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December 3, 2008

Don't Miss This Show!

So I was at a KRCL meeting last night, we got the new ratings for the 2008 summer.  I was very curious to see just what kinda numbers I had out there.  They ran a comparison of the last two summers, turns out that last summer 2007 I had a HUGE following, my numbers were through the roof!  I was very pleased with that, but then I looked at 2008 summer and apparently I had ZERO listeners this summer!

I know, that's crazy right?  Zero listeners, I know I've got one or two listeners, shit you call me every week and request stupid shit that I say I'll play but never do... wait do you think that is why everyone stopped listening?  You'd think that since I just quit smoking and with this big zero cherry on top of my Sunday I'd have flipped out and puffed down a pack o' Crushes over night right?  WRONG!  Instead I had a nice bowl of Pho for dinner and asked Bad Brad to start teaching me how to play a one string guitar. 

This is actually good news.  It means since nobody is listening that its still totally cool to listen to my show!  You aren't going to be hearing people at coffee shops talking about my show and saying stuff like "Not a Side Show used to be cool", or "I liked him better when nobody was listening to him", "He used to rock, what a sellout!", or my favorite "His music was better when all he played was songs that violated FCC regulations, I blame Janet Jackson." 

Indulge people, swim in the vast ocean of NASS!



This weekend's show is going to be extra delicious, one of my favorite local bands will be playing around 10pm Rope or Bullets .  They played about 14 months ago and I've been begging them to come back ever since.  You my friend can be one of the only ones listening to the show, see if anyone at the coffee shop can beat that!

November 20, 2008

Time for a blanket statement from Circus Brown

Vampires are dumb.

I'm trying to not be a dick accidentally in public, I'm failing.  Last week on a flight to Los Angeles I sat next to a woman quietly for the entire flight.  I was reading Cobert's I Am America (And So Can You!), and it seemed like the entire flight this woman wanted to talk to me, I didn't oblige.

Finally we land, bad landing and we both turn to each other and share a laugh of relief at the landing.  Then she says "So are you excited to see Twilight?"

I paused for a few second, as I mentioned earlier I was trying to not be a dick.  I haven't read the book, I don't really care about vampires, I mean shit Lost Boys was great and there hasn't been anything good since, right?  I mean in the 90's I was talked into reading Anne Rice books, I got through two of them, then a hundred pages into the third book I just couldn't do it anymore.  Vampires had become dull.  Boring.  To me vampire books and movies were about as intense as masturbating through a long yawn.

"Is that the hot vampire teen movie?"  I reluctantly asked.

"YES!"

"Yeah, that looks about as worthless as Transformers."

"No it doesn't, if you'd read the book you'd be so excited to see it.  It's the best book I've ever read."

"Yeah but vampire stories are all the same.  Somebody gets seduced, usually somebody young and hot.  They're stuck forever looking young and hot, but they can't go out in the day and must drink blood nightly(and sometimes they can go out in the day, depending on who wrote the story, how convenient!).  They always fuck it up because they aren't that into killing, miss thanksgiving dinners, or they decide the person that turned them into a vampire is a dick and they want their old life back.  And in some vampire movies they put sunshine in bullets and hunt vampires!"  then I just started laughing, "Sunshine in bullets!  Or the vampire decides to start a rock band, or travel forward and backward through time doing everything and anything they've ever wanted to but couldn't in regular life" laughing even harder "and somehow it comes down to vampires are like Jesus and are Gothic martyrs and it all just ends up stinking like Keanu flying around like Superman.  Yeah, vampires... not a fan."  

She got up and stood there ignoring me about to explode.  I've see that look a hundred times, she wants to scream loud enough to rip off all my skin, but she also wants to act like I'm not there but make sure I know she's mad, but for the first time ever its a total stranger that wants me dead.  As soon as the isle was clear she rushed off the plane.  

Oh well, it's not like I could have even started a relationship with some hot librarianesque woman that loves vampires.  I'm probably isolating myself just by typing this up.  Seriously I don't know much about vampires, other then they're fucking played.  I wouldn't buy a ticket to see a vampire movie, rent one, or even read a chapter of another vampire book.  I get it, the life of a vampire is a lonely life.  But every time a new vampire movie or book comes out I'm told it something totally new and differn't and I'll love the twist or the new take on vampires.  I doubt it.  What because of the title of this movie do they get to come out earlier in the night for happy hour?  If they aren't packing hollow points with rays of light I don't care.

Don't Care.  Don't Care.

Near Dark now there's a kick ass vampire movie, Bill Paxton, Lance Henriksen, and a misfit group of vampires drive around a shitty van with sunglasses on and tinfoil on the windows.  But still that movie kinda sucked, watch it, it sucks just like every other v-pire movie, but its funnier then most.  Vampire's Kiss is another awesome vampire movies and only one of a handful of good performances by Nick Cage.  No complaints, I'll just put that up there as the best blood sucking movie out there that isn't porn.  No need to ever make another movie about Dracula again.

So this morning I'm on a flight back down to L.A.  Young 25 year old girl to the right of me, LDS, unmarried went on a mission.  To the left hot Orange County MILF who happened to have a 25 year old daughter.  What did they talk about?  Yep, they talked about the big suck that's a coming.  I just either pretended to sleep or read my book as they talked across me.  I skirted the question early in the discussion, but 45 minutes later they asked me again.  What should I do, be a dick again?  Pretend to enjoy stupid movies and just be a nice guy?  Act as if I had no idea there was a movie coming out?  Change the subject?

"Never heard of it."

"WHAT!" In stereo.

"Sorry never heard of it, but I see tons of commercials for it."

"Well you've got to see it!"

"Yeah, that'll never happen I gave up on vampire movies.  Plus aren't all vampire movies the same?"

"This one isn't, its going to be the best vampire movie ever!"  Then they launch into an explanation about how awesome these here vampires is.  I just tuned it out, I mean come on yes we all want to be teenage vampires I get it.

