David Blaine - What's On Your iPod?

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David Blaine - You've just utterly failed in your attempt to break the world record for longest underwater breath hold after spending a week in a water-filled sphere outside Lincoln Center. What are you going to listen to now?

― Matt Carlson (mattsoncarlhew), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 11:36 (twenty years ago)

teardrop explodes - "ha ha I'm drowning"

― zebedee (zebedee), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 11:38 (twenty years ago)

Suede - The Drowners

― Vernon Jackson (kate), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 11:39 (twenty years ago)

kate bush "houdini"

― raw like sufjan (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 11:40 (twenty years ago)

Jeff Bates- Pull Me Out of the Water

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 11:41 (twenty years ago)

Radiohead - "No Surprises" (if he'd have an iPod Video)

― willem -- (willem), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 11:41 (twenty years ago)

The Delgados - Everything Goes Around The Water

― Shooz (shooz), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 11:44 (twenty years ago)

REM - Nightswimming?

― Shooz (shooz), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 11:46 (twenty years ago)

paul mccartney - coming up

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 11:47 (twenty years ago)

Radiohead - The Bends

― hank (hank s), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 11:50 (twenty years ago)

Fish Out Of Water by ...Chris Squire, wasn't it?

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 12:11 (twenty years ago)

"Get me away from here I'm dying" Belle and Seb.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 12:17 (twenty years ago)

"Help, I'm a Fish" (Little Trees)

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 12:19 (twenty years ago)

Even As We Speak - Drown

― rentboy (rentboy), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 12:22 (twenty years ago)

The Byrds -- "You Don't Miss Your Water"

― p@reene (Pareene), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 12:23 (twenty years ago)

David Bowie - Blackout

― rentboy (rentboy), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 12:27 (twenty years ago)

Destiny's Child - Lose My Breath

― rentboy (rentboy), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 12:29 (twenty years ago)

'Lets Go Swimming'

― Robin Goad (rgoad), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 12:30 (twenty years ago)

Smoke City - Underwater Love

― rentboy (rentboy), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 12:33 (twenty years ago)

Les Savy Fav - Yawn, Yawn, Yawn

― caek (caek), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 12:35 (twenty years ago)

Elvis Costello - Pouring Water on a Drowing Man

― Emily B (Emily B), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 12:45 (twenty years ago)

Berlin - Take My Breath Away
Smog - Bathysphere

― owen moorhead (i heart daniel miller), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 13:20 (twenty years ago)

My Bloody Valentine, "Lose My Breath"
Prodigy, "Breathe"
Paul Simon, "Boy in the Bubble"

― NoTimeBeforeTime (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 13:36 (twenty years ago)

Human League - "Seconds" (perhaps with a remix - "Two Minutes")

― tolstoy (tolstoy), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 14:19 (twenty years ago)

something by the flesheaters, perhaps?

― mts (theoreticalgirl), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 14:29 (twenty years ago)

[as in, desquamation, which happens when you've spent too much time in water. there was no band called 'flesh falling off', so i improvised.]

― mts (theoreticalgirl), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 14:31 (twenty years ago)

REGGAETON!!!

― Confounded (Confounded), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 15:29 (twenty years ago)

Cage - Suicidal Failure

― Zedd, Tuesday, 9 May 2006 15:34 (twenty years ago)

hopefully just an mp3 of bigmouth billy bass singing "take me to the river" over and over.

― GOD PUNCH TO HAWKWIND (yournullfame), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 17:27 (twenty years ago)

Don't Go near The Water - Beach Boys

― timmy tannin (pompous), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 17:45 (twenty years ago)

"Trapped Under Ice" - Metallica
"The Thing That Should Not Be" - Metallica
"One" - Metallica
"Fade to Black" - Metallica

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 17:50 (twenty years ago)

my lifestyle determines my deathstyle

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 17:50 (twenty years ago)

"The Wait" - Killing Joke, Metallica
"Creeping Death" - Metallica
"Escape" - Metallica
"The Frayed Ends of Sanity" - Metallica
"Blackened" - Metallica

