Padd Solutions

Appetizer:

Wuthering Bites. A sampler platter of our most popular hors d’œuvres including (3) Harry Potstickers, (1) order of the Lord of the Fries, and (2) Tortilla Flats stuffed with The Scarlet Cheddar

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Soup:

The Perks of Eating a Cauliflower. A creamy cauliflower soup with pecorino romano and truffle oil.

Sandwich:

Ketchup in the Rye. Our famous hand carved ham with crisp romaine, tomato, mayonnaise, and ketchup served on rye.

Entree:

The Da Vinci Cod. A fresh caught cod fillet lightly seasoned with olive oil and Italian herbs. Served with Lime and Garnish, Mint.

Drink:

Tequila Mockingbird. A mix Jose Cuervo, Cherry, Orange, and Pineapple.

Dessert:

Crepes of Wrath. Our signature dessert. Ask your server about our available seasonal fresh fruit. All crepes served with our fresh homemade whipped cream and Candide Apples.

Hello readers, if you are still out there. I don't blame you if you're not. This graph should speak for itself about what has occurred since my last post months ago in a year of just two.

I can explain though.

It all started, or rather ended, on March 29th, the day I hunted down fragments of the unknown Sun God festival lineup. I was very upset when I found about Drake, you know the Canadian Jewish guy from Degrassi who raps now, being the headliner. I foolishly stomped all over his street cred and was reported describing him as: "Last name, Garbage, first name, Total." I see now the err of my ways and I'm here to apologize. I was rude, pretentious, and immature. Aubry Drake Graham, is in fact, a very fun rapper to listen to.



After making that post I would receive comments daily about how dumb I was for attacking the guy. One anonymous user said:

Drake is a huge artist right now. Just because it's not what you're into doesnt mean that's what's popular. Sorry bulgarian yodeling isnt what was playing. The lineup is sick, stop being a b**ch about it.

Another person said:

your taste in music sucks...kid cudi over drake? thats ur pref? wow ur helllla lame. drake is gonna make sungod this year and after u still goin be a b**ch.

The general consensus seemed to be that I was indeed a "b**ch." I did not feel welcome on my own blog anymore. I ran to twitter, I ran to tumblr, I went outside for once. It was nice and all, but I kind of missed writing here and a choice few even still check here from time to time for posts (I'm lookin' at you roomies). So I have decided that I will face my fears of being hated on for my hate for Drake and love of Bulgarian yodeling by, well, embracing Drake.

You see, he is actually a master of both riddles and rap at the same time. Listening to a Drake song stimulates the mind because it is far more than words on a beat, it's actually an episode of my favorite game show Jeopardy. For example, in his hit single Forever, Drake gives us the answer "Swimming in the money come and find me..." leaving me with the chance to buzz in with "Who is Nemo?" Any other rapper could say "I'm swimming in the money like Nemo" but Drake makes it special. In the same song he goes on to say "If I was in the club you know I balled..." See now this one is a toughie because he tosses in some funny wordplay. "Balled" sounds like "bald", which is a side-effect of chemotherapy. This makes the correct answer "If I was in the club you know I balled, Chemo." Oh Drake you crafty, crafty man; nothing is funnier than cancer.

Here are a few of my favorites:

I could teach you to speak my language, Rosetta Stone

Two thumbs up, Ebert and Ropert

Smart kids that smoke weed, honor roll

Whaddaguy.

This year's lineup is coming out early and it has both its ups and downs. So far it looks like we have:

Drake: Last name, Garbage, first name, Total. I am obviously bias though because I am not exactly a fan of rap. If it had to be a rap headliner why not Cudi, Chiddy Bang, Aesop Rock or something??? (I would like to acknowledge now that I recognize the talent of Drake...but it's just a personal preference, so yeahhh)

DJ Z-Trip: I dug his mashups on DJ Hero. No replacement for Girl Talk though. A-Trak or Super Mash Bros. woulda been awesome but this is still pretty cool!

Michelle Branch: Sarah Bareilles last year filled this niche. It's all the same "la de da" to me.

Relient K: No.

Designer Drugs: ELECTRO! Happiness at last. Missed them at the Voyeur last month.

THRICE: YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!

B.o.B: I will refrain from commenting on B.o.B because I can just imagine the kind of retaliation I will get for my less-than-ecstatic opinion...

Crash Kings

Skeet Skeet: lol...

Robbed By Robots: Some of the best remixes of the bands I already love like Phoenix and Metric that I have ever heard. I'm reallllly stoked to see this guy. I am just a little confused about why the Sun God Official page has a track remixed by Kids at the Bar playing on his page.

Shark Attack: Never heard of them before but after giving them a listen I think I am extremely happy with this year's presence of electro.

The Parson Red Heads: Pretty good stuff. Think indie Partridge Family.

Diversion Sound: This band won the Battle of the Bands last night and totally deserved it. They have awesome stage presence, awesome music, and the awesome drummer poured water on his awesome drums. Freakin' water on the drums! Brilliant.

