worried about that when he left. Seems like they had a great time. I am excited to hear all about his adventures in Cincinnati, Cleveland and where ever else he went. Rock n Roll!! I have some steaks thawed out and we'll have a nice, late dinner tonight.

Video Clip Du Jour - NUNZILLA

I forgot if I've posted this funny clip in the past.


FunKIDelic Nunzilla Video Click Here

Fun publicity stunt, how does this headline grab you, "Angry nuns boycott FunKIDelic Toys, Downtown Cincinnati" ?

Video Clip Du Jour - From The Archives

Back home in Cincinnati, a good friend and walking buddy of mine Ken Klosterman lived about a 5 minute drive from my house in Loveland, Ohio. I shot this footage in his hayloft on his sprawling 250 acre horse farm.


Video Clip Click Here

Friday, August 19, 2005

Vinyl Avengers at the Fremont Festival



Video Clip Click Here

What can I say, I love these guys!!!!

In My In Box

It boggles my mind than anyone reads my never-ending bullshit. Don't get me wrong, I'm honored that you take a few minutes to check out what's going on in my world and in my head. This blog grows like a therapeutic cyber fungus. Thanks for being a part of it.


Dear Mr. Frank,

I am a faithful reader of your blog. Next time I'm up in your neck of the woods I'd love to see you perform. (I live in Utah.)

Here is my question: Do you by any chance just sell the Ironwood wands? If so what would be the cost including shipping?

Sincerely,

Randy Naviaux

Another

Hello Tom,

You dont know me, but I'm performer here in Cincinnati, and I was wandering of you sold the Tayade style balls separately from the Phoenix Cups and Balls Set? I would be ineterested in buying a few sets of them in case you do.
Also, I wanted to say thanks for all the cool reading that I've found in your Coming Thru The Haze. It's refreshing to read everything that you've written, because it really hits home on so many levels, and I seem to go through much of the same on a daily basis.

And on another note, it's good to see you out there performing and still kicking ass. A good friend of mine, Kristian Charles (nut that he is) speaks really highly of you, and I would really like to hang out with you sometime, if you're ever in the area. I hope to see you around someday.
Just let me know about those Tayades. Take care.

Bob Kimball

Here's another

Hi Tom,
 
My name is Simon. I am an Australian magician living and working in Japan. I have your cups and just received your dvd on the rings today. I really like your performance style. Are you planning to release anymore products? Is the three card mental problem an original effect with you? That is a great trick! Is there anywhere I can learn  it?
 
I am trying out for a permit to street perform here in Japan next month. And, I was wondering what kind of card and coin stuff you do. I love how you perform on the box, that is a brilliant idea! It would really enhance the visual element of your performance.
 
Your blog is really good too! Really down to earth and honest. I wish you all the best. Le me know if you are ever in Japan. I could see if any of the clubs would be interested in having you lecture. Just an idea. I am not tight with any clubs but I could approach them with the idea.It would be great if you and Buster could come..
 
Regards
 
Simon Paxton


WOW, I've got friends I haven't even met yet. How cool is that!

China Opportunity

I got a call from Greg Irwin the other day. He was calling from Beijing, and wanted to know if I was available for a gig in China next week. I checked my schedule and as it would happen, my good friend Jeff Moche was coming in to town a couple days early to visit before getting on a cruise ship out of Seattle. I told Greg the earliest I could leave for China was the 27th of this month. Greg and I had a great time on my last trip to china. 11 Cities in 21 days. . . 52 cigars and the Phoenix Cups and Balls. WOW what a trip. . . literally.

Here is something fun from that trip

Chinese Therapy Ball Factory Video Click Here

With Buster getting back in the 22nd, his school orientation on the 24th & 25th and a visit with my little kids on the 30th. . . doesn't look like it's going to happen. . . but you never know. I will keep my fingers crossed.


Thursday, August 18, 2005

Cardini


Cardini Video Clip Click Here

Wednesday, August 17, 2005

Nick Nickolas

Tuesday, August 16, 2005

Minimalist Collage Series

The idea here was to quickly do a series of collages, using as few images per collage as possible. I don't really like them. There isn't enough stuff in them for my taste. But is was a fun experiment to do. I like to see a lot of intricate cutting and a lot of cool images. Oh well.

What do you think? Can you even call them collage?





Monday, August 15, 2005

I get the strangest mail

More on "The Aristocrats"

New York Times review of "The Aristocrats"

Weekend

Had a fun weekend of street performing. I also presented a lecture on Street Performing at the Lynwood Club's "Day of Magic" in Everett. I shared the bill with Mr. Aldo Columbini. It was nice to see him work. Saturday night I had a gig. I performed at a "couples" bachelor party in Kirkland. An hour of strolling. Was nice to get dressed up and do a real gig. Very receptive audience.

