Magical Rantings...

First of all. I'm trying to upload a video compilation of the past days, but the chinese web Gods are not with me it seems. It's as if the web speed gets slower day by day. But I'm crossing my fingers for an update later tonight.

I was planning to write about saturday nights daring adventures in the city of Shanghai, but that will have to wait for another update, since I just had a very unpleasant experience. This might sound like trivial to some of you, but it actually pissed me of!

I had found out about something called Magic Bar at the Cloud 9 shopping mall near changning lu and zhongshan park. Their website promised an entertaining evening with close up magic, non-alcoholic drinks and snacks. So I travel by cab for about half an hour to get to this place. I'm eager to meet like minded colleagues from china, passionate about doing magic. It wasn't the fact that the skill levels of the working magicians wasn't David Blaine'ish. I actually enjoyed the first two minutes of my hosts magic. But then it turned ugly... He produced (not by magic) a price list of their services, and it turns out that for 2.000 to 20.000 (VIP's) renminbi (betweeen 1800Dkk to 18.000Dkk) you can become a student of this magic bar. I told them that I was just passing through, that I did magic and how I wanted to meet magicians in Shanghai. The boss (a mean looking guy) literally yelled at the magician who was serving me and told him to stop showing me magic. Then I was told that I could finish my soda, and that they wouldn't speak to me anymore. The boss even ordered the nice magician to give me back the call card that he had gotten from me.

I was nice and polite when I told the senior manager, that I would write a very negative review of their bar for scandinavias largest magic magasin. She didn't look happy when she found out that it is read by the approximately 250 scandinavians that will be in China in four months for the world championship of magic. Even if they don't post I just hope that they'll be nicer to next guy who comes around.

On a positive note, I can inform you that I have my first magic show in Shanghai Tomorrow :) It's for "Det Danske hus i Shanghai" and it's a mixed ages show.., so no rude humour or cruel jokes. This is a free gig, but I'm hoping that I can make some good contacts through it. You'll get a personal review tommorrow.