"Well if you don't like vampires then what do you like?"

"Music"

"You'll love the soundtrack!"

"Is it as good as Flash Gordon's Soundtrack?"

"Whaaa?"

"I dunno, Twilight, it looks like The Hills but with blood sucking... err wait, it is The Hills right?"

They sighed in stereo, so disappointed.  We landed in silence.

As the three of us got out of our row and off the plane they were still talking and both turned to me and gave me that smirk stupid dismissing smile goodbye you are pathetic look.  I smiled and said, "Well, I hope you enjoy your Potter-Vampire show" I did it again.  

I'm glad I did, am I the only person in this country without a vampire penis in his mouth?  

I got on the rental car shuttle, sat down and looked out at Century Blvd.   Just as we left the airport there was a billboard for it.  I kinda chuckled to myself, then the guy next to me turned to his co-worker and pointed at the sign and said "Dan, you gunna see that movie?  I just finished the book, so AWESOME!"

I stood up and walked to the back of the bus.

November 4, 2008

Orrin Hatch is the worst musician in Utah

So tonight local news interviewed Orrin Hatch and asked him what he thought about Obama winning and he shuddered to think about how terrible the future would be. I myself am not a completely blind follower of anyone, but I do think that things will become better, how could they get any worse right? Orrin thinks our Constitution is hanging by a thread, is that what we really want a so called leader to believe? Nice fear tactics Orrin, isn't it about time you made a bold new stand against flag burning?

Tonight McCain pulled off what was probably his best speech since 2000, and it was moving to hear him actually speak from the heart, an organ Orrin no longer has. John asked for unity, while Orrin thought of building a wall around Utah.

Now I'm not going to get into politics about how good or bad Senator Hatch is, this isn't a political blog, this is about music and what I'd like to point out to everyone today is how incredibly terrible Senator Orrin Hatch's music is. Folks behold Utah's worst musician:

Hatch Music dot com thats right 9 unlistenable albums SIX of which are NEW!

Folks I don't care if you would rather pull bong rips to "My God is Love" or getting yer rocks off means bumping "Christ was Able" while being auto-asphyxiated. It's just not my thing, I just want to put this out for everyone and let them know that out of more then 1000 local Utah musicians EVERYONE is better then our Senator. I think the atrocities of what he's said trying to fight the inevitable doesn't even compare to the atrocities of what he's created in the studio. Now is the time for Unity and I ask all of you to unite and boycott every piece of art Orrin has ever put out to the masses.

Orrin I will work for the rest of my days to better our community, a job you were elected for but for some unknown reason fight against and ignore. Senator our country has made a decision and you have as well, I hope you enjoy staying stuck in the mud, I will forever be disgusted by your music.

I'm Circus Brown and I approve this message.

Don't Drill Baby Drill, just Rock Baby Rock!


Yes it is election day all over this fine country, which kinda pisses me off because this stupid election day is taking away from the finer things in life that really matter, like music. You see Saturday night Vile Blue Shades and LASERFANG came down to KRCL and played one hell of a show, but does that get any press? Nooooooo! Because everyone in Utah is so fucking excited to elect a dinosaur, and most of the people voting for him don't even think dinosaurs walked on Earth, yet they vote for a living example.

Anyways, back to what really is important (yes I voted early) music podcasts, the newest of which is a podcast of LASERFANG playing 6 songs in the studio, you can check it out right now! Where? Here Circus Browns Podcast Central!.

Have a great election day, get out and play in the snow, come next year we might not have any!

October 15, 2008

Britney Spears "Circus" Brown


I never thought I'd blog anything about this pop princess but I had to, I just read that her new album is going to be named "Circus". Brit is also going to be releasing "Circus" on vinyl which will be pressed in many colors and according to the news report one will be a "Circus Brown" color!!!

I've had some crazy people try some crazy stunts to get played on my show, but this is ricockulous. Stay tuned kids, December is the planned month of release, we'll see if she really shows up for a live performance on KRCL.

September 23, 2008

6 Year Anniversary for Not A Side Show!

Howdy kids!  Today's a pretty big day for me, its my 6th Anniversary with KRCL!  Back in 2002 at 3 in the morning I did my first show, and if yer interested in what I played that first day scroll down and take a gander.

Also today Gavin over at KUTV Channel 2 has posted an interview with me, I tell all the dirty things you don't know about me, my real name, my favorite toothpaste, what I think of Ho-Ho's, and the 2 things I do before I go to bed every night.  You can check out the interview at Gavins Underground

September 23, 2002

Circus Browns Not a Side Show (The Very, Very, First Show)

boss hog - itchy & scratchy
the beta band - unknown
starlight mints - pusher girl
wilco - war on war
built to spill - time trap
modest mouse - tiny cities made of ashes
elbo finn - powdered sugar
radiohead - the national anthem
dandy warhols - shakin
swervedriver - expressway
death cab for cutie - amputations
the busy signals - the new you
the verve - blue (USA Mix)
the apples in stereo - shiney sea
flaming lips - the sun
elf power - leopards teeth
olivia tremor control - holiday suprise 1, 2, 3
add n to x - Plug me in
quickspace - quickspace happy song 2
swell - throw the wine
mazarin - wheats
mates of state - la'hov
grandaddy - crystal lake
john vanderslice - speed lab
cornelius - fly
radio4 - struggle
beulah - gravity's bringing us down
pink floyd - lucifer sam
...and you will know us by the trail of dead - baudelaire
old time relijun - mystery language
fugazi - full disclosure
mercury rev - hi-speed boats

I wouldn't mind hearing that show again, I'm sure I made a ton of mistakes and you could hear how nervous I was the entire show... good times, good times...

September 17, 2008

Salt Lake Farmers Market Chef's Challenge 2008


"Chefs Challenge" at the Downtown Farmers Market from Salt Lake Magazine Online on Vimeo.