Sunday, more street shows. Nice shows, I started by saying something new. "Ladies and gentlemen, I'm going to ask you invest 10-15 minutes of your time and be a part of a spontaneous adventure. Watch as the act unfolds. . . nurture it. . . be a part of it" , or something like that. Not sure if they thought any different, but I liked the way it felt.

The people you meet on the streets

Ran into an old magic buddy from Cincinnati at the market Sunday. Drew DiCostanzoand his wife/assistant Angela are working on a cruise ship that was docked in Seattle for the day. Along with Drew and Angela was a Ventriliquist who I had met in Buffalo at one of the "52" Get Togethers years ago.

Nice to see Drew after all these years.

My kind of movie

Sunday evening after street performing at the market, Scotty, Becky and I went to see the Aristocrats. Loved it, loads of fun!

Aristocrats Trailer


The Aristocrats: Blow by Blow

Why has The Aristocrats been called the dirtiest movie ever made? The answer's in this spoiler-rich index.

by Andrew Goldman



As its July 29 release date approaches, The Aristocrats continues to generate a swirl of controversy for being quite possibly the dirtiest movie ever made, an impressive feat considering it contains not a single frame of nudity. Just last week, AMC, which will soon be the nation's second largest theater chain, announced it wouldn't be showing the 90-minute film on any of its 3,500 screens.

So what's all the fuss about? Penn Jillette and Paul Provenza's low-budget documentary features over 100 comics' including Chris Rock, Jon Stewart, George Carlin, Whoopi Goldberg, Phyllis Diller, Drew Carey, Robin Williams, Bill Maher, and Sarah Silverman performing their own improvised versions of the same joke, known as the Aristocrats. The premise of the joke, which dates back to Vaudeville, isn't all that shocking. It concerns an uncommonly affectionate and oddly leaky family act auditioning before a talent agent. After finishing, the agent asks them what they call their act. The Aristocrats, the agent's told. What's so dirty about that? Well, as anticlimactic as the punchline sounds, it's the details of the performance that have provided generations of comics the improvisational latitude to go bluer than any man or woman before.

Radar dispatched a team of dark-suited operatives to a recent screening in order to document what could have possibly scared AMC away. Readers in New York and L.A., and anyone with a sensitive stomach, may want to steer clear of this complete film index. Those of you in the hinterlands: grab some popcorn, and enjoy. Oh, and you'll probably want to wear a raincoat.


Anal blood, used by son to splatter audience

Analingus, performed by son on father

performed by daughter on father

performed by father on daughter

performed by son, with mother's feces in his mouth, on infant

Anus, Cow's, penetrated by unidentified person's fist

Daughter's, penetrated by father's fist

Daughter's, penetrated by grandfather

Dog's, finger inserted into by daughter

Dog's, penetrated by grandfather

Dog's, penetrated by son

Father's and son's, alternately licked by daughter

Father's, used to play bagpipes

Father's, used to catch ping-pong balls

Grandmother's, penetrated by son

Mother's, penetrated by son

Mother's, penetrated by father

Mother's, penetrated by son

Son's, penetrated by father

Audience, invited to masturbate niece and nephew

Axe handle, used by father to hit daughter's head

Baseball bat, used by father to beat three daughters

used by father to beat wife

Be a Clown, sung by family in unison

Bicycle, ridden by grandmother while urinating on family

ridden by woman with outsized vaginal cavity from which men emerge spitting vaginal mucous on audience

Birth Canal, mother's, infant son half reinserted into by father, who then anally penetrates son

Boil, popped by father on own back

Bucket of Feces, put over own head by daughter who then goose-steps around the stage

thrown by son into mother's face

Buddhist Monk, raped orally and anally by indigenous tribesmen, then killed

Bullet Hole, shot in son's head by father then used for intercourse

Burst Hemorrhoid, affixed by father to tip of nose

Cartwheels, performed by mother in the nude

Catholic priest, raped orally and anally by indigenous tribesmen

Copulation, performed by dog and daughter

performed by father and daughter

performed by father and daughter while daughter fellates son

performed by father and gorilla

performed by father and mother

performed by grandfather and mother

performed by son and grandmother

performed by son and mother

Cunnilingus, performed by father on wife

performed by son on daughter

Curry Powder, sprinkled by unidentified Indian man onto penis of unidentified African-American man

Defecation, by Betsy Ross

by entire family on stage in unison

by family dog on family

by father into wife's mouth

by father on dead daughter

by father on stage

by man into woman's vagina

by mother and father on stage, with children frolicing in result

by mother into metal bucket

by mother into son's mouth

Defecation and Urination, by dog on stage

Desk Drawer, slammed repeatedly by father to flatten penis

Diarrhea, attack of which propels son in circles around stage

Dog, penetrated by talent agent penetrates man anally while cat licks man's testicles

