The Brother Circus

getting back to reality

2009-09-15T01:17:00.000-07:00

on my feet, of this world; pining for the here and now.

2009-09-10T11:36:00.001-07:00

doesn't your best friend have an opposite personality?

2009-08-26T12:11:00.001-07:00

i don't want to hear it

2009-08-09T13:15:00.000-07:00

http://twitter.com/shawncircus

bread & water

2009-08-05T16:06:00.000-07:00

Drove through California, found my home
I kissed the best looking woman I have ever known.
It was a quiet revolution in my head;
I fell for eight or fifteen girls, cause I had water but they had bread.

But no one loves me just like you.

Spent three nights on a beach and stole some rum
I was difficult and rude, but I sure as hell was fun.
But I know myself when I hit bottom, I laid there for a year
Lost my head and lost my other, got it back but shit was weird.

Still no one loved me just like you.

I got my bread & water.
I got my bread & water.
Thank God for bread & water.

i know a lot of crazy girls

2009-08-03T21:35:00.000-07:00

i've met a lot of good looking women
i gave them all the time of day
i'd say a handful are my good friends
(but i know a few who want me dead)

one of them told me she was sober
but all of them really liked my mom
but my mom was smart & my mom, she told me
"son, you know a lot of crazy girls."

hard at work

2009-07-29T12:13:00.001-07:00

coney island of the mind

2009-06-16T02:28:00.000-07:00

Oh it was a spring

for a friend

2009-06-10T16:38:00.000-07:00

i've been thinking about a friend
hoping you're alright
it's not your job that makes us friends
more than it's the girls that made us guys

remember when we found out together
that's it's not all about being right.
and remember when we held it together
on our two feet in the middle of the night.

i've been talking to myself
hoping that's alright
cause it's not plans that make us change
it's probably something existential in our minds

because it's never been about all the women
who shook our hands as friends and gave us wives
i think feuerbach would probably say about us
experience and progress saved our lives!

easy does it.

complicated

2009-05-29T15:11:00.000-07:00

growing up but staying young (sleeping in and having fun)
making plans to stay in love, but moving around just because

waking up to better days. spending the summer in a haze.
making noise for you-know-who, thinking about my baby loux.

it's getting a little complicated
and maybe i was never alone
all i know is it's getting a little complicated
you gotta hang loose, hang loose
cause maybe we're home

of the other;

2009-05-02T17:14:00.000-07:00

one day. i'll have written about everything.

of the self;

2009-04-27T10:54:00.000-07:00

one day, i'll write about everything.

cannery row

2009-04-05T00:09:00.000-07:00

i spent the day walking around cannery row.
thinking of that stink, that poem.
of steinbeck and mack and the boys.

it was spiritual and no one really understood.

friday

2009-04-03T10:46:00.001-07:00

we spent our last hours together doing what we always do.
lying down and making plans.

in monterey

2009-03-29T16:39:00.001-07:00

i think a john steinbeck saga would be great.

new hope

2009-03-26T16:54:00.000-07:00

prufrock

2009-03-23T13:56:00.000-07:00

we have lingered in the
chambers of the sea,
by sea-girls wreathed with
seaweed red and brown,
till human voice wake us,
and we drown

-t.s. eliot

infinence

2009-03-22T17:59:00.001-07:00

i 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?

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.

friday

2009-03-19T12:32:00.000-07:00

i 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.

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.

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.

sleeping over

2009-03-16T13:11:00.000-07:00

ashes to ashes & dust to dust
we shall return to the sea
dust it will settle, and then all will see!
(if death is ready for me)

and if i am wanted in heaven or hell
either way, i will be free.

the desert & the weekend

2009-02-23T13:46:00.000-08:00

Well, plans may have changed.

