There you go kids, the new Circus Brown's Not a Side Show podcasting site is up!
Tonight on Not a Side Show Rock n Roll Academy will be the guest, this is young musicians playing original songs NOT COVERS!
8pm on http://krcl.org or 90.9 FM in The Utah.
Tonight you'll also hear a choice cut for my new compilation Circus Brown's Second Snackbox in stores June 2009.
I started podcasting some shows every month since June of 2008. You know its been a small thing, more of an after thought but over the last 2 months the shows have been downloaded almost constantly, and the podcasts just keep getting better thanks to Connery.
For fun I thought I'd let you see which podcasts were the favorites, and I'd like to note that the Aye Aye show only has the fewest downloads right now because it was just posted yesterday and its only barely behind Mikey. So here you go from highest number of downloads on down:
Musclehawk
Buckner & Garcia Interview
Kid Theodore
Laserfang
i<36335
The Deathless Pros
Mindstate
Novaburn
Trebuchet
Stereotype
Biggunbaby
Ropeorbullets
Palace of Buddies
Mike Brown Interview
Aye Aye
Guess this podcasting stuff is the wave of the future, or maybe the shows are getting better, basically since November the number of downloads have almost doubled each month. If this trend continues then we'll have over 400 downloads in February! Keep on enjoying this little slice of KRCL!
This Friday night on KRCL at 8 I will have a great Salt Lake band on that wowed me last year with their latest release Abalone Skeletone, they're called Tolchock Trio don't miss this show!
As you can see from the new SLUG ad pictured above, KRCL and Circus Brown have reached a mutual agreement to move me over to Friday's at 8pm. I'm really excited about this, so this upcoming weekend the 24th will be my last Saturday program, sadly I'll be retiring the Not a Side Show theme song that Gianni (He hosts Dirty Boulevard on KRCL 10:30 Thursday nights) wrote and performed for me. I fucking love that song! Its sad to see it go, maybe all you musicians out there should come up with a new theme song and submit it to me!
Along with the theme song I'm also retiring the name 'Not a Side Show'. When the show was on at 3 a.m. on Monday mornings it was a side show, it was just me and a couple listeners and I was trying my hardest to make a dent in the wee hours and live up to the show title. When I moved to 1 a.m. Friday mornings it was still me, a few more people and I was stirring up trouble making sure people knew this wasn't some silly Side Show. June of '05 was when I started on Saturday's, and I think with the help of a bunch of bands and some nice media outlets it really became Not a Side Show.
The format of my show isn't going to change, there will still be a live performance every Friday, and you'll still be hearing the music you've grown to love and enjoy on Not a Side Show. The show's just going to be earlier, better for you to pre-party with instead of fighting at the party about turning off some lame music and turning KRCL on. Connery and I are really excited to be on earlier in the evenings and on Friday which pretty much gives us our weekends back. More camping and travel time sounds good to me.
Coming up on the 24th of January, the last episode of Saturday's Not a Side Show, Trebuchet will be in studio playing live. They played back in the Spring of '07 and one of the songs from that recording ended up on the Death By Salt III compilation from SLUG Magazine. It made me so proud of those guys.
Also performing on the 24th I<36335 that's right folks, no more h8 for bee's just love!
Please tune in at 10 p.m. and enjoy the show. I've got CD's, Records, and DVD's I'll be giving away throughout the show! Then Join me on January 30th for my first episode on Friday Evening. Big Gun Baby will be live in the studio, and then on Friday February 6th Aye Aye will by my special guest. Also coming up in February Mindstate once again and hopefully I'll nail down a date with Tolchock Trio. Cross your fingers!
Thanks for listening, I hope the change to Friday's doesn't keep you from hearing some of the greatest local and international music on the terrestrial airwaves, the show's just going to get better!
I guess I'm really going to have to face it, I'm getting old. Last night Connery and I were working on the next Snackbox album, its going to be ready to take to the mastering studio on Monday! We worked up at KUED at the U and didn't get finished until really late around 1 in the morning. I took 4th south all the way to the 15 and just as I was passing Pioneer Park the red & blues came on in my mirror.
I knew exactly why I was being pulled over, my plates expired 2 weeks ago, I had taken care of the safety and emissions but still hadn't mailed in the money and paperwork. I pull over, and start going through my jockey to get the papers, I hadn't turned down my stereo or even put the car in park yet and the cop was right there at my window tapping on the glass. Whoops. Well I put it in park, turned off Wreckless Eric, and rolled down the window.
"Do you know why I pulled you over tonight?" He asked with a smile, damn a smile?
"Yeah, plates expired, here's my paperwork I just haven't mailed it in yet, sorry."
He took the papers, flipped through them, "Have you been pulled over for this before?"
"Nope, here let me give you my drivers license..."
He let out a little chuckle, handed the papers back, then patted me on the shoulder and said "Don't worry about that, have a nice night."
This whole thing took place in a little over a minute. I know because I looked at my clock it said 1:30 when the lights went on, I pulled away at 1:32. As I pulled away I clicked the radio back on, cranked up Wreckless Eric, and started laughing. I guess I'm no longer a rebellious young adult, I'm a harmless thirty-something, and in the wee hours of the night I'm not even worth a shakedown.
I called Connery up on the way home and told him about what just happened, we both laughed about it, hell if it'd been him I'm sure the police would have loved to harass the youngster. I know when I was 19 and got pulled over I was getting searched, so was the car, and I was possibly being accused of several possible crimes in the area. Maybe I just looked and smelled like trouble 16 years ago more then I do now. I think that cop was a pretty cool policeman, I like good cops, he knew there were much more important things to be doing in the Pioneer Park district, I'm really glad it took him just a few seconds to realize that.
Well enough chit-chat, lets PODCAST! This last week Novaburn came down to KRCL and jammed some sweet tunes. Their podcast is up now for your enjoyment. I also went back through my archives and busted out a couple shows that I really, REALLY liked from 2008, the first one is from June 21st, Palace of Buddies is the band really cool stuff.
The third free downloadable podcast is a very unique one, I had my first hip hop performance on Not a Side Show Mindstate blew up the airwaves back on July 12th. Get all these podcasts here or just search your iTunes podcast directory and ENJOY!
Coming up this weekend on January 17th Cavedoll will be playing live in the KRCL studios!
Damn.
What a way to end a year and start a new one. Hope everyone got through the Holiday's unscathed. Time to start losing weight, quit smoking, stop wearing diapers, or if you're like me time to swear off resolutions.
This last weekend I had a band stop by Not a Side Show for their second appearance, a different kinda band, Stereotype. This band consists of Vel, LJ, Ivan, and Josh, 3 Serbians and a Korean, very international. Funny interview and them playing live on the air, plus their new single "Olympic City" which was released in 2009 and debuted on NASS this weekend.
As always you can listen to the podcast all you want for free!!!
Coming up this weekend on NASS - NOVABURN
Ok, I'm going back searching for a new place to buy or rent or something.
The show just keeps on keepin' on, every new band leaves a new impression on the direction and diversity of the Utah music scene, that is to say I sawr it.
Last night The Deathless Pros kicked in the studio door and pasted the walls black and blue. They've got a show coming up in January on the 23rd and you don't want to miss it, I saw them at SLUG Localized earlier this month it was rocktastic.
If you missed last nights show you can click on the link for your area and to listen to or download the podcast of The Deathless Pros performance.
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Today I wanted to hear the first Lips song I'd ever heard. I decided to head over to the u-tube to get my fix, lucky for me they had a sweet live vid of the song. I'd also like to mention I didn't really like this song the first time around, now its one of my favorite songs ever. Top twenty material here, bah, scratch that I won't put a number on it, I like it ok?
Well today I couldn't decide what Flaming Lips song to write about or listen to so I picked up a bootleg, yes Warner Bros. I have a bootleg (or five) of theirs. The show was from the Fox Theater in Boulder, Colorado from March 19th of the year 2000.
My buddy Jordan came out to Colorado for a week and did a bunch of skiing and we went out and saw the Lips one night. The Fox is just a small place, a little bigger and better then the Zephyr that used to be the gem of SLC.
Looper was the opening act, they were way better live then recorded, I threw their album I bought at the show away shortly after listening to it. After Looper played we were standing around having a beer and Wayne Coyne was walking through the crowd, he looked at Jordan and I and said "Hey, thanks for coming out tonight, great to see you". That little sentence made my heart pound and put the biggest smile on my face. Nice guy, he walked away, we both just stood there smiling, the show kicked ass.
I need to see the Lips again.
Tonight on NASS - The Deathless Pros
Just a half hour till blast off!
When I woke up today I looked out my bedroom window, which was almost impossible to do since it was coated with snow. Nearly a foot of the white stuff fell overnight, not bad, it makes me want to make hot eggnog drinks all day and watch Bogart movies in the lounge.
As I peered out at the winter wonderland a song popped into my head. Yep, another Lips song. The first time I ever heard this song was back in '93, I'd bought Oh My Gawd!!! and copied it to tape so we could listen to it in Jayson's bus. We were driving from Big Cottonwood Canyon to Sugarhouse and we picked up a couple that were hitchhiking. That song came on as they got in the bus, we cranked it up and started laughing and acting strange to freak out the passengers. They weren't even phased by us and just busted out a bowl, can't remember their names, good kids, good kids.
The next 5 weeks are going to be good ones on the old Not A Side Show, Connery and I are booked solid with local bands:
December 27th: The Deathless Pros
January 3rd: Stereotype
January 10th: Tolchock Trio
January 17th: Cavedoll
January 24th: I<36335
January 31st: Big Gun Baby
Damn, last time I had shows planned this far into the future most of them canceled or just forgot to show up, I'm going to twitter all of them daily so they don't forget.
This month I've had more downloads of my podcasts then any other month. So far 85 different people have downloaded episodes of Not A Side Show, I'd like to break 100! So if you haven't checked out any of the shows, DO IT! I'll sweeten the pot, if you help me break the century mark I'll post 2 more casts before the end of the year!
Hey Happy Xmas and all that everyone. I woke up this morning with a Flaming Lips song in my head. So I got outta bed, found The Soft Bulletin and gave it a listen. The song that was playing in my dream was The Gash, I hadn't listened to this song in a long time. I had to look up the lyrics because I knew there was a reason I had this playing in my dreams. Powerful song.
I remember the first time I saw them perform this song live. I was living in my boss's really nice 36 foot RV in Golden, Colorado August of 1999. My friend Weng went to the show with me, I'd heard that there was going to be some sort of music experiment going on at this show. When we arrived at the Ogden Theater in Denver we bought tickets then gave our ID's to a security guy who gave us a portable walkman radio with headphones. You were supposed to tune to 89.1 on the radio and listen to the show broadcast live in stereo. It was really cool, with or without the headphones, this was the first time I'd seen them without a live drummer, all the drum tracks were recorded, still cool show.
Earlier that year I'd traded some tapes of live shows from Salt Lake for an advanced copy of The Soft Bulletin, I received it a month or more before the release, and I hated the album on first listen. The night of the show, with all the visual effects I fell in love with the album. Suddenly everything had changed. I didn't buy the actual album till just a couple years ago when I'd finally worn the burnt disc out.
Check out the lyrics and watch some vids of the Lips, it always puts me in a great mood. Be safe out there this Holiday season kids!
This Saturday night on Not a Side Show I'll have The Deathless Pros playing live for your enjoyment so tune in at 10pm to 90.9 FM in Utah or krcl.org
Still the last volunteer battles on
Battles on
Battles on
Saturday night Connery and I were visited by a very special holiday bird, Muscle Hawk.
Another great show with plenty of new music plus some Queen, Cars, Dr. Hook, Randy Newman, Wire, you know all the classics needed to keep a cold winter night cozy.
New podcast is up for your enjoyment, and you can also check out Muscle Hawk live next year a few dates are listed on their myspace.
I worked late into the night cutting, muting, pasting, burning, drinking, laughing, crying, and posting these new podcasts just for you fine folks.
First cast is from this last weekend when Rope or Bullets came down and played some songs on Not a Side Show, they've got a killer new album out called the turns, you should get it!
Second cast is from a few weeks back when Mike Brown, author of Leviathan 'Zine and writer for SLUG Magazine came down and talked with me about all sorts of fun stuff.