This is a short video showing what we do every year at the Farmers Market Chef's Challenge and also here is the article about the Challenge from Salt Lake Magazine:

http://www.saltlakemagazine.com/Blogs/On-the-Table/September-2008/The-judges-were-the-real-winners/

September 4, 2008

Casting off my new Pod

Just a few weeks ago, August 16th to be exact, a band came down to the KRCL studio and played some sweet tunes that put a big smile on my face.  That band was Kid Theodore

I liked the show and interview so much I talked them into letting me podcast it, so here it is for your listening enjoyment Not a Side Show podcast of Kid Theodore Live in Studio 8-16-08

Give it a listen, I hopes you likey.  Also if yer up after 10:30 tonight, turn on KRCL 90.9 FM I'm hosting the Zombie Birdhouse since Kahli fled the state last night on the rails, I hope I do her show some good.

This weekend on Not a Side Show Chris Merritt will be live in studio, a send off for his upcoming national tour, you can tune in at 90.9 FM in Utah or krcl.org everywhere!

p.s. I'm wearing white

Circus


August 20, 2008

Our Most Precious Resource is in Danger

So much talk these days of drilling for oil in ANWR, for those of you that aren't familiar with the acronym it stands for Artic National Wildlife Refuge which covers about 19 million acres of Alaska. Now you might hear douchebags like Rush or his whinier Mormonier ex-Alcoholic ditto'r Glenn Beck mention that they've seen pictures of the area and its a deserted wasteland and a few oil rigs would probably spice up the view. They also combat the theory of "Drilling will harm the mating behavior of Caribou" with "SO WHAT!? Humans could mate next to or on top of an oil derrick, why can't Caribou?" Mental note google oil derrick porn. I've heard both of these guys guffaw and boo-hoo about the poor Caribou's sex lives like it means so much less then that sweet liquid gold they're itching their jocks for.

Now before I go any further, let me explain myself. Yes I do listen to Right-Wing-Fuckwad-Blowhard-Pill-Popping Talk Radio, I figure I have to because I have to know my enemy and their followers. I would prefer sticking blades of crabgrass into my pee hole over listening to these assholes, but this week I decided I was going to try and go music free you know like cleaning out the old liver. I know every time I go four or five days without a Pabst Light and then chug one I become a road scholar. So the plan was go without music, then when I stick some in my ear I might be inspired to do a kick ass floor routine, or possibly play something decent on my show. Instead I lasted one full day listening to Talkbag Radio and then went to Slowtrain and picked up an album by a new band Crystal Antlers and it hasn't left my stereo yet.

Anyways before I go any further here's a nice picture of a tiny piece of ANWR.

Not too shabby eh? I imagine there's some sweet Arctic Char in that river, just waiting for a nice humpy or bead-headed prince nymph for a snack, I ain't gunna do no shadow casting fancy pants, I'm just gunna catch'm, which I think is legal in ANWR as long as I don't jam my rod into the earth and create a small Valdez. Thats right folks, there's so much fucking oil underneath the soil in that picture we could live forever off it, and in 5 to 12 years it could be in our cars! I think they should put new pumps in ever gas station that dish out just ANWR oil, because I don't want that crap from the desert I want Exotic Red White & Blue Arctic Oil from the land of the now extinct polar bear! Oil harvested by hard working Americans, oil that's never been cooked in 120 degree weather, oil that was taken in broad daylight at 3 in the morning from the land where the sun never sets!

So where was I? Oh yes, talk radio hosts and their bleached blossoms, I still have no idea why anyone in radio would actually worry about having a perfect looking balloon knot. Then again I've only been on the radio three hours a week for 6 years which equates to me holding a full time job for less then 25 weeks. I'm starting to think that the high amounts of Sodium hypochlorite degrades ones judgment.

Now these white asses are saying that we shouldn't vote for Obama because of the comedians, won't somebody please think about the comedians?!?! Right-Radio says if we elect McCain there's a ton of great comedians that will get to impersonate McCain, hell maybe SNL will actually be funny again if we elect McCain. So you see according to Beckbaugh if we elect our first African American President only the African American comedians will be able to impersonate Obama, putting many white comedians back on the street and leaving at least another 4 years of suffering ahead for Dana Carvey. I'm no expert but Rush and Glenn sound pretty fucking racist right? Well the good and bad news is nobody in the media is reporting that they've said these things, which either means that the media has been compromised, or hopefully that I'm the only one listening and nobody caught it.

Now I need to get back on track, where did this all start at? Ah yes, fucking Mother Earth's seemingly virgin topside. I started to worry about drilling a few glory holes in the old lady, and when I gets worried who do I turn to? Well Hollywood of course, just like the rest of you! So I Netflix'd There Will Be Blood to learn as much as I possibly could about the oil industry in under 3 hours. Boy did I learn a hell of a lot about what's going to happen if we drill up there in ANWR!

First of all the people that own the land (300 million of us, and the wildlife living there) are going to get fucked, and not the good kinda fucked that creates illegitimate babies. I mean fucked like we ain't gunna get a dime and CEO's and Execs will be flying to Thailand with our gas money to have sex with underage boys while prismatic panoramas that've never seen technology get ear-fucked in their eye holes by oil companies. You know what else that movie taught me? That if we drill for oil and strike it rich our children might become deafened by the oil derricks, so that's what this really comes down to, the children. Write your Congressmen (yeah right, they won't read what you send them unless its about stopping flag burning) or Senator (who's probably drilling a page or trying to get drilled in a public restroom and should just come out of the closet so its cool) and tell them we need to stop this drilling before we all have to learn sign language.

The Rubes will be performing new songs live on Not a Side Show at 10pm this Saturday night August 23rd on KRCL 90.9 FM KRCL.org

August 5, 2008

One for the Archives


I hate having a multiple fucking blogs and dozens of email addresses and all that. Thankfully I haven't started doing any Facialbooking, so I guess I have to copy everything over a few times to cover all the bases.

