In browsing aged emails for my remnants Kaiserslautern address I found this… from Steve and quite funny.
On Wednesday evening, I went over to the Milliken Auditorium to see Tom Deluca, the hypnotist. I tell you this was one of the most outrageously funny shows that I have ever seen!!!! There were about 1000 people waiting outside and it only holds 400. I made the cut to the side and got in. He took about 20 volunteers~ I seriously considered being hypnotized, but thought it would be much more fun to observe, since those hypnotized remember nothing. It took about 10 minutes of him playing this dreamy music, along with him saying the same thing over and over again, snapping his fingers, and stomping his foot to get them in his power. This show went on for over 2 hours without these people cracking a smile or anything, so this was GENUINE. It was astounding.
Here’s a rundown on all the acts I can remember:
-He began by having them be fishing, so they all hung on to imaginary RODS and were reeling in. Some were pulled across the floor by an enormous fish! -He had them driving a Ferrari (from their seats), getting her up to 200 mph, having a bottle of wine, and then the cops come up. Everyone instantly threw the bottle out the window! HAHAHAHAH They slowed down, and the cops passed them. Deluca then said what do you do now? Half of them flicked the cop off!!
-Adriano was one of the volunteers which made it extra hilarious, and he did a ballet dance with another guy- this was one of the funniest of them all!!!!!
-One kid was told to think he was Ricky Martin when he heard Deluca snap his fingers twice. They cued up LA VIDA LOCA and this kid went nuts on stage, knowing all the words and tore up the dance floor- UNBELIEVABLE!
– Later, he somehow got them all to regress o five year olds, adn he’d ask them about their favorite cereals, toys, and TV shows- they all sounded just like little kids- THUNDERCATS came up, as did Gem, and VOLTRON-
-A few girls were told that when they were very, very hungry for chocolate, but when they would get it near their mouth, their hands would quake uncontrollably- it worked- they couldn’t get it in their mouth because they were shaking so much. They had to have other people feed it to them!!!!
-Next everyone was told that someone was tickling them so much that it was near painful- some of the girls were on the floor in a fetal position screeching in near orgasmic tones- just like T.G.I. FRIDAYS! -Another one involved taking someone else from the audience and telling the hypnotized that this was the coolest, smartest, best looking guy in the world. Therefore, they hung on to his every word, and all wanted to shake his hand and hang out with him. When asked, no one knew WHY he was so cool- they just loved him! Deluca would ask him questions, like what is your favorite fruit, he’d say Grapes, and everyone chimed in how much they liked grapes too. Deluca asked why Vozza why he liked grapes and he replied, “They are great for foreplay!!!” (as I understand this, hypnotism makes you fall back on your habits and instincts, no conscious thought takes place, so you see people as they really are—which makes sense for Voz)
-The following event involved having one girl believe she was from Mars. She spoke in the most ridiculous language ever, but one of the guys translated it for us and then we asked her questions. Somehow, they understood each other!
-One guy was led to believe that his hand was talking to him. He tried to silence it by sitting on it and hitting it. Then he was so embarrassed he tried to MOVE off stage. Vozza told him since his hand didn’t have a mouth it couldn’t talk, but he only yelled louder, DON’T YOU HEAR IT TOO????
-The next event was that they all were supposedly in a body building contest. they all flexed for the audience and showed their stuff. Then they were told they had some body building oil, and this one kid started smearing it all over his ass-
-Another was that Deluca programmed the people to each have a response to his question, “What is your name?” – One girl answered SCREW YOURSELF every time he asked, another one lost all control of his tongue, just slurred it all
-They were all convinced that they had their shoes on the wrong feet. So they kept switching them. Then they “realized” the person next to them had their shoes on, and they all traded around. You had guys in high heel boots and fancy girls in catepillars-
-It ended with Deluca programming Vozza to respond to his snaps with either “You are so SWEET, so AWESOME” (one snap) or “THIS GUY SUCKS” (two snaps) Vozza played right to the audience telling us to leave because this show sucked, and was half way out the theater and he snapped his fingers again, and he went running up the stage to shake Deluca’s hand and praise him endlessly on his knees. He played with Voz about 4 times like this & he’d turn on a dime!!!!
I tell you, all in all, a fantastic show, I wish you had seen it. This power of suggestion is powerful and dangerous. I’d like to have this skill for parties! After the show, all the volunteers had no recollection of any of this, and thought they were only on stage for 5 minutes or so, not 2 hours!
