Hola, my SoCal brethren. I know there are a number of us who live here in the southern parts of California, and I know Lucky McLuckster had mentioned doing a SoCal Sift-up at some point. Well, who's down for that? Who's in the area? Let's get some Sifter positions so we can find a decent middle ground for the meet up.
I live in Los Angeles, or more specifically in Brentwood a couple blocks from where OJ killed his wife.
SOCAL SIFTUP:
Where: Red Lion Tavern (click here for map)
2366 Glendale Blvd, Los Angeles, CA - (323) 662-5337
When: January 10, 2009 (This Saturday)
Time: 4:00pm
I live in Los Angeles, or more specifically in Brentwood a couple blocks from where OJ killed his wife.
SOCAL SIFTUP:
Where: Red Lion Tavern (click here for map)
2366 Glendale Blvd, Los Angeles, CA - (323) 662-5337
When: January 10, 2009 (This Saturday)
Time: 4:00pm
I'm in San Diego...
Greatbird is down here too...although he's reverted to lurking on this site for the most part. I'll see if I can make somethin' happen.
If we've got people from LA, OC, and SD (any IE Sifters?) maybe we should meet somewhere near the middle.
Who else will participate and where are you located? You feel like trekking out here now that you're not on the opposite end of the country MG?
I guess I'm not going now, since there's no point.
I'll try to drag my gf to this thing, but she's more of the occasional lurker than a hardcore Sifter.
I have the same problem...mine just gives me shit for being on this. But I think I can convince her to go (aka, let me go)
I have the same problem...mine just gives me shit for being on this. But I think I can convince her to go (aka, let me go)
Yeah, girls are stupid.
>> ^kronosposeidon:
I'm going to do a Sift-Up too. Send me a PM if you live in the greater Casper, WY metropolitan area. Or tell ol' Red at the Flying J truck stop on Rt. 59.
Mmmm, Flying J's. Scone. Honeybutter. A phone in every booth. Good times.
Count me in! Last one (unless there were some other meetup I missed) was down in the OC, maybe this time we can we give LA a try.
http://www.videosift.com/usermap
I wish I could come, I could really go for some Rubio's Fish Tacos and a trip to Fry's Electronics.
You should check out the user map for others in the area:
http://www.videosift.com/usermap
I wish I could come, I could really go for some Rubio's Fish Tacos and a trip to Fry's Electronics.
Yeah, but more people need to add themselves to it. I'm nosy
And curious as to whether a UK one would be wanted too.
Wait - I where in SoCal are we talking? I googled Brentwood, and it was like, 11 hours away. Then I googled orange country, CA and that was only 5 hours - which is way more doable than 11.
Hmmmmm... that seems a bit off Brentwood into the OC is only about an hour drive at the most.
Hmmm.... Every time I Google Brentwood, it's right outside of San Francisco. So the Sift up would be out by LA?I've just been informed that Brentwood is a subdivision type of thing outside of LA. Damn city folk and their confusing cities/suburbs/metro areas. Fuckin' Blankfist.
Oh, and I meant 5/11 hours from where I live in Arizona.
>> ^MarineGunrock:
Hmmm.... Every time I Google Brentwood, it's right outside of San Francisco. So the Sift up would be out by LA?
Let's all meet up in Compton.
I KNOW you're not front'in on CPT!?!
>> ^blankfist:
Let's all meet up in Compton.
blankfist: Los Angeles
rottenseed: San Diego
Lucky760: OC
youdiejoe: Los Angeles
MarineGunrock: Arizona
According to the world map:
IssyKitty/DFT: Los Angeles?
Jonny: Huntington Beach, CA?
Dark Rowan: Costa Mesa, CA?
GreatBird: San Diego?
Photos. please.
Wherever you guys meet, just make sure someone takes pictures.
Photos. Please.
If I'm there, pictures and video will happen
If I'm there, pictures and video will happen
And so will rape.