You can download these puppies and put them on yer ipoods to listen to while yer on trax or the frontrunner.
Here's where you can get'm: Circus Brown Podcast Central
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!
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.
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.
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!
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.
Remember you can download some potcasts of Not a Side Show http://www.switchpod.com/users/circus/feed.xml
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
"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/
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
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
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?
Where the hell is my stimulus check?
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!
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
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
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!
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.
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.
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!
(googled images not actually from said eatery)
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
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.
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
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
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}
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.
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?
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
Of Schwaggville!!!! http://schwaggville.myminicity.com/
Its free to live here, the foods free, booze is free, and well everything is FREE!
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!
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?
What a good week!
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!
Hpnotiq and Dry Vermouth with a lil' Scotch floater.
Enjoy the last month of summer!
Hi I'm Circus "Hambone" Brown, mini-bottle fiend and close friend of woodland creatures.
When I'm not elbow deep in synthetic plaster powders and up to my armpits in silicone grease I enjoy fishing and fucking rock and roll. Bar-Beefucking-Q is my specialty and if you get too close to the flames I won't hesitate to put some grill marks on yer worn out catchers mitt. What puts the huss in my get-up-n-go? Well it ain't sparklers sugar-dumplin'! Carbon-Fiber maybe strong and oh so light weight but it ain't got nothing on these ironsides! If you can't shuck-it or spray it down with WD-40 then why the fuck did you mass produce it China? Euro's sound so eloquent but there's just as much coke on them bills as there is in the till at yer local Sev-Lev. If you can't get breakfast anytime of the day then tell them chickens to pinch their cheeks till dawn. I saw Mr. Clean tossing salad behind the Harrah's but it was all right because we all agree with Toby Keith, we <3 this fucking bar and grill. Utah Fuck-Yeah! I'm almost home, put out the candles, make sure there's no shot glasses in the disposal and remember if it sounds like shit sober then I don't give a fuck how good it sounds fucked up.
Don't give me that Natty-lite, Rocky says its the shittiest bottled water you can buy.
As you can see by this photo comparison, there should be no reason for Paparazzi to bother me. I'd like to stop hearing people compare me to him or ask me to say lines from movies. Hopefully Seth will go Farley and then I can go back to living my quiet little life.
This is a wee bit late but so important go now and check out The Future of The Ghost I'm still in shock from how well they got awesome on my show a couple weeks back. You can see them play live on August 3rd at Urban Lounge (a private club for blah-blahs).
Now its time to shake yer baby maker! This is Plastic Little
Well then you haven't lived MAAAAAN!
Ever eaten a steak at TGI Fridays? Well that my friend, in a nutshell, is the cuisine of Northern Carolina.
If you were wishing for me to post some cool pics from Carolina don't hold yer breath, about the only thing I was going to take a picture of was the state bird, the Swallowtailed Barn Moth. Its a great state I'm sure, I just need to be goin' back to Utah A-SAP!
If you want good BBQ come to my kitchen, because kids its meat snake time!
What too many !'s?
So yesterday I asked some people where I should go to get some good BBQ here in Durham-Raleigh-Chapel Hill (see I told you I'd learn) and they replied "Chili's".
FUUUUUUUUUACK!
Chili's? Chili's? Fucking Chili's?!!!!!!
If I wasn't in such a good mood I'd a strangled them all with my mouse cord. You see I'm a lot like Rachael Ray, if you say "Chili's" around me I go jugular like there's Tito's coursing through yer arteries. Chili's? In Northern Fucking Carolina? I drove for 45 minutes today, down back country roads, in the rain, windows down smelling and smelling trying to find a place for some ribs. No luck, tomorrow I'm going to Angus Barn just because I've lost all hope for ever finding good BBQ in North Carolina and I might as well just have a big steak.
You see if we don't kill them cattle theyz gunna die.
I found a few places that had "Grill" in their name, but they were too clean, you could see through the windows, the chairs all matched, well lite, seriously it's like I flew across the country to drive around Draper. Hell I'da eaten at any place in Moab over the concrete mall food courts I drove past these last few days.
Well enough of my bitchin' I'm in too fine of a mood to complain, look here's gus in a sink, that'll make ya smile.
So here I am in Raleigh-Durham triangle area, North Carolina, I still don't know what the third city is that makes it the trifecta but I'm sure by Thursday I'll know. As I woke up when the plane landed I caught a great end to a conversation:
"So what do you do for a living?"
"I make socks, its really fun and I make a really good living at it, put two kids through college"
Note to self, socks are salvation.
Having not eaten since Kahli's rum party I needed me some grub and since the old man sitting next to me gave me a sweet tip (that there's BBQ pork in this here state) I decided to start my Quest for Pork. The hostess at my hotel happened to be a vegetarian, yeah I know what are the odds that everyone I meet is one, but she told me there was a place people really like about 20 miles away. I gots nothin to do today so I decided to trek it out there to Smithfield's Chicken N Bar-B-Q.
I was a little turned off by the place, it was so clean and had a drive thru, but I didn't let that stop me. SC's had a nice simple menu, chicken white or dark, BBQ pork, hush puppies, coleslaw, mashed taters, and sweet tea by the gallon. Of course I fucked up right off the bat and asked the server what was good there, all I got for an answer was a wide-eyed stare. Ok, BBQ platter it is.
The slaw was good, the taters were great and the hush puppies were like little delicious fried dough sausages. Why is the safest place on skull island the river? Shouldn't there be some huge dino-pikes in there or something? Come on every single cave, log, cliff, or crevice on that forbidden island is full of human-craving monsters but not the river? What I love the most about eating pork at restaurants is the moment it hits my tongue and I know I've won again. This was good stuff, but it wasn't smoked, hell it wasn't even grilled, most likely baked or crock-potted but good. I know when I make a big ol' hunk of pork its gotta be smoked for at least 8 hours which not everyone does, specially people with a drive thru. So one place down and 3 days to go, if I can squeeze in 3 pork meals a day it'll still be a drop in the bucket for my quest for more knowledge on that delicious swine, and a few steps closer to a big fat coffin.
I'd like to thank Eagle Twin for playin on my show this weekend, they really kicked some ass and if you have a chance check them out this Wednesday the 11th at Burt's.
Well I'm off I just heard there's a desert BBQ shop down by the Ace and I needs me some ice cream since they've never heard of Otter Pops here.
If you say "the dude from Knocked Up" then the next thing you say better be "so could I like, umm blow you?"
I keep hearing that a hell of a lot lately. At the grocery store, at work, bars, movies, lunch, dinner, opium den, I even have people call me that I haven't talked to in years call laughing telling me I need to go see Knocked Up.
Stop it already, I'm way hotter then that guy.
So this week on Not a Side Show we'll have The VCRQuintet and 1h86335 on the show, get ready for some Cyber Punk! Also this week a new episode of Urban Fishing with Circus Brown featuring stupid things heard while fishing with Circus... or something like that.
Who wants to come play on the 23rd?
cb
So last night I had a dream that Mikhail Gorbachev came fishing with me and I got some sweet pictures of us hanging out drinking beer while fishing up at Huntington Res. It just kinda creeps me out, a dead Russian President wanting to chill with me and catch some trout, weird. Wait... he's not dead? Yer kidding me? I thought that map of the Philippines on his head got the C and he was gone. WOW! Gorby, give me a call man lets go fishing!
Anyways I just wanted to thank Rion Buhler and Black Eyed Susan for playing on Not a Side Show on Saturday. Also Josh Bradford from Simple Shelter, Stayte, and The Revolting Cocks came in and played thanks for taking time out of your vacation time to do the show.
Coming up this weekend on the show Glacial will be playing around 10p.m. and I'm going to take a victory lap for my big win in last weeks Pride-Off.
Come down to the Farmers Market at Pioneer Park this Saturday and get some fresh produce, also if you come by the KRCL booth between 10pm and Noon you can maybe win a Snackbox CD if you can correctly answer American History questions.
Good Luck. I miss you Chance.
Holy shit Gorby is on CNN right now, if he grew a mustache he'd look like my uncle Hal... maybe it was Hal I was fishing with.
C-nassty
Wellity, wellity, well, well, well... How you folks doing? I just spent the morning BBQin' for the office, its nice to get paid to do something like that. A few months ago I received an email from Shon from 24tix.com (24tix sells tickets for almost all the concerts in Utah) asking me if I'd like to contribute to their blog they were starting that would be part of the new look for 24tix.com. Since I love volunteering I busted out with a blog for them, they posted it today, so get over there and read it and write your own if you'd like, who knows you might get some free tickets.
cirky
But I am a big attention whore, thanks City Weekly!
Tomorrow night you're going to be soaked in some sweet music. Band of Annuals is going to be playing live on my show around 10pm on 90.9 FM KRCL. Its going to be a nice evening, so when you get back from the Live Green show sprawl out on the lawn and enjoy the show with you're favorite beverage.
.4 is so awesome
Stop it trib and dez I own it
Imagine if you will that your friend has a great idea for a new drink. Now imagine that this drink consists of a 3 oz. glass of Bacardi O(h), sounds semi-okay so far right? Now imagine part 2 of this drink is a Popsicle stuck in it. Now imagine that the conveyance of getting this booze into ones system is by way of licking it off the Popsicle.
My friends I give you the Cocksicle, a non-manly drink that should only be enjoyed by groupies in Warrant videos.
Friends don't let friends drink Cocksicle... unless they are hot, young, and shooting a music video.
I finally did some work today, the Circus Browns Snackbox myspace page is up!
Come be my friend, this week I'll have songs from the first album up and in a couple weeks I think I might start leaking some of the songs that will be on the second album. Yeah, don't worry, everything is going to be alright.
Circus Brown's Snackbox is oh so close to being finished, just need to pick the discs up tomorrow, what do you think? BBQ coloring party tomorrow.
"I just got a new smoker, Char-Broil horizontal with a nice big firebox and a digital remote thermometer that kicks so much ass I can just sit in the lounge and know how hot the internal temp on my meat is."
Really? That's great. Have you ever deep fried a turkey?
"What the fuck does that have to do with my new smoker? Its a freakin' smoker, not a deep fryer, its a smoker. So in answer to yer question no I haven't ever fried a turkey."
Well how long does it take you to smoke a turkey?
"Somewhere around 10 to 12 hours. Hell I maybe smoke one a year if that"
Jeez, 12 hours? You can fry a turkey up in an hour. That's how long it takes my uncle/brother/lover/father/friend/cousin to do one.
"I can smoke a turkey in 2 hours and put it in the oven for a few more hours to finish it off if yer in such a fucking hurry you need a fucking turkey cooked NOW! Actually if you're going to cook a turkey you know days, weeks, or sometimes even months in advance that you're going to need to cook a turkey. So what I do is smoke one over 12 or so hours and they're damn delicious."
Still that's 11 hours more then a deep fryer, and the fried birds are delicious and also are good for you.
"Do you underfuckingstand you are comparing sticking a bird in hot oil to slow-smoke-sweet-BBQing a bird up?"
12 hours is a long fucking time Circus.
"Even if you fried the fucker for 6 hours it still wouldn't have the smoky goodness that my birds are swimming in. How can you compare the 2 ways of cooking? Why is it that every time I say I have a smoker, someone has to pipe in with their 'ever fucking fried a fucking turkey in fucking oil?'"
Well I don't have the kind of time you have Circus.
"It has nothing to do with time, but it has everything to do with you being a self righteous prick brining up turbo cooking, who the fuck are you Ron Popeil? Ok, listen, now if I were to have said 'I just bought a new Volkswagen Jetta' then would you have said, 'have you ever bought a Porsche 911 they go like 10 times faster'. Are you just showing that you can add a little bit more CO2 to the air I'm breathing? I smoke because I like the tender deliciousness that the smoker Gods provide. I don't own a turkey fryer for the same reason I don't wear a mesh-back baseball cap everyday and cut the sleeves off my t-shirts, I'm just not that white of trash. What's the most common news report in November and December every year? Yep another trailer park or HUD home has gone up in smoke due to a turkey fryer being knocked over or filled all the way to the top before a bird is put in to the hot bath. Don't come to my BBQ and start talking about frying okay? That's great that yer Uncle Buck has a fryer, I'm happy for the fat bastard, but you know what else is fried? Donuts, fries, corn dogs, and I could go on and on about all this shit that's getting fried, but apparently the only good use for a fryer is turkey. When was the last time you fried a ham? What about a sweet fried brisket? Fried Salmon? See I didn't think so, my smoker can smoke the hell out of anything, so go home to yer fryer and stick a rack of ribs in it for 5 seconds then come back to my BBQ and tell me that frying is the end-all be-all of fucking cooking."
