Theecarey's Journal

07/27/2009 01:40 #49392

Buffalo Infringement Festival '09

eh, I haven't fully looked at what is going on yet, but the current(?) Artvoice caught my attention. So I am just taking a look now (online- as I left my paper copy on friends coffee table) to see what events I'd like to check out. I am sure there is something!

Anyone have plans to go to/have gone to any of the many many many Infringement activities?

Buffalo Infringement Festival '09
Thursday, July 23-Sunday, August 2, 2009

Over 500 events! Over 240 plays, bands, art installations, films, parties, etcetera! Over 40 venues (and non-venues) in and around the Allentown neighborhood of Buffalo, NY!
ART UNDER THE RADAR

Every summer, the streets of the Allentown neighborhood of Buffalo, NY come alive with scores of events by local and visiting theatre and dance companies, puppeteers, media artists, poets, comics, musicians, cabaret acts, digital designers, and miscellaneous insurrectionists. The annual Buffalo Infringement Festival provides artists and audiences of all backgrounds the chance to come together, take chances, push boundaries, and explore uncharted territory because exciting art can happen anywhere, anytime, without a blockbuster budget. (Or any budget at all, for that matter.)

mrmike - 07/27/09 07:18
went to a porch concert last night :)

07/24/2009 01:13 #49366

Asian experimentation- ideas, please!

as part of a date, we will be hitting up some Asian markets and finding ingredients to experiment with for dinner. I'm not sure what he may have in mind, but I would like to go with a few ideas in my head as well. My mind is seriously drawing a blank.
Any meal/recipe suggestions- that aren't insanely complicated or time exhaustive? We both have an open-minded palette, if that helps.

and yeh, we'll have delivery menus on hand just in case.. haha

theecarey - 07/25/09 23:03
mmmm those summer rolls sound fantastic which I definitely intend to make sometime. I printed out both of your awesome ideas, (e:jbeatty) and (e:janelle). However, we went with a pork entree. Nothing 'fancy' as we pretty much winged it when we headed out to a couple of markets to check things out. I love scouring those markets on occasion, and it had been awhile. We constantly got so side tracked looking at everything (ever see those expensive boxes of bird nests ranging in price from $189.00-$429.00) and talking, that at some point we decided on quickly grabbing some veggies and spices and lychees. Pork strips, scallions, garlic, red pepper, onion, and several spices and a few oils that made for something very tasty. All this over rice. As a shortcut, we steamed a package of leek dumplings. Next time, we will have a tighter plan for what to make, but it was yummy and lots of fun nonetheless :)

janelle - 07/25/09 09:14
So??????????? What did you make?

hodown - 07/24/09 17:25
Summer rolls are SO good- but super labor intensive- I make them a few times a year. I'd suggest leaving out the pork and just boiling the shrimp and cutting them in half- it works better that way.

jbeatty - 07/24/09 10:56
Goi Cuon-(Vietnamese Summer Rolls) would be a fun dish to make together. It looks really impressive and tastes great. You can put whatever you want in these but here is what I use.

Shopping list:

Circular rice wrappers (banh trang)
Rice vermicelli
Raw Shrimp(deveined and peeled)
Pork(any cut but tenderloin is cheap, cut into small pieces)
Mint
Thai basil
Lettuce (any kind)
Carrots(julienned)
Garlic
Chives
Rice Vinegar
Fish sauce (nuoc mam)
Hoisin Sauce
Sriracha
Peanuts

Take some water and a couple splashes of rice vinegar and boil. Add shrimp till cooked. remove liquid, but save it. Use the same pan heat it add some chopped garlic, stir fry for a minute, add pork and sear it. Add fish sauce and a little bit of the reverved liquid. Cook until pork is done. Cool the shrimp and pork.

Cook the rice noodles till they are tender, shock them in ice water.

For the rice paper I just soak paper towels and alternate wet towel and rice paper. It only takes 1 or two minutes before they will be flimsy enough to roll.

Take pork, shrimp, noodles, mint, thai basil, carrots, lettuce, chives and roll together like an egg roll.

For dipping sauce: 3/4 hoisin, 1/4 sriracha with some crushed peanuts on top.

For simplicity you cook cook the pork and shrimp any way you like, or you could subtract pork altogether.

janelle - 07/24/09 10:07
Get canned rambutan as a side dish. It's a type of fruit and you can find it canned in stores that sell Vietnamese food.