And so will rape.
did you say you were bringing your girl? jeezus dude.
http://www.videosift.com/talk/Videosift-Meetup-No-Four-bigger-better-more-burlesque
http://www.videosift.com/talk/New-Orleans-SiftUp
http://www.videosift.com/talk/Second-Ever-VideoSift-Meet-Up
http://www.videosift.com/talk/Third-Ever-Videosift-Meet-Up
http://www.videosift.com/talk/Dag-Cow-Sift-Up
http://www.videosift.com/talk/Videosift-Meetup-No-Five-London-UK
http://blog.videosift.com/lucky760/Thanksgiving-SiftUp-in-the-OC
http://www.videosift.com/talk/SiftUp-in-The-OC
http://cooking.videosift.com/talk/Sift-Up-Vancouver-08-Success
rottenseed: San Diego
Lucky760+Charms: OC
youdiejoe: Los Angeles
MarineGunrock: Arizona
So, assuming that list of 6 is all who intends to participate, where/when do you blokes want to meet? I think LA County sounds like a good general location, but as east and south as we can get so it's as near Arizona and San Diego as possible (without putting ourselves in danger of a car jacking). Anyone know a good spot? How is a Saturday in November? Perhaps Nov 8?
So this is the outstanding list of other locals. Will any of you participate?
IssyKitty/DFT: Los Angeles
Jonny: Huntington Beach (OC)(moved away)DarkRowan: Costa Mesa (OC)
GreatBird: San Diego
Ant: Los Angeles
Grimm: Stanton (OC)
I'm in Stanton btw.
Issy and I are up for a sift up, but probably not until late November.
Also, Issy and I have moved from the LBC to Anaheim.
Sounds good to me! Let's do it. I'll bring my shoes.
Shoes? I guess that means I have to where a shirt too!
Is November 22 okay? It's the week before Thanksgiving (and just about the same time as the last OC Sift Up).
yeah, should be good for me as well.
There's also Red Lion Tavern, which is way smaller than "Billiards", but has its charm. It's rustic and fun. I had my one of my weekend long 30th B-Day Parties there.
I piked these two spots because they're as east as you can get in LA without it getting sketchy or some place I think can manage our needs for a Sift-Up. Unfortunately both of them are a bit further north for those of you coming from San Diego, but take it from me, south and east is not a place you want to be. South and west? Yes. East and north? Yes. East and south? Fuck no.
The "Billiards" rooms: http://www.hollywoodbilliards.com/rooms.html
I'm gonna show my age, but I remember the original Hollywood Billards from the 80's and it was sketchy and super awesome, looked like it was a set for "The Color Of Money", my vote is for the Red Lion Inn local bar feel and girls walking around in Gausthaus attire!
Red Lion Inn sounds great, but the billiard also sounds like fun. I guess I'd lean to the latter, but I'm fine with whatever the majority prefers.
So here's the current roll call for Saturday, November 22, 2008 at ~5:00pm (?) in Los Angeles:
WILL ATTEND
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blankfist: Los Angeles - votes for Hollywood Billiards
rottenseed: San Diego - votes for ?
Lucky760+Charms: OC - votes for majority rule
youdiejoe: Los Angeles - votes for Red Lion Inn
MarineGunrock: Arizona - votes for Red Lion Inn
GreatBird: San Diego - votes for ?
ATTENDANCE UNSURE
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Grimm: Stanton (OC) (likely to attend)
IssyKitty/DFT: Anaheim (attendance still unclear)
DarkRowan: Costa Mesa (OC) (attendance still unclear)
Jonny: Huntington Beach (OC) (unlikely but might attend; out of town)
Ant: Los Angeles (unlikely to attend; doesn't drive)
DESTINATION TALLY
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Red Lion Inn: 2
Hollywood Billiards: 1
At a guess, I think Red Lion is a restaurant (because it serves food), so anyone may be permitted. Any of you who are familiar with it, is that right or is it 21 and over only?
I know the Billiards place is 21+ - they mention it on the front page. I assumed the Red Lion was too, since they call themselves a "Beer Garden," and they advertise a Happy Hour. If it's all ages, it'll work.
EDIT: Nevermind; I called. They're a "family restaurant" until 10PM.