- I've had the previous conversation weekly since I started smoking in 1999
Before I forget here's some pics of Trebuchet they really really rocked the Side Show last weekend.
And also before I forget, The Heaters played my show 2 weeks ago here's some fine pics of these young lads.
Don't forget folks, its radiothon time, I've got Radiothongs and my new CD Circus Browns Snackbox to give away this Saturday 10pm to 1am on KRCL 90.9 FM krcl.org
SWEDEN.
Now I'm not one to judge a book by its cover, but for the love of non-shitty music Sweden build that wall back up. I know, I know, Sweden never had a wall, but it should. We need to protect our young impressionable teens from the grasp of Hans, just look at him parents, he's trying to grab yer child's soul and devour it to recharge his hate cells.
It just busts me up, The Country Club Theater in Ogden has tons of black shirt bands coming through town playing their venue and SCAR SYMMETRY from Sweden is one of them. I bet they can conjure up some sweet growling dirges.
That's all I have for now, the Halo Benders are playing in Boise this weekend, I'll be there, so should you.
Today I was wallowing in my own crapulence when I decided to google myself for the fuck of it and it turns out that people in France are reading this?? Really? France?
I don't know why but here is the linky
Anyone know what this means?
Did I play so much Steven Seagal that the French now love me? Is this even France or somewhere's else? HELP!
I will smoke a whole pig.
cb
I had a great weekend and didn't even drink any green beer, but after drinkin Jager from 3a.m. till the Sun came up yesterday morning every fluid that comes out of my body is really dark green, almost black. Yes that too, dark green, and that too, everything, EVERYTHING I tells you!!!
So what was the reason for my weekend being so splendid? Glad you asked! First thing I started Friday night off with was a nice nap, new bed calls me sometimes and makes me leave work for sleep. Then I went with Mindy to see her sisters art on display at the art gallery stroll at a new bookstore right next door to Kayo called Red Light Books. Its a pretty damn cool store if you are ever down on 3rd south, maybe checking out music at Slowtrain you should stop in to to see the amazing books you won't find at Deseret Books. My new girlfriend works at Red Light Books, she's so HAWT!
After a nice time downtown I headed up to Ponytown to see Trebuchet play at the Boing House. If you haven't ever heard of the Boing Collective you should read their myspace page they're some of the nicest people in Utah. Trebuchet was so amazing and they might be playing on my show April 7th if we're lucky.
That was pretty much it, I met R2-DStu for a beer then called it a night. I know its pretty fucked up that a dude with a sweet 'stache didn't end up with some hot MILF or in some crazy threesome or in jail, hey I can't do that shit every night, I gots to have atleast one night a week to myself.
So Saturday was a good day as well, even though it was fucking Pats day I managed to make it through the day without getting wasted and passed out by 6. Actually it was really productive, I met Matt Mateus down at KRCL to work on finishing my CD that'll be out in just 2 weeks! Its called Circus Brown's Snackbox, and yes I know I spelled Snackbox wrong, shit I got a mustache, do you think spellerin or punkchewation mean anything to me?
So that night on the show a fine band from Magna, Drop Dead Julio, stopped in and played some tracks off their new album Lack of Direction coming out of March 30th.
After DDJ left, my new favorite band from Denver came by the station, no not The Apples in Stereo, fiancé. They played Kilby that night and were on Park City TV today. Really good band, nice people and hopefully they'll be back in Utah in June and will be playing on my show mid-month.
So fiancé took off and Sara showed up to do her show Aural Linguistics, which really kicked some ass, she played the happiest set list ever and the best hip hop I've heard, then we started drinking the devil's licorice juice around 3 in my basement lounge with Jesse and Carrie and I woke up puking dark green sludge and somehow now I'm in Huntington Beach, and my siren-headed woman is so very far away. How's that for ending a boring story fast? Well thats the update for the day, maybe the week.
Don't forget to tune in on Saturday my guest band of the week is The Heaters they're playin live and I'm pretty excited about it, the last song of theirs I heard was on Portia's show on X96 and it kicked some mustache. Speaking of 'stache, keep'm growin' Utah, keep them growin'!
You can tell me how sweet the 'stache is by emailing me
circus@circusbrown.com
The Hold Steady
I gots one of their cd's called boys and girls in america and holy shit does it just blow the dead! I've tried and tried to give it a chance since R2-Dstu gave me the CD, he does have pretty damn good taste in music and all.
I can't decide if these guys are trying to be Bruce Springstein or Billy Joel, but who cares they really are quite lame and websites like pitchforkmedia.com that picked them as one of the best bands or albums of last year were payola'd off.
On another plane of thinkering, St. Pat is about as real as Santa, the Tooth Fairy, Easter Bunny, or that Bush CGI faggot Osama Benlayton. Thats why I'd like to invite you to join me in Utah-fucking St. Patty's day.
How do you Utah-fuck a holiday? Why thats easy Billy, you celebrate it on the wrong day. Usually if a holiday, like Halloween falls on a weekday you fuck it to Friday, Saturday, and Even Sunday. So this year with St. Green day landing on a Saturday I guess I'll just have to celemabrate it on Thursday, so Join me this March 15th, at my basement lounge, all you have to bring is some green food coloring.
Oh yeah and listen to KRCL 90.9 FM this Saturday night I'm going to be playing non-Irish drinking songs, why? Cuz everyone hates Irish music as much as I hate the Hold Steady.
cb
And this spring radiothon is going to be like no other I've ever done before, and this ones going to come with some pretty damn sweet shit. Like the new Not a Side Show Radiothongs!
And I thought this was pretty important.
Click to make beautiful
Stuffy's Piehole is going to be opening soon! Also Circus Brown's Snackbox is just 2 weeks from being finished. Are you bloggin' this shit?
Being second best never felt so good.
Cyanide & Happiness @ Explosm.net
I hope you enjoyed the show last night featuring The Wolfs coming up next week on Not a Side Show The Rubes
10pm, you better represent bitches
circus
Still no web connection at my home, but someday, maybe someday soon I'll get that there web goin'.
So yesterday was a pretty damn good day even if it was V-Day. I have to give thanks to all my fine friends and listeners for voting for me in the SLAMMYs, I took 2nd place, which is pretty damn sweet for not even advertising on the air about it. Check out the new City Weekly they mention all sorts of great bands in their articles and also my favorite CD shop Slowtrain.
I really needed this, I needed to be sure that all of you out there liked me more then that douche Bob Lonsberry.
/tearsofjoy
Thanks everyone!
circus
Don't you wish that 8:30 every morning was this exciting?
So its the end to anther year, and I've made my picks. This year Slowtrain, a great music shop located on 221 E. 300 S. in Salt Lake City, asked me to write up a brief review of my favorite albums for a magazine they were putting out. So here it is, my picks of 2006, enjoy! And tune into Not a Side Show tonight at 10 pm to hear my favorite band Elbo Finn!
7. The Flaming Lips – The Fearless Freaks 20 Years of Weird 1986 - 2006
I suffer from the same disease that so many Lips fans have, I want the new album to be like the last one. So when At War With The Mystics was released this year I was excited, then slightly disappointed, then I realized I’m not going to fall in love with this album until I see it performed live, you just can’t beat The Flaming Lips in concert. The Fearless Freaks is a re-cut edition of the album handed out at South by Southwest this year as a sort of soundtrack to the Lips Fearless Freaks rockumentary. TFF features some new studio tracks like Enthusiasm for Life Defeats Existential Fear and the Prince-esque Free Radicals and live songs new and old, original and covers. Hearing this album takes me back to 1994 when I saw my first Lips concert, the acid screaming guitars, the happiest lyrics ever written, Christmas lights, bubble machines and a Flock of Seagulls cover, yeah it was just that good.
6. Slug Magazine’s Death By Salt 2: Salt The Earth
If Salt Lake City ever experiences a mainstream musical boom like Seattle or Austin has we all know the record industry would fuck up and sign Metal Gods as their SLC poster child. Simply amazing SLC bands like Red Bennies, Vile Blue Shades, and Fifi Murmur would be overlooked and once again Ska music and Provo would reign down upon us. I don’t know about you but that’s not a world I want to live in! Thankfully, Slug Magazine has showcased 42 non-Ska or cover bands from Utah and each band has their own slick trading cards, how cool is that? With more bands then can be mentioned in this small article, Death By Salt 2 gives you everything from Hip Hop to Hard Rock and plenty more then you can imagine, it’ll make the perfect gift for people who prefer not to be disappointed.
5. Califone – Roots & Crowns
The first time I’d ever heard of Califone was when they collaborated with Isaac Brock to form Ugly Casanova, ever since I haven’t missed a release. If you like good fall music, 12 string guitars, washboard warm drums, a few horns, and a little bit of fiddle you’ll love Califone. This is the ninth album release by Califone and if it would have been released in the middle of July it probably wouldn’t have sounded as warm as it did in October. Roots & Crowns is the perfect driving music for the Swell or any road that cuts through the sage.
4. Islands – Return to the Sea
After Nick Diamonds The Unicorns disbanded I feared that the sweeter then sugar music I loved so much would soon become extinct, much like that glorious horned palomino. Much to my surprise Nick and Jamie rose from the ashes of The Unicorns and with the inspiration of Paul Simon’s Graceland formed Islands and put out Return to the Sea ten pop tracks with hints of hip-hop, calypso, country, and sugar, lots and lots of sugar.
3. The Mars Volta – Amputechture
Is it just me, or do people hate The Mars Volta because they’re described as “Progressive”? Another album devoid of short songs, and heavily influenced by Latin, jazz, and punk music with some special guitar “noodling” provided by John Frusciante. Amputechture in a nutshell, is about the deterioration of society by religion. If you really want to get the feel of this album, turn off all the lights, crank it up to 11, lie down, and let the guitars melt you into the floor.
2 Beck – The Information
Recently my father and I were listening to The Information and about halfway through “Think I’m In Love” he turned to me and said, “I swear I’ve heard this song before, isn’t this song by that band that used to open up for Dr. Hook?” We searched the web, and looked through his record collection and we couldn’t find this phantom band. So there you have it folks, you want to know why Beck kicks so much ass? He’s got a time machine and is traveling back in time, killing off one-hit wonders and assimilating their hits into his new albums. I can’t complain, Beck keeps putting out albums and each one is better then the last, but take heed Beck, HANDS OFF HALL & OATES!
1. Pavement – Wowee Zowee Sordid Sentinels Edition
Originally released in April of 1995, Wowee Zowee was 18 tracks that covered almost every style of music. I was given WZ by a Deadhead friend of mine and as soon as his back was turned I threw it away, how could some hippy have any idea what kind of music I liked? Well I was wrong, 5 years later I bought WZ and after listening to the album a few dozen times I started to think that Pavement might be the best band of the 90’s. Then I read an interview with Stephen Malkmus about WZ, apparently this album was supposed to be listened to on random. As soon as I had a chance, I put it in my stereo, hit random and was convinced, Pavement was he best band of the 90’s. The Sordid Sentinels Edition is 2 discs, 50 tracks, several unreleased songs, and some amazing live tracks. Please enjoy the happy-go-luckiness of this album and keep your fingers crossed hoping for a Pavement reunion in 2007.
Did you know the cashew is a cousin to the mango? Both fruit and nut, something all cereals yearn for. Yet, both of these delicious items are too powerful for cereal and are left in limbo known as trail mix. Someday they'll get the combination just right and my dream will come true.
Damnit I need some gravy, a really good gravy. Thin and brown with little bits of meat, maybe the liver and heart from a mighty bird. Maybe a bird that grew up in a mango and cashew orchard.
