Kensington Market

Toronto's hippie district has pedestrian Sundays regularly and about two weeks ago we went there with ISAY (International Students' Association at York), and believe me it was fun. It was rather funky, since the first thing we saw was this:

A hippied up car! Poor thing! It was full with soil and growing plants! Damn hippies! But this wasn't the only car, there was also this next one:

Basically it was full of white paint and hippie messages all over it! Damn. Oh well it amused me, I didn't really mind. I just don't like hippies. Anyway I walked around and saw many jamaican shops, cheap shoe and clothes shops, and when I mean cheap I mean bad quality. But they were ok. They looked good. Then I went by another small street, in which I saw something awesome that made me like this place even more:

"Roach'o'Rama: Serving Potheads since ah... I forget". Wow. So we have a comical subtitle for a coffee shop. And I thought I had only seen that in Family Guy or The Simpsons. Wow. Just awesome. I love this country.
This is I think the only coffee shop in the country, but you gotta bring your own pot to smoke inside. Screw Holland!
On that same street there were a lot of jamaican shops, and as I walked along it I heard some rockabilly. It sounded like The Reverend Horton Heat. I followed the noise and the music came from a live band in a pub. Awesome! No need for Fete de la Musique to have live bands in the streets, bitches! I told you Canada was a free country! After they played, during their break, I went to see them to buy their CDs. They loved me for a bit, and I can tell you their music is good. Some good rockabilly!
On that same street some dude was promoting his artwork. You can see it here. Then I walked more around the place and I heard another band covering Hit Me Baby One More Time. Not bad, sounded like Travis's cover.
I also noticed this:

Very nice! I like!

As I walked around there were little shops in little townhouses, sold all types of funky apparels, I saw tonnes of hawaiian shirts, but I was looking more for a lumberjack shirt. Didn't find any. The clothes were nice, second hand retro stuff. I was just too fat to fit in them!
There were bands everywhere though, this next one is really funny, the drummer is basically drumming with two hand brooms on a big hollow cardboard box, using the right food as the beat, and the left foot on bells to make the counter beat. It's the most ghetto drum set I've ever seen!

So their style is country, it was really good, the next song after was faster hillbilly country music and unfortunately I missed it! God damn. I'm really not good at taking vids!
I also saw this very nice pickup:

After that I went back to the main street, and had freshly grilled tuna fish, with the skin and bones and everything, just like in east Asia or Turkey. With that fish balls (delicious!) and a can of coke.... but the can was particular. It wasn't a recent can, it look too classic! Basically the can was fully red, no design or patterns on it, no calorie chart, it looked like those old 90s coke cans! But of course it was of date. Weird. I haven't had Canadian coke in a can since... well I never had a Canadian coke in a can because York is sponsored by Pepsi! But it was nice eating a whole fish, it was well grilled, and fish is best grilled! Then walking back up to get back with the group, after a couple of more bands, I saw this

I really liked this day, and I'm willing to go back to Kensington Market. It's a really nice place, lots of things to do!
Fuck Paris, Toronto's the place to be!

I wonder if they have night markets too there, that would be nice!

From Toronto with actual things to do in the city,
-Teoman