So once again, here's the current roll call:
Saturday, November 22, 2008 at 5:00pm at Red Lion Tavern located at
2366 Glendale Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90039:
WILL ATTEND
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blankfist: Los Angeles
youdiejoe: Los Angeles
MarineGunrock: Arizona
GreatBird: San Diego
waxxx: San Diego
ATTENDANCE UNSURE
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Grimm: Stanton (OC) (likely to attend)
IssyKitty/DFT: Anaheim (attendance still unclear)
DarkRowan: Costa Mesa (OC) (attendance still unclear)
Jonny: Huntington Beach (OC) (unlikely but might attend; out of town)
Ant: Los Angeles (unlikely to attend; doesn't drive)
NOT ATTENDING
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LittleRed: Arizona (term paper due)
Lucky760: OC (out of town on business)
Charms: OC (out of town on business)
rottenseed: San Diego (unable to attend that weekend)
YouLickMyWhat: San Diego (unable to attend that weekend)
update: See below.
Count me in Sifties!!
(Can we use the razorblades after the roofies, Blankfist?)
*Waxxx McHine approves this message*
Take your shirts off and take pictures, so the rest of us have something to live for too.
This is going to be a huge SiftUp. I just updated the list ^above and we currently have a list of TEN confirmed participants! That's awesome.
Now all we need to know is if DFT+IssyKitty, Grimm, and DarkRowan will attend. If so this could be a whopping 14 Sifter Sift Up.
Such a bummer... But you all better take lots of pictures and give us a good rundown of all we will have missed!
Given these 4 unfortunate cancellations, I wonder if everyone would be up for rescheduling to Saturday, Dec 6. I know MarineGunrock has it worst because of the long drive and having to request time off of work, but... How's that sound? Perhaps even littlered will be able to make it then?
Question: We still carrying this out Red Lion then?
So here's the new roll call:
Saturday, December 6, 2008 at 5:00pm at Red Lion Tavern located at
2366 Glendale Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90039:
WILL ATTEND
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blankfist: Los Angeles
youdiejoe: Los Angeles
GreatBird: San Diego
DarkRowan: OC
Lucky760: OC
Charms: OC
rottenseed: San Diego
YouLickMyWhat: San Diego
DystopianFutureToday: OC (tentative)
NO ANSWER TO RESCHEDULING YET
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waxxx: San Diego
ATTENDANCE UNSURE
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Grimm: Stanton (OC) (likely to attend)
IssyKitty: Anaheim (attendance still unclear)
Jonny: Huntington Beach (OC) (unlikely but might attend; out of town)
NOT ATTENDING
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MarineGunrock: Arizona
LittleRed: Arizona
Ant: Los Angeles
Thoughts?
https://tickets.cheechandchongtour.com/
Does everyone want to reschedule for after 2008? Maybe January 10th, same place, same time?
I say we just keep trying until everyone can make it.
I just had to put my mother in the hospital this afternoon. Right now my time is up in the air so I'm going to stay close. Wish me peace and luck right now, cuz life if going to suck for my holidays.
Saturday, January 10, 2009 at 4:00pm at Red Lion Tavern located at
2366 Glendale Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90039:
CONFIRMED
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blankfist: Los Angeles
DystopianFutureToday: OC
IssyKitty: Anaheim
Lucky760: OC
Charms: OC
DarkRowan: OC
youdiejoe: Los Angeles
Grimm: Stanton (OC)
waxxx: San Diego
GreatBird: San Diego
volumptuous: within stumbling distance
UNCONFIRMED
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Jordass: The Valley
gourmetemu: on a hot date
NOT ATTENDING
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rottenseed: San Diego
YouLickMyWhat: San Diego
MarineGunrock: Arizona
LittleRed: Arizona
Ant: Los Angeles
Jonny: Huntington Beach (OC)
(Note that I moved the time to 4:00pm because it's going to be an hour drive or more for some of us and we don't want everyone to have to rush out too soon for the long drive back home.)
As for a small update: Mom, thankfully, is fine. Very big scare for 24 hours, but she's at home again for Thanksgiving.
count me in
me too
Lest anyone forget, this Saturday is the one, the only, the biggest SiftUp ever in Los Angeles, Califor nai A.
Everyone who's confirmed is still confirmed, yes?
What say you Rottenseed, YouLickMyWhat, and Jordass, will you be there? Don't be square.
I am gonna rape the shit out of everyone!
I hope you will have the decency of providing lube, no mater how small the object is said to be...
Take some pictures!
rest assured photos and HD video will be shot.
>> ^blankfist:
You probably won't even feel the rape.
And above all else, have fun.
Who is going to access VS from there on the 10th?
I live within stumbling distance from the Red Lion. I was there last night, and I have the hangover to prove it!