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stem cells
i'm stocking up so's I can live forever
I'm starting to have a serious problem with my fantasies. You see, I'll be dreamin' away some sweet ass fantasy then I get to a point and realize I need something, like lets say a towel. So then I have to go back to the beginning of my fantasy, and somehow work in remembering to grab a towel, or say condoms, or holy shit, I'll need a drink after I do that. So anyways Abby, honey, its totally fucking with my head. If I have a really good day dream going then all the sudden I wonder, shit, how did I get to this elevated state? Ok, time for a dream-prequel. FUCK! Ok, so this is how I got to this Romanesque celebration, oh shit, I forgot to bring a towel. No shit they're making cheesecake bites at Sonic and they come with strawberry dipping sauce, damn I'm going to need a towel. Seriously I like the way this sentamagraph is shaping up, from here on out, fuck the punctuation and spelling. Really next thing we're going to need is a chocolate cake bite with a German chocolate coconuttylicious dipping sauce, yeah baby I'll feed these to ya yer the only one for me yeah you like that want some more dipping sauce FUCK now I need a towel. How the hell did we get in this Corvette anyways? Oh yeah thats right the lottery. But if I won the lottery and I bought the ticket in California then how the hell did I even hear about the numbers winning? If I called the lottery commissioner and told him I won then would I be the target of a hit man on my flight back to Cali? How come all these people are cheering for me when I get off the plane? So they bought tickets just to get through security and cheer a lotto winner? They want my money don't they, wait I got all this sweet sweet lotto money so why was I even feeding that skank in my new corvette? Oh yeah, I totally got her some plastic surgery, wait wouldn't she be in bandages still this soon after me winning? Bandages? Bandages? Oh yeah thats hot, now I need to go back and get me a towel. You'd think if I won the lotto I'd totally have a hot towel dispenser right? So what would her name be? Maybe someone I know? Not her she'd be the lamest towel dispenser. Just how many Harry Potter movies have I missed? You call that a wand? Damn I hate having a room right next to the elevator, wait Abby I own this hotel now so I'm knocking off the top floors and turning it into a bungalow, oh for fucks sake just cuz this place has a decent bar I'm not going to buy it and level it, well maybe I will cuz damnit honey these towels aint hot enough! Bad dispenser, BAD BAD BAD Towel Dispenser!
Thanks for listening Abby, I'll hang up and listen fer yer response,
Fantastically-Challenged on Bristol
Turned 33 yesterday. I think I drank one of everything and would have drank more if we would have had some powdered sugar... damn... and no hangover!
Hey whatcha doin tonight?
Wow, sounds great, but it also sounds like yer gunna need some music to go along with that bottle of blues. So tune into KRCL 90.9 FM or KRCL.org at 10:30 PM tonight and listen to the Punky Meadows show. I'll be the substitute host for the night, and also some Slippery Kittens will be showing up, its gunna be grand!
cb
Well tonight was a freakin blast, After the Party stopped by the station, and so did a few of the lovely ladies from the Slippery Kittens both of those friends can be found on my top 8, check them out... RIGHT NOW!
So anyways it was a beautiful show, thank you DJ Frosty for lettin' me mess up the show, it started out really hard, but you know me, by the end of the show it was totally soft cock. Here's the set list:
Pixies - The Sad Punk
Operation Ivy - Gunna Find You
Dag Nasty - I've Heard
The Misfits - Last Caress
Fugazi - Epic Problem
Teen Angels - Rawhead
The Moist Boys - Second Hand Smoker
Orange 9mm - Toilet
Mudhoney - I'm Spun
Modest Mouse - Shit Luck
Blues Explosion - Help These Blues
Spork - Sex Panther
Stanford Prison Experiment - Nails that stick up get hammered down
Elf Power - You Make Me Die
The Dead Milkmen - Chaos Theory
Girls Against Boys - Cash Machine
The Riverdales - Metal Retard
Black Flag - TV Party
The Wolfs - finding my way home
Pavement - Baptist Blacktick
Queens of the Stone Age - Someone's in the Wolf
Death From Above - Dead Womb
Blackhole - No Entiendo
Sonic Youth - Doctors Orders
Ministry - Cannibal Song
Liars - We Live NE of Compton
Les Savy Fav - Meet me in the Dollar Bin
Red Bennies - Shake it off
Vile Blue Shades - Under watchful Eye
Beulah - I <3 John, She <3's Paul
Missing Person - Destination Unknown
The Tubes - White Punks on Dope
Buffalo Daughter - Silver Turkey
New York Dolls - Who are the Mystery Girls?
Hall and Oates - Rich Girl
Yeah that fucker really went downhill. But take a look at who called me tonight!
Well I didn't win the chili con carnival but I did get a kick ass flyer made by Mikey
He also made me this simply amazing ad for Decembers issue of SLUG
If you missed the sneak preview of next months ad, well yer gunna hafta wait till the new issue of SLUG is out, sorry. In the meantime check out the set list from tonight Not a Side Show it was a doooozeeeee.
First off damn, I'm sorry I haven't kept up on my shit, there is no excuse. I think I've been on the road for 4 of the last 5 weeks, S.F., L.V. L.A. and the O.C.
I'd like to thank the kick ass bands that have stopped by and brightened up Not A Side Show:
Blackhole
Medicine Circus
Uzi and Ari
After the Party
The High Beams
Silent 7s
Theta Naught
CART!
The Happies
The Echo People
And of course I'd like to thank Matt, Hyrum, and Ryan for dealin out some great sound at the KRCL studio. If anyone can suggest a place to post some of the artists performances from my show please lemme know.
Now, what the hell was I here for anyways? Oh yeah, sellin my ponies. I'm sellin my ponies, sellin my ponies, yeah, I'm sellin my ponies all over the place, sellin my ponies all over yer face.
So I've been using my camera like it t'were a pony so here's some pics from the SEMA show in Las Vegan last week:
First of all a pink ride with a keg in the trunk(click on pics to make them magically grow)
I was so very bummed on Saturday night when I found out that Hopewell wasn't going to be playing till after 10 pm and I gots to do my show but they ended up coming down to the station after the show for a little interview and to give us all a sneak peak into their new CD due out this fall. You can also download a few of their tunes at Hopewell.tv
Also on the show this Saturday was Jackie Campbell playin some sweet acoustic tunes. Go check her out on myspace or live playin around SLC.
This weeks poll:
Best Band of the 90's?
Place yer votes right here for this weeks show!
I'd like to thank Slug Magazine for helping me find my inner Vegan. By the way veggieholics this was the first time I EVER cooked a vegan dish... I'll retire the recipe tomorrow.
Cyanide & Happiness @ Explosm.net
I had a fine weekend, yes I did. I went down to Moab, Utah to visit Arches National Park and do a little fishing in the Colorado River. Mary and I decided to try out some of the local cuisine and let me tell you right now, if you travel to Moab cook for yerselves.
The first place we went to was Eddie McStiffs, I've been to brewery's all over the country and have always had great meals, have you ever had a McStiffs beer? I should have known, I've had their "beer" before, I believe all their beers are unfiltered hef-like beers, maybe because their too cheap to buy a filter, or if its not a hef they add some shitty fruit flavor to cover up the ass like flavor of their Colorado River irrigation ditch water. I ordered up a rotisserie chicken, because I like bird and according to the menu they change the way its cooked daily, heck ya! Well it took me 5 glasses of water and 1 pint of a truly horrid Raspberry Stout to wash half of this fowl down. How the fuck does a rotisserie bird get so dry? Smiths sells the same cut for $3 and its fucking delicious.
Eddie go back to fixing bikes yer eatery is as big of a joke as the swill you pass off as beer. I'm sure the cooks there are just punching a clock and working as fast as they can so they can get back on the trail, or the river, or the rock, or whatever they do, hell they could be stabbing Castle Valley hookers in their spare time, but one thing I'm sure of is they don't give a damn about how shitty the slop they serve tastes.
The next place I visited was also on Main Street Moab, and I should have known from the minute I walked in and saw a picture of Laura Bush on the wall from her night of fine Mexican dining. The place is called Fiesta Mexicana, yeah I'm an idiot for going to a place with such a creative fucking name. The chips and salsa were freakin' delicious; then the meal came.
Mary's taco disintegrated as soon as she picked it up, then I looked at my Tacos Al Carbon, which mean Carbon Flavored Tacos.
First of all the soft tacos had a "sauce" on the tortilla making it impossible to pick up and eat in the universally known taco style of eating a taco; you see I ordered a taco so I could pick it up and eat it like a taco, FUCK! Then there was the parmesan cheese, yes you read that correctly, fucking parmesan cheese on a fucking taco so my whole plate smelled like a fucking shoe.
I decided to just skip the whole outside disaster of the "taco" and get to the delicious carbon skirt steak on the inside of the stinky taco. I've cooked a skirt steak before its a really thin piece of meat and you grill it for like 2 minutes on each side on a really hot grill. The grill gives it that Carbon or charcoalie taste. If you lied to me about it being grilled, then yer probably throwing it in a frying pan which isn't hot enough so you leave it in there for 10 minutes on each side to get it burnt enough to look grilled and it'll come out like a piece of rubber. That is exactly what I was given, a taco that not only smelled like a shoe but was also just as rubbery as a shoe.
For 2 days I played Russian roulette with my guts who are now making me suffer. Moab, Utah you've got a ton of work ahead of yerself if you wanna get me to come back. Watch the food network and stop hiring meth'd out rock tweeking spokeheads for chefs.
Arches was nice, and there's so many catfish in the Colorado you can't even get a worm to the bottom, fishin' tips coming this weekend on Not a Side Show so you best tune in!
What did I do for a show on Saturday night? Nothing! I just sat back and let CART! play for half the night then I played a bunch of local bands inbetween , seriously fun show.
Here's some pics of CART! rockin out(clickymakesthembigger)
CART! just plain rocks, if you ain't busy Tuesday night go check them out opening up for Dixie Witch @ Club Vegas (a private club for blah blah blah...)
cbvacation
Ever seen that is to say you sawr one of them Soy Milk makers? Its like a tiny electric cow but without all the methane, and all it eats is soybeans. If yer feeling a bit hungee come on down to the Veg Fest (pictured above, duh!) and mack down on some tofu dogs, tofurkey, tofloaf, soyicken, and my favorite pulled BBQ tofu sammiches!!!
I'll be there handing out info packets on my latest project "The Vegan Sushi Express" coming out in 2007, remember in ought-2 when I invented the McTofuwich? It took me a while to get the soy based imitation beef product to stick to pop sickle sticks, but it ended up looking a lot like the McRib(TM) but with sticks to spit out.
Rocky's going to be there, and I'm going to challenge him to a tofu dog eating contest then the two of us are going to lead a march on that stupid fucking Atkins center.
DIE MEATMONGERS DIE!!!!!
Well we started off this weekend looking at houses up Emmigration Canyon and we ran into a HUGE Moose eating peoples tree's, I guess the imported ones taste better then the natives. Mary got a pic of the beast
Then we went to see the Salt Lake Bees season opener, not bad they beat the Beavers 6-1
Took Chance to the dog park a few times, good dog.
Got some hate mail, guess people that are addicted to listening to my radio show hate me, but can't stop listening!
Boarded the last day at Solitude, here I am just seconds from the final run of the year, i'm so fucking cool...
Then last night good ol' Leif
and I went to see Dinosaur Jr.
Who weren't even half as good as Priestess, they're from Ka-nadia check'em out, Leif showed them how we drink PBR south of the border(the Ka-nadian border that is).
Cbnicey
p.s. I love all you listeners even if I told you that I hated you, I lied I like totally love you and stuff.
Turn on any news channel, hell turn on any channel and when you hear the term 'Pit Maneuver' DRINK!!!!
You'll be wasted hecka quick
Basically this post is just so i can get some sweet lovin from google.
Fist off, yes i said fist off, Taylor, holy shit, TAYLOR shave off the fucking eyebrows!!!!!! You look like a clown and there's no point in watching a clown unless the clowns getting raped!
Ok, its true I'm hanging out with EZ in the Valley and watching shitty TV. But I'm tryin to learn what the majority wants so i can please more people via the radio, looks like I'm going to be playing lots, and lots of LIVE for all you stupid bastards.
