Hah eff this guy

This is definitely a mind trip for what it's worth. Gimmick or not [for those of you who really wanna believe its real], this effin Criss Angel can perform.

A lot of times it's just easier to buy the story - to put your guard down and leave your criticisms at the door. We can argue the legitimacy of anything for days, but really, what good does that do for us? Does it make us feel better about ourselves? Does it help us sleep at night?

What it does do for sure is distract from what a lot of these things intend to do for us - entertain us.

I'll believe for 8 minutes that Criss Angel walked on water for real so that for those 8 minutes that I'm watching this youtube vid, I can get lost in its evoked extravagance. It's really just more fun to do.

So before we all become the Ebert and Roeper critics we all love pretending to be, buy the story for the story's sake. Pretend anything and everything is plausible.

Cause it's always nice to stop and smell the roses sometime.