whoooah....this should be a multipost day, time will tell, there are many thoughts rolling around in this noggin...

so my farewell to smelly.......one of my favorite people ever
as she moves herself to the other coast and i now have yet another city to go visit :)
here are some pictures of our short little 35mm film shoot from near a week and a half ago
enjoy......
OH JOHNNY, NO!


below is the one and only smelly flusher, aka kellys slusher....please find here amazing person on the world wide intraweb here

so the cafe i frequent and sometimes (have) work(ed) at is having a halloween short film festival....this is the flyer. should anyone be interested, please please pass it on or submit! also check out cafe grumpy on the internet....

today is a big day for the kevateria and cohorts Smelly and George Lyon......please check back soon for pics of a short film we three are doing together, today, for a silly little song called "oh johnny, no" made by the infamous and wonderful Smelly and the kevateria. tschuess!!

wouldn't it be nice to have more pictures here? i'll have to see about that. i suppose i do own a camera......

for the first time i actually feel like i live here. yesterday i was ready to call myself a new yorker. this is interesting to me because for a while i was actually feeling more and more like an ohioan, proud to be midwest and thinking about when i would be moving back to the heimat as it were.....i am still proud to be from the midwest/great lakes...but more than ever i live here and feel like what i thought was a love/hate relationship with this city actually has nothing to do with this city. every time i'm on my roof, every time i go up in a lift 130feet and look out over this crazy place i love it, i love being here and being a part of whatever we are all trying to make this place be. what might fascinate me most about new york is that everyone is on their way somewhere and they're going there in a hurry, whether they know where it is they're going or not. they are determined. what would it be like if a majority of these people began to be in a hurry to get to a similar place, not neccessarily a physical location either but say equality. what if everyone rushed to equality, rushed to throw their televisions out their windows and all at once there was a huge crashing sound and then we all rushed to get our brooms and sweep up the pieces and while we are all sweeping we introduce ourselves to our neighbors. we said hello with congenial smiles on our faces and genuine feelings of community in our little heads. and we concerned ourselves with our community's well being, and the wages of our neighbors and we rushed to say to government 'what you are doing is against what we believe in and by golly we elected you and we did a poor job of that. we the people take responsibility for that and we the people are going to rush to change that.' and so we rush to increase the minimum wage to a livable wage, and we rush to increase access to health care and higher education, and we rushed to make our streets and environment less polluted and more breathable. and we rushed..........

welll, we might rush right past each other..........
maybe we could mosy. with a quickness :)

the kevateria was pleased to play host to a parental and sibling unit for a few days. their stay culminated in a meal cooked by the kevateria and enjoyed by the above as well as one miss of the important persuasion. this meal was picked out of a german cookbook and poorly translated by the kevateria. thanks to the sibling for picking it out, it turned out to be an excellent choice........measurements for the most part remain metric

Kokos-Mais-Gemuese
coconut-corn-vegetables (in this instance, broccoli was substituted for the corn)

serve with rice noodles

1 small fresh coconut
2-3 fresh red chillies
2 bunches broccoli
1 large handful bokchoy
2 Tbl sesame seeds
3 Tbl oil
3 cloves garlic minced
3 tsp ginger finely choped
1/8 L vegetable stock
5 Tbl soy sauce
2 Tbl sweet chilli sauce

1. open the coconut and cut the flesh out of the shell, grate into narrow pieces. rinse the chillies and cut into thin rings.

2. rinse the broccoli. cut the bokchoy into thin strips.

3. heat the wok, rost the sesame seeds and take them out.

4. heat the oil in the wok, fry the chillies, garlic and ginger. then add the coconut, allow to cook for a half a minute and add the vegie stock. allow most of the water to evaporate.

5. add the broccoli and cook for a few minutes. then mix in the bokchoy. cook all with the soy and sweet chilli sauce for a short time more. serve with the sesame seeds.

new new new..........
the kevateria gets restless. a couple weeks ago the kevateria made a not quite up to par meal for a friend and feels bad about it and has not attempted anything spectacular (as all shared meals are bound to be) for a while now. as we work that out let's consider what all has happened since the last post.

for starters, the kevateria took a trip. you may all find the blog that deals with that trip at the link in the previous post.....please refer. so i went to germany and learned among many things that i don't know as much german as i thought i did. also had the pleasure to become intermingled in a handful of wonderful lives, people who know at least three or four languages and have travelled far more than this blog's comparatively static hero (but who's comparing) and had the pleasure of making a few meals to share with amazingly generous hosts, some of whom were even patient enough to allow us to practice our own meandering german. i have inclinations that i learned something about another culture, heard interesting thoughts and comments on nationalism and anarchism alike, more frightening with regards to the former.......i would like to believe, too, that i learned about patience and observation, human beings in general and what it is to have to rebuild. reinforced during these travels was the current trend that this world is not so big as i thought it could be, though certainly there is the potential i believe now that that potential does not reside with borders and nations, our gaps traverse thought process, culture and understanding (or viewpoint). shoving the television so far in our brains (read: daily life) we leave little room for the purely rational thought necessary to begin any friendship....the recognition that she/he, too, is human and could easily have thoughts of her/his own.......certainly not everyone could fit the stereotypes we see on the tele no matter how closely they appear to fit it on first glance (i suppose since fewer people read these days it's tough to use the phrase "don't judge a book by its cover")

and to continue.....i am back at work. i think i'm enjoying having a trade, especially one that is so flexible that i can leave for a month come home and immediately get a call for work....i know for a while i was questioning what i was "doing with my life." but reasuringly enough, today as a matter of fact someone i work with who is usually my boss (about 15 years my senior) mentioned that he is attempting to piece together the next phase of his life, saying he is trying to put together a reel and might be trying for more shooting jobs and less rigging gaffer jobs.....interesting...this provokes the thought processi

and this coming weekend i'm very excited to be helping the courtlandt community gardens rebuild their treehouse. a community garden that i volunteer at, to bring you up to speed, courtlandt community garden is run in part by the MORE Gardens Coalition and i haven't been able to volunteer recently and will certainly be looking forward to getting down and dirty building a treehouse in the south bronx to the benefit of the neighborhood kids, that they can have some added activities during the summer time. maybe i'll actually put batteries in my camera and take a picture, what do ya think of that...........

willkommen, schon wieder