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Some bloke in a box

 
  

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w1rebaby
21:29 / 10.09.03
I was very encouraged to read this:

Interested observers on the ground, who have been many and raucous, have tried to overcome Mr Blaine's food shortage by throwing eggs, bananas and chips at him. According to the London Evening Standard, his sexual deprivation was sympathetically addressed by "two blondes" who bared their breasts, presumably in an upwards direction. Music was supplied, in the middle of the night, by an Indian bhangra drummer from Tooting, who managed to wake him up, along with many local residents. Another man fired off golf balls at him until his clubs were confiscated.

I think the most impressive piece of magic here is that he manages to annoy someone several thousand miles away. That's me, incidentally. I'm also informed that people have been shining laser pointers at him, causing the poor dear to think that guns are being aimed.

What else would really annoy him? Throwing those sticky "walk down windows" octopus things at the box? Maybe just ignoring him altogether would be the worst thing you could do.
 
 
Saint Keggers
22:29 / 10.09.03
paintball guns at night
 
 
w1rebaby
23:00 / 10.09.03
ooh, with luminous paint...
 
 
Papess
23:21 / 10.09.03
How about wreck his car right below him? Or bagpipes...oh gawd...bagpipes [ouch]
 
 
Mystery Gypt
23:23 / 10.09.03
what's the reason behind people's annoyance with Blaine? i think he's a really interesting guy, doing very cool things... bringing a different sort of idea about "magic performance" to the people.

so... what's up with the haters?
 
 
captain piss
23:29 / 10.09.03
It's quite a shatteringly uninteresting visual spectacle, i suppose- innit? But good on him and all that.
Apparently he's gonna start getting the runs really bad after about 3 weeks of fasting- that's gonna be pretty. A shit-spattered cube suspended above the Thames
 
 
w1rebaby
23:38 / 10.09.03
Well, I am hating on Blaine because I smell a publicity hound who needs the piss taken out of him. Although I imagine there is already some cunning catheter arrangement for that. And yes, it is basically just a bloke in a box, no ladies sawn in half or anything - pretty shite magic, if you ask me.

Maybe I'm just manifesting Oppositional Defiance Disorder over being told that this is interesting. Or maybe I'm succumbing to the hype. Hell, I don't care. I just want to write rude words on his box, in mirror writing obviously.
 
 
Saint Keggers
23:39 / 10.09.03
Taiko drums and gongs!
 
 
Saint Keggers
23:40 / 10.09.03
And the Oompa-Loompa song sung over and over and over...
 
 
Potguns
00:42 / 11.09.03
Isn't there a burger van right near him?
 
 
gingerbop
00:52 / 11.09.03
Sorry, iv missed all of this. Is it just a perspex box? does he have a toilet, coz when u look up after the 3rd week, and u can see him for the squelchy shit lining the floor or it....

Drill a small hole, and insert a small hose-pipe that runs v-e-r-y slowly. Watch the onset of panic.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
00:54 / 11.09.03
Apparently he got a rounjd of applause yesterday for taking a shit. One woman was quoted in one of the papers as saying "He's just been to the toilet. He's my hero." This is true.
 
 
Ganesh
01:12 / 11.09.03
Use a spraycan to write 'DARYL HANNAH SAYS YOU HAVE A TINY PENIS' in the grass below him?
 
 
Saint Keggers
01:26 / 11.09.03


Anyone have a trebuchet? We could sneak up when he's asleep and hook the box up to it...and just as he wakes up in the early morning hours..launch that sucker as far as it'll go!!
 
 
—| x |—
07:52 / 11.09.03
I think what would annoy David Blaine most of all is if every single person on the planet paid him no mind whatsoever and went about their business like they'd never ever heard of him and made like he didn't even exist.
 
 
_Boboss
07:57 / 11.09.03
maybe oxfam could set up a little stall below him and make some point about a rich fat prick starving himself because he likes being on the telly. they should turn him into their publicity stunt. shazam
 
 
illmatic
08:01 / 11.09.03
Wise words!!

But, The Metro this morning printed a letter from an angry butcher who asked for people to get together with him to throw sausages at the box. People are cruel.
 
 
We're The Great Old Ones Now
08:03 / 11.09.03
Really want to annoy him? Take him out of the damn box.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
08:19 / 11.09.03
I don't actually mind Blaine... sometimes I think he's pretty cool. Fuck it... I can ignore him if I want. There're people I'd much rather annoy... and I actually KNOW them.

That said, chucking eggs and stuff is always funny. And while I do feel kind of sorry for him... it's LONDON, motherfucker!!! Whaddaya expect???