Hey guys I would say "I'M BACK AND I'M GOING TO START POSTING OFTEN AGAIN!" but I have already made that promise three times so far and broken it. I think I have commitment issues. This time I'm promising nothing. So there.

So yeah, the HEALTH concert was this past weekend and it was awesome! The opening band was a trio called Tape Deck Mountain, whose lead singer was actually a recent UCSD graduate. He asked us "how many of you guys go to this school?!" Only I, my friend Vincent who came with me, and about 5 other people responded. UCSD does not take full advantage of the awesome free concerts we get on campus. Well they're not really free...I mean they're free after a billion dollars of tuition.


Tape Deck Mountain was a real pleasant surprise. The lead singer/guitarist had a voice very similar that of Ben Gibbard, just a bit more melancholy. I would call them Death Cab for Ugly. The singer used a series of foot-operated loop makers throughout the show which kept things interesting...especially in the first song where homeboy accidentally pressed a few too many buttons and tried to play it off as some kind of fancy interpretive breakdown. But I saw the sweat on his brow and the confusion in the eyes of the other members. Which reminds me, the drummer had a mustache. I think mustaches are the new hipster trend. Which further reminds me, everyone at the show seemed to be hipsters. One dude looked like Super Mario with his thick hipster stache, messenger boy hat, and red American Apparel hoodie. He was also 5 feet tall. I wish I had photographed him.


But now onto the main event! HEALTH. HEALTH is by far my favorite experimental electronic noise rock band. The show was pretty intense with all the fans stomping around, moshing, and pumping their fists to the beat of the drums. Vincent and I started out standing together but in the end we found eachother in opposite corners of the Loft covered in sweat. If you have not heard of HEALTH you should check them out. You may have actually heard them before (most likely in Crystal Castle's remix of their song Crimewave.)

So you all may not have noticed but I have not been exactly posting very often.

This quarter things got serious. I have learned much about the world and its cruel workings. I learned that 24 hours is not enough in a day (even without sleeping), I learned that O Chem, Physics, Physics Lab, and Chem Lab should not all be taken simultaneously, I learned that Methyl trichloride can put you to sleep in more than one way, and I learned that Asher Roth has absolutely no concept of what college is really like.

I could just go on about how much school sucked in boring detail and make this one of those sad posts that nobody really likes to read. So, I will.

It was hard people. Real hard. Never in my life have I just hoped to pass a class. This is how my goals for the quarter developed as the weeks went by:


Week 1: Kick some butt dawg, get straight A's and have some fun on the side.

Week 3: Okay maybe you can't exactly have too much fun, maybe go to a concert or two on the side while still attending your club meetings and work. GET A's!!!

Week 5: Okay so midterms did not go so hot. No more fun. A's are still attainable, in some classes. I will just stop going to all my clubs, that'll give me some time.

Week 7: There is no shame in getting B's. I just want to sleep.

Week 9: There is no shame in getting some C's either.

Week 10: "GOD, I KNOW WE DONT REALLY TALK BUT I JUST WANT TO PASS THESE CLASSES!!!!"

Week 11: I just never want to look back on this quarter, ever.




Never, ever.

The Aquabats are the coolest guys around. I've been in love with this band for as long as I can remember and am even an official Aquacadet. I know, cool huh?


Without exaggeration, this concert was simply the best show I have ever been to. It was at Magic Mountain and everyone was going crazy. The hour before the show started the fans were already waiting and the band, being teases, would occasionally poke a limb out from behind the curtain and the crowd would go wild. When the band finally came out even the security guards who always have to look so hardcore and mean were holding back chuckles and tapping their feet. I sang along to the whole concert along with hundreds of other crazy fans as the Commander (lead singer) thwarted the evil Red Lobster on stage and did backflips off of the amp. For "Pool Party" there were tons of beach balls and funoodles flying all over the place. By the end of the show I had lost my voice and found eternal happiness.

Outside I met some guys who told me they put their friend, who dressed up as an Aquabat, in the bass drum case. Security escorted us to a gate behind the equipment without noticing that a kid was in the case. The guys told me that their friend planned on meeting the Aquabats, who I think would actually be totally stoked to find a fan in their bass drum case. Too bad that case did not belong to the Aquabats, but actually Everclear. We tried to tell security for like 10 minutes that their friend is in the case and that they should let him because we thought he may have passed out/died in the case, but it seemed that security people don't comprehend English. Finally the kid pushed open the lid and popped out. Surprisingly, security looked surprised. They reprimanded our hero and told him "IF YOU TRY AND PULL SOMETHING LIKE THAT AGAIN I SWEAR YOU WILL GET KICKED OUT OF THIS PARK!" Not much of a threat considering it was already close to closing time. Here's a picture of that cool guy when he emerged:


Here are some pictures from the show:




Oh yeah and Everclear was there too:

That father of mine will buy you a garden and whatnot.