🇬🇧 Suggestions for Sunday

Today was a busy day. For me, at the moment I publish this, it's still Saturday night. In my whole life I only went to one music festival, Live’n’Louder, in Porto Alegre, in 2005. Wow! It's been almost fifteen years! Here in Brazil metal festivals are not common, and in the cities where I have lived, even the capitals like Porto Alegre and Curitiba, have less shows than in São Paulo or some European cities even smaller. I was born in the wrong place and I've been fixing it since I was twenty-two years old, but I still haven't gotten to my place.

With this coronavirus, all shows around the world have been postponed, but many bands are doing shows without an audience or with a limited audience and broadcast live over the internet. Some are rehashing material and sharing videos from full shows. So, today, there was an Evergrey show broadcast on Twitch and a few more rehearsed shows, including Arch Enemy and Apocalyptica, on Facebook. And even with a full day, filled with these artists that I admire, I would like to make four suggestions:

• Suggest that you watch Evergrey's live today if it is published somewhere (it was broadcast at https://www.twitch.tv/geflemetalfestival but I checked it out and there is no video there for those who lost). Failing that, check out some moments from their show in Curitiba in 2011, on my old YouTube channel. The channel is deactivated because Google disappeared with my e-mail, because I spent some time without accessing it. There you can see the songs “Blinded” (https://youtu.be/foQtaDWHQK8), Solitude Within (https://youtu.be/mLK68ccV1WY) and I'm Sorry (https://youtu.be/g2DX9-  rAFRs).
• See also the “Live at your home” that Apocalyptica did on May 14th (https://youtu.be/mwuX1fq5h5s) and the previous one, on April 25th (https://youtu.be/4sxtHSXOdKA), on their official channel. I suggest the two bands because they are among my favorites. And in the case of Apocalyptica I highly value their authentic work, and although Metallica covers are very good, for me, they, pioneers in this thing of making rock / metal with cellos, are worth more than Metallica.
• Share a domestic tip. There's a restaurant nearby that serves a gnocchi with chicken, broccoli and white sauce. I decided to make the chicken and broccoli sauce at home, but I didn't make pasta to go with it. I made rice. And instead of making a normal white sauce... I used coconut milk instead of milk. 😋 And it was outrageously good. The aroma, the taste, everything. And you can use it as much as I did, to accompany rice, as well as to accompany pasta. And you can exchange broccoli for mushrooms, asparagus or something else of your choice. Or several, to give more color to the dish too. And, of course, it is always worth exchanging chicken for fish, shrimp (I love it!) or even pork fillet. Only in this you have many different options of dishes to try.
• And, since I talked about my old channel, there is a video of a story about glasses that I contributed to UFMG TV (https://youtu.be/yngCUKhSQaY), in portuguese. If you want more tips on choosing your sunglasses or prescription glasses, follow this blog and my social media profiles. All addresses are in the sidebar, in the contacts frame (Contacts) and in Nycka’s World. Almost every day I share content on some social network, so it’s worth following them all.

Have a great Sunday.

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