Category Archives: Upcoming Events

Flyer for Sept 9 Party – Hope To See You Sunday



Upcoming Page!
Date: Sunday, September 9th
Time: 6:30 pm till when people leave (no later than 1am)
Where: Ireland’s 32
                3920 Geary Blvd at 3rd Ave in SF’s Richmond District
Phone: 415-386-6173
MAP/GET DIRECTIONS
I’m having a big party to reconnect with old friends, meet online friends in meatspace, and meet new friends altogether.
More info here.
My friend critter made me this great new flyer for my party! (Thanks Critter!)

Come to My Party September 9, 2007 – Ireland’s 32 in San Francisco

Upcoming Page!
Date: Sunday, September 9th
Time: 6:30 pm till when people leave (no later than 1am)
Where: Ireland’s 32
                3920 Geary Blvd at 3rd Ave in SF’s Richmond District
Phone: 415-386-6173
MAP/GET DIRECTIONS
I’m having a big party to reconnect with old friends, meet online friends in meatspace, and meet new friends altogether.
I’ll be playing all my new songs, along with many of my songs from the last fifteen years or so, in little sets off and on all night long, starting around 6:45, and going till probably around midnight.
I’ve got a video projector and various footage I’ve been putting together that will be going in-between and during the live stuff. Update: will also be showing scenes from Monsturd and its upcoming sequel, InfectDEAD! (Zombies!)
I’m flying in my old guitar player from Idaho, Ron Taylor. He and I co-wrote many of the songs on the lisarein.com website.
I’m also flying my sister up from LA to sing harmonies with me on a couple songs.
It’s pretty sweet of this pub to let me take over the place for the night. It’s actually been a little dream of mine to have enough stage time to be able to go through all of my favorites from the last 15 years — and in a fun filled environment where I can have as many people there as I want.
Ireland’s 32 also has these *really* great home made beef or chicken pot pies, so if you need to come by early (it is a Sunday, after all), come by around 6:30 and make a dinner show of it. (Actually, you and a friend can probably split one easily, they’re HUGE.)
They have a great pool table upstairs too! It’s just an all around great party locale!
They’re letting me use the bar for the night in the hopes I can bring in a crowd to buy drinks. So drink up. (It makes the music sound better anyway 🙂
And if I’m lucky enough that you actually have old favorites that you want to make sure I perform, by all means, let me know! lisa@lisarein.com
In between some of my sets, my good friend
Tim Perkis will be performing a little set with his daughter around 7:30.
You may have seen Tim’s cool new movie about improvisational music, Noisy People, around recently. Tim’s also a fellow Dabble co-founder. (And a fellow ex-Dabbler/co-founder*.)
The Breezy Days Band will also be squeezing in a little set prolly around 9:30 or so.
Okay I’ll be talking about this a lot over the next week, but I wanted to at least get all the basic information up.
Thanks! And I hope to see you there.
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*That’s right folks! Contrary to the mythical folklore you may have heard, there were 6 of us total…SIX!! But that’s another story… 🙂

City Lights Bookstore Readings This Tuesday Night Look Cool: RU Sirius, Howard Rheingold, David Pescovitz, Jamais Cascio

More info here.
There’s an interesting collection of old friends (and one new one) at this event Tuesday night, so I’m gonna try to make it.
I’ve known RU for years before we ever started working together (via Ron Turner at Last Gasp, who published the graphic novel I edited for Timothy Leary — Link to phone message from him about the book that I love to link to 🙂
Recently, I co-hosted an RU Sirius show last October with guest Dan the Automator w/RU and Jeff Diehl — and also produced the Songs From the Commons Podcasts from 2006 for RU’s Mondoglobo.net.
Meanwhile, I just reconnected with Howard Rheingold last week, after about 4 years (!) and took a nice walk out on Mt. Tamalpias, and talked about Second Life, Twitter and Facebook for two hours (and inspired Howard to increase his twittering i think 🙂
BoingBoing’s David Pescovitz I know well from the old days with Cory when he lived here in San Francisco, and thus I have not seen David for years – so I can’t wait to…and…
Jamais Cascio has been a great twitter friend for a few weeks now that I look forward to finally meeting in person…
Let’s see if I can make it out of my cave Tuesday night!
See you there!

Nerd Salon Looks Fun On Tuesday Night

Hey if you’re in San Francisco, there’s a
Nerd Salon going on this Tuesday night from 6-9:30 pm at 111 Minna.
The events have been arranged by Jennifer Granick (www.granick.com) and Annalee Newitz (www.annaleenewitz.com)
— two of my favorite nerds!
This week’s guest is “The circuit board stylings of Matt Ettus (www.ettus.com), who will be doing a live demo of GNU Radio, the open source software-defined radio project (www.gnu.org/software/gnuradio).”
Description from upcoming website: “Come out and have a drink with people who won’t make fun of you for hacking, hating on DRM, copyfighting, discursing on public policy, building nuclear reactors in your garage, reading science fiction, working in a bookstore, arguing about open source software, collecting Buffy dolls, dancing with robots, blogging and/or podcasting, lusting after the iPhone, or getting excited about the new Hulk comic book.”
K cya there prolly!