I wrote a little review for City Weekly, I think I'm gunna write a few more. You can see my first one on TESLA HERE

Thanks for your time, DON'T spay or neuter yer pets, who gave you the right to play God?

July 28, 2008

Dimsdale! Dimsdale!!!

Where the hell is my stimulus check?

July 21, 2008

Retro Veggies Are Actually Edible!

I think the only time I've ever seen a turnip was on Looney Tunes, and usually it was something not very delicious and only eaten to stave off hunger. Due to too much cartoon watching as a child just the name of this vegetable makes it sound bitter, but I'm not one to talk about something unless I've experienced it.

A couple of weeks ago I was working the KRCL booth at the Farmers Market and the growers next to me gave me their last bag of turnips as they were shutting down for the day. I held on to them for a few weeks not knowing what to do with them. Yesterday I was working on my chicken smoking and knew I needed a side dish, so what the hell, I gots me some turnips in the fridge guess I'll cook'm up.

I had 7 or 8 nice ones, I peeled them, and quartered them and put them in some boiling water. I wish I would have cut a little bit more off the top because there was some hard to swallow fibrous pieces in the really big turnips, but no complaints. After they boiled and got a little soft I rinsed them off and dried them in a colander. I then got about 2 tbsp of butter melted in a skillet and tossed in the turnips, after about 10 minutes they started to get browned on all sides I put in about 2 tbsp of brown sugar. I know, I know, anything you add brown sugar and butter to will be delicious, but folks I'm telling you try some turnips they really do kick ass!

I'd suggest going down to yer neighborhood farmers markets and get some this week, and get yerself some ham hocks to cook with the turnips greens!

July 9, 2008

The B&G



So a couple months back I was lucky enough to interview a couple of my childhood hero's Jerry Buckner and Gary Garcia of Buckner & Garcia the creators of Pac Man Fever.  The following is a podcast of the interview with them, I sound really nervous.

http://media.switchpod.com/users/circus/BucknerGarciaInterview.mp3

Hope you enjoy it!

cb

June 27, 2008

Who Has the Worst Taste In Music?

I've been to a million parties, thousands of bars, tons of shopping marts in hundreds of cities. I've heard every possible kind of music at these places and at billions of concerts and I've seen an amazing amount of TV shows and movies containing every imaginable music type there has ever been.

There is one group of people that have the absolute worst taste in music, no other group of people on the entire planet Earth have shittier tastes in music then these people.

Now I know right now yer thinking I'm going to throw down and say I hate polka, hip-hop, U2, or country or smooth jazz, right? WRONG!

You see I fish a hell of an oftenly, and there is one thing I can set my watch by, and that is the insanely horrible music that will be blaring out of any wake/water skiing boat on any given body of water ANYWHERE.

Here's a simple warning, if you see this in the distance
douchboaters.jpg
Brace yerself for some shitty music.

Last week I was up at East Canyon, just me and the dog, nobody for miles, nobody on the entire lake but 4 doucheboaters with a sweet sound system. Of course they notice someone all alone on the shore enjoying themselves and they have to drive right over and wake board where I'm fishing. What awesome music were they listening to as they buzzed my beach? Yeah Coldplay, which shocked me, they actually had new music, which is rare for their ilk, but hell it was probably just the 30 seconds from an Apple commercial looped for 55 minutes.

A few days ago I was up at Pineview, out on my boat, rowing around not catching anything or even getting any bites, alone, happy to not be bothered. Loneliness is the nemesis of the wake boarder, they saw me there steeped in solitude and had to ruin it, a nice pass within 200 feet of me ought to do some good, what were these doucheboaters listening to? CHER. Yep, fucking Cher. They looped around me and headed back out to the main channel. 5 minutes later they came back, well I couldn't really tell if this was the same boat or not all these fucks look exactly the same to me. This time some Toby Keith was oozing out of the poor speakers on the boat. Once again a loop around my solace and back out to bother other boaters with their choice in sweet boardin' music. Back they came again, they just couldn't get enough of me out there all alone without sweet tunes, this time they were listening to, and I'm not fucking kidding the Goo Goo Dolls.

Usually when I'm at a lake that contains water enthusiasts I just rake my arms with fishing hooks to distract the pain in my ears. I'm sick if slicing myself just to keep from hearing what passes as 'Tubular listening while cuttin' some sweet wakage' or however the fuck these imbeciles try to justify the craptacular soundtracks of their lives. I've heard idiots like this playing a fucking Blue Collar Comedy Tour CD while boating at Deer Creek, WHY?! Why the fuck would you do that to people you don't even know? Do you just want everyone to hate you? Is this some ingenious scheme to get people to leave the lake? These are the same folks that I saw at Utah lake playing the opening minute or so of Enter Sandman, over and over and over and over. Seriously, like everyone at the marina was interested in hearing a song that died 16 years ago.

Sure I'm a music snob and I've been out there in a boat with speakers blaring Fugazi or The Flaming Lips to the embarrassment of the people on our boat. I guess yer supposed to listen to shitty music everyone can put up with, you know like KODJ or The JACK FM. Better yet listen to nothing, please! Enjoy nature and stop trying to pickup some Echo Res. trim with yer mixed CD of Jamiroquai, Creed, and Seven-Mary-Three. Sure we can all tell by yer taste in music that you graduated high school in 1999 and haven't updated your music as much as you have your rims.

