dag said:

It's called "crazy"

Sweeny79 said:

I laughed my fuckin' ass off when he started crying

And what's w/ his lame ass team? He was gasping for a good 20 seconds before they got their silly asses in the tank, then their solution was to pull him out BY THE HEAD to let him get some air Then they took another MINUTE to get him the oxygen - they were a bumbling mess of a team, could barely get him out & down the stairs. LAWD

I kept thinking, "wouldn't it be awful if he died on tv just b/c his team is so fucking shoddy?"

CalhounSq said:

damn, you're funny.

CalhounSq said:

you are too funny. it was weird watching him last night. for some reason i was a little nervous watching and i wasn't surprised that he didn't make the time. he looked very out of it on friday when i went down to lincoln center. i'm with you calhounsq, i laughed a little bit when he cried. the way it was handled was very weird. i'm just glad he's not dead.

I was sad for him, but he did good....

Absolutely. He spent over 7 mins in the water without breathing and that's amazing in itself. He spent a whole lot of time in the water and the comentator was saying he may have made a record with that alone. He did his thing and he's still alive and that IMO is the victory.

Ok...David Blaine...Hot, YES. I'm so surprised that only one person noted the obvious similarity in physical appearance to Prince. At one point when they were showing him being lowered from some past even (his hair was kinda long)...he looked exactly like him...even my husband was like "oh wow he just looked exactly like him" I think the only reason I watch david is because he looks like Prince.
As for his Magic....it's great...but let's not forget it's magic, an illusion. Ofcourse he doesn't really levitate! or rip his heart out, and NO he didn't really pull that girls teeth out! it's a trick....it's an illusion, it's Magic folx. It is not real. Now death defining stunts on the other hand may very well be real, but may very well not be too.
I've been to the hollywood magic castle, I've been in awe of a magician who took my own class ring and linked it with a few other ladies rings...I have no idea how he did that...but I do know it was a trick and my ring was never separated or anything. Heck my brother in law is a magician, and he can do things with cards and other things that just make you think he's supernatural...but he's not...he's just a good magician

This guy is such a load.

Sweeny79 said:

thats how i was last night, i almost cried when i saw them bubbles and when they was lifting him out - when his face was blue i was sooo scared 4 him.

SammiJ said:

the glare that could drop a thousand panties and stop a thousand hearts

I heard on a radio show today, that they noticed that only his hands and feet wrinkled, and why was there no marks on his face from wearing the oxygen tank mask?..their theory was that when he was breathing through the oxygen tank, water was in the tank surrounding him. When he was breathing through the tube, water drained out of an inner sphere, but remained in an outer sphere, hence he wasn't in water all of the time..

AnckSuNamun said:

lol i feel u on that!

PurpleRein said:

that could be a mask mark, and yea i was wonderin why only his hands and feet wrinkled, but then i thought does the rest of the body every wrinkle when u spend a lot of time in water?

purplecam said:

co sign

Sweeny79 said:

oops!

purplecam said:

I am too, I didn't want him to die. But the shit was FUNNY

Blaine Released From Hospital

Ailing stuntman David Blaine was released from a New York City hospital yesterday after seven-days underwater left him unconscious and suffering convulsions. The 33-year-old magician needed medical treatment after his climatic quest to set a new world record by holding his breath for nine minutes failed, and divers pulled him from the spherical aquarium in Lincoln Square, New York. Blaine suffered liver damage, pins and needles, loss of sensation, loss of dexterity and multiple rashes during the stunt. Friends collected him from Roosevelt Hospital in a wheelchair. His trainer Kirk Krack says, "(He was) unconscious when we brought him to the surface. If we hadn't intervened, he would still be at the bottom of the sphere doing a breath-hold." As his ordeal ended, Blaine told the crowd, "This was a very difficult week but you all made it fly by with your strong spirit, your energy. Thank you so much everybody."

Moonwalkbjrain said:

Heh?



:::wonders if barnacles will grow around his asshole:::



NO, he'd be

I mean really - was it worth it?

