Griffin & Willow, Partners in Silence...

About Me

I had avoided this for sooo long, but oh well I guess...
This is mostly devoted to my faire character of Griffin Highwater/The Mute/The Pooka, although some insider information may leak out now and then. I have been performing at the Arizona Renaissance Festival for the last eleven seasons. My first two seasons were spent in the Mayor's Court as a scotsman. Over the last nine seasons the character I have created (from my many inspirations) has grown extensively and outrageously. I will get into the details here and there in future blogs.
Not quite my signature self, is it? The colors are right at least...
Or maybe this?
What Renaissance Performer am I?
You are a Plot Character! Everyone has a story to
tell and it so happens that this time, its
yours! You may not be important to the show in
years to come, but for now it couldnt happen
without you. You enjoy the fact that folks
follow you from place to place and approach you
in the street. Enjoy your 15 minutes.
What Renaissance Performer are you?
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My Interests

Changeling: The Dreaming, Changeling: The Lost, Tabletop RPGs, painting miniatures, faeries, legends, Froud, The Reduced Shakespeare Company, Cirque Du Soleil, Ren Faires, Mall Crawls, Microbrews, Mead, Barleywine, Fine Dining, Character Development, finding my inner peace every now and then (it wanders off...),

avoiding sheeple (that includes over-enthusiastic enthusiasts of any sort - Guess what? When there are more than ten of you in one place you stop being outsiders because you found your sub-culture. Move on.)

I'd like to meet:

My fans - aparently I have some non-participant fans. Stable folks. Note the lack of the the term "people". Mostly just making myself available to the folks I know. I don't want to meet people that find me so cute they "want to take me home, lock me in a cage and feed me twinkies all day" 'cause it's not gonna happen.

Music:

(Must have my) Leon Redbone,
The Fellowship, They Might Be Giants, Mediaeval Baebes, Blue Man Group, Venus Hum, Oingo Boingo, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, Apocalyptica, Richard Cheese, Blues Brothers, Four For Naught (kinda have to, don't I ?), Danny Elfman, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Royal Crown Review, Toy Dolls, Three Guys and a Bunch of Drums, Frank Zappa, Pink Floyd, "Pickin' on..." Bluegrass Series, Buster Poindexter,...ecclectic "right noise-wrong time" kind of stuff...

Movies:

The Illusionist, Lady in the Water, Pan's Labyrinth, Amelie, City of Lost Children, The Princess Bride, Murder by Death, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Stranger than Fiction, Thank You for Smoking, I (heart) Huckabee's, O Brother Where Art Thou, The Big Lebowski, Donnie Darko, Marx Bros. films....
There was a time when Star Wars would have been on this list but...

Television:

Doctor Who, Torchwood, House, Farscape, Allo Allo, Aeon Flux, Heroes (occasionally), Mythbusters, CSI, Venture Bros., any awful sci-fi movie that I can tune out and paint to -- Lake Placid for example -- if it's crap I'll paint to it...

Books:

Neil Gaimen, Douglas Adams, formerly Stephen King, random bits of fantasy or sci-fi, gaming books mostly...

Heroes:

Leon Redbone, Frank Zappa, Douglas Adams, Leonardo Da Vinci, The Doctor, Batman, Bugs Bunny (that guy is fearless), The Marx Bros.

My Blog

We are Done.

On August 21st, 2007 Robin (Willow Raindancer of Allanah) and I (Griffin Highwater, the Mute, & Pooka) will have been together for seven full years. Having met at faire and participatd for nine and e...
Posted by Griffin & Willow, Partners in Silence... on Tue, 21 Aug 2007 05:45:00 PST