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Yeah, pretty involved. Not hard, just a lot of steps... Infusing veg oil with bay leaf and crushed red pepper, browning lots of onion in the oil, then in with the tomatoes, garlic, garam masala, coriander, chili, cumin, beans, and some water. Then lots and lots and lots of simmering/reduction (I actually had to add about 2-3 cups water along the way) until it was thick enough and the beans were cooked through, and chopped fresh cilantro at the end. All in all, about 4.5 hours of work/attention.

― dan m, Thursday, 19 April 2007 17:19 (nineteen years ago)

MAGIC salad???

― Jordan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 17:21 (nineteen years ago)

it disappears!

― kenan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 17:22 (nineteen years ago)

It's not magic unless you can make it reappear.

― Jordan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 17:23 (nineteen years ago)

xp

that seems to be the case with a lot of indian recipes...lots of spices and simmering. we made an aloo ghobi in my apartment a few weeks back that was good, but in the end it was concluded that the recipe wasn't worth the work.

i need to get me some garlic pickle from devon street. instant spicy indian goodness on rice.

― JuliaA, Thursday, 19 April 2007 17:24 (nineteen years ago)

xpost Yeah I guess you're right. If you saw a woman in half and can't put her back together, it's not magic.

― kenan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 17:25 (nineteen years ago)

Voice of experience?

― Jordan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 17:27 (nineteen years ago)

"This isn't magic."

:|
B|

"It's murder."

― kenan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 17:28 (nineteen years ago)

magical dressing i should say that has blue cheese in it (but not blue cheese dressing)

i just finished eating it was wonderful

there is also cheesecake (which I love) but someone called me "fat........tire" today at work. He said he forgot the name of the beer but the "fat" portion hung out there for a while. i dont think i like my new nickname

― coco, Thursday, 19 April 2007 17:30 (nineteen years ago)

you should punch him, and then go have a piece of cheesecake.

― JuliaA, Thursday, 19 April 2007 17:32 (nineteen years ago)

Why was he calling you Fat Tire anyway? I regret not drinking a FT last weekend, I don't see it around here much.

(nb u r not fat)

― Jordan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 17:34 (nineteen years ago)

"Fat Tire"? He's calling a girl "Fat Tire"? Is he not from this planet? WTF?

― kenan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 17:37 (nineteen years ago)

"Say there, Baboon Butt. What?! It's an affectionate nickname!"

― kenan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 17:38 (nineteen years ago)

He knows I like Fat Tire but we have not gone out for beers in a while so why start now?

i think he is gone for the day, but he will most certainly pay for this when I see him next

― coco, Thursday, 19 April 2007 17:48 (nineteen years ago)

I KNOW! That is what I told him!

― coco, Thursday, 19 April 2007 17:49 (nineteen years ago)

I had a fat tire last week at Green Eye.

I can't hc it up because of the show we're playing. We're supposed to go on pretty early though (9?), so if anyone wanted, they could come to our show then go to hc. *cough cough* If they wanted...

― KitCat, Thursday, 19 April 2007 17:49 (nineteen years ago)

where are you playing?

i probably won't be going out because i can either afford cigarettes or i can grab a couple beers but i can't do both ;_;

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 19 April 2007 17:52 (nineteen years ago)

Darkroom.

― KitCat, Thursday, 19 April 2007 17:56 (nineteen years ago)

Guys it's getting nice outside.

― n/a, Thursday, 19 April 2007 18:07 (nineteen years ago)

YES YES YES

― kenan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 18:07 (nineteen years ago)

Like I just went outside to move my car and I didn't wear my jacket and yet I didn't freeze.

― n/a, Thursday, 19 April 2007 18:07 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, very. I just took a long lunch walk up to 55th and back, the sun is great.

― dan m, Thursday, 19 April 2007 18:08 (nineteen years ago)

shit, you're playing at darkroom? what time? the sound there was surprisingly good to me.

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 19 April 2007 18:12 (nineteen years ago)

PLUS IT'S RIGHT ACROSS THE STREET FROM MY LOCAL.

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 19 April 2007 18:12 (nineteen years ago)

I thought Darkroom was a dancey club? It sure seemed like it the one time I was dragged there.

xpost stop it you guys are tempting me

― dan m, Thursday, 19 April 2007 18:13 (nineteen years ago)

dan, normally it is but on thursday's they have decent rock bands. i saw h3adache city there with submarine races. i believe the night ended with jered from the ponys sliding across the floor on his knees playing air guitar. it was like something out of footloose.