Moonwalkbjrain said:

what is going to do next? nail himself to a cross so we can all watch him suffer? :christcomplex:


Most of his stunts centre around pain, and the public feeling sorry for him and buying into a person who in essence is nothing more than a magician. Some people were probably genuinely upset seeing this, and his stunts rely on exploiting this. There was no way he was going to die, absolutely not. Even he isnt that ambitious. what a fool!

rant over!

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[Edited 5/10/06 16:12pm]

purplecam said:

I can't wait for this idiot to off himself. You have to admit, it'll make great television.

Moonwalkbjrain said:

i'm sorry but i just have to say: IDIOT!!!!!


why would anyone do this? he could just do a breath hold without sticking himself in an underwater tank in the middle of the lincoln center for a week! what did he expect? to come out of that stunt untouched?


IDIOT!!!!!



okay, i feel better now.

CalhounSq said:

Shorty said:

YEARS ago, when he did the Tower of London stunt, we were all talking about the Prince/David Blaine similarity - that's one reason why Lleena has the hots for him! (sorry Llee )

And how come nobody is acknowledging my wikipedia skills? The man was inhaling PURE OXYGEN. The record for breath-holding after inhaling PURE OXYGEN is 15 minutes. 8 minutes ain't no thing.

LleeLlee said:

thats the point, there basically all tests of his endurance, which i can definately respect. and i dont neccessarily think him looney anymore - definately out there but not looney

uPtoWnNY said:

nahh that'll be a sad day imo, the david blaines of the world keep things interesting

Blain Rescued In A Nick Of Time
New York: Illusionist David Blaine was unconscious and having convulsions when he was rescued from his eight-foot aquarium during a breath-holding stunt, his trainer said on Tuesday.


"I wasn't focused on records; I was thinking of a rescue," said trainer Kirk Krack, a free-diving expert. Blaine was convulsing and "unconscious when we brought him to the surface. If we hadn't intervened, he would still be at the bottom of the sphere doing a breath-hold."


The 33-year-old illusionist had been submerged in the aquarium with an oxygen mask for a week. Rescue divers jumped into the 2,000-gallon saltwater tank on Monday night and hauled him up.


He was rescued as he struggled to break a breath-holding record of eight minutes, 58 seconds. Blaine, who had spent 177 hours underwater, went without air for seven minutes, eight seconds as a finale to his endurance stunt at Lincoln Center, which was televised live on ABC.



Blaine checked himself out of Roosevelt Hospital on Tuesday and his friends took him out of the hospital in a wheelchair and then helped him walk to a waiting car. At home, he took a hot shower, played cards and was able to eat.


But "he was crying" on Monday night, said Dr Murat Gunel, the head of Blaine's medical team. "He still feels that he let people down."


"I am humbled by the support of everyone from New York City and from all over the world," Blaine said. "This was a very difficult week, but you all made it fly by with your strong support and your energy,” he added.


Blaine's liver and kidney functions had suffered while he was submerged but are now improving. His skin, which was peeling, "looks much better," said Gunel.


His team concluded that strenuous training and losing 50 pounds, so his body would require less oxygen left Blaine too tired before he entered the sphere.


They said Blaine wants to try the breath-holding stunt again. Next time, he plans to be in better shape, and do it without being in a tank for a week beforehand.


"He is going over everything he did and analysing what happened," said Gunel, associate professor of neurosurgery at Yale University School of Medicine. "He is remarkably strong."


"I think he was a great success," said Krack, adding there are only a handful of people who can hold their breath for more than four minutes with training.


Blaine started training in December, with some help from Navy Seals. The water temperature was regulated to help keep his core temperature near 98.6 degrees, and he ate and relieved himself through tubes.


His previous feats included balancing on a 22-inch circular platform atop a 100-foot pole for 35 hours, being buried alive in a see-through coffin for a week and surviving inside a massive block of ice for 61 hours, all of which were performed in New York.


In 2003, he fasted for 44 days in a suspended acrylic box alongside the Thames River in London.

Natsume said:

Pam's Wikipedia skills

It's all fake. The dude needs to get a life. All he wants is attention. The first thing he did was get on the microphone. Give me a break.