tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65289924285067787242024-03-13T07:21:26.253-07:00The Brother CircusThe paramount happenings of Brother and their affiliates. Folk songs, Star Wars, and Mexico.SHAWNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11140237454301395362noreply@blogger.comBlogger31125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6528992428506778724.post-87177430134009541072009-09-15T01:17:00.000-07:002009-09-15T01:18:29.728-07:00getting back to realityon my feet, of this world; pining for the here and now.SHAWNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11140237454301395362noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6528992428506778724.post-16634565311096994762009-09-10T11:36:00.001-07:002009-09-10T11:36:30.419-07:00doesn't your best friend have an opposite personality?SHAWNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11140237454301395362noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6528992428506778724.post-50692667160882111722009-08-26T12:11:00.001-07:002009-08-26T12:11:43.807-07:00<object width="560" height="340"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/6FnEy3XDNxE&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/6FnEy3XDNxE&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"></embed></object>SHAWNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11140237454301395362noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6528992428506778724.post-11403395309775061812009-08-09T13:15:00.000-07:002009-08-09T13:16:18.851-07:00i don't want to hear ithttp://twitter.com/shawncircusSHAWNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11140237454301395362noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6528992428506778724.post-39990099141349236912009-08-05T16:06:00.000-07:002009-08-05T16:16:55.199-07:00bread & waterDrove through California, found my home<br />I kissed the best looking woman I have ever known.<br />It was a quiet revolution in my head;<br />I fell for eight or fifteen girls, cause I had water but they had bread.<br /><br />But no one loves me just like you.<br /><br />Spent three nights on a beach and stole some rum<br />I was difficult and rude, but I sure as hell was fun.<br />But I know myself when I hit bottom, I laid there for a year<br />Lost my head and lost my other, got it back but shit was weird.<br /><br />Still no one loved me just like you.<br /><br />I got my bread & water.<br />I got my bread & water.<br />Thank God for bread & water.SHAWNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11140237454301395362noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6528992428506778724.post-47680874163096869872009-08-03T21:35:00.000-07:002009-08-03T21:37:02.783-07:00i know a lot of crazy girlsi've met a lot of good looking women<br />i gave them all the time of day<br />i'd say a handful are my good friends<br />(but i know a few who want me dead)<br /><br />one of them told me she was sober<br />but all of them really liked my mom<br />but my mom was smart & my mom, she told me<br />"son, you know a lot of crazy girls."SHAWNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11140237454301395362noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6528992428506778724.post-68271437075533212952009-07-29T12:13:00.001-07:002009-07-29T12:14:04.373-07:00hard at work<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6mz5A8JYgIc/SnCfbLgj_9I/AAAAAAAAADQ/l6wY6l_j9IU/s1600-h/Photo+57.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6mz5A8JYgIc/SnCfbLgj_9I/AAAAAAAAADQ/l6wY6l_j9IU/s320/Photo+57.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5363962445492912082" border="0" /></a>SHAWNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11140237454301395362noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6528992428506778724.post-20679380171968862812009-06-16T02:28:00.000-07:002009-06-16T02:29:16.567-07:00coney island of the mindOh it was a springSHAWNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11140237454301395362noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6528992428506778724.post-32054997538856618762009-06-10T16:38:00.000-07:002009-06-10T16:44:20.914-07:00for a friendi've been thinking about a friend<br />hoping you're alright<br />it's not your job that makes us friends<br />more than it's the girls that made us guys<br /><br />remember when we found out together<br />that's it's not all about being right.<br />and remember when we held it together<br />on our two feet in the middle of the night.<br /><br />i've been talking to myself<br />hoping that's alright<br />cause it's not plans that make us change<br />it's probably something existential in our minds<br /><br />because it's never been about all the women<br />who shook our hands as friends and gave us wives<br />i think feuerbach would probably say about us<br />experience and progress saved our lives!<br /><br />easy does it.SHAWNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11140237454301395362noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6528992428506778724.post-47008811694686109952009-05-29T15:11:00.000-07:002009-05-29T15:15:01.203-07:00complicatedgrowing up but staying young (sleeping in and having fun)<br />making plans to stay in love, but moving around just because<br /><br />waking up to better days. spending the summer in a haze.