Flying My Guitarist Ron Taylor In For My Show On June 10th

So I’ve got about 6 or 7 songs I’m really happy with in this new set, but I have up to an hour if I want it to play with Emy Tseng on our sunday night show.
So I decided to bring out the big guns and fly my great original guitar player – the one I wrote most of the stuff on lisarein.com with, out here from his farm in Idaho, where he now lives.
BTW – If anyone would like a CD of my songs to pop in your car or whatever before the show, just send me an email. (I’m making some of them this week anyway.)
So Ron and I are meeting in the airport Sunday morning, as I am flying back from the Pixelodeon Conference going on that weekend in LA, and he’ll be flying in from Boise, ID.
The we get a whole day to get back in our groove for the show. I don’t think it’ll be that hard. We’ve been playing together for like 13 years now. It’s incredible. These are all our oldies and goodies mostly…unless we end up writing a new song real quick once we get together, which sometimes happens…
So now you get BOTH the set of my new acoustic stuff AND a whole other set of acoustic versions of all of our old great stuff 🙂
Many of you have expressed to me over the years that I basically needed to keep Ron in the picture — that he added a lot to the style and the songs. So I’m listening to your suggestions, thanks!
I do hope that you will be pleasantly surprised with my new solo acoustic stuff though.
(I know I have been.)
I’ll have a zip file of all my music here soon. Man there’s a lot of it now, hadn’t realized.
ok talk soon!

Reminder that I’m Playing the Farmer’s Market In Kensington Tomorrow

Tomorrow I’m performing with my sister at the Farmers Market in Kensington from 10-2.
from Bart, take the 7 bus from berkeley bart. tell the driver you’re going to “Kensington Stores”
Just drive up to where the stores are on the Arlington
take 580 north Berkeley, Buchanan street exit. Go right.
Buchanan turns into “Marin” keep going until you get to a roundabout from hell and try to pick the left turn with the least hills (Arlington). Then stay on that road till you get to stores where there once was only houses.
303 Arlington, 94707 if you’re mapquesting.
I wrote a couple songs this last week just for the occasion for us to sing together.
My sister’s what I call “me +” when it comes to singing — we both lucked out in that we’ve never had to try hard to sing well. Our voices have just always been there for us.
But she’s actually been working hard at having incredible pipes for years. She has this crazy amazing range that she uses when she does comedic opera and such in LA. (That clip is from Mulholland Christmas Carol.)
Anyhoo, I’m really excited that I finally started putting her to good use in my music.
So maybe I’ll see ya Sunday. If not, no biggie. I’ve got a show on June 10 in SF and I’m going to be playing all over the place, so I’ll cyou whenever it’s more convenient…
It just feels so good to be playing for people now instead of my cat. (He just threw me a look! How do they KNOW?)
And now, when I write a new song, like i just did over the last few days, I get to play it for people.
Tomorrow.
That’s just the best 🙂

Come To My Show June 10th In San Francisco

Updated June 5, 2007 – Be on time – 8pm!
I’m flying Ron out and we’ve got a lot of material to cover 🙂
3920 Geary Blvd at 3rd Ave in SF’s Richmond District.
For directions, call (415)386-6173
Updated April 27th – hey if you haven’t heard my music a lot of it is here:
lisarein.com
and more is here:

http://www.onlisareinsradar.com/archives/my_music/
Hey I’m opening for Emy Tseng on Sunday night, June 10th, at Ireland’s 32 in San Francisco. The address is: 3920 Geary Blvd at 3rd Ave in SF’s Richmond District. (415)386-6173.
I get from 8-9pm to do my thing. (I’ll probably start right on time, since it’s a Sunday night.)
I’ve been practicing guitar pretty intensely for the last few years waiting for both this latest set of new songs, and some older songs I’ve been playing for 10 years, to feel “good enough” to play for you.
Finally, I think I’m there 🙂
I wasn’t sure if I’d have to do the open mic circuit again or what, which I of course, was not looking forward to doing…
Then, of all the crazy things, I went to a Kareoke party that Emy threw last Friday night. Maybe I was all mentally warmed up for it already, since I had just seen the Cowboy Junkies live at the Great American Music Hall about an hour earlier, but before I knew it, I was singing Sneaker Pimps and Linda Ronstandt covers, and Emy was asking me to open for her in June.
Since I actually have a full hour to play, I might just keep going (after I’m done with my regular set)…and meander a little and play some experimental stuff and other new stuff that’s neat, but maybe not finished yet…
And there could be some other surprises, but that would only be if a couple things fall into place just perfectly between now and then…
But things have kind of been falling into place lately. So anything’s possible 🙂
Anyway, it should be a good show. Hope to see you there.

Writers With Drinks This Saturday Night! – Charlie Anders’ Intro From Last Month

I’m looking forward to this Saturday night’s Writers with Drinks.
At The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.
The last two events have been awesome!
Here’s a little clip of Charlie Anders’ opener from last month.
(Available as a Quicktime movie – or an MP3.)
The event combines comedy with great new progressive literature…perfect to accompany a few glasses of vino.
See you there!