A simple Vietnamese side dish is to get corn and grill it. Parboil it first and then grill it. Near the end of grilling it, brush scallion oil on it and then sprinkle with salt. Scallion oil is made by chopping up three to four scallions into small pieces. Heat one cup of oil in a pan on the stove. When hot, throw in the scallions, stir for 10 seconds, then take off the heat.

Pick up coconut milk in a can. Sautee lemon grass, chicken, ginger, then add coconut milk and curry seasoning for a Southeast Asian curry chicken. Add red pepper flakes to give it a kick. Or try making a soup using coconut milk, chicken stock, chicken or scallops, and add seasonings.

Have fun!!!!

07/19/2009 13:00 #49331

fluffysimo, cannoli & one special prize

I was at the Italian fest for a little while yesterday with great company, a friend from I haven't seen since highschool/early college- it was entertaining to catch up with him. Good stuff! We enjoyed a giant slice of pizza and a cup of lemonade while playing a few games.

I was given the fish won (from tossing ping pong balls successfully into little glass bowls).

Meet: "Fluffysimo" (originally "fluffy" for all of two seconds then I was interrupted with, "Fluffy?!?! we're at the Italian fest, Carey- they need names in honor of the festival" so I proceeded with naming them, Fluffysimo) and "Cannoli".

I don't imagine they will live long, I have yet to see one stick around for more than a couple of days.

Please live little gold feeder fish. Please kitties don't eat them. That is not a bowl of fish soup.

As well as having the honor in selecting a large stuffed animal after getting the dart into the approved section of the board. I didn't even try the game, as my dart skills are more likely to injure someone than actually win anything. Alas, the giant, flat, pillow-like (and super soft) stuffed pug brought me quite a bit of humor (it is by far bigger than any real pug could ever hope to be).

But even more so, the real reason behind this post, was the humor in what I spotted among all the stuffed animals and other trinkets I saw spread out for prizes....

This is a sweet picture. The man behind the counter, collecting money, a partial display of stuffed animals.. and one more thing..

take a look--(edit)back ~~row~~ counter, which item does not belong?

is that one of the prize options? ;)

that was one huge bottle of pills- just out in the open.. crazy!

theecarey - 07/19/09 23:40
mmm yeh, the bottle of pills is it. A giant bottle of pills, actually. that was back row, but maybe worded wrong now that I look again at the picture- front row was cut off more than I thought.

metalpeter - 07/19/09 14:01
Glad you had a good time. I see in the front row a bottle of pills but what is in the back row?

07/16/2009 13:37 #49307

Clinton and P/Funk

So I imagine tonight will be insane at TATS...

Seems more people I know are going, than not.

curious.. are you going?

I haven't hit up a TATS concerts yet, so if I am going to go, this is thee one!

There are only two more after this one, too. So many changes..

mrmike - 07/18/09 13:09
Missed everybody but Enknot. It was jammed, but in an amiable sort of way, not the typical TATS crowd

theecarey - 07/18/09 02:53
(e:lauren), my friends and I never saw him either. I stood on my tippy toes thinking I could catch a glimpse of someone, but it never happened. Since you confirmed that you and (e:felly) were there, then I am sure it was her that I spotted. yay!

metalpeter - 07/17/09 19:43
Glad Everyone one who went Had a great time I assume. In terms of breathing in smoke hey sometimes you breath in the bad smoke and sometimes the good it all depends on who is around you. That is true for other things to. If you want Beer of any kind you need to go with multiple people so that your spot doesn't go away assuming you can find your way back. I like crowds when the crowd around me is ladies. But I also need my own personal space also so I get the crowd thing. I wanted to go but didn't and glad I didn't in the end.

lauren - 07/17/09 12:15
(e:felly) and I were there...and it was just tooo crazy! We did run into (E:heidi), amazingly enough. I was disappointed because I didn't event get to see George...I saw what might have been him wearing a rainbow clown wig, but I can't be sure. By the time we found a place that wasn't completely inundated with people, we couldn't here the music... sigh.

jason - 07/17/09 09:08
Carey, I went to Italian Festival. I knew P-Funk would be mobbed. Crowds for me are okay, but someone being so much up your ass they might as well be a hemorrhoid? Not my cup of tea. Anyway, Italian festival was fun, no blowout haircuts this year though that I saw.

paul - 07/17/09 01:53
It was nice seeing you guys.