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 19 April 2007 18:15 (nineteen years ago)

It's a nice room. We played there once a couple of years ago on what had to have been the coldest day of the year. One of the bands cancelled. Literally the only people we played for were Jody and Joren Nueva Cat, Ben's gf Amy, the other band and the staff of the Darkroom.

It was also a notable show because we had a female soundguy. This was the only time this has happened to me.

― n/a, Thursday, 19 April 2007 18:37 (nineteen years ago)

is a female sounguy analagous to a male soundgal?

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 19 April 2007 18:39 (nineteen years ago)

Isn't Sarah's friend Sarah a soundguy? I think she did sound for MDBB once (at one of our worst shows ever).

xpost, all soundpeople are soundguys regardless of sex

― Jordan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 18:40 (nineteen years ago)

I think Nick means he had both male and female organs.

― kenan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 18:40 (nineteen years ago)

xpost Yep, she is.

― KitCat, Thursday, 19 April 2007 18:41 (nineteen years ago)

Also, tusks and a trunk. A female soundguy pachyderm.

― kenan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 18:41 (nineteen years ago)

soundgal

― n/a, Thursday, 19 April 2007 18:44 (nineteen years ago)

soundbabe

― kenan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 18:45 (nineteen years ago)

soundbroad -- not to be confused with the soundboard in front her. The broad is behind the board.

― kenan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 18:45 (nineteen years ago)

One of the best ways ever to fuck with a soundguy is to mime talking into the microphone like it doesn't work, then make confused faces and pointing gestures at the mic.

― dan m, Thursday, 19 April 2007 18:47 (nineteen years ago)

That's a recipe for feedback.

― Jordan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 18:50 (nineteen years ago)

Our favorite soundguy is this older guy named Gary who used to work at Gunth3r Murphy's but now works at B3at Kitchen. He's just really sarcastic and he's constantly complaining about some other show he worked where the bands all brought Marshall stacks to play some tiny bar and he's really grizzled and he's one of those people that is really negative all the time but in a way where it seems like he's actually a pretty together guy who just thinks it's really funny to be miserable about everything. He's really entertaining. The thing is, I don't think he's a very good soundguy.

― n/a, Thursday, 19 April 2007 18:56 (nineteen years ago)

All-time crankiest occupations:

1) ????
2) soundguy
3) studio engineer

― Jordan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 18:59 (nineteen years ago)

1) crank shaft manufacturer

― n/a, Thursday, 19 April 2007 19:00 (nineteen years ago)

rimshot.jpg

― Jordan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 19:00 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/40/MPW-20391

― Jordan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 19:01 (nineteen years ago)

There is a soundgal that works at the Empty Bottle and Schubas (or maybe she was just filling in at Schubas with Le Frenchie was on vacation). I forget her name. She's really nice, though.

― jaymc, Thursday, 19 April 2007 19:02 (nineteen years ago)

Frenchy at Schuba's = "F@b"

When the FFs were just starting out, we practiced a few times in his basement, which he rents out as a rehearsal space. The last time we were supposed to go there, we found out we had gotten our own space so we just didn't show up at his space. However, there was a $20 fee if you didn't cancel before an hour before your reserved time. Sarah kept trying to go back and pay him the cancellation fee but I wouldn't do it. Flash-forward to last year when we played at Schuba's, Frenchy was our sound guy and we got really paranoid he would recognize us and a) demand his $20 or b) intentionally fuck with the sound to "get back at us." It was pretty ludicrous.

― n/a, Thursday, 19 April 2007 19:05 (nineteen years ago)

Jordan, don't tease.

― Laurel, Thursday, 19 April 2007 19:07 (nineteen years ago)

Haha. REVERB REVENGE!

― Jordan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 19:07 (nineteen years ago)

Our sound guy in Grand Rapids last week told us to call him "Hillbilly."

― n/a, Thursday, 19 April 2007 19:07 (nineteen years ago)

Chev Chelios looks like sissy compared to Chris Chelios, 'specially if you take that gun out of his hand.

― dan m, Thursday, 19 April 2007 19:08 (nineteen years ago)

Do you have a bald British dude crush, Laurel?

― Jordan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 19:08 (nineteen years ago)

#1 crankiest profession is surely chef, no?

― kenan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 19:09 (nineteen years ago)

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