<br />making noise for you-know-who, thinking about my baby loux.<br /><br />it's getting a little complicated<br />and maybe i was never alone<br />all i know is it's getting a little complicated<br />you gotta hang loose, hang loose<br />cause maybe we're homeSHAWNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11140237454301395362noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6528992428506778724.post-50591663787385419812009-05-02T17:14:00.000-07:002009-05-02T17:15:24.879-07:00of the other;one day. i'll have written about everything.SHAWNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11140237454301395362noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6528992428506778724.post-22743396265173186682009-04-27T10:54:00.000-07:002009-04-27T10:56:29.116-07:00of the self;one day, i'll write about everything.SHAWNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11140237454301395362noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6528992428506778724.post-46732201497265188322009-04-05T00:09:00.000-07:002009-04-05T00:13:03.316-07:00cannery rowi spent the day walking around cannery row.<br />thinking of that stink, that poem.<br />of steinbeck and mack and the boys.<br /><br />it was spiritual and no one really understood.SHAWNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11140237454301395362noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6528992428506778724.post-51545806196777837522009-04-03T10:46:00.001-07:002009-04-05T00:12:49.237-07:00fridaywe spent our last hours together doing what we always do.<br />lying down and making plans.SHAWNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11140237454301395362noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6528992428506778724.post-50734204988623993882009-03-29T16:39:00.001-07:002009-03-29T16:42:22.955-07:00in montereyi think a john steinbeck saga would be great.SHAWNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11140237454301395362noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6528992428506778724.post-56483983727623319612009-03-26T16:54:00.000-07:002009-03-29T16:40:32.008-07:00new hope<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6mz5A8JYgIc/ScwV5ciKw1I/AAAAAAAAADI/ihbFVa_dc20/s1600-h/l_47ffe69b69fc4de8bb176efa9b5b38a8.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 236px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6mz5A8JYgIc/ScwV5ciKw1I/AAAAAAAAADI/ihbFVa_dc20/s320/l_47ffe69b69fc4de8bb176efa9b5b38a8.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5317649336673944402" border="0" /></a>SHAWNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11140237454301395362noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6528992428506778724.post-88681780159464011962009-03-23T13:56:00.000-07:002009-03-23T14:02:05.574-07:00prufrockwe have lingered in the<br />chambers of the sea,<br />by sea-girls wreathed with<br />seaweed red and brown,<br />till human voice wake us,<br />and we drown<br /><br />-t.s. eliotSHAWNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11140237454301395362noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6528992428506778724.post-904713994343021692009-03-22T17:59:00.001-07:002009-03-22T18:05:53.849-07:00infinencei see no harm in mexican food and a long walk after dark. can i not take my time on the Path toward the Infinite? am i not allowed a little subtlety in life?<br /><br />I need you just as you need to not understand this just as much as the leaves need to continue to fall off the trees so someone can please sweep them off the streets every Thursday between one and five. Is that not the Path toward the Infinite? Existence? My flash of the subtle.SHAWNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11140237454301395362noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6528992428506778724.post-37973934923200764552009-03-19T12:32:00.000-07:002009-03-19T12:39:46.531-07:00fridayi met a guy. he was riding his bike, but he wanted to fight. i told him "shut up and skate! cause man, there's just no way that i desire to fight a guy like you on a bike." man there's just no way.<br /><br />i just saw jason beggs. we used to be best friends (that's what i called all my friends, but that was back in 8th grade. that's when i called jason beggs, and i called all of my friends - i called them all my best friends. but that was back in the day). that was back in the day.<br /><br />i watched some mexican guys, they're playing handball outside with a beer and a light. it must be friday again. that's right, cause friday is when they play their handball outside with a beer and a light, all the mexican guys. all the mexican guys with a beer and a light.SHAWNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11140237454301395362noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6528992428506778724.post-20573303036246476912009-03-16T13:11:00.000-07:002009-03-16T13:18:01.189-07:00sleeping overashes to ashes & dust to dust<br />we shall return to the sea<br />dust it will settle, and then all will see!