Another thing that really pisses me off about Wakebags is every fucking story has the same beginning and ending, here is a basic wakebagging story:

So like all of the sudden we woke up All the sudden you did eh? And like the lake was like glass you know, it was like all like a mirror you know? So like we were all shitcha! Lets hurry and get some Jim Beamoritas in us and get on that water and TEAR IT UP YO! So like there we was and we was just goin like ape shit on that lake right like you know? And then Sal he like tries to pull like this Christfuck 720 ditchweed fakey right? And like since like the lake is all glass like the board like just bounces off it and like flies like up in his face and like I'm tryin to like smoke this bowl in all the wind and it was like our last bowl and like I see the board like up in his grill and like blood is like flying all over like the lake and I like blew the bowl out all over like Mikeys new boat right? And like right then we like have Don't Fuck'n Look by Slightly Stoopid playin and I was all whoa dude don't fuck'n look at Sals face! But there he is and like 127 stitches in his face later he's still a muthafuckin' pimp yo!

I'm getting so pissed off thinking about all the wakebags that've destroyed the air of so many days I might need to end this thing quick!

I just don't understand the need to demonstrate ones lack of musical taste at state parks, sure we hear it everyday at any given stop light, low riding rice wagons that vibrate so much with bass you can't even understand what the 'music' is that's playing. But to destroy nature with Insane Clown Posse, Matchbox 20 or Sugar Ray should be a crime.

One thing I forgot to mention, WAKEBOARDERS RIDE A COCKHORSE!

June 4, 2008

Back Up and Better then Ever Baby!

Sorry about the website being down for a few days we had a hacking problem, but we gots some Mucinex and alls well. Problem was that we had 1000's of hacking attempts over the weekend, someone out there doesn't like me so we had to shut'er down till we updated some sweet ass infiltration shit and WHAMO! No more hacking attempts.

Anyways I'm still on Cloud 9 since I learned that prisoners at the Utah State Prison have been saving their illegal substances till my show comes on, and also making a home brew, they call Coo Coo Brew, out of mostly tomato juice and drinking that to get all primered up for my show.

I wonder how many inmates wake up late on Sunday, maybe getting hit with one of them cop sticks by the guard all hung over, maybe with the headphones still on. I hope I help make peoples lives somewhat better while in the joint, but it still pisses me off that inmates have radios and some of my friends don't ever hear my show because they don't have radios.

So I'm asking this of you faithful inmates that can get whatever you want in the pen, please, get a second radio and donate your extra to my poor friends out in the 'free' world so's they can hear my show too!

Coming up this week on Not A Side Show: Stephen Chai is coming back to sing his hit "Baby, Come Over" DON'T MISS THIS WEEKENDS SHOW!

Also I did something neato over the last year, I helped make a prosthetic beak for a Balding Eagle who had her beak shot off by Dick Cheney. Here's a pic of it and visit this site for more info.


Fishing Update: The Provo running into Deer Creek has some nice rainbows in it. Pineview is still walking the tightrope.

circusbrown@gmail.com

May 19, 2008

Do you want Rock and/or Roll?


Ok so right now I'm really, really blown away, why? Because Danger Hailstorm played my show Saturday night and I was blown away. Then yesterday I put their new album "One" in the ol' mobile on my way up Emmigration Canyon and it then proceeded to blow me away. I just had to roll all the windows down and get some Granola's shaking fists at me.

I just love the sheer rocking and rolling of this album. Nowadays bands got too many god damned quirks and stupid shit they're trying to throw into their records and I blame on this on Rush and "Roll the Bones". Man when Rush put that stupid rapping in that song and stopped singing about trees and elfs and evil fucking wizards a little bit of rock and roll died. Danger Hailstorm brought a lot of rock and roll back to life without raising Geddy from the grave. (Yes you stupid Bright Eyes fan start rambling on about how I think Geddy Lee and Bob Dylan are dead).

I love rock and roll, this album will rock the summer of '08 and dirty up yer whites after Labor Day. If you don't believe what I'm saying click on that link above and blow out yer cheap ass CompUSA speakers while yer air guitarin' to Danger Hailstorm.

Better yet, buy this album and ruin yer car speakers as well.

May 13, 2008

This Mexican Food will Save/Destroy your life

So for the last 10+ years I've been going to El Rey's for lunch, dinner, and even a hangover cure. The place is cheap about $3.50 for 4 taco's and a drink. I'm a huge Al Pastor fan and this place has just been a staple for me. The folks there aren't the nicest, usually I feel like I'm a pain in the ass for actually coming in and giving them my money, but its so good I'll deal with the lack of communication and stink-eye for a few good tiny tacos.

There's always been Freeway Pizza across the street from El Rey's, then a few years ago it turned into a new Mexican place called Acapulco I think, who knows I never had a chance to try it. That place across the street just kept changing names and businesses until recently the sign changed to a place called Chunga's Mexican Food. I still didn't think of going across the street to check it out. Then a few weeks ago my lady tells me she drove by the place and they have a spit with pork and pineapple rotating in the window, this peaked my curiosity.

So I went in and picked up a burrito for lunch, Al Pastor, pork, pineapple, and onions rotating for several hours slow cooking and marinating in their own delicious juices. I was amazed by the burrito, I can eat a whole lotta food quick, and I did. A few days later Collette picked up a Torta there with the same Al Pastor, AMAZING! For those of you that don't know a Torta its a sammich. Yesterday my roomie and I went there, I had the Al Pastor enchiladas and he had a burrito, once again awesome grub. A little more expensive then across the street but so much nicer atmosphere and very, very nice people running the place.

I got off work today and while driving home realized I'd skipped lunch, and didn't know what I was having for dinner so I stopped in there again, this time I needed tacos. Its a sickness I have, someday's I just have to have a taco, and once again another great meal. I tried the Pastor again, and also some grilled steak. This Chunga's is so damn good! I just ordered some food to go, sat down and watched a little TV, and the guy that runs the place came up and gave me a free drink just because these people are so damn nice. The rice is good, the beans are great, and the dressing for the salad, oh my, I'm sold, and I want to see you there.

Where is this amazing Chunga's Mexican Food?

