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06-15-2017, 11:45 AM | #226 |
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I drove nearly 4 hours to get to Denver airport to pick up my daughter and the entire drive was flat. Only got to see the mountains that stretched a great distance but it was still flat coming into Denver.
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But yeah, breweries are all over San Diego county...it's like...our thing i guess... "San Diego basically owns two global subcultures for a short period of time each year: They own nerd culture during San Diego Comic-Con. And they own beer culture during San Diego Beer Week. It’s arguably the best city on the planet for beer, let alone the United States, particularly if you’re into the now-trendy hop-heavy variety of craft beer. The riches are endless: Stone. AleSmith. Ballast. Green Flash. Modern Times. Mike Hess. Karl Strauss. Societe. Rough Draft. Helms. Benchmark. We could go on: the city is home to 123 breweries, microbreweries, and brewpubs. The city basically created the Double IPA, and one of the local breweries has won “Best Small Brewery” at the Great American Beer Festival four times, and Pizza Port has won several awards as one of the brewpubs in the US. We don’t usually like to honor the big, obvious choices in these lists, favoring always lesser-known and lesser-appreciated towns and cities, but there comes a point when you’re so big, and so obvious, that ignoring you is just plain stupid. San Diego, we bow to your beer dominance."
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06-15-2017, 11:51 AM | #228 |
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And finally, for me anyway, I live in Los Angeles because it's the music and entertainment capital of the world. If the music and entertainment capital of the world was Kansas City, I would have never moved but in 1993, I didn't have a choice. Today, it's somewhat easier due to the internet but it's nowhere near as "easy" as attending one of the many music related functions each month and getting real "face time" with decision makers (i.e., Music Supervisors, Production Music library execs and creative departments, Ad agency execs, etc.).
While I haven't forayed much into composing for scripted television and movies, mainly due to the time it requires, which would take away serious time from my young children, I could theoretically move from Los Angeles to another city (or state) because I'm already established as a composer for the biggest production music libraries in the world. But as mentioned earlier, both of my children have aspirations of working in the TV and movie business, so it doesn't make any sense to move further from Hollywood, which would take them out of this element. So in reality, there's no reason to do so. My children love their friends, their respective schools and where we live. My wife has an amazing job 15 minutes from our home. We have plenty of friends nearby and with the 17 new hotels and multiple skyscrapers planned for Hollywood just minutes from our home, we'll have even more choices for restaurants, "Staycations" and will likely see our property value skyrocket once everything completed. Also, our home does everything we need, including housing a large, sound proofed studio for me, an office for my wife while each of my kids have their own bedrooms and bathrooms. But yeah, I think location is also tied to certain job opportunities for sure. |
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06-15-2017, 11:53 AM | #229 |
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06-15-2017, 11:55 AM | #230 |
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Having just returned from somewhat of a beercation in SD last weekend, I was a bit underwhelmed with their IPAs, and I love IPAs. Their beer scene was super cool though and I respect it, just came away underwhelmed with what I was able to try. I glanced at some literature that listed 200+ breweries/craft-centric pubs in the SD area though, which is impressive.
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06-15-2017, 11:56 AM | #231 |
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I always find it funny how much hate we Californians get, yet our state/cities are overflowing with people from the rest of the country.
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I have not. There's a lot pf places i need to check out still. I'll add this to the list.
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Afterawhile i realized that an IPA tastes like...well an IPA. Kinda like weed. After awhile it all starts tasting the same lol.
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Anyway, I did enjoy the IPA's that I've had in Carlsbad. My bud owns a place in the Village, so he knows all of the best places (and they know him). That was probably an advantage that most people don't have, so he chose all of the different IPA's and it was quite fun. It didn't cause me to rush home and try IPA's from Costco or the grocery stores and I'm still not drinking beer in general, but it was a nice experience, nonetheless. |
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06-15-2017, 12:17 PM | #238 |
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That was pretty much my experience with the IPAs in SD. There were SO many that I was having trouble differentiating one from the other. If you're ever near Petco, and haven't already been, Half Door Brewing was really cool. They converted a really old house into a brewery. They also have some east coast style IPAs on tap that are a little sweeter and less bitter than the west coast version.
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