American Idol inflames my colonic tissues,
Circus 'Katie Couric in 2008' Brown
Man how far behind am I? Ok Saturday I had The Echo People come in and play some of their stuff soon to be released.
The week before that Gundhi came down to the station and represented O-Town... check out my show for hecks sake! This Saturday April Fools Day 10 pm!!!!
So I had one crappy week in the O.C. last week. It wasn't all fun and games with Ryan, Seth, and Maricia it was shitty rainy weather, got kicked out of a bar in Costa Mesa by 4 cops... wait that sounds just like 'The O.C.'. I barely made my flight from Ontario to Vegas, but my luggage didn't, it snowed in Vegas, yes thats right everyone in Vegas was wearing huge parkas.
So I got back into town @ 7ish in the evening, just 2 hours to get ready for the show, and amazingly enough the show kicked hecka ass, although I didn't play any Punk music and did get several calls telling me I suck, but even more calls describing me perfectly as the most BAD ASS DJ EVAR!!!! So maybe I don't need that dern anarchist music, I'm happy with what I played Graham Central Station rules, if you missed out this week don't worry I think Sara and I will be playing more of Graham then Buckner & Garcia. I'd like to thank Theta Naught for showing up and spin'nin some old and new unreleased stuff.
Good luck on yer March Madness Brackets fools.
cbnass
Ok, I'm fucking beat, I'm busy as hell, here's a couple pics from last weeks partys:
(click on the thumbnails for bigger and better view)
Here's the Vile Blue Shades
And here's Tolchock Trio
Here's me and Sideshow Darling
Here's Whiskey Meg and myself doin some sorta raffle
Well I'm off to the Radio, listen in tonight Theta Naught is going to be the special guest.
So today my brother showed me what to me is one of the greatest websites evar!
Yep. It goes well with my "unliking" of the hippy kind. Sure, sure, a ton of my friends are hippies, its true! How many of those hippies have called me lately? How many of them hippies have bought me a beer or smoked me out lately? Yep that's right a big phat ZERO! Obviously the peace, love, and sharing is a bit too inconvenient for them to even bother to hit the old speed dial on their hemp friendly cell phones and just chat it up with me.
So I guess I have no hippy friends! Well, wait... there is R2Dstu and he did stop by last night, ok I have 1 hippy friend, but before summers over he'll have shaved that long hair and I'll have thrown his String Cheese Incident hat into a campfire somewhere along the way.
Have you ever been to a Dead show or a Phish show. Everyone is nice. Most of them care about whos there and want to get to know ya. Hippies have done nothing to harm anyone. I doubt they did anything to you. They are nice people. STOP THE HATE, AND GROW UP. We don't need hate, no - one needs hate.
-Ryan (No doubt Ryan is a salesmen: "grilled cheese $2, phatty phat-phat veggie burritos $4" oh how many great telemarketers did we lose to the Dead Shows????)
As promised pictures of Bombs and Beating Hearts from Not a Side Show last night on KRCL 90.9 FM in SLC, UT (legal ID).
If you missed them then you really missed out! Where the fuck where you? Tthe stupid CD Burner decided to stop recording, which means this is the only proof that last night even happened. If you want to check them out live Bomb and Beating Hearts play every Friday night in the garage at 297 E. 3790 S. show up around 7ish. If you don't catch them there then keep listening to Not a Side Show hopefully they'll be nice enough to stop by and play another set.
Cb
Well the böard was redlined all night Saturday due tö having Spörk in the studiö. Billy and CJ Spörk "dröpped" their new CD Ocho Destructo ön Salty töwn. If yöu wanna knöw höw it söunds yöu best get yer ass över tö myspace cuz we all need like 10,000 möre friends...
Spörk's CD release is this Friday över at that there Urban Löünge sö get yer fake I.D.'s öut and get Spörk'd(the urban lounge is a private club for members)
This week I'm öff tö 'Friscö tö spread the RP Spirit, tune in this Satürday tö Nöt a Side Shöw with special guests Bombs and Beating Hearts they'll be playing LIVE!!!!111 yeah thats right Live!
Lastly, all you pröfessiönal and backyard farmers remember spring is cöming sö sacrifice a bunny to appease the Mörmön Crïcket Göds! 
Circus Bröwn
Goodday Radio-efficient-tornados,
So I spent last week in Memphis, TN and it was fucking cold! Actually it wasn't that bad but a few vagrants yelled at me for just wearing a sweater. The town was pretty dead, but I did get to go to Graceland and I have to admit I wasn't much of an Elvis fan before I went there, but by the end of the tour I was sold, he will always be 'The King'.
As you can tell by the playlist I really did get into the Elvis Spirit.
The February 11th show was extra special my friends After the Party brought in their MOOG and Theremin to the studio and played backup for almost the entire show, sounded like a bonged out 1950's Sci-Fi show, hecka kewl.
The show was so good an inmate from the USP sent me a snail mail requesting a copy of their CD and stating the goodness that is Not a Side Show.
Next week SPORK! And I promise I'll get to working on my Gallery so I can get you all the pictures of Graceland.
PETA loves me
CB(nass)
I wish I could have stopped and updated this page but I've been gone and now I'm back but just for a few days then I'm gunna be gone for a few more so here it all is. First of all one of the best bands I've ever had on my show was Books About UFOs they were on back on January 28th and they brought in a bunch of great music to spin as well.
Then I spent a week in the OC... I have to admit, I don't like the traffic down there but I really wouldn't mind living in the OC it ain't so bad. I got home Friday afternoon and immediately started making my chili for the Tap Room's 4th annual Super Bowl chili cook-off. Don't worry yer all so kewl to be reading my bullshit I'll give you the recipe.
So on Saturday night Junta DeVille stopped by the station, we played a bunch of their George Bush hating music, beautiful stuff, it really is. At first I figured these guys for hippies, I was so very, very wrong. They brought in a lot of old Punk music, turns out Spock from Junta is from San Fran, and he had plenty of records from back then to sample, check out this meaty playlist.
Be sure to check out Books About UFOs and Junta DeVille at a bar near you, check Slug check the Salt Lake Weekly, you won't be bored with their shows.
So like I was saying I made some chili for the Tap Room chili-con-carnival, here's the ingredients:
10 lb Pork Shoulder
1 of each Green, Red, Yellow, Orange Bell Peppers
1 large white onion
4 Jalapeno Peppers
5 Dried Pasilla Peppers (Mild)
5 Dried California Pepper Pods (Mild)
4 Cloves of Garlic
4 cups of beans (I used the Costco 8 bean gourmet blend)
4 15 oz cans of Diced Tomatoes
3 tablespoons cumin
2 tablespoons black pepper
1 tablespoon kosher salt
6 tablespoons chili powder
2.5 tablespoons brown sugar
1 tablespoon dried cilantro
1/3 cup olive oil
3-4 cups of Tecate
So this is how it went down, remember I love you and that's why I'm givin' this to ya...
Friday night I smoked the 10 lb pork shoulder at about 200 degrees for 5 or 6 hours with cherry wood. Then I put it in the fridge. Saturday morning I wrapped all of the pork tightly in foil and put it all in the oven @ 350 degrees (pork needs to be 180 degrees to pull). You can skip the whole putting the pork in the oven thing if you smoke it right, but it was windy my smoker didn't wanna get hot enough so that's why I did this. Get them beans soaking overnight fool!
Now the base was the most work I chopped all the bell peppers and onions up into small pieces, see I wanted you to be able to get everything in one spoonful. I mixed in all the spices, put the garlic through a garlic press and also seeded and chopped up 3 of the jalapenos so they could be put through the garlic press as well, it made them into a nice pulp. All of this I put into a big pot and started to heat it up till the onions were translucent and it all was on nice even color.
Next I took the dried chilies and soaked them in warm water, cut them open and rinsed out all the seeds. With a knife I scrapped all the delicious insides out of these chilies and added the paste to the pot. Throw away the skins from these dried chilies all you want is the moist insides. Then add the 3 or 4 cups of beer, I used Tecate cuz it is a nice Mexican beer. Now I turned off the stove because I wanted the base to soak with the beer and peppers and not cook off all the beer, also I threw in the whole Jalapeno uncut.
So now take the pork out of the oven when its 180 degrees and pull it. I threw out all the fat and added just the delicious pieces of pulled pork, I did put just 2 large chunks of smoked pork fat into the pot, I'm pretty sure it just dissolved. I figure there was about 5 or 6 lbs of pork in there, then I added the brown sugar, canned tomatoes, and 4 cups of beans. Turned the stove back on and let it simmer for about 4 more hours then put it in the fridge.
The chili didn't taste like an award winning chili that night, but on Sunday morning I put it back on the stove and got it heated back up, it tasted delicious. So that's it, this chili won the competition; I can't wait for next year! Thank you World Famous Tap Room!
Thanks Mendybing!
I've always thought Sundance Film Fest was pretty entertaining, kinda fun, but I haven't been for about 3 years. This Saturday me and Side Show Darling went to see the animated shorts. All in all pretty good, but some shorts were purposely done with really shitty animation, how fucking artistic, but overall great entertainment I gots no complaints.
I do have complaints about Sundance, and of course its the people, I'm a really nice person but when I go to Park City I get treated like shit. I don't know where everyone else is from or how they learned basic human manors but apparently the only way to walk down Main St. Park City, Utah is to push and shove or just walk straight into me if I don't get out of your way.
Every eatery in town had at least a 30 minute wait, which is no big deal, so SSD and I just walked around and ended up in a Sushi bar with no wait, the hostess said 2 people had just left the bar and her and I would be seated there as soon as she cleaned it up. Well 4 bitches with Long Island accents came in and asked us "Are ewe goiys waiting to be seeded?" I told them we were and we're getting seated next. Well they see 2 open chairs at the bar, the same 2 chairs that our asses were longing for and they grabbed a couple chairs from the waiting area and all four sat down in our spot! Then they turn to us and said "We are soooo hungree!" Yeah fuck you, I thought... you see I'm not like I was 10 years ago, 10 years ago I would have just puked on them or I would have started breaking shit. I used to be able to puke at will, but I figured SSD wouldn't be down with the scene I was about to make, plus my lawyer lives in Portland so I might as well not get into it. So we left.
Down Main St. again we went, but we're soooo hungree! fuck! I really wanted to start a riot, but my police record is so clean, damn it! Why do I let that clean record ride me like a sheepherder? Hey look there's Nick Nolte with crowds of people drooling over him, damn must be a slow day, but we're soooo hungree! damn it! I should go back in there and knock some coconuts together, no, no, no, I should puke, yeah thats right I should go in there and puke on 'em, yeah that's the ticket, and then I'll get to hang out with Robert Downey Jr. in the PC jail... but we're soooo hungree! fucking fuck! Ok thats it starting right now I'm not going to be a pussy pacifist! Right then as we went to cross an uncrowded street some dipshit with his movie reel cases in hand shoulder checked me and kept on walking... oh Sundance I will get my revenge on you "I won't watch yer stupid fucking movie even if you sucked my dick!!!!" Yeah that'll teach'em. Atleast Saturday turned around and became magical...
If you tuned in to Not a Side Show on Saturday night then you know what I mean. The show really kicked some ass and made me almost forget about how much I loathe people that have never listened to my show and think movie stars are Gods. In fact I was so pissed about Sundance I sold my tickets to American Hardcore, it wasn't even in Park City, I just didn't want to see anymore people pushing and shoving to get into the movie or dry humping the sidewalk that some movie star just walked on. It's Third south people. So back to the show...
The band is called The Rodeo Boys I'd heard one of their songs and I had no idea what to expect... I was hecka impressed. They're album comes out this Saturday the 28th, they'll be having the release party at The Urban Lounge its a private club for members, which for you Sundancers means you can't get in for free unless you know the secret handshake. The Rubes are the openers so get there early. Sorry I can't make it, I'll be doing my show once again, and the guest this week will be Books About UFOs don't miss it!
Mr. Redford tear down this film fest!
Cb
Which is worse making sweet, sweet love or killing people?
What yer telling everyone in the world is that you'd rather play movies with killing, torture, drugs, and "normal" sex then a love story?
