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Bret Blackshear

Yes indeedy

About Me

I have a wide variety of interests and happen to be lucky enough to make my living doing one of them. I am a full time professional entertainer, focusing on live performance of magic and music.I perform primarily at various Renaissance festivals throughout the country (primariy on the east coast). It's a comedy magic variety show I perform with my professional partner, Jayna Lee.I write and perform my own songs and have a cd of tunes I perform at Ren fests currently available on www.cdbaby.com. My musical style is blues/jazz/folk (if you can classify that)You can preview and purchase downloads of my music here: Visit my music page at http://www.myspace.com/bretblackshearmusic

My Interests

Music, sleight of hand magic, youtube, theater, crochet, website design, and various others...

I'd like to meet:

Any presidential candidate who is real, that I can trust, that doesn't "want" the job, that'll do the job but only for one term and then go back to "work". I'd also like to meet Santa Claus, oh, and Jesus. Actually, I would like to have met Jesus - might've cleared up a few things... or not.

Music:

Blues, folk, old-time, bluegrass, jazz, funk, basically anything BUT rap and screaming alternative punk underground.

Television:

Battlestar Galactica, House, Deadliest Catch.

Books:

Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell (great book), books that don't hand-feed you every detail as well. Mysteries by Dorothy Sayers

Heroes:

People who selflessly sacrifice.

My Blog

Drugs....got any?

Recently, I viewed a program on the History channel on boot-legging and moonshining in America.  What an interesting and amazing history our government has of telling us what to do and think (it&...
Posted by Bret Blackshear on Sun, 06 Apr 2008 07:20:00 PST

Digital networking

Technology is funny.  We are absolutely obsessed with it as a species.  We can use it to get our news, contact friends and businesses, play games - it touches every facet of our lives. ...
Posted by Bret Blackshear on Fri, 25 Jan 2008 11:39:00 PST