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.

guitars & trumpets/tambourines & shakers/thrills & nudity/the desert & the weekend.

new year

2009-02-18T16:15:00.000-08:00

it's been twelve long months with girls and beer and war
we all fell in love with tattoos and San Francisco.
we kept waking up with more weight upon our shoulders
(we found out soon enough that's what it's like to get older)

it's been one great night! my brother kissed a girl.
we took photographs like it was the end of the world.
every one of us saw our faces in a stranger, cause every one of us was realistic of the future.

it's been too damn cold for a night in the golden city
but i stayed bundled up cause i knew i had it in me.
(and i gave up my coat cause i had thrills to keep me warm)
(and i gave up my ghost cause i knew i had been reborn)
----------------------------------
and there were fireworks yes there were fireworks
(so loud)
and they were red and white cause it was midnight
(so loud)
and they were all around my friends were all around
(so loud)
it was another year i felt a little weird.

i'm not ready for a new year.
but i am running towards the new year.

west coast

2009-02-09T13:22:00.000-08:00

i fall asleep on my back, half-consciously intact
but i'll sing all things must pass when i'm able
when i'm able

and i stumble in my fright and it's cancer on my mind
but if i'm peaceful when i die, get my good side
get my good side

R.C.E and I go out.
"Is this The Planets?" he shouts.
we are pure and we are loud on the west coast
on the west coast

we are howling through our sides
a brief history of time.
and bombastic weekend nights with my best friends

when i'm with my best friends.

all our friends in different clothes

2009-02-04T12:37:00.000-08:00

still hang out on the weekends. these night are very long
(and nothing ever was this easy)
we are trying to stay young.
like that time we went to uptown, cause you knew i'd drive you home.
and then we hung out all last summer
with all our friends in different clothes.

still riding our bikes like it was 2002
and i dont know who i am
and i told you i liked blonde hair
but not for all the love in the world.

now we're people watching people
with bigger hands and no reward
but still fucking around like it was 2002
and i dont know who i am

but we've got sweat on our foreheads
talk in the bedroom
long-lasting goodbyes in the cold
and we've got our hands in our pockets
eyes on the rebound
doubts with religion and ourselves.

i have seen the future and it is good

2009-01-23T13:30:00.001-08:00

Brother is entering capital territory.
Show at the Roxy on February 21st.
New Brother EP to be released in March.
All is well.

We're working with some experimental music for the next record. Sometimes these things happen to you.

the tavern

2008-12-05T12:29:00.000-08:00

this is going to be ridiculous.

lou reed is dead

2008-11-25T17:50:00.000-08:00

i have prepared the eternal typewriter.
but in my fears, we will not look back as our houses burn to the ground
and we have rescued our children and our internet and our mortgage
but not our pens. and not our keys. and not our american flags.

rueful, i will step inside amongst fiery ruins of my 1988 citzenship which i have yet to revise.
rueful, i will sell all my records.
rueful, i will telephone lester bangs.

lou reed is dead.
mick jagger is not.
david bowie is married.
and conor oberst is not my saviour.
But The Flaming Lips have taken Acid, I think we will be OK.
(if this is good enough for god, then i am ok)
and i am cool.

surrealism FTW

2008-11-24T10:40:00.000-08:00

album cover, probably.

Hollywood and the Big Lights and the Brother Hipsters

2008-11-19T15:48:00.000-08:00

So last night's show in LA featured a lot of witty banter, thanks. Maybe it's all the Walden I've been reading, but regardless. Although I think we realized last night that Brother certainly needs a bigger stage from here/on/out. As Paul Davies has taught us all, energy needs to move. Uncertainly. and Brother is energy. Deduction!

P.S. FACT (courtesy of the Al Gore's Internet) Hollywood has its own Chamber of Commerce, but is still a part of Los Angeles, CA. It is a district of LA.

Shawn

Vote

2008-11-03T11:04:00.000-08:00

"Do or do not. There is no try."

-Yoda

First Blood

2008-10-28T00:35:00.000-07:00

Well here's the heavy-handed bio/description for Brother:

Brother is a folk rock band hailing form Southern California. Singing of the human condition and the epoch of youth, the folk rock family circus stands in a puddle of realism and conscience. By combining the efforts of Bob Dylan and the Beach Boys, Brother welcomes the relevant past with a high fidelity for these modern days.

Obviously.
Well, Brother has some exciting news in the area of news, but if you're reading this, you're probably well informed. Good.

Um, watch Raging Bull.

Shawn