Count me in.
oh: Red Lion starts checking ID's around 7:00PM. So if there's any under-21's coming, you'll be fine as long as you're in before then.
They also have loads of heaters up there, a couple 8+ person tables & the bar is fun.
Glad to see you chose a german gasthaus for the occasion though!
Hey, maybe they have wifi and you could stream the whole thing live somewhere so we could witness the beer soaked pandemonium in front of our screens?
Since this is outside of the Berlin public transportation system I won´t make it.
Glad to see you chose a german gasthaus for the occasion though!
Hey, maybe they have wifi and you could stream the whole thing live somewhere so we could witness the beer soaked pandemonium in front of our screens?
Don't you have a teleporter?
Unfortunately, everyone I've asked has no clue with the password is. And the manager who does know is always off work that day.
Attending: thinker247
Possibly attending: thinker247's sockpuppet accounts.
Not attending: Any of you bastards who live in SoCal! So THERE!
Where: Q's Billiards
Why: Darts, Poker, and PBR.
When: Tomorrow night, 6PM.
Hmmm...list me as doubtful to questionable. Ironically I have a date in the vicinity but something tells me that "Hey wanna meet my internet friends?" would not go over as well as I would hope.
If your date doesn't appreciate the Sift, it's not worth pursuing.*
(*Unless s/he's hot)
I'm sure there are several of you who are talented enough to properly edit the clips together to make a seamless whole like the above video.
Or you could just hide the camera in the women's restroom.
I see you
That google image makes the place look like a dumpy one floor dive. It's not. It's actually really cool on the inside and two floors.
You can see what me, Charms, YouDieJoe, Grimm, and DarkRowan look like in this photo from our Thanksgiving 2007 SiftUp: http://blog.videosift.com/lucky760/Thanksgiving-SiftUp-in-the-OC
Besides that I'll probably have my VideoSift t-shirt on this time around. There should be no problem locating one another.
[edit] oh wait, this is you guys?
http://blog.videosift.com/lucky760/Thanksgiving-SiftUp-in-the-OC
I'm not going.
>> ^gourmetemu:
Hmmm...list me as doubtful to questionable. Ironically I have a date in the vicinity but something tells me that "Hey wanna meet my internet friends?" would not go over as well as I would hope.
If your date doesn't appreciate the Sift, it's not worth pursuing.
( Unless s/he's hot)
Lol...hot enough. But we will see. Plus who says I cant get toasty before?
So, I will volunteer to arrive at the Lion a bit early and get a huge table upstairs in the biergarten/patio for the lot of us, and warn the staff about the impending monkey invasion.
So when you get there, check the interior out for all it's awesome krautness, but the patio is up the stairs and all the way to the back.
I'll be with you in spirit.
No, really! I'm going to hide in the tequila!
Tomorrow's weather forcast is sunny and 76 degrees!
So, I will volunteer to arrive at the Lion a bit early and get a huge table upstairs in the biergarten/patio for the lot of us, and warn the staff about the impending monkey invasion.
Ok, you do that and I will bring this as a place setting. I've been meaning to take a picture and post this. I was found by me while moving my parents last June. I took it (it would have been thrown away otherwise) for this very purpose (a meet-up)
This is what I look like. and this is what he looks like
Seriously, I hope everyone enjoys my neighborhood and Bavarian costumed waitresses at the Red Lion Tavern. And yield to pedestrians, you never know when it'll be a fellow sifter!
Oh, and in case anyone wants to confirm their directions: From the Interstate 5, take the 2 freeway south (Echo Park), freeway ends in about a mile (it was supposed to extend to west LA, buts that's a whole other story), exit on the RIGHT (don't actually know what that exits called since I always go the other way, but if you stay left you get dumped onto glendale blvd going the wrong way.) Turn right unto glendale blvd (heading north), the Tavern is about half a mile away (you'll go up and over a hill, the bar is near the bottom, so you won't see it until you're pretty close) and will be on your right.
^blankfist I was going to say the same about that google street view picture, it makes it look like a shack, indeed much cooler than pictured.
Are you coming or what? I'll walk over to the 2fwy onramp and help you cross the road if you need to. I'm just around the corner and at the top of the hill where all the awesome TVs used to be.
http://www.videosift.com/video/L-A-is-the-only-place-where-flaking-is-an-excuse