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 18:14 (twenty years ago)

Kill Em All is pre-Metallica thrash and therefore has active, anti-existentialist themes unsuitable for DB's sessile endurance games, i.e. "Jump in the Fire", "Blitzkrieg", "Hit the Lights", songs where destruction is sought out by a human intelligence rather than imposed upon from without

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 18:18 (twenty years ago)

Faith No More "Underwater Love"

― Brian O'Neill (NYCNative), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 18:33 (twenty years ago)

Ghostface Killah - Underwater

― J. Lamphere (WatchMeJumpStart), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 18:41 (twenty years ago)

The Cure "The Drowning Man"

The Flaming Lips "The Magician Vs. the Headache"

Low "Weight of Water"

― Z, Tuesday, 9 May 2006 20:43 (twenty years ago)

whatever it is, it's a week old.

― scnnr drkly (scnnr drkly), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 22:38 (twenty years ago)

The entire catalogue of Air Supply.

That 'Not Drowning... Waving' band or whatever they're called.

― S- (sgh), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 03:44 (twenty years ago)

Parliament - "(You're a Fish) And I'm a Water Sign"

― Fonzie Scheme (Matt Chesnut), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 03:55 (twenty years ago)

add n to x - total all out water
Telepopmusic - breathe

― gary donegan (transform-a-snack), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 07:51 (twenty years ago)

The Blue Orchids, The Dumb Magician

― Dadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 09:34 (twenty years ago)

Better late than never - REM: Try Not to Breathe

― Dave Bush (davebush), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 19:41 (twenty years ago)

http://www.ad.nl/multimedia/archive/00074/Illusionist_David_Bl_74423h.jpg

― Emily B (Emily B), Thursday, 11 May 2006 03:36 (twenty years ago)

six months pass...

NEW YORK (AFP) - US magician David Blaine will try to escape from shackles after spending two days in a spinning gyroscope suspended above New York next week, the illusionist said Friday, unveiling his latest stunt.

On Tuesday, Blaine will be locked spread eagle into the gyroscope, which will then be hoisted 15 metres (50 feet) into the air and spun at up to eight revolutions a minute until Thursday, when he will try to escape.

To avoid any problematic calls of nature, the 33-year-old will not eat or drink for as long as it takes to empty his system.

Earlier this year, Blaine spent a week in a water-filled sphere in an abortive challenge that was supposed to culminate with him holding his breath for a record nine minutes.

He was pulled from the globe after seven minutes when he appeared to struggle while removing chains around his hands and feet. He said Friday the experience had shaken his confidence.

"Slightly. One hundred percent slightly," he joked.

The latest challenge was dreamed up by retail giant Target and the Salvation Army, who will give 100 needy children a shopping spree when the stunt is over and the Thanksgiving Day sales begin on Friday.

The children get the prize whether or not Blaine makes it.

Blaine said one of his biggest concerns in the challenge, besides not eating or drinking, would be dizziness.

"Just to make it more difficult on myself, I added a motor (to the gyroscope), so even when I'm sleeping there'll be continuous movement. ... I think I'm going to have to stay awake the whole time," he said.

"This one's exciting for me. This one's a fun one," he said.

The gyroscope will also leave Blaine exposed to the elements, with the performer saying that he only hoped it wouldn't rain or snow while he dangles above a vacant lot near Manhattan's Times Square.

At a publicity event Friday, Blaine was hoisted up in the air by a construction crane, holding onto a metal hook by one hand several metres in the air as he spoke to reporters.

"After this test, I'm a little bit nervous," he said.

Blaine previously spent 44 days without eating while suspended in a glass box above London's River Thames in 2003.

Other Blaine stunts have included being encased in ice for nearly 62 hours and spending 35 hours standing on a 30-meter (100-foot) pillar.

― gear (gear), Friday, 17 November 2006 22:25 (nineteen years ago)

The children get the prize whether or not Blaine makes it.

the potential exists for the best of both worlds

― gear (gear), Friday, 17 November 2006 22:26 (nineteen years ago)

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