David Copperfield was in town last weekend for what he creatively entitled, David Copperfield: An Intimate Evening of Grand Illusion. Bowie and I decided to empty our wallets and hopped down to the Hummingbird to experience him live instead of the usual TLC.

The performance was purely what I expected, and he definitely made people wow and gasp. Some stunts were familiar to me, while some were not. He pretty much covered all his usual grounds from the usual, making things disappear and reappear (i.e. cars, himself), send people off to a place far away (i.e. Hawaii), mind-read people, (i.e. through cards), provided some comedy relief, and as always, charmed some ladies.

Watching it live was definitely more enlightening that watching it on TV (obviously), because I definitely found some flaws in the performance that you simply wouldn’t catch on screen.

For the record, Copperfield didn’t make any mistakes during his performance per se. However, it was definitely not as smooth sailing as I would have imagined—it just wasn’t meticulously executed.

From my understanding, every successful performance by an illusionist/magician is mainly judged by their effort to convince the audience that his or her assistants are in fact chosen at random. I’m sure we’ve all heard the famous line prior to every magic performance “have you met or spoken before?”—just to loosely confirm to the audience about the random nature of selecting someone.

After the performance, though, I am not convinced that the people were “randomly” picked from the audience. Many of the tricks can easily be explained if in fact the assistants were not random. In attempt to persuade people about his random selection, Copperfield flew a frisbee into the audience and said that the first person to catch the frisbee was to come on stage to help him in his tricks.

However, after Copperfield spun the frisbee, I often saw the disc being passed from one person to the other. Surely, there may be some people who are too shy to participate, however, I still think that the random selection is really sketchy.

Here’s another thing, I found him to be awfully narcissistic. During his brief break between performances, we had to watch a small montage that showed what people thought of about David Copperfield— almost like retarded testimonials for ab machines. There was all this zooming text on screen about how great he is, and I was seriously turned off by it.

I already know he’s great, that’s why I bought a ticket to support him. I don’t need to watch no tasteless Copperfield ego-booster.

I also get a vibe he’s really a ladies’ man— a really raunchy ladies’ man. Really. For one thing, there was a lot of ass-grabbing during the show.

I bet he gets a lot of sex. He is an illusionist right?