Thoughts that spill out of my head into the internet ether. Who am I ? I'm a juggler comedian / talent agent who works and lives near Ottawa, Canada. Want to know more. Read on.. but it's not all for the faint of heart.

Wednesday, August 24, 2005

Daredevil Chicken Club Faygo

While performing in Kingston I had the pleasure of meeting Annie from the Daredevil Chicken club. Annie was performing her solo show in which she takes on the persona of Svetlana Buttinski a Transelvanian acrobat. It's a hilarious show full of her bossing men around with a riding whip, and doing acro stunts. After one of her shows this lady came up to her, and asked her with wide eyes "Are you thirsty?" Anne replied "Why yes, I'm thirsty." Then from behind her back this lady whipps out a huge 3L bottle of Faygo (el cheapo ginger ale) and informs Anne "Here you go, you'll never be thirsty again."

Paul and I met up with her for dinner, and we ended up lugging around this giant bottle of Faygo. Since Faygo had so much mass we ended up naming him, lugging him around for our adventures, and finally chugging him without any pants on (Me, Paul, and Jonathan) at the Saturday night party. (We did have underwear, just no pants.)

That was the night I met Jonathan - the other half of the Daredevil Chicken Club. It took a little coercing from Anne to get him down to the party. Funny guy! He'd been working with Blue Man group for 6 months, and "had some disagreements with some of the choices they make in their shows".. hence the formation daredevil chicken club. My comment was "Now, I think i know my shows here, but daredevil chicken club is a pretty freaking huge departure from Blue Man Group." It is. It's great. Maybe if I'm lucky someday I can be a member of the club... although I'm not giving up chicken.

In fact the Daredevil Chicken Club sounds like it would be an excellent sandwich.

Saturday, August 20, 2005


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The Soo Buskers

Just recently back from a fun filled few days in Sault Ste Marie.

This year it was me performing as "The Cowguy." Also got this stellar review from one of the organizers.. "Multi-talented, super fun guy, Brian Wilson (AKA the Cow Guy) was our second repeat peformer at Buskerfest 2005. This time he arrived sans partner and still managed to have the impact of two performers.

Utilizing the skills he acquired through professional clown and circus training, he juggles, balances, spins, manipulates fire, jokes, makes balloon creations, plays with yo-yos, lassoo's young children and entertains like no other. He even poses for the camera at just the right moments...and he's just a really nice dude." * For more reviews of other acts, a great blogging check out http://dmhopper.blogspot.com/

I had fun in Saulte Ste Marie.. had some wicked shows. I brought Carrie up with me on this trip, as she really wanted to visit with her good friend who lives in Wawa, and to meet her friends 2 yr old daughter (who Carrie hadn't met yet.) So Carrie was stuck in Sault Ste Marie without too much to do, aside from hang out with sweaty buskers. Unfortunately Carrie was bored.

The drive up was lots of fun. Carrie was all giddy from being off work for the first time in forever, and we were full of caffeine, and having a gay ol drive up. Carrie even managed to help me write some great jokes (most of which got really good laughs in shows.) We were even making good time, until we hit the 20km to the Soo mark at which point traffic stopped dead. We were stopped, and in stop and go traffic for about 2 hours. We were pretty cranky up until the point when we passed the accident, and saw the car that had it's roof cut off. It was a thoroughly compacted compact car, and was being loaded onto a tow truck. Seeing that we realized how lucky we were to only be stuck in traffic for a few hours.

One of the highlights of the Soo busker fest was the finale show (which I had the pleasure of Mcing.) Jonny concieved this wicked routine called "Schwing Action" which was a parody of The trampoline show called "Spring Action." Jonny dug up some leotards at the worlds best Value Village. He managed to find a matching set of four.. so they were put to work with Dan, Jonny, and Reuban, goofing around on the trampoline. I kicked on "I'm too sexy" and they did their stuff.. Carrie even managed to get it on video.

Quote of the day - Dan the One man Bad "I was happy just wearing the leotards"
Reuban was heard expressing his disappointment that I wasn't in the leotards. Hey I totally would've got in there... but someone had to MC the show.

Looking forward to seeing the Soo again someday!

Wednesday, August 17, 2005

Kingston.. what kids say

Had a great run of shows at the Kingston Busker Festival. I showed up not really knowing many of the acts (many of them new to the busker festival thing, of new to Canada.) It was a cool lineup with some great acts, and great people to hang out with. I ended up hanging out all week with Paul from Trulee Odd, and Annie from the Daredevil Chicken Show, who was performing as Svetlana, the transelvanian acrobat. Her husband Jonathan came in from his shows in TO with the Blue Man group, and they had a day of Daredevil Chicken Fun, before heading to Europe. Jonathan also proved himself as an instigator.. and we all had a great Saturday night party that got a little wild.

One of the highlights of the festival included a bit in one of my shows that kind of got rained out. The torrential rain started when i was 3/4 the way through my show.. but this one bit made it all worthwhile. I was working with this really great little kid, a little boy of about 5 yrs old. He was really cute, and super into the show.. jumping up and down at the right times, really great to work with. He had a little 2-3 year old sister, an adorable little girl who was intent on shadowing her older brother. She ran up beside hima few times.. and I acknowledged her.. "Geez sweetie, you really want to help out. You don't say much though do you?" at which point she exclaimed at the top of her lungs "MY DADDY'S IN JAIL."

Hilarity ensued. After the initial shock I answered "That's too bad. You two seem nice, maybe I can be your new Daddy." Of course the mother was horrified, she ran up to drag her kids off.. i kept the son because we weren't done the routine yet, and he was great to work with.