Thats hecka fucked up.
So yer saying if you had to either kill someone or sleep with another man to save yer own life you'd take a life? WHOA DUDE!!!! Thats really, really fucked up!
So if it turned out that one of yer ex-Jazz players who's jersey was hanging from the D-Centers rafters turned out to be gay you'd take his jersey down and un-retire his number? What if one of yer kids was gay? Would he or she no longer be yer kid? Larry yer just as bad as a racist. There I said it.
So for years I've been a HUGE Jazz fan, then this year you got that baby handed Greg Ostertag back and before the season started I decided I was going to boycott the Jazz until you dumped that lamewad. Well now its gunna take more to get me to ever root for the Jazz again, you have to win a Championship or I'll never be a Jazz fan again.
Last nights show was better then any Jazz game you've ever seen (and i didn't think it was that great of a show but...) the Wolfs stopped on by and played some of their songs off their new self titled album and they also brought with them a bunch of great local music, don't believe me? Just check the playlist.
Make sure you check out some of The Wolfs stuff, listen, download, and enjoy their hecka sweet sound and hopefully sometime this spring/summer they'll have a new album for us to listen to.
Lastly I'd like to give a tip of the hat to Sara KJ for layin the smack down on that dumbass Larry H. Miller.
See you next week, go check out my little myspace dealio if you get bored, I need friends.
circus
Yeah, thats what I wanna know you smug bastard, what the hells so funny?
Are you chuckling cuz yer getting people to eat laxatives for breakfast?
Wipe that fucking smile off yer face and tell me the truth!
What?! The Peaches ain't peaches they're dried apples? The Strawberry's too?!?!!?
What the hell are the blueberries?
No, no fucking way dude, FIGS?!?!! I should kick yer ass!
Ok, either yer really just fucking with me or yer crazy but come on man the bananas are zucchini?
Well I was gunna switch over to the Cinnamon & Pecan flavor but it turns out thats actually nutmeg & hominy so screw you Pilgrim, I'm going back to Malt-o-Meal.
I said Christmas! Does that give yer God-Hating Eyes and Ears Stigmata when I say Christmas?
Christmas!
Christmas!
Christmas!
Christmas!
Christmas!
If'n it weren't Xmas I'd kick yer ass, or shove a nice Holiday Tree up it! Stop being such a dick just cuz you don't like Christmas, 20 years ago it didn't bug you so just shut up and keep living in the past Miami Vice, ok?
So this last weeks show was hecka killer we had the heaters on Not a Side Show, good times, good times. Be sure to check them out tonight @ Urban Lounge for their EP release party. I'd like to thank Raveen for hypnotizing the audience tonight and also Soccer Dad for kickin down some sweet tunes out of his personal stash. Be sure to check out last weeks playlist, it'll amaze you...
Tomorrows show is going to be just as hecka good, Super So Far will be on the show, remember 10 pm ok? Cool, have a great weekend!
cbnass
I know I sound like a dick and like I have a huge ego, I won't deny it both are true. I can't help but say that once again the show has out done itself... AGAIN! I'd like to thank tolchock trio for coming down last night and spending the show with me spinning some great tunes. Sorry that the playlist kinda died, I think the keyboard in the studio needs some new powercells.
I'd also like to thank Soccer Dad from SLUG for pitching in some great tunes and adding a bit of spice to the show.
The third thanks goes out to Robin for supplying some kick ass Butteredscotch cookies, they really hit the spot, so moist, so buttery, so chocolatte, perfect.
And fourthly I'd like to thank Juicy Fruit the show coordinator and producer for just making things run like a well oiled frat bar bikini wrestler.
If you wanna checkity check the playlist get yer browser HERE! I'll update the end of the show when I get a chance to listen to it.
Fiffly I'd like to thank you, the listener, for spending Saturday nights with me, I hope you get some good shit for Xmas.
cbnicey
p.s.
ok i just picked up 6 cd's on my way home from work:
The Glands - self titled
Sonic Youth - Dirty
Gang of Four - return the gift (HOLY SHOOT! It came with $1 in the case... I'm shocked.)
Out of this world Flying Saucers (a compilation of 31 of the all-time best flying saucer novelty recordings THEY'RE OUT OF THIS WORLD!!!!)
Lovage - Music to Make Love to Your Old Lady By (oh man this is sweet, I hate living 4 years in the past)
AND!!!!
HUEY LEWIS & THE NEWS!!!! - Time Flies... The Best of
Can you say "Hot Lovin' Every Night! WHOA! WHOOOOOOOOOOA!!!!!!"
don't forget to tune into Not A Side Show tomorrow night with special guests tolchock trio!
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I'd like to thank my special, well not special like that, guests Airliner for being on my show this last Saturday be sure to check out their songs on myspace and get ready for a new album from them the first of 'ought6. If yer wondering what I played this week you better get over to KRCL.org Ok?
Now where's my pants...
Oh yeah listen this Saturday its my happy birthday Circus Brown show with special, yes like that, guests Kicking Hippies, the only reason their on the show is because they have the best band name evar... oh yeah, me and Coolio did a little Xmas ad for next months Slug check it out:
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I'd like to thank my guest this week The Rubes for coming down to the station and spinin' some tunes on a Saturday night. This was prolly one of my best shows ever, musically, guestly, humorously, damn it was just a good show. If you missed this weeks show, well I'm pretty disamapointed in you, shape up or you won't make the cut. Be sure to check out The Rubes this Friday November 18th @ The Urban Lounge.
Here's the playlist proof that I had an epic show. Be sure to listen this Saturday Airliner will be my guest and who knows who else might show up.
cB
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I have to say Ogden (DAWGDEN!) pound for pound, string for string is putting out better bands then the Salty City right now. I had CART! on my show this last Saturday, they wahrocked, the show kicked some tail and the Playlist is the puddin of proof.
Be sure to check out CART! sometime in the future, they have a new album coming out the first of '06 so I'm sure they'll be back on THE Show.
So Monday morning I flew down to Los Angeles, my work really fucked up and put me in shit central right on Century Blvd by the Airport at the Comfort Inn... First bad thing there I noticed was a piece of a crack pipe that was melted into my bed spread, then under the sink I found this
A baby food jar that was burnt on the bottom and all over the inside, I dunno what they was cookin' in there, but I'm sure it wasn't creamed corn. Then I found a bunch of pieces of glass in my night stand
so many pieces of glass around I shoulda just rolled around in it and I'd own the Comfort Inn by now.
Not everything was shitacular in LA, it rained, which is great people freak out, but also I got me a new skate, its a LandYachtz big ol' board with turning trucks so I can carve like I'm on a snowboard, also I cruised around on an electric skate with Kia the wonder dog
well thats about it, I think I'm all caught up, be sure to tune in tomorrow night for Not a Side Show The Rubes will be on busting out with stuff off their new album.
cB
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Ok, ok, okay, OK! Sorry after my Halloween Show with Fifi Murmur, yeah check out that playlist, lots and lots and lots of shit from outta nowhere. Fifi Murmur is a kick ass local band, be sure to check them out ASAP!
So like I was sayin' after my Halloween show I went to Las Vegas for a week, I was working at SEMA, the big car show down at the Vegas Convention Center all freakin week. So here's some picks of what went down on that kick ass weekend:
First, I went to the Hilton and checked out the Star Trek Experience, the new Borg Experience is hecka cool, if you haven't been yet, don't tell yer friends, they'll all laugh at you. So my buddy Boris bought me a kick ass drink there at Quarks its called a Warp Core Breach 
ummm yeah, its like a Hurricane it damaged my levee's.
After I stumbled out of Quarks the Gorn got me 
The rest of the night was kind of a blur. Nice thing about working down in Vegas was someone always wanted to buy me dinner so I had nothing but 28 oz. steaks and buckets of sushi all week. The show was pretty damn sweet, even though I'm not a car guy I really did dug it. So here's a hecka large slide of of just what was going on down there. I'd go back next year even if it was just to check out all the cool shit:
Just to keep you interested there's lots of babe pics in this update and also some of this dude
Yes that's my buddy Hulk Hogan...
So Coolio was asking what I thought his new album should be called, he was saying it should be like a cool is cool again, or a new cool kinda thing, I suggested "The Renaissance of Cool" which Coolio thought was good, but we both agreed that most people is stupid so it might not fly. Oh yeah you might not be able to tell but they sign I'm flashing is a "U" for Utah!
Since the new Corvette's just ain't that cool folk been busting out with sweet kits
I'm not big on yeller cars but this one t'wasn't too shabby.
I have no idea what this was, it was kinda hecka sweet...
Saturn made some new sports car, this pic doesnt do it justice i'm just tryin to take up space...
Everyone had either a new 'Stang or a new Dodge in their booth...
This one was even kewler
Jay Leno had an M-1 tank engine ripped out and turned into a Dragster... whoa!
There were so many of the LAMEborgini's
I dunno they just aren't that kewl
But the Shelby Cobra was everywhere and they were kewl... and shiny
Random Skanks...
Here's a bad ass old Ford (I think from the 1930's), its covered with copper and the flames were made by brushing the copper in a different direction...
I love the Lotus Elise
They say this here Saleen is the fastest street car you can buy @ 260 mph whoopdeedoo...
I'm tellin Hulk Hogan how to spell Circus (he got it wrong) he's hecka kewl dude
Here's me looking bigger then the Hulk
I dunno why this is so blurry I swear I wasn't drunk yet
The Ford GT is prolly my favorite car, here's a few more shots of the ones they had there
This Chevy is so Turtle Waxed you can barely see it...
And here's the turtle wax girlie
There were tons of Pontiac Solstice down there, not too shabby for Pontiac
What the fuck is with the stripeage?
Whoa...
Yep, thats a 3 wheeled car...
And lastly a Mopar car for you gear shuckers...
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What a sweet night of rock n' roll down at KRCL last Saturday! First off The Morlocks came down from Ogden and spun some killer songs, no really they did I can PROVE IT.
After The Morlocks Jason Russo and Tyson Lewis from Hopewell called in from New York City for an interview and we played some of their songs. Be sure to visit Hopewell's site to download a few free songs and order a CD you can also listen to them on Myspace
This weeks show's gunna be a bit Halloweenie I hope, Fifi Murmur will be on at 10 pm before they head off to play a show so tune in OKAY?
Lastly I'd like to thank Mikey Mendenbingie for this kick ass ad, once again I'm rocked like a hurricane, what? Too soon?
Also here's a few pics off my camera phone of Hopewell kicking Oranger and the Posies asses:
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Man, it just kicks my ass doing a radiothon show, and as always I forget what I plan on playing and what I plan on saying as soon as I get on the air, even though I had it all written down. I'd like to thank Kyrber of Purr Bats for coming down, helpin out a little bit and playing some tracks off the upcoming album Salt Lake City you can listen to Purr Bats stuff on their homepage and also on myspace so give it a listen and also check out their CD Release Party this Friday October 21, 2005 at the Urban Lounge!
I'd also like to thank Robin for coming down and helping me answer phones and pitching with me on air. So coming up this week I will be dishing out a nice hot piping Snackbox for you all, thanks for your donation to KRCL this station just keeps getting better!
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Well I got half my quota this week, not too happy about it but I'm gunna really push it this week and get this weeks quota. I'd like to that The Body for coming in and helpin out with Radiothon and spinning some of their sweet tunes, be sure to check them out.
Go to KRCL and make yer donation TODAY!
Coming up this Saturday Not a Side Show will start at 11 p.m. due to Gianni busting out some sweet punk music from 9 to 11 I believe. The Purr Bats will be in the studio showing off their new CD coming out this month.
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Yeah thats right, never have and never will give 'Shout-Out's' ok? You know what people, fucking pick up the phone and shout at that person, its kinda lame to use a middleman.
So this weeks show really kicked some ass, here's the playlist it's weird sometimes the cd's just hop in the player themselves cuz they know they needs to be played.
I'd like to thank Starmy for coming in I'm really impressed, each week local musicians blow my mind. If you wanna hear some Starmy I'd suggest gettin over to Myspace and listen to a few tracks. The next 2 weeks of my show are Radiothon weeks, I'll be giving away some local musicians disc's to some of you kind folks that donate to the station. The Body will be on for a lil' while during this weeks show, I promise it'll be nothing but kick ass tunes, my yammerin' and some good local shit.
