1. Knights of Shame by Awolnation, especially the rap part that starts at 4:44 not who sure this is but I love all the lyrics, especially the bit that goes 'life is whatever you think it is'.
2. Gogol Bordello, I'd forgotten about them and hadn't seen them live before but this concert video is so great, happy it randomly popped up after watching an Awolnation concert. Revolution is internal... Here's one of their official videos for one of my favourite songs: Start Wearing Purple
3. This youtube video on the secrets of alchemy. I assumed that alchemy was all about crazy people trying to turn lead into gold but that's actually a really literal definition of what folks were up to - apparently it's a lot to do with personal transformation. Cool.
The rest of this week's list is mostly all about Lunenburg as it was their 262nd birthday this past weekend.
4. The Lunenburg's Farmers Market! It is awesome, every Thursday 8-12. This past week I got some delicious dried mushrooms for soup and met Elizabeth Brown the woodcarver, with her awesome display of beautiful work. Really nice stuff!! and well priced for what it is!
5. The four brand new paintings that Evgenia Makogon painted for Jenny Jib and dropped off there this past week. Wow. they need to be seen in real life to be appreciated.
6. Moongrove gifts on Lincoln Street in Lunenburg. Little Mysteries in Halifax has shut unfortunately but this shop has some similar stuff including stones and incense, as well as ganesha's garden solid perfume that comes in a carved soapstone box - it's really nice.
7. Fiore Botanica these folks moved to Lunenburg from Liverpool this month and make small batch all natural skin care products. They're super knowledgeable and have lots of nice stuff. Their bath salts are untreated like grocery store salts are and are really nice and potent. I used the rosemary lime liquid hand soap at a friend's place and it smelled so nice I had to get some - monkey see, monkey do, $5 only, and they have refills too.
8. Belle Plaine
(this is a chronological list!) - so on Sunday there was a concert at
the Discord Gallery by this group from Regina! Friends of friends and a
familiar face - their awesome bass player played in an Intergalatic
Virgin show that was the last concert I saw before leaving the province
in 2008. Anyhow this group is swingingly awesome; the lead singer has a beautiful voice and they are
continuing on tour around the Maritimes with a concert in Halifax at the Company House for June 27th.
9. Ironworks Distillery. Wow I assumed this would be whiskey but they don't make whiskey at all, rather they're a small batch distillery in Lunenburg that makes really nice rum and an apple vodka among other spirits. They were giving out rum, ginger ale and lime punch samples at the Discord Gallery. Tasty, I don't drink much so I'd splash out on this stuff for sure.
10. The Discord Gallery and Discord Studio, what a nice space! Operating in what was the nicely renovated Anderson gallery of contemporary photography, this got bought by Farblack who turned the bottom into a music venue. Nice. So I did some reading up on them and their philosophy, they seem to be all about restoring heritage buildings around Lunenburg and promoting art and music. Cool.
11. Maulstaschen - homemade giant German ravioli stuffed with beef and spinach and served with mushrooms, fried onions, cheese and gravy - at the Old Black Forest Restaurant on Hwy 3 between Lunenburg and Mahone Bay. I've been trying to be more vegan and tried this with hesitation but it's super good and comes with salad
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