July 21, 2008

Retro Veggies Are Actually Edible!

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

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

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

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

July 9, 2008

The B&G



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

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

Hope you enjoy it!

cb

June 27, 2008

Who Has the Worst Taste In Music?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

June 4, 2008

Back Up and Better then Ever Baby!

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

circusbrown@gmail.com

May 19, 2008

Do you want Rock and/or Roll?


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

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

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

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

May 13, 2008

This Mexican Food will Save/Destroy your life

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

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

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

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

Where is this amazing Chunga's Mexican Food?

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

Why am I telling you about this place?

Because I think its the tops! Seriously I don't want this place to go out of business, so get down there and try it!
(googled images not actually from said eatery)

May 9, 2008

I'm Allergic to Ranch Dressing

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

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

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

Here's a nice toilet.

Circus