Circus Brown's Not A Side Show

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!