2nd South 900 West. About a mile from Red Iguana and without the line. Prices for dinner are around 6 or 7 bucks a meal and you won't be disappointed.

Why am I telling you about this place?

Because I think its the tops! Seriously I don't want this place to go out of business, so get down there and try it!
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May 9, 2008

I'm Allergic to Ranch Dressing

I hope yer ready folks, because Connery and I are working, working, working our butts off to get you all a sweet new Snackbox compilation. For you new folks the Snackbox is a collection of bands live recordings from Not a Side Show, it is and will be quite tasty.

If you'd like to hear a sweet 13 minute song from Nolens Volens and NJ Foster that is from the upcoming release please take a listen at Circus Browns Snackbox and let me know what you think.

Coming up tomorrow on Not a Side Show Furs will be playing live, yes this is like the 3rd time they've played the show, I love Furs! Connery and I couldn't decide which song from the first 2 recordings we wanted to use so we decided we'd take a listen to the new songs and make our decision.

Here's a nice toilet.

Circus

May 2, 2008

I'm a freaking comic book organism

Once again Dave Chisholm has created an amazing new ad for SLUG Magazine May issue. If you haven't heard Dave's band yet you really should check out Let's Become Actors, they've played on the show a few times and I've played their songs a bunch, so go now!

This fine artwork by Dave can be found in his ground breaking comic Let's Go to Utah it's the best comic book I've read since I was a Black Panter junkie in 1978.

Oh yeah I won't be on the air tomorrow Bill Frost and Robin Brown will be hosting my show, call them often and request stupid shit!

Why won't I be doing my show you ask? What a great question, here's the multiple choice answers:

A. Must Complete Grand Theft Auto IV before returning to work Monday.

B. Afraid someone is going to go Adam Sandler ala "Airheads" and take the radio station hostage and force KRCL to reinstate all the volunteer DJs.

C. Yearly trip to Wendover for discounted Crack, Back, and Sack Waxing.

D. Fishing, all fish must die! Err... well, or be let go to grow bigger and stronger, and more delicious.

Have a nice weekend, don't do anything stupid on Quatro De Mayo.

April 25, 2008

I love eating Pussy as long as it doesn't taste like Vagina

I really like fish, I like to catch'm and cook'm, and I also like to let them go and watch them. Often when I talk to someone about fishing or seafood I get an ear full of "I like to eat fish as long as it doesn't taste too fishy." Thats like saying "I like to eat steak as long as its not too beefy" or "I like candy, but not if its too sweet". Or even "I like porn as long as there's no penetration and its tastefully done", seriously folks just go to TGI Fridays.

So Anyways I only wanted to make this blog because of the awesome title I came up with while I was eating at Versailles in Encino, CA one day. The fine foods at Versailles is Cuban, and its delicious, and some of the dishes have an amazingly huge amount of garlic and onions in them. I actually heard a woman at the table next to me say "I really like that oniony-garlic flavor, unless it tastes too much like onions and garlic". I know I'm just as confuzzled as you are.

I've been trying my damnedest not to complain too much, or just be like everyone else on the intertubes and bitch, bitch, bitch, bitch, bitch, but today I almost was crippled, so I guess that gives me the right to get a little complaining off my back.

I stopped by the convenience megastore next to my office this morning for a little wakee-wakee-eggs-n-bacee of some sort to start my day with, plus I needed to gas up the ol' guzzler for my trip out to Sandy tonight to see Let's Become Actors play at Solid Ground. I was still half asleep, walking across the parking lot reaching in my pocket to see what kinda scratch I had one me, when my spidey senses went wild. I looked up and a Mazda was backing out at a breakneck speed right at me, no lookie, I was gunna die. I slammed my hands down on the trunk to push off and jump out of the way, I guess the guy heard me hit his car, he stopped and rolled down the window, with cell phone to his head he just said, "oh man sorry."

Didn't even take the phone away from his head, or tell the person on the phone he'd just hit a pedestrian and he'd call them back. I looked down at my hands, they were a little numb from hitting his car, but I knew I probably wasn't damaged for life, sure I could be like many others and freak out and sue the guy, I could have freaked out and got in a fight, I could have done a lot of things. Since it was really early, and I still wasn't awake I decided to just yell at the man.

"What the hell! Did you even look? You didn't look back did you? You almost killed me! You're on a fucking phone, what the fuck is wrong with you??!!??! LOOK AROUND FUCKING LOOK AROUND AND GET OFF YOUR PHONE!! FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCKING LOOOOOK!!!!!!!"

I walked into the store a few people were laughing at me, maybe I went overboard, maybe they were laughing because I scared the shit out of the guy. Now I'm thinking I should have gotten the dudes license number or insurance info, my hands a little funny feeling, I better take some medicine.

Tomorrow on Not a Side Show Terence from Purr Bats, The Wolfs, Red Bennies, KNVZ, and many many more bands will be coming down to KRCL for an all Vinyl night. I hope you'z enjoy the sweet pops and crackles.

cb

April 18, 2008

Snackbox Update


So I've had a lot of great press lately, yes I am giving away Authentic BBQ Pulled Circus Pork Sandwiches at Slowtrain tomorrow from noon till the meats gone, so come on by and support independent record shops that give you more then the latest Mariah single (Elvis isn't impressed bitch!).

City Weekly gave me an award for having the best on air performances, I guess I can count that as the best local music radio show, because who else out there can throw down 3 bands in one night on the radio? Yep, nobody by my boy Connery can tackle that.

Last night Connery and I really started cutting into the huge task at hand of making a new Snackbox. Last years album was all recordings right off of the KRCL CD burner thats recording the live feed. The only band from that album that was tracked out was Vile Blue Shades and Connery has really become a master of the KRCL room since then. Connery works up at KUED so we are able to use their sound room for this projects, I love hi-tech audio posts the sound was amazing!