Donkey, urinated on by father

Dried Semen, chipped off mother's desk by father

Ejaculation,by father onto daughter's rectum

by father onto entire family

by father onto mother's face

by six dwarves on stage, one by one

Extra-Large Vagina, used by several men as hideout

Feces, applied by father in preparation for blackface routine

danced in by father

eaten by son

eaten out of grandmother's rectum by father

Grandfather's, eaten by daughter

Mother's, removed from bucket and juggled by son while urinating into daughter's mouth

rolled around in by family

rolled around in by father

skated through by family

slid through by family

slid through by female family members

Son's, applied by mother on family members

splits performed into by family in unison

Feces and Urine, eaten off family by dog, who then jumps through hoop

rolled in by family

Fellatio, performed by Eddie Fisher on goat in MGM studio lot to the dismay of wife Debbie Reynolds

performed by father on infant son

performed by mother on donkey

performed by mother on father

performed by sister on brother

performed by son on father

performed on father by unborn baby as father penetrates pregnant mother anally

Finger, pulled by daughter to cause passage of gas

Fishhook, used by father to pierce penis

Fishhook-Pierced Penis, used by father to copulate with daughter

Fisting, particular enjoyment of by Mickey Rooney

Flaming Elephant Penises, juggled by unidentified man

Flattened Penis, used by father to beat children

used by father to knock out son's eye, then penetrate eye socket

"God Bless America", sung by grandparents while engaged in intercourse

Kazoo, placed in anus by grandmother to perform "Begin the Beguine" while fellating grandfather

Kerosene, added by son to bucket of urine and feces then ignited

Kiddie Pool, filled with Beef Entrails and Aborted Fetuses, waded into by family

Liberty Bell, cracked by signers of Declaration of Independence who hit it sliding through Betsy Ross's feces

Light, flipped on by Amish father

Liquid Feces, gargled then swallowed by mother

Lit Cigar, inserted by father into mother's anus

Liza Minnelli's Swollen Clitoris, compared to Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade float

"Make Them Laugh", sung by family in unison

Masturbation, performed by father into shot glass

performed by son onto mother multiple times

performed by son with outsized genitalia until the head of penis explodes

performed on son by mother

performed simultaneously by male family members onto dead grandmother

performed simultaneously by male family members onto dish

Mutual, performed by Siamese twins who are attached at derriere

Midget Uncle With Three Penises Protruding From Head, appearance on stage by

Mixture of Feces and Urine, applied to face by father

Mop Handle, inserted into unidentified man's anus by unidentified African American man

"Nearer My God to Thee", sung by daughter while juggling torches

Pinky Fingers, inserted by mother into father and son's anuses as they ejaculate

Pope, penetrated by talent agent

Projectile Vomiting, by mother all over audience

Puddle of Semen, Feces, and Urine, coitus and oral sex performed by family in

Rabbi, raped orally and anally by indigenous tribesmen

Radio, listened to by Amish mother

Ring of Fire, jumped through by dog

Semen, drunk from shot glasses by mother

Father's, eaten by mother out of daughter's anus

Father's, eaten by son off mother's face

Father's, spat out by infant after being born by mother

Male Family Members, eaten by female family

Semen and Sweat Mixture, used by family to bathe

Shetland Pony, yielded live by grandmother during failed abortion, then ridden off stage by grandfather

Shoes, shined by Liza Minnelli with own vaginal mucous

ixty-Nine, performed by father and daughter on each other

Smoke Rings, blown from mother's vagina, then jumped through by son

Songs, sung by four unrelated men who fashion helmets out of their outsized genitalia

sung by mother as daughter masturbates father and son simultaneously

Striptease, performed by mother

Tampon, removed by father from wife's vagina and thrown at wall, to which it sticks

"Tea for Two", played by wife using her vagina as an instrument

Trapeze, used by family to performed act while urinating on audience

Unspecified Animal Manure, swum though by family

Urination, by dog on family

by family onto one another in unison

by three men on stage

Vagina, Daughter's, penetrated by father's fingers

Daughter's, penetrated by father with hot curling iron

Daughter's, penetrated by mother's fist

Vomit, causing entire family to vomit when smelled

eaten by family member after vomiting

Vomiting, by son and daughter on stage in unison

by the entire family in unison

by three men on stage

Wallet, stolen by Hispanic male who then defecates on stage

"What a Wonderful World", gas passed to tune of by son and daughter

Xylophone, played by son with penis