theecarey - 07/17/09 01:45
it sucks so much (e:tinypliny)--yes, silly me, I kinda forgot about the whole smoking thing. It has been a long time since I have been around anyone, anywhere that smoked (or at least had ability to walk far away). So naturally, in a giant tightly packed crowd replete with smokers, I probably breathed in a packs worth of cigarettes. yuck :(
I usually get itchy face, sneeze like crazy,headaches, irritated eyes, throat and mood. Sometimes nausea, too. The wind was blowing and the most I experienced (beyond annoyance, heh), is the itchy face and sneezing. Slightly headachey now though..
There have been times growing up/teens/twenties that I have wished it weren't so bothersome, but then again I'd have likely have been around it a lot more much to the detriment of my health. I love my extremely healthy lung capacity.

but on the positive side of going, amazingly, I ran into plenty of friends of which included (e:enknot), (e:terry), (e:paul), (e:vincent), (e:pyrcedgrrl), hmmmm.. (e:felly), were you there by chance?

did I forget anyone? anyone who went see me from afar?

as expected it was indeed flooded with people, (e:jason)- did you venture out? I was clean heading out but was dirty leaving. It was so packed it could have been an orgy.

tinypliny - 07/16/09 18:07
3/4ths of my office is going. I am part of the remaning 1/4th. I usually want to kill people when they smoke around me and I am forced to inhale the noxious smoke just because I am in the vicinity. I don't want to go to jail.

theecarey - 07/16/09 17:01
I'm headed out there now. I am with ya, Jason.. the crowds can be TOO much.

jason - 07/16/09 16:36
I was thinking of going, but maybe not because it's the one I know for sure will be flooded with people. I have proximity issues with strangers.

heidi - 07/16/09 16:26
Yep, I'll be there with A and his drummer.

mrmike - 07/16/09 15:32
I think I need to venture to this one. The concerts with a price tag on the waterfront have a few intriguing names, but today I may have to sneak down and have a gander.

07/14/2009 16:04 #49291

HP and the Half Blood Prince tonight
Category: movies

For those into HP, the new movie comes out tomorrow! finally!

Well, I am going to see Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince tonight at 11:59pm at the Regal theater on Niagara Falls Blvd (right off the 190, Home Depot lot). In case anyone is itching to go and does not have to be up super early, please join! (e:pyrcedgrrl) and I will be there with our wands and long trailing Hogwarts scarves.

"Not!"

(I'm a fan, but not that much a fan!)

I would normally see it at the IMAX, but I believe it isn't going to be there for a couple of more weeks? yes, I know, what is waiting a little while longer after waiting TWO years to see this FINALLY come to the theater? Nothing..

but I want to see it NOW! and I rarely get to the theater..

so, tonight 11:59 :)

hehe

I read the books, and as the characters and story becomes more mature and involved, I am glad to see the movies going along with it. From the few trailers I have seen, this movie should not disappoint. Looks creepy :)

metalpeter - 07/17/09 19:52
Well hearing about that on the news makes it hard to forget, HA.

theecarey - 07/15/09 23:55
hahaha! The vibrating brooms- wow, you remembered that, (e:metalpeter)

metalpeter - 07/15/09 19:40
Yes but the important question is did they let people in with their vibrating Brooms, HA. Hope you both had a great time. I have never been to one of those midnight or late night showings, not sure if I could sit and watch a movie that late.

theecarey - 07/15/09 12:52
(e:dimartiste) the last book, Deathly Hallows will be transferred to audiences in two installments. So two more movies!

I too have read the books (other than the last, which I hope to do very soon). As you know, the Half Blood Prince had a lot going on conceptually. The movie cut out A LOT,(and added a couple of scenes- that worked) but it is understandable and to be expected given the complexity of the sixth book. I loved it and want to see it again. There were a lot of good laughs to be had, too :)

go see it and enjoy!

dimartiste - 07/15/09 12:13
Mom and I are planning on going to see it. We might wait for the IMAX. Not sure if dad will want to go. Larry will wait until its either on DVD or on tv. LAst time he went to the theater Bamabi was first released. Mom, Larry (my next door neighbor) and myself read the books. Yes, I agree that they stayed true to the characters and I am thoroughly enjoying that. I am not looking forward to the end, if it is like the book, but everything comes to an end. Did you read the article in the Buffalo News? Sunday I think gave a recap, but also mentioned 8 movies. There are only 7 books. Do you know why that is? Just curious.

theecarey - 07/15/09 04:55
there were a lot of people there. Five theater rooms undoubtedly completely full. The parking lot was packed and it was crazy to see so many people at one time, at 3:00 am, on a weekday.