Thinisu / Buckets & Batteries movie (Summer '03?)
Thinisu Indo-American restaurant was located on Easton Ave in New Brunswick from approx 2003-2008-ish. It quickly became a band favorite for their econo and often vegetarian friendly Indian dishes. It was only a block or two from 1/2 the band's apartment on Courtlandt St. Ravi, the proprietor and chef (who's picture I misplaced) invited Buckets & Batteries to come play in front of the restaurant for food on a warm day in '03 or '04. I don't think he knew we'd be there for breakfast, lunch and dinner. The band's line up morphed throughout resulting in an endless 'music'. We did a constant improvised set of what we called 'junk jazz', as explained in the article and movie in this post. Ravi surprised us (or at least me) by making a movie of the event in which he used only live edits and no post-production. It turned out pretty nice and a bunch of old friends of this era make appearances throughout. A few years after the Buckets day lo...