Sorry but no snackbox for 2 weeks :(
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So the Loud n' Clear children didn't show up to do their show, and I know why. You see Dustin's parent were out of town so he was throwing a party, and like you know, this could be the last party a high schooler might get. I mean schools out in June and like what if this is the greatest party ever and I missed it?
So I showed up about 20 minutes early and started rockin out, which was cool with me, I'm an attention whore and love the extra time to fuck off on the radio and play the cool shit I wanna hear. I started off the night with Abstrak they rocked so hard back in the day, don't believe I was playin them? Well just check THISout.
Le-Force was my special musical guest this week, they kicked so much ass check'm out when they're playin 'round Utah, and grab one of their CD's from the Heavy Metal Shop.
The big fat juicy snackbox this week had nothing but new music in it, if you have a chance check out some The Spectacular Fantastic HERE They even have 6 sweet tracks you can download and share with friends off their EP "I Love You". Another band that got some great views by listeners was Sam Champion and you can listen to them on Myspace also check out samchampion.com!
Coming up this weekend STARMY! And if I'm lucky I'll find more drink recimapes.
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Its amazing the things you can find on cocktail napkins, last night at the Tap Room I discovered what just might be the worlds greatest cocktail recipes.
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I'm so fucking hungry today; I could stab a hooker in the throat for a tasty scab.
Oh yeah, I'm doing that Myspace thing OMG, OMG, OMG! Will you be my friend? I'll share some scabs!
Oh yeah again! New ad for October's Slug Mag looks hecka sweet THANKS MENDYBING!
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Ok tonight's show was pretty kick ass Red Bennies stopped by to spin some of their music and also some other local artists like Purr Bats, Knivzs, and The Kites you can check out the playlist here.
Also I'd just like to mention that Sara from Aural Linguistics is evil, EVIL!!! I would not have locked myself out of the station if she wouldn't have been playing her evil games. I would like to thank Gianni and Ryan for getting me back into said studio with only a slight lapse in the program.
Coming up this week on Not A Side Show Le-Force!!!!
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So back in January I wrote a review of a terrible Bright Eyes album, yeah I know which one?!?! LoL! You can read it HERE Now a few things I need to remind you of, I don't give a fuck about grammar, spelling, an all that shit, fer hells sakes its the internet and I love sentagraphs. Also I know Bob Dylan isn't dead, it just sounds funny to me cuz he looks dead, and well his music hasn't been good for several decades (he's dead to me).
So I found out that some of the Bright Eyes fans saw the review and talked about it on the record label's message board HERE
I hope they did bookmark my site and get more laughs in the future. Remember tomorrow night Not a Side Show will be featuring Red Bennies!!!! Tune in 10 p.m.!!!!
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Well 'nother week 'nother Side Show, I spent all week in Los Hellangeles, quit smoking, and those 2 things pretty much makes Circus something something. If yer interested in this weeks Playlistwell tear it up yo!
I'd like to thank Ben and Ryan from Mindstate for coming in and playing Hip Hop on my show, first time thats ever happened, and it won't be the last. If you have a chance go check them out they do shows at the Urban Lounge the next one will be on Saturday September 24th!
This weeks special local guest is going to be Red Bennies they kick hecka ass so don't miss it. Oh yeah and when I stop being so lazy I'll post the hecka sweet setlist from the OTC show on Labor day, sorry I'm such a slacker but I'm something something right now.
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Well another great show, sure its totally overshadowed by the neglect of our government to the people in desperate need of help in New Orleans. American may be just a word but I USE IT! Anyone that is an American deserves every single nickel we can give them, if we can throw billions at protecting a country on the other side of the world then we can throw BILLIONS and BILLIONS at our OWN CITIZENS. Yes my use of the capslock key is nessecary, Mr. Bush, dish out and keep on dishing, we want our people SAVED. We don't care how much manpower it takes, we don't care how much money it takes, we don't care about the price of oil. We care about our people, we care about our fellow citizens more then anything else. Don't fuck our people, you want to be in the history books, don't worry jackass yer there, try and put something positive in there about yerself, you need to pitch in more now then ever, if you even talk about Iraq this week or next week you've lost.
Now on a much more happier note, Bronco, local Salt Lake artist was in the studio tonight busting out with some sweet tunes, don't believe me, please people this sentegraph says it all, and check out the setlist if you don't believe me i gots the proooooof!
Take care folks, I'm off to Los Angeles for work this week, can't wait to be with you next Saturday. Be safe, and be greatful for what you've got.
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Heididdley-Ho Salteens, resident Dirty White Boy Brown here reminding you not to smoke in bed and also to check out last weeks playlist Featuring Vile Blue Shades some good SLC kids with very high moral values, Mr. Hatch would love'm but not hippy enough for Rocky.
Anywho, this week T-Bone gunna be on the show from the band Bronco so don't miss it ok? Great, remember 10 p.m. S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y NIGHT!
And now I'll spend 2 minutes writting a death cab for cutie song, watch its so easy to suck like they do:
i own a make believe miniature strip mall
its made of burnt match sticks
from the last hotel room you broke my heart in two
yer sneezes taste like coughdrops
yer sneezes taste like coughdrops
yer sneezes taste so good to me
light from the furnace burnt our matress
stuffed with discarded peanut shells
from the bar you picked up my best friend
you ate all the toilet paper
you ate all the toilet paper
this song needs more casio keyboards
this song needs more cryin emo keyboards
yer sneezes used to taste like mentos
See, there you have it in 2 minutes I wrote the next DCFC super hit of the fall, fuck death cab for cutie the softcock superheroes!
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So tomorrow night on the show the special guest will be local artist Vile Blue Shades you can check'em out on myspace everyone's on myspace!
So I have a little advertisement coming out in Septembers Slug Magazine I totally dig it and would like to thank Mikey @ Mendybing for pumpin out such bad ass graphics in just a few minutes, check it
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Well another great week in the ol' SLC and another great show AND another great band coming by and spinnin some great tunes, in a nutshell and in a huge run on sentamagraph things were just well GrrrrrrrrrrrrrEAT!!!!!!
I'd like to thank Invisible Rays for coming down and busting out with some banter before cruising back to Ogden (O-Town) to play their gig at Mojo's. They'll be back down here in SLC on September 15th for a show at the Lo-Fi Cafe All Ages Baby so check it out.
If you wanna see what I played this week get yer shiney ass over to KRCL
And don't forget you Rocky following mindless hippies, for every $1 you send in to KRCL I'll eat one less Chicken Fry.
Coming up this Saturday night at 10 pm = Vile Blue Shades! Another local favorite, so grab yerself a snackbox and... nevermind, just get high while the radio's on, just relax and sing a song, and let me play you some tunes.
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Whoa... Steven Seagals God is bigger then my God, maybe he's making fun of other peoples views, yeah right, I seriously doubt Steve has that kinda wits about him. So Tasha and Memory or is it Memorie damnit I forgot to ask, well they're in a bad ass local band called Andale which reminds me of what the Go-Go's could have been if it wasn't for the Candyland 80's that Ronnie provided us. Andale spun a few sweet sweet songs, don't believe me? Well then check My Playlist on KRCL dumb dumb infact the show was so damn sweet I'll be posting it up this week along with a few other Godfearing shows of the recent past.
Coming up this week on August 20th Invisible Rays will be in studio to spin a few tracks so be there or go get a vegan partially gelatinized soy based beverage with yer PETA fuck friends.
Thanks for tuning in, and fuck you PETA, too many reasons to list, fuck'em.
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Yes, Yes it is. Here's a list of cities and what days not to be in them, fuck you Bright Eyes.
10-22 Santa Barbara, CA - Santa Barbara Bowl
10-24 Santa Cruz, CA - Santa Cruz Civic Center
10-26 Reno, NV - Reno Hilton
10-27 Davis, CA - Freeborn Hall
10-29 Mountain View, CA - Bridge School Benefit
10-30 Mountain View, CA - Bridge School Benefit
10-31 Arcata, CA - Humboldt State University
11-02 Eugene, OR - McDonald Theatre
11-03 Bellingham, WA - Mt. Baker Theatre
11-04 Seattle, WA - Moore Theatre
11-05 Missoula, MT - University Theatre
11-06 Salt Lake City, UT - Kingsbury Hall
11-07 Boulder, CO - Boulder Theatre
11-08 Boulder, CO - Boulder Theatre (E Town Live)
11-09 Fargo, ND - Playmakers Pavilion
11-10 Iowa City, IA - Memorial Union (University of Iowa)
11-11 Omaha, NE - Orpheum Theatre
11-12 St Louis, MO - The Pageant
11-13 Bloomington, IN - IU Auditorium
11-14 Nashville, TN - Ryman Auditorium
11-15 Louisville, KY - W.L. Lyons Brown Theatre
11-16 Athens, GA - Georgia Theatre
11-17 Asheville, NC - Thomas Wolf Auditorium
11-18 Washington, DC - Constitution Hall
11-19 Philadelphia, PA - Academy of Music
11-20 Portland, ME - Merrill Auditorium
11-21 Buffalo, NY - Center for Arts (University of Buffalo)
11-22 Northampton, MA - Chapin Auditorium
11-23 Concord, NH - Capital Center for the Arts
11-25 Jersey City, NJ - Loews Theatre
11-26 Jersey City, NJ - Loews Theatre
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Well, I was a bit bummed out this week, the band I had scheduled to show fergot, so we'll have to reschedule hopefully I'll have a rockin band stop by this week and spin some tunes, guess I better make a phone call and double check.
This weeks show featured lots of songs I listened to while drivin (sitting in traffic) in Los Angeles. I did leave my Steady Diet of Nothing cd in my rental car, so I gots to replace that sucker this week plus I can't live without that sweet Fugazi. If you wanna check out this weeks playlist get yer ass browsin over to KRCL the best damn radio station in the Universe.
Del Gordita de El Segundo OUT!
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Well the response for having a local artist on my show was so good last week that I'm going to have another local band stop by this Saturday during the first hour of my show (10 - 11 p.m.) and that band is going to be Purr Bats.
I've been crankin their tunes at the office all week, if you'd like to check Purr Bats and several other local bands stuff out click yerself over to Rest 30 Records website and get an ear full!
If you'd like to check out the playlist TA-DUH!Thank you listeners hope you lived the Purr Bats their new album will be released on October 21, 2005 so stay tuned and don't forget to spaz a little.
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Ah yes, another fine Saturday evening spent working off my community service hours. I'd like to thank Chris from Medicine Circus for coming out and spinning a few songs off their new album Bottle Rockets of Emotion, good stuff, always great to hear local musicians turning out quality tunes. I'd also like to thank Gianni a.k.a. Heir Director for stopping by the last hour of the show and layin' his scrim down on the Wasatch Front... goodtimes...goodtimes.
If you'd like to check out the playlist for this weeks show don't dilly dally get over to KRCL.org and check it out!
Coming up this week for the July 30th show liquidity!
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Whoa, beaten down by the sun and just kicked around by central Utah Gnomes I couldn't talk much, I just played a lotta music.
Wanna see the playlist? Weeeeeell? Do ya? Ok GO HERE!
Circus sleep now...
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Well I think the fear is starting to fade, I no longer think aliens will be coming to use me as multch for their Xenofungus nor do I fear the terraforming that may occur in the process. Everythings gunna be alright.
If you wanna check out the setlist for this Saturdays show, get off yer ass and over to KRCL.org dumb-dumb or just click HERE
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Well week doppel or dopple depending on what side of the Mississippi you was or were depending on yer proximity to the Mason-Dixon Line is or are depending on if yer born PSW or PSW (post or pre Star Wars but still either way PSW can sound like a rip or a tear but it just might be a props) went pretty damn well.
SLUG Magazine dropped on by (a few of them folk was PSW) with Blue Boutique's newest model Asia to hang out, chat and play some tunes with me.
If you'd like to check out the playlist from this weeks show get off yer ass and over to KRCL.org or just go here It was the Doppel or Dopple show so I played 2 of almost everything and just one of a few things.
