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PRAISE FROM RESPECTED PERFORMERS ...
"Doc is one of the truly great working magicians. He is inspiring on every level: a great technician, an hilarious performer, and, as this book will show, a clever creator.
The scope of the book is impressive: he has gags, full stand-up routines, a beautiful new close-up concept, and more.
He also details what I consider to be one of the best tricks to appear in MAGIC Magazine a couple years ago, Deep and Meaningful Infatuation. LOTS of pros are hip to how good this is (think Derren Brown-style mentalism), and it's worth checking out.
The biggest surprise for me was a routine called Double Duty. I love dual reality stuff, and this is SUCH a brilliant idea on the thought-of card.
Doc has a rare gift for writing, in that you can "hear" his voice so clearly, and his personality really comes through on every page. I've always suggested his first book to anyone who asks, and I'm thrilled this book shows the same quality and even demonstrates his growth as a magical thinker. Thanks for such a great book, Doc!"
Joshua Jay,
Author of Magic: The Complete Course
“With all the inconsequential innovation happening these days in magic, it is a great pleasure to read a collection of really good effects with all the traits of having been worked out in front of paying audiences. It was fun to read, for both the humor and the excellent material.”
Stephen Minch, Hermetic Press
"Doc must have licked the stamp the same minute my order came in because I got my copy in record time. This is a great booklet, packed full of great material and advice. I'm already looking at incorporating the Pringle can trick in my standup show. Lots of comedy potential there. The card effect, Double Duty is brilliant thinking and I gotta think, a hoot to perform. A similarly sneaky routine, Deep and Meaningful Infatuation, actually reminded me more of the any card, any number trick by Hugh Grant (I mean Guy Hollingworth), at least the method does, but the effect is completely different. Great stuff, Doc. Looking forward to volume 2."
Doug Brewer,
Author of The Unexpected Visitor - Coin Magic for the Walk Around Performer
"Doc’s new book is a long-overdue treat for the magic community. There is certainly plenty of great close-up and stand-up magic throughout, but the Dixon Drop is one thing that should simply be in repertoire of every single magician that owns a deck of cards."
Rick Maue,
Deceptions Unlimited
Author of The Book of HauntedMagick
"Doc Dixon's earlier book "Everything Is Funnier With Monkeys" (and it IS if you think about it) has been kept within easy reach on my bookshelf right next to the Steve Beam SACT series...and for the same reason. Sometimes, I want my inspiration with a lot of humor, and Dixon's writings never fail to fill my cup. "Monkeyshines Vol. 1" is jammed with solid thinking and wonderful routines that are strong on impact but easy on method...Annemann-esque, in that respect. All that being said though, there is still something for everyone. Though the mentalist in me enjoyed Dixon's 'Deep & Meaningful Infatuation' (a LOT), my inner-cardworker delighted over the variety of uses for his 'Drop' sleight. In all serious, Dixon doesn't contribute nearly enough of his off-the-wall thinking. If he really cared about this art, he would just spill the beans on the rest his entire 'arsenal' (did I really just use that word?) and save us the trouble of thinking for ourselves."
Micky Ayres,
Author of The Act Series
"I have on my desk in front of me his latest offering: MonkeyShines. It's good. Really good. I am called upon occasionally to do some platform work and I have a limited set of effects that I do for platform. Now I have more. A lot more. There are several items in there that I KNOW would have fooled me had I seen them performed live and more than three that I consider to be brilliant. But I'm not going to tell you which ones. Ever. Because on the rare occasion you see me doing platform magic, I'll be doing some of Dixon's material... OK, I'll give you a hint: Ted Annemann. That's all you're getting. For me, these notes are worth far, far more than I paid for them. I've managed to combine two of Dixon's effects and I now have another 10 minutes of platform. Heck, I might even start trying to BOOK some platform work now. The material I picked out for my own use doesn't even have any heavy sleights in it!"
Steven Youell
The Card Guy
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
PART I: CLOSE-UP MAGIC FOR STROLLING & THE TABLE
Memory Aces
About ten cards are cut off the deck. The face card of the packet is shown and the packet is immediately tabled. This is done four times. The four packets have indifferent cards at their faces. When the packets are turned over, each indifferent card has changed into an ace. Incredibly clean and a magician fooler. Using a new sleight, the Dixon drop.
JHD Sandwich
An unknown card is sandwich amidst the aces. Another card is selected and signed. The unknown card is revealed to be the signed selection. The ace packet and the deck NEVER come into contact after the packet is first set down. There is no palming. In fact, when the selection goes to the aces you aren't even touching it. Possibly the cleanest version of this effect ever. Using a new sleight, the Dixon drop
Sally Rand
A hilarious, contorted, and beaten-up version of the Princess Card Trick that ends with a HUGE laugh. No skill required. It will instantly become a part of your comedy repertoire.
My First Coin Trick
A trick with a penny and a silver dollar I have been doing for over thirty years
The Tantalizer Lives!
Entertain while dealing 104 cards.
PART II: BITS O’ BUSINESS & THE BUSINESS O’ BITS
McCombical Redux
A touch on the McCombical Prediction
Al Baker? We’re All Bakers!
An easy way to magically produce cake for the restaurant performer.
PART III: MENTAL MAGIC & PLATFORM CONJURING
Double Duty – The Almost Ultimate Think Of A Card
A card is reversed in the middle of the deck. The cards are spread, one spectator looking at the side with the single reversed card. The other spectator looking at the other side free chooses one of the face-up cards. Magician divines both cards immediately without any fishing or pumping.
Deep & Meaningful Infatuation
You tell them what they are thinking and you tell them what they are feeling. A spectator selects a card and is asked to assign it an emotional meaning, much like tarot readers do. The performer not only divines the card identity, but divines in detail the emotional imagery.
Snack Food
A signed beer bottle vanishes and reappears inside a sealed can of Pringles®.
Plus: Bottle Sock, a routine so old I was doing it when long white tube socks with blue stripes walked the land. An extra clean version of the vanishing beer bottle where the bag is tossed into the audience at the end of the routine ... and you don't lose $40 every time you do it.
PART IV: FROM EVERYTHING IS STILL FUNNIER WITH MONKEYS
Reshuffled
A favorite son: the original self-resetting version of Unshuffled.