We started trimming the fat, taking 9 Purr Bats songs down to just 2 was tough, and we have more then 20 bands to go through and I still have to throw one of those PB songs out. This isn't a little project that I'm going to be doing on my home computer, once we get a good mix we'll be taking this all down to Terrance D.H. at Counterpoint Studios for the mastering. Connery and I are really excited about this album, stay tuned, and please keep going to record stores and asking for it.

cb

April 1, 2008

Just another Circus

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Ok let me get this straight.

If Hillary is Rocky Balboa...

Then Bill would be Apollo Creed...

I don’t know what that makes Obama but Apollo dies... I’m gunna miss you Carl.



{insert archive footage}

February 28, 2008

Ling Ling you fucking slug

After a long night of drinking and listening to very nice music I like wind... is that like twisting a knob or the breeze? Who knows. With a nice dish of pot stickers. I'm convinced that pot stickers are just like taco bell/Cafe Sylvestra-Rio. You can make pot stickers all by yerself stuff them with pork, beef, chicken, tofu, or seafood its still going to taste the same because when a softcore porn appears on Skinamax it'll all be the same, a desirable outcome to an inconceivable position. Ever wondered how the fuck a girl can get off by fucking some dudes abs? Me too! Nice outie asshole! But honestly folks why are you even reading this shit? Peer pressure?

According to my records this was written on the 28th of February... I don't recall typing this up but hell I'll post it.

January 31, 2008

So, about the "Doom and Destruction" you've been hearing about

Not a Side Show will still be on KRCL 90.9 FM (90.5 FM in Logan and KRCL.org on the web) at 10pm on Saturdays.

There will be a little bit of change from 6 am to 6 pm, don't believe everything CW says if they wrote positive stories nobody would read them. Every little thing isn't going to be fine, but things will be ok, come on people a little bit of optimism won't kill you will it?

January 8, 2008

I didn't just realize this, I've always known...

I'm a jerk or asshole, whichever term you like better feel free to use it. When someone says something like "I like (insert band name here)" I don't have a safety, I will just blurt out "No shit, that band really sucks". When someone older then me, say a boss or manager at the job tries to get a conversation going with me with something like "Hey you still doing radio? Cool, yeah I love music, when I need to relax or feel moved I always bust out some Moody Blues, know what I mean?" Yeah I do, "Sure boss, but the only thing the Moody Blues moves is my bowels". You see folks I am a music snob, there's nothing I can do about it.

As I age daily, I try to stop these dickhead tendency's. I know when I mention something and people nod their heads and just let me keep on talking, inside they are saying "That band, wrestling, TV show, movie, restaurant, etc, sucks" but most people is just too nice to tell me what they think. But not me, I can't help but put down peoples taste in music, TV, movies, wrestling, restaurants, etc.

"Hey want us to pick you up some Cafe Rio?"
"Sure"
"Well what do you want from there?"
"Doesn't matter, it all tastes exactly the same"
"No it doesn't, what should we get you a taco, a salad, a taco salad?"
"Seriously it just doesn't matter its just like taco bell, lettuce, tomato, beans, rice, sour cream, throw in a meat and some sort of corn or flower shell... on second thought fuck that place, I'm going to taco bell."

I just can't help it, here I am almost tasting a free meal and I just can't seal the deal because I'm an asshole.

Why is that? Am I just a bad person deep down? Do I enjoy pooh-poohing others? I've cut back some, I try my best not to knock relijuns or politics, its gunna be hard this year since its an election year and I hate all the candidates and think that relijuns a scam. Glad I didn't have a resolution to not be an asshole this year.

Put yer gloves on, don't take all this personally I'm just going to throw a few jabs at anyone that says something.

Ok thats all I got for now.

Cookie Nipples
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January 7, 2008

Come visit my town I just got elected Mayor...

Of Schwaggville!!!! http://schwaggville.myminicity.com/

Its free to live here, the foods free, booze is free, and well everything is FREE!

January 4, 2008

Sit Ubu, Sit... Good Dog


So I've had my dog Chance for a good 10 years now, and his maintenance has been as much as I paid for him, free. Over the years I've always told Chance that if he ever gets sick or injured I'll just put him down and get a new free puppy. I kid with him often. Recently he got this lump on his neck, took him in to a vet that told me it was going to be close to $600 to get the Cyst lanced. But they gave me a syringe and said just drain it once in a while it might go away. It didn't and on Xmas he scratched it open, it was infected.

Having told him he'd get put down for getting sick as a joke, I finally had to invest some money into my dog, it hurt me just watching how uncomfortable he was. For a couple days I tended to his wound, it was festering and smelled like well aged cheese. I couldn't go back to the expensive vet, it was either do it myself or find someone else that I could afford.

It turns out my sister has a friend that works at a vet so I called her, they were going to be less then half of what the other vet quoted, so Monday morning, New Years Eve, I dropped him off to get surgery. They said he'd be a bit groggy when I picked him up that afternoon. My poor boy was so drugged up when I picked him up he fell over from wagging his tail hello at me. I had no idea how relieved and happy I'd be just from getting my best friend all fixed up.

Collette and I spent New Years Eve at my house playing with chance, laughing at his Frankensteinesque stitches, just watching my dog made me so damn happy. I always have kind of just had a dog, but never really realized just how much I love him, thinking about not having him around really bummed me out, plus he's an old man so I'm worried about losing him someday.

Last night I was filling in for Emily on Mixtape and decided about 30 minutes before the show that I'd do a show of nothing but dog songs. I looked it up on Google and sure there was sites listing dog songs, really lame dog songs or just Snoop Dogg songs. So I went through my library and came up with a good 2 hours of songs, here they are for all you dog lovers out there.