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Well folks its been hecka sweet doing the Friday morning show for almost exactly the last year, but things change and a change will probably be doing me good, Starting in July my show will be moving to the Kicking Judy show slot 10 pm Satuday nights. I'm pretty excited and I hope I can carry on the excellent tradition of pumping out good tunes that Tracy and Angie have been know so well for over so many years.
Tonights playlist can be found here!
I had a blast tonight, I hope everyone enjoyed it atleast half as much as I enjoyed playing it for you.
Well have a great weekend, be safe, and keep lotioning them dry elbows.
Scrimshaw Brown
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Well this weeks show was dedicated to stuffing the KRCL.org database with bands it ain't never seen before.
If you'd like to check out the set list Go HERE
Thanks for tuning in, and thank you Andy for getting the Killer Dwarfs back in rotation, oh Canada how do you do it? Well I don't care how, just keep providing us with quality artists like the Dwarfs, and Loverboy.
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Another wonderful show, I'd like to thank heir Director and Michelle for kickin the first 30 minutes around with me, and lookie here If you'd like to see the latest set list
The show tonight, featured lots of Stephen Malkmus and all sorts of other entertaining, amusing, and exciting music. If you'd like to listen to some of this weeks show GO HERE
I'll put something nice together fer ya'll next week!
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I kept tryin to wash that spec of dirt off the back of my hand till it bled, i have lots of moles.
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This gallery is of all the ticket stubs that have survived since I started going to concerts. Its a work in progress...
Circus Browns Not a Ticket Stub Gallery
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One morning I received this picture in an email from E.C. At first I thought it was a photoshoppage, so I googled up "ex charged in Texas Murder" and Ta-duh! Looks like my Doppleganger is a mur-diddley-urdler!
Now that Stephen Dale Barbee, 37, is gone I don't have a patsy, or I guess now that he's in jail I there's no chance in me being accused of his wrong doings.
The Real Circus........................................Pho-Circus
So glad I'm not that douche
The dude sucks, and he's a bit more radio ugly then myself, you can go here and read about the freak:
http://crime.about.com/od/news/a/underwood.htm
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Homer: So, Mr. Burns is gonna make us all go on a stupid corporate retreat up in the mountains to learn about teamwork. Which means we'll have to cancel our plans to hang around here.
Bart: Teamwork is overrated.
Homer: Huh?
Bart: Think about it. I mean, what team was Babe Ruth on? Who knows.
Lisa and Marge: Yankees.
Bart: Sharing is a bunch of bull, too. And helping others. And what's all this crap I've been hearing about tolerance?
Homer: Hmm. Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
Baby don't you go, don't you go to Goleta.
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Get the headphones out and get ready for the unveiling of Frances the Mute, The Mars Volta's newest release. Tonight Not a Side Show will douse you in rubbing alcohol, you shouldn't have slept in that bed of broken glass last night, and roll you around in this epic tale. I'm extremely excited to play a movement or 2 off this album, so for god's sake strap yerselves down!
I'm betting 100 years from now this album will be brought up by classical minds just like Beethoven and Mozart are today. Sure, yeah right, laugh all you want monkey boy. Something that pops up on KRCL at 1 in the morning will someday be considered classic. I'm penciling this album in right now as album of the year, and I still have 9 months to edit this blog just incase I'm wrong.
This album passes beyond the feelings of everyday life, if you've ever put you're hand through the wall and felt the other side, with your cold naked body pressed up against the wall, so cold. But through the wall on the other side its warm, its safe, its so comfortable that you forget about your body pressed up against this cold slab. You know its just that close, just on the other side of the wall, its really not that far, its just in the next room. One hand through the wall is just enough to explore and know whats there, more then that could be dangerous. You can have it all, once you've touched the other side, things so tough, situations so unfathomable, speak no pain.
If you've ever curled up on the floor of a cold shower and cried just because you saw it on an after school special you too will understand...
Just sit back and enjoy.
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So did BK come to you with a song, or were you so inspired by a chicken sammich that you wrote the song?
Let me expand a bit, the 90's are over, floozies and fair weather friends have spent the bulk of yer loot, but yer still getting enough royalties from Canadian radio stations to keep a semi decent Motel 6 apartment. Burger King needed a hit, they needed it bad after a full on Atkins assault in '04 and the ever looming 'Jared' presence they needed someone, ex-screaming tree's members were too fat, the goo-goo dolls are all vegans, everyone hated the verve pipe, and nobody can remember rusted root, but Hootie, you took good care of yerself, yes, Hootie, that's the answer. Hootie, do we have a song for you, how would you like to move on up to a La Quinta or maybe a Doubletree suite?
Is that how it happened Hootie? Or did you just submit the song thru Monster.com like I did?
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"Nobody can handle electricity gone amok. It is too powerful... Ben Franklin was never able to lock a door again after the day lightning came down his kite string and fused that key to his thumb. They called it a great discovery and they called him a great scientist; but, in fact, he bawled like a baby for the rest of his life every time he smelled rain in the air."
-Hunter S. Thompson
Excerpt from Songs of the Doomed
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So by looking at this fellow here
Which of the following form(s) of dorky hobbies do you think he delves in?
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Open up any magazine or look at any music website that claims to be experts on what's what and you'll read about The Next Bob Dylan a.k.a. Conor Oberst. If you ever listen to my show you know that Circus Brown doesn't like Bob Dylan much, but I'm positive calling Conor his predecessor has old Bob spinning in his grave.
Let me give you some background on how I discovered Bright Eyes. My buddy Stu loves this website http://www.pitchforkmedia.com and he makes a good deal of his music purchases based on their reviews. I really don't believe what pitchfork says because they refuse to give Elf Power a decent review due to not liking their name. If they give an album a bad review, chances are its right up my alley, and if they give an album a great review or album of the year chances are its complete shit. For example The Rapture is one horrible fucking band and yet were given 2003's album of the year, and Stu convinced me they were great so I purchased the album, an album which I refuse to sell to a used CD shop, I wouldn't want someone to waste money on something this horrible. Trust me folks it sounds like a drunken Robert Smith stabbing himself in the leg while trying to sing.
The following sentagraph is sponsored by sunshine
So about a year and a half ago I read in the Salt Lake Weekly about some band called Bright Eyes, I'm intrigued, I check pitchfork, they give the album a crappy review, the math checks out, this might be a great band and something I can play on my show. WRONG! I purchased Fevers and Mirrors and popped it into my CD player... Track 1 features some kid reading something poorly, sounds like an old recording, maybe its young pseudo-Dylan, I don't care, in comes an acoustic guitar, oh pretty, then an Elliot Smith wannabe starts singing, oh for fucks sake cheer up kid. At the time this album was written phoBob was but 20 years old, and seriously if you're this depressed at 20 then you really sucked at all your teen suicide attempts. I quickly fast forward to Track2 it gets right to sucking, it makes me laugh cuz it reminds me of my trust fund vampire goth neighbors I used to have, money and lack of responsiblity made them so sad. Here comes track 3, wow its fast, its filled with more of Conors crybaby 'singing' a tamborine and a sweet Casio, its really stirring an emotion inside me, I lose control of my motor functions, the musics taken over my body, I watch my hands reach out in desperation and quickly fast forward to track 4. Oh wow, this isn't so bad, fuck he started singing FF. Track 5, man this dudes voice just sucks. Track 6, its called prozac dude please refill your prescription, wait is this song about dungeons and dragons? Track 7 oh cool, the mircophone is on one end of the hallway and Dylanzilla is on the other end of the hallway, there is no word or words that can describe the shittyness of this song or his voice, fill the fucking tub and cut X's this time, one slice usually isn't enough. Track 8, holy shit next Dylan, if a chick has a name you've never heard, can't spell, or couldn't actually imagine don't date her. Track 9 if you could remove or just ignore the singing the music is pretty sweet. Track 10, seriously man don't record your voice when you're sitting on a washing machine, pitchfork describes it as 'hypothermic' while I think 'just fucking aweful' is more appropriate. Anyone that can't sing can quaver their voice and get that same 'shivery' sound and hope that people don't realize that there's no way you can hold a note. Track 11 uhh... the fake radio interview, wow, just wow. Cheer up young camper, you know what you need? You need to get the hell out of Nebraska and see a few Broadway musicals. I knew right off the bat this had to be fake just because the DJ busts out with 'this is a really brilliant record, we're all really into it here at the station, we get lots of calls, its really good stuff' which is something every DJ says to any artist, except Bright Eyes. Track 12 thank God its almost over, whoa there son the spin cycle is really rockin that voice of yers, I'll never listen to this craptacular CD again, EVER.
The best thing about this CD is there is it comes with a little square of mylar that makes the album cover look like it has a real mirror on it. I cut the mylar into strips and used it as flash on a few streamer bodies.
Over the next few weeks you might read about Bright Eyes new albums I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning and Digital Ash in a Digital Urn all the media hype might make you feel the need to buy the albums, just download it, you see giving this guy money isn't gunna make him stop crying, it'll prolly just make him cry more and in '06 we'll have to read all about how he's still depressed.
Conor, the only reason you are making albums is because you were a goth kid that grew up in Nebraska, beaten daily by the rednecks, and raped occasionally by the football team. I'm sure it was rough, seek help, medicines and psychiatrists can work wonders on damaged psyches. Please, stop trying to bring the rest of the world down, we really don't care. And to all you Rednecks and Jocks, please stop beating up nerds all you're doing is creating more emo bands.
Sure we're 3 weeks into '05 and I'm just now getting my best of '04 up. I do have a good excuse for the delay, I spent the last 20 days having a personal crisis as to whether Beyonce deserved to share the 11 slot with Ministry, Bill, and a re-released album well she didn't make the cut, maybe next year honey.
1. Wilco A Ghost is Born
2. Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News
3. Liars - They Were Wrong So We Drowned
4. Sonic Youth - Sonic Nurse
5. The Arcade Fire - Funeral
6. Radio 4 - Stealing of a Nation
7. Death From Above 1979 - You're a Woman, I'm a Machine
8. Califone - Heron King Blues
9. Brian Wilson - SMiLE
10. Helio Sequence - Love and Distance
11. (3 Way Tie)Ministry Houses of the Mole / William Shatner - Has Been / Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain: LA's Desert Origins(re-release)
Well, there you go keep yer fingers crossed and pray in '05 and maybe, just maybe Tupac will put out another ground breaking album.
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So I was driving down State Street today and stopped at a red light next to the first KFC in the West on 39th South I see over a dozen people standing on the sidewalk in the cold winter winds holding signs that read 'KFC CRUELTY'.
P.E.T.A. is against the cruelty of how chickens are raised, that's great, be against it. Also P.E.T.A. is a major stock holder for McDonald's, which they say is because McDonald's is nicer to the animals they slaughter. So was the protesting of KFC today really about the animals or was it about boosting McDonald's shares?
I'm against P.E.T.A. because I love fishing and I'm glad the public school system hasn't let P.E.T.A. have their way and try pushing their anti-fishing agenda onto school kids. They tried this in several states but schools wouldn't let them in, so they just ended up confronting kids as they walked home from school, a close friend I fished with on weekends in the summer told me about his kids running into P.E.T.A. on the way home from school, this is how he told it.
A younger woman and a man in a trout costume approached his kids just a block from their school and started walking with them. "Hey kids, can we ask you a few questions?"
"Sure" they said, bad kids.
"Have you kids ever been fishing before?"
"Yes, our daddy takes us fishing all the time."
"Oh really? Well did you know that there is more nerves in a fishes mouth then on the tip of your finger, when they get hooked it hurts so much worse then if you hit your finger with a hammer?"
"So what we love fishing." good kids.
"Does your daddy keep the fish he catches or does he let them go?"
"He keeps the ones we want to eat, but we'll let some go, even the big ones."
"Oh, thats too bad. What if you went to reach for a poptart and the next thing you know your hand was impaled by a big metal hook and you were dragged underwater and couldn't breath? Thats what a fish feels when you and your daddy catches them."
"Why would someone put a metal hook in my hand for grabbing a poptart?"
"Next time your father wants to take you fishing, you should just say NO kids, leave your fishing pole at home and just enjoy nature."
"Well how would we fish?"
"Kids, you
