My day job (err night job or where I make the money outside of events) has built in vacation time, or "forced vacation" as I like to call it. What better way to spend it traveling? Why traveling and having someone else front the expenses!
So me and my pal DJ SG + whoever we can round up as our international entourage are going to try to get booked at a club on the following dates and cities:
December 26th - January 2nd: Osaka, Japan
January 2nd - January 5th: Korea
January 5th - January 11th: Shanghai, China
January 12th - January 19th: Bangkok, Thailand
January 20th - January 28th: Sydney, Australia
We're already booked for Thailand, I'm working on Japan and SG is working on China. So far the strategy has been to spam clubs telling them we'll be in town and to hire us because our network doesn't have the connections overseas yet. If you can help shoot us a comment!
This place takes over as most charming coffee shop in downtown now that Baasam is uptown. I ended up looking around at everything on the walls that I got in the way of the staff trying to get into the supply closet. The coaster pulls in right in front of their patio area which I thought boosted the place's overall character.
We had the pesto bagel and the salmon omlet + coffee and tea. I think everything was under $10? maybe $12?
Sadly, I don't go here enough but I'm sure glad I was introduced to the place.
For more pics go here.
675 W G St
(between 6th Ave & 7th Ave)
San Diego, CA 92101 (619) 696-7220 www.brickyardcoffee.com
Below is a video of the patio.
I love the versatility vodka offers when mixing but just like how most people's knowledge of downtown doesn't extend to far past On Broadway and Decos most people are only familiar with the very cheap stuff in plastic bottles like Popov and Grey Goose.As exemplary of a model that Grey Goose is for marketing majors.(Read about the history of Grey Goose Vodka and it's creator Sidney Frank here )
I ABHOR the stuff! It's $25 for a bottle when many mid tier vodkas are a lot smoother in my opinion. (Well I wouldn't turn it down if someone got it as bottle service in the club, but I won't order the stuff myself.)I'd be happy with any of these brands:
Govori - It's rated higher than Belvedere, in fact here are the awards its won according to bevmo.com
Wine Enthusiast: 93 Beverage Tasting Institute: 93
Picault's Spirits Journal: 5STAR
DOUBLE GOLD 2005 SAN FRANCISCO SPIRITS COMPETITION
93 PTS BEST OF SPIRITS WINE ENTHUSIAST
5 STARS SPIRIT JOURNAL
For $20 you get a huge bottle that's also tastefully designed. I call it the official vodka of my 25th Birthday. (You can see video of it below, after we take the limo through the car wash)
Han - I had a friend introduce me to this vodka at a BBQ. He made spiked lemonade with it and was the biggest hit at the party. It's also America's only Asian vodka.
Imperia - This stuff was featured in a bunch of hosted bars recently. I remember this one time where my friends kept going back to the bar for the stuff and then next thing you know someone is in tears and someone else was throwing up. It rates high on sneakability / mixability alongside Han, it just tastes so good you keep drinking it.
Svedka - This vodka takes 40 hours to distill. Insane! Again it also constantly rates among the best. I find it a bit more complex than Han and Imperia. I would pick up a bottle of this if I was making more traditional cocktails instead of the usual sleeper hits.
Skyy - Remember when Skyy was THE vodka back in the early 2000's? It's not one of my first choices anymore but its not a bad fall back.
42 Below - Unremarkable but not bad. Had this bottle at Decos and finished it in no time.
Vodka's I avoid:
Ketel One: It's described as " Dramatic and powerful, dashing and flavorful" but all I remember is it being powerful in all the wrong ways.
Absolut: Its not really bad, in fact I think its just slightly lower than Skyy. It's just that you usually have more choices so reach for something else. Absolut 100 on the other hand is pretty good and its a higher proof.
Here's an AIM convo that went down recently:
Eye's Aim Status:club kid - not a club ho
richieisceoofrnc: i just noticed your aim status
richieisceoofrnc: true that
richieisceoofrnc: BIG difference
Eye: YEAH
Eye: xxxxxxxx was like
Eye: is that what you really want to be called?
Eye: xxxxxxxx thinks its the same thing
Eye: SO NOT
richieisceoofrnc: SO NOT
richieisceoofrnc: club kids are about the fun
richieisceoofrnc: club ho
srichieisceoofrnc: are hos in a club
richieisceoofrnc: LOL
Eye: lol yeah!
richieisceoofrnc: yeah!
My entourage, myself included, are club kids. We love the scene, music, and dancing. We're not aiming to get lucky but we're also not actively cock blocking anyone. We just let the night takes it course and we're more likely to end up getting food than getting laid but nothing wrong with the latter but that's not the goal so don't get it twisted!
Dennis Michael (of Silk Road Productions) had a blog that sums up a lot of feelings I've had lately. He says:
"The other thought I have is in this whole thing where people, and I am number one on this list, keep living their lives waiting for their life to start. Always waiting waiting waiting for their life to begin, neglecting that hey yo, you are in your life. It isn't going to come, it is here now. ... Life isn't going to get started, it is already here. If we (really, If I) keep waiting for it, it will never come. "
I wrote a lengthy response and my own blog about it over on myspace but I felt like sharing here that I think it's good to reflect on what it is in your way from achieving your ideal state of living your version of having "The Life".
Wow no updates since May? Horrible! I let myself get caught up for so long with so many things and this got neglected. I do have 7 pending drafts and lots of new inspiration but as a teaser I'll give you this story from the Hard Rock Hotel.
Being that we had a room we were running back and forth from Moonstone. Literally. Running. Like children let loose from an entire day on their kid leash. We like to call it taking over the hotel. Most people it would be immature fun. One group of my friends banged up on a door that said bacherloette party. I carried one of my homegirls on my back occasionally bumping into the walls.
The best (worst?) of the running is when our party group ran into another party group running around the halls and before their paths diverged they shouted "no go this way it's only 15 seconds!" and one of the girls replied "15 seconds to what?" and he said "till the BLOW!"
And just like you see in a scooby doo cartoon they applied the brakes and promptly u - turned.
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