Band -- Song -- Album Year
Rush -- By-Tor and the Snow Dog --Fly By Night 1975
Led Zeppelin -- Black Dog -- IV 1971
Elf Power -- i wanna be your dog -- nothings going to happen 2002
Dead Kennedys -- Dog Bite -- In God We Trust Inc. 1982
Dag Nasty -- My Dog is a Cat -- 85 - 86 1991
Modest Mouse -- wild pack of family dogs -- the moon & antartica 2000
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion -- Chicken Dog -- Now I Got Worry 1996
David Bowie -- Diamond Dogs -- Changes 1990
Porno for Pyros -- dogs rule the night -- Good God's Urge 1996
The Dandy Warhols -- Best Friend -- Dandys Rule OK 1995
Deerhoof -- dog on the sidewalk -- Milkman 2004
Eagles of Death Metal -- Poor Doggie -- Death by Sexy 2005
The Flaming Lips -- slow Nerve action -- Transmissions from the Satellite Heart 1993
Modest Mouse -- Dog Paddle -- this is a long drive for someone with nothing to think about 1996
olivia tremor control -- i won this dog at the driftwood reunion carnival -- singles and beyond 1996
Masters of the Hemisphere -- the dog who controls peoples lungs -- I am not a Freemdoom 2000
Stephen Malkmus -- Jenny & the Ess-Dog -- Self Titled 2001
Dr. Dog -- ain't it strange -- we all belong 2007
Grandaddy -- Stray Dog and the Chocolate Shake -- Sumday 2003
Pavement -- Kennel District -- Crooked Rain Crooked Rain L.A.'s Desert Origins 2004
Tolchock Trio -- wolf eyes -- ghosts don't have bones 2005
Built to Spill -- still flat -- The Normal Years 1996
Pixies -- Havalina -- Bossanova 1990
Love and Rockets -- The Dog end of a day gone by -- Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven 1985
The Black Angels -- Bloodhounds on My Trail -- Passover 2006
Man Man -- Icedogs -- Six Demon Bag 2006
Fugazi -- Foreman's dog -- End Hits 1997
Priestess -- living like a dog -- hello master 2005

I know what yer saying, Havalina isn't a dog song its about pigs, but in some societies pigs are treated like dogs. Then there's the BtS song, well if you rip that album to your computer WMP says that Still Flat is composed by Dog Martsch. I had some great calls last night, people that were dog lovers or that were thanking me for taking them back to the 70's with some sweet sweet Rush. Thanks Emily for letting me be on the air before 10pm good times.

I love you Chance!

December 4, 2007

To all you Vegans and Animal Rights "People"

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November 15, 2007

Use copious amounts of copious

Wow its been more then a month since I done posted here, sorry, but I've been doing copious amounts of slacking. I've pretty much taken everything to a copious level since I noticed that copious is being used copiously. Fuck is that even a word... yes it is, hell I'm going to be busting it out copious all over town, look at me I'm all proud of my copious self. See now yer just being silly Circus.

Anyways tomorrow night Of Montreal is playing at In the Venue, I know, I know, it takes a copious time to get a drink there and I hate that place so copiously much. But last time I saw Of Montreal play they busted out a copious amount of music, so much that my ears did runeth over like a stream filled with copious amounts of fresh spring water. I was at Home Depot today getting some caulk, I loves me some fresh caulk, and I asked the guy how much I should use to fix the leak and the fucker told me to use copious amounts of caulk. I asked him how many milliliters were in a copious amount and the bastard didn't even know the metric system, come on depot hire some people with a semi-copious amount of brain tissue! Then after the Of Montreal show lets skip up over to Urban Lounge and check out Old Time Relijun, fuck yeah baby how much music we gunna hear tomorrow night?

You fucking got that right, copious. Copious baby, copious.

The amount of time it took me to write this was in no way copious, I'll just apologize for that right now, twice to make it copious, will that keep it copacetic?

September 12, 2007

Just move'm to the side.

What a good week!

August 29, 2007

Americans will be feeling the fallout of Guantanamo Bay for years to come

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As an American citizen I fear for the future, no its not terrorism I fear. I don't fear global warming, and I'm not afraid of seeing Peyton Manning in the Super bowl again this year. Right now my greatest fear is for what we are doing at Guantanamo Bay and how it will effect future generations, hell the fallout from this crisis could last into next century.

For those of you who might not know about Guantanamo Bay, its a Naval Base in Cuba that the Joint Task Force has been filling with suspected Taliban and al-Qaeda folks. These people are being held there some since 2002 without any chance of trial, some have no idea why they are even there. Many might just be enemies of the U.S.of A but then there might be so many that were just in the wrong place at the wrong time. These prisoners are staging protests by not eating, talking, sleeping, they've just become zombies and some are just waiting patiently to die.

Guantanamo Bay detention camp, or Gitmo as the douche bags in the media have coined it will be effecting you, me, our children, our children's children and so on and so forth. Where we will be feeling the pain the most is going to be at the movie theaters. For years to come the Academy Awards are going to be clogged with Gitmo after Gitmo after Gitmo stories. The American public will have to sit through 3 hour plus movies which probably will contain Morgan Freeman refusing to eat and just staring at the wall of his cell. 45 minutes of a tanned Dustin Hoffman rocking back and forth and crying on a picture of his wife and kids from behind a chain link fence. Sean Penn as a renegade ambulance chaser trying for 15 years to get one man, just one man out of prison that shouldn't have been there.

George Bush tear down this camp!

5 years of detention is enough and will have already destroyed our summer films for the next decade! I cannot sit idly by waiting for Julia Roberts to play the only female guard at Gitmo that falls in love with the miss-accused Kal Penn and in a fit of passion lets him out Free Willy-style into G-Bay. If Tom Cruise is cast in a Gitmo movie called 'The Last Pakistani' I will burn down Ming's Chinese Theater.

Ok now to calm me down how 'bout a nice spice dippin' dish, I <3 you Pho!

August 12, 2007

Cue Beach Boys music

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Hpnotiq and Dry Vermouth with a lil' Scotch floater.

Enjoy the last month of summer!