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The Paper 11-09-17
November 9, 2017
Volume 46 - No. 44 by Friedrich Gomez
As a professional magician, I am often asked if Harry Houdini was really that great. That question requires a qualified answer: As a straight conjuror or stage magician, I would answer no. But, as an escape artist, he was absolutely without equal, even to this day. If I had an opportunity to be able to meet and speak to any magician, past to present, it would have to be Harry Houdini. He was not only world renowned as an escape artist, and a foremost authority on locks and locking mechanisms in general, but he was very intelligent on different levels: he was a pioneer aviator, movie star, owned his own movie studios, was fluent in four languages, and wellread on a variety of topics – all of which separates him, immediately, from any other conjurer, past to present. But purely as an escapologist, he had no peer.
Like Albert Einstein in science, Houdini often thought ‘outside the box’ in regards to ingenious methods of picking locks and extricating himself from different constraints.
It takes one’s breath away just how far he would go in hiding various devices, keys, and assorted picks to secretly open locks with. Yes, there were standard methods he employed, such as when he had doctors examine him in
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Editor’s note: I believe I first came across the excellent writing of Roy Trakin in New York Rocker during the heyday of punk, towards the end of the ’70s. A few years later he did some writing for a magazine I edited at the time, Boulevards, and much later, decades later, he contributed to my online magazine, Addicted To Noise.
Roy has been writing about pop culture since the early ’70s. He was most recently a staff writer/columnist at Billboard. His writing has appeared in numerous publications including New York Rocker, Creem, Musician, the L.A. Times, the L.A. Herald Examiner,Newsday, the N.Y. Daily News and USA Today.
Today he sent me his column, “Trakin Care Of Business,” and I was excited that he’d led with a review of my novel.
He also writes in this column about Spoon, Ty Segal and the film “Cavalry.”
TRAKIN CARE OF BUSINESS: SEARCHING FOR THE FOREVER INFINITE ECSTATIC
By Roy Trakin
1. Michael Goldberg, True Love Scars (Neumu Press): Just call it a portrait of the rock critic as a young freakster bro, coming of age in the glorious peace-and-love innocence of the ‘60s dream, only to crash precipitously, post-Altamont into the drug-ridden paranoia of the ‘70s, characterized by the doom and g
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