<br />(if death is ready for me)<br /><br />and if i am wanted in heaven or hell<br />either way, i will be free.SHAWNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11140237454301395362noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6528992428506778724.post-36769496298129438492009-02-23T13:46:00.000-08:002009-02-23T13:57:00.099-08:00the desert & the weekendWell, plans may have changed.<br /><br />From everything I understand of myself now, Brother will be recording the next record/EP in the Mojave Desert. A weekend trip with the good friends; tents and the night sky.<br /><br />guitars & trumpets/tambourines & shakers/thrills & nudity/the desert & the weekend.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6mz5A8JYgIc/SaMbf-P5UlI/AAAAAAAAAB8/ldH6FvHryZs/s1600-h/mojave_desert_4.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 224px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6mz5A8JYgIc/SaMbf-P5UlI/AAAAAAAAAB8/ldH6FvHryZs/s320/mojave_desert_4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306115022072140370" border="0" /></a>SHAWNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11140237454301395362noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6528992428506778724.post-86403373814243264312009-02-18T16:15:00.000-08:002009-02-23T13:57:18.590-08:00new yearit's been twelve long months with girls and beer and war<br />we all fell in love with tattoos and San Francisco.<br />we kept waking up with more weight upon our shoulders<br />(we found out soon enough that's what it's like to get older)<br /><br />it's been one great night! my brother kissed a girl.<br />we took photographs like it was the end of the world.<br />every one of us saw our faces in a stranger, cause every one of us was realistic of the future.<br /><br />it's been too damn cold for a night in the golden city<br />but i stayed bundled up cause i knew i had it in me.<br />(and i gave up my coat cause i had thrills to keep me warm)<br />(and i gave up my ghost cause i knew i had been reborn)<br />----------------------------------<br />and there were fireworks yes there were fireworks<br />(so loud)<br />and they were red and white cause it was midnight<br />(so loud)<br />and they were all around my friends were all around<br />(so loud)<br />it was another year i felt a little weird.<br /><br /><br /><br />i'm not ready for a new year.<br />but i am running towards the new year.SHAWNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11140237454301395362noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6528992428506778724.post-18308244307467491382009-02-09T13:22:00.000-08:002009-02-23T13:57:23.934-08:00west coasti fall asleep on my back, half-consciously intact<br />but i'll sing all things must pass when i'm able<br />when i'm able<br /><br />and i stumble in my fright and it's cancer on my mind<br />but if i'm peaceful when i die, get my good side<br />get my good side<br /><br />R.C.E and I go out.<br />"Is this The Planets?" he shouts.<br />we are pure and we are loud on the west coast<br />on the west coast<br /><br />we are howling through our sides<br />a brief history of time.<br />and bombastic weekend nights with my best friends<br /><br />when i'm with my best friends.SHAWNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11140237454301395362noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6528992428506778724.post-88440008434945700022009-02-04T12:37:00.000-08:002009-02-23T13:57:29.937-08:00all our friends in different clothesstill hang out on the weekends. these night are very long<br />(and nothing ever was this easy)<br />we are trying to stay young.<br />like that time we went to uptown, cause you knew i'd drive you home.<br />and then we hung out all last summer<br />with all our friends in different clothes.<br /><br />still riding our bikes like it was 2002<br />and i dont know who i am<br />and i told you i liked blonde hair<br />but not for all the love in the world.<br /><br />now we're people watching people<br />with bigger hands and no reward<br />but still fucking around like it was 2002<br />and i dont know who i am<br /><br />but we've got sweat on our foreheads<br />talk in the bedroom<br />long-lasting goodbyes in the cold<br />and we've got our hands in our pockets<br />eyes on the rebound<br />doubts with religion and ourselves.SHAWNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11140237454301395362noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6528992428506778724.post-17798117935807896492009-01-23T13:30:00.001-08:002009-02-23T13:57:35.155-08:00i have seen the future and it is goodBrother is entering capital territory.<br />Show at the Roxy on February 21st.<br />New Brother EP to be released in March.<br />All is well.<br /><br />We're working with some experimental music for the next record. Sometimes these things happen to you.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6mz5A8JYgIc/SXo4t8kapvI/AAAAAAAAABU/oHujKjDzpQQ/s1600-h/evolution.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 117px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6mz5A8JYgIc/SXo4t8kapvI/AAAAAAAAABU/oHujKjDzpQQ/s320/evolution.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5294606673931577074" border="0" /></a>SHAWNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11140237454301395362noreply@blogger.com1