The two hosts of The Best Show are in town this weekend, but on Sunday night, Portland's own Scharpling and Wurster—or maybe our Tim and Eric?—are hosting a live version of their radio show. Heavy Breather is an "off balance" radio show hosted by musicians Charlie Salas Humara and Marius Libman, who, among other musical projects, play together in the band Sun Angle (which is now on hiatus, due to drummer Papi Fimbres' move to Germany). Salas Humara and Libman's weekly show, which airs on XRAY.fm and is also available as a podcast, is digressive, discursive, indescribably bizarre, and hilarious. Despite its Wikipedia page being taken down (booooo), the show has earned a fervent following, locally and beyond, and they've begun taping a television version of Heavy Breather, which I'm told will air on cable access at some point. In the meantime, the TV show's first episode will receive its premiere this Sunday at a live event at the Hollywood Theatre.

Heavy Breather Tonight! will feature the pair's usual unshaven rigmarole—chat-show banter, disassembled to grotesque extremes—and Sunday's premiere will naturally feature Salas Humara and Libman in person, presumably standing or sitting in front of or near the screen. They'll also show videos from local director Whitey McConnaughy (who did all those great Red Fang videos) and a new piece from Andrew Brobek and Matty Goldsmith that's called "Rainbow Chasers."

It goes down Sunday, August 30 at 9:30 pm at the Hollywood Theatre and it costs five bucks; you can get advance tickets here. In the meantime, check out Heavy Breather's original radio-show recipe on XRAY every Tuesday from 6 to 8 pm. And check out the show's archives here.

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