The Thousands

Trust a tattoo artist to name their latest incarnation / branching out of work Lust For Life (you know, that whole Iggy Pop fervour thing). Whether you’re a thrillseeker (aka. love testing your pain threshold by having a needle poked into your flesh repeatedly), a humble pie eater or just a run of the mill coffee drinker, Lust For Life will entice you to live a little.

Now no ‘politics of tattoo’ here, but we do know that, by reputation, store-owner Aureole has given some great tattoos, and together with a band of fellow tattooists, is now ‘inking’ the Valley. The difference though, is that Lust For Life stock books, knick-knacks, local clothing brands and feature different artists on the walls each month, whether they’re a tattoo artist or not.

If you’re walking past the strip of Asian restaurants with a little hope for a cup of joe, they’ve got that too. The coffee is roasted locally which means no dire year-old bean for you, humble Black Flag fan (let me tell you, these walls are pretty good to stare at when drinking black coffee). They’re soon going to have vegan foodstuffs for all you haters of animal cruelty, and sell basic cafe food (toasted sandwiches and brownies). Keep the coffee away from the guns – we hear it’s bad for metal.