Most of all, I'm interested in either how he manages not to get found out for cheating, or how he survives the whole thing without cheating. Either way, I'm interested.

But chuck away, people! It's all part of the "challenge"!
 
 
Gypsy Lantern
09:25 / 11.09.03
It's quite a shatteringly uninteresting visual spectacle, i suppose- innit?

That depends on whether he goes insane at some stage while he's trapped in there. I think it's difficult to accurately gauge quite how much of an interesting spectacle a crazy person trapped in a perspex box could become.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
09:29 / 11.09.03
I think it's difficult to accurately gauge quite how much of an interesting spectacle a crazy person trapped in a perspex box could become

That's also part of my reason for hoping he sticks it out.
 
 
William Sack
09:44 / 11.09.03
There's a Kafka short story called Ein Hungerkünstler, or A Hunger Artist about some chap who does what Blaine is doing. The spectators there found it a dull spectacle and were much happier when the fellow died and a panther was put in his cage. I would rather like to see a panther put in with Blaine while he is very much alive. That would be quite a draw.
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
10:00 / 11.09.03
I think we should organise a Barbelith picnic as close to the box as possible, at which we eat and drink conspicuously, holding up marker-pen-on-cardboard signs saying things like 'MMMMM, TASTY!' and 'I AM ENJOYING THIS CAKE'. This should be around Day 22.

By Day 35, I plan to escalate this to holding up signs saying things like 'EAT YOUR ARM'.
 
 
Tryphena Absent
10:00 / 11.09.03
it's LONDON, motherfucker!!! Whaddaya expect???

It must be quite shocking for him, used to the adulation of the crowds in the States who smile and wave at the guy in ice, suddenly there are British people throwing stuff at him. God I love this country, we're so mean spirited and bad tempered, yet it makes me proud.
 
 
_Boboss
10:11 / 11.09.03
the guardian website are having a field day with this. there's at least two articles up there today with an excellent 'what a twat' feeling to them. just bored london journalists of course, who're only really any good when they're being properly petty. i think flyboy has the best idea yet.
 
 
_Boboss
10:15 / 11.09.03
one of the cardboard signs should say:

'go on son, bash one out'

just to see the pearly streaks gently trickle into a creamy pool of drizzled jizz by his feet. y'know
 
 
spidermonkey
10:16 / 11.09.03
I'm up for the picnic!
I also know where we can get hold of a 20ft by 20ft red and white checked picnic cloth!
 
 
Tryphena Absent
10:29 / 11.09.03
I see this plan taking form... it will have to be properly idyllic in order to work. Triangular sandwiches and cake! I think it has a very good chance of sending the man totally round the bend.

Hmm... shame we aren't all Edwardian enthusiasts, can you imagine his face?

Ooh, ooh, there must be some roleplayers around here. You could stage a battle underneath his box!
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
10:39 / 11.09.03
Nah... I figure any decent roleplaying should wait a week or so... let him start hallucinating, at least...
 
 
Bear
10:43 / 11.09.03
I think it's kinda shit to be honest but then I like David Blaine, I'm curious to see what he says when he comes out as he states that this is "art" not magic - I'd also be curious to see if people would have been so quick to laugh if the person in the box had been a famous artist rather than a magician.

Anyway he's not in the box he's in a flat in Brixton and it's all an illusion
 
 
Bear
10:48 / 11.09.03
And if people keep slagging him off you know who'll be invoked don't you?




Do you really want that to happen? Huh? Huh?
 
 
Spatula Clarke
10:57 / 11.09.03
Journalist: What if something goes wrong while you're up there? How would you want people to remember you?

Blaine: As the greatest showman who ever lived.

Me: Yeah, 'cause dying after sitting in a box for a month's a really earth-shattering feat of showmanship.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
11:04 / 11.09.03
No, I have to go out on a limb here and say I actually LIKE Blaine. C'mon. What, we wanna stop anyone thinking of doing anything fun, whether pure showmanship or not? So what. It holds up traffic. So do bad drivers and roadworks that could easily have been done during the night.
Do I care if it's real? No. But someone is attempting to entertain us. Yes, us chucking eggs at him is par for the course, and he should have realised that to start with.

But I can't be totally opposed to someone who's just trying to make life more fun (for which read... Harry Houdini. You dissing him? Daniels doesn't count, cos he was sposed to leave the country if the Tories got voted out). I just can't.
 
 
Tryphena Absent
11:26 / 11.09.03
Yeah but... he's there to be hated. Hating Blaine makes the world go round!
 
 
Bear
11:39 / 11.09.03
And when you hate then you're bound to get irate, yeah.
 
  

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