Uri Geller

I thought I would explain a bit about who Uri Geller is, since I have a video or two on my blog and it doesn't need to be an inside joke with the guys from Germany. Uri is a magician, a special flavor of magician though, they call themselves "mentalists". He was really popular in the 60's or 70's, mostly because of his "amazing" ability to bend spoons by just rubbing them and thinking really hard. My guess is that his popularity waned when people caught on to the fact that it was fake, but maybe people wanted to see something new.

Back to the point, now he's got his own TV program in Germany, and oh, what a surprise, it's a game show, like every German TV show. It's called "The Next Uri Geller" and it is supposed to search for someone to replace him, from 10 of the top "mentalists" or something. In addition to the silly competition and American Idol-like long, drawn out shows, Uri says he'll do a live illusion every week, and he will even make things happen in the viewers' houses!

The first week, he fixed broken clocks and he made spoons fly off the top of televisions, which is in the video under

www.sachermaningermanyvideos.blogspot.com

To let people know, the video is completely real, I filmed with a real camera, put directly on my real computer, and loaded directly onto the real internet. Nothing about the video itself is altered, although I'm not going to make any promises about the condition of the spoon that evening.

The next week he made peoples tables shake and slide, I felt like I was watching ghost hunters on the Discovery Channel (which is a great show, if you get the chance, much better than Uri Geller) I made a video there too, but it's not worth putting on the site.

Anyway, we'll see if this magician can manage to suck a few million dollars out of this generations pockets, just like he did last time he was popular.

If you're interested, there are some great informational videos on YouTube about him.

-Kevin Sacherman