LA Peeps – Help Save The Trees In Santa Monica!

This Wednesday, September 19th at 7PM at ‘Magicopolis‘ in Santa Monica – Save the Trees!

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 The City of Santa Monica is removing over 50 perfectly healthy trees for no good reason.

If you’re in the LA area, please come down to the meeting in Santa Monica this Wednesday to help.

What:‘Save The Trees’ Meeting #2
When: Wednesday, September 19th – 7 PM
Where: Magicopolis – 1428- 4th Street
(between Santa Monica Blvd and Broadway)
Santa Monica, CA

Let’s work together to STOP the senseless removal these trees!
Why should taxpayers pay the whopping $700,000+ price tag for this unwarranted tree-removal activity?

Background articles:

Hard to say goodbye”
(http://www.smdp.com/site/archives/091407.pdf)
Santa Monica Trees get the ax
(http://www.smdp.com/article/articles/4020/1/City-Council-gives-SM-
trees-the-ax)

Notes On A Scandal Sucks. Don’t Bother.

Another hopelessly stupid film…
Notes on a scandal is just really, really underdeveloped and unbelievable.
You don’t just find yourself unable to resist your fifteen year old (special needs) student because he keeps trying. Jeez.
Best stupid quote (referring to sleeping with her student):
“It’s like having another drink, when you know you shouldn’t!”
Next!

Zodiac Was Worthwhile – But Don’t Try To Work At The Same Time

So that would be a thumbs up for Zodiac.
Nice attention to detail! It went a little long as a result, but hey, it had to. It held up fine.
But, if you’re like me, and you like to watch movies while you work on whatever seemingly endless web project you’re working on, pick another one if you’re really trying to get anything done.
Also – jesus, you’d think Hollywood could figure out to make the type bigger for the last three screens of text on a DVD that was originally projected on a screen. Especially when they completely explain whatever the hell happens at the end. It was unreadable on my 32ish” screen. (I still don’t know 🙂
Ok I’m getting up early just to blog now. (Well, there are other good reasons…but that’s yet another one.)
Must catch you up on things…

Show went great! Dates For New Shows November 11 and 30th!

Hey my show went great! There were lots of people there and the geeky part of the evening I hoped would take place, did!
To my delight and surprise, John Perry Barlow, John Gilmore, Annie Harrison and Brian Zisk all stopped by.
There were EFF and Internet Archive folks there too! And lots of other cool friends I’ll get around to talking about later.
Anyway huge success.
Next shows at the same place (Ireland’s 32, SF) will be:
1) November 11 – my birthday party (b-day the 10th) 9pm – midnight+
2) November 30 – Friday night 7-9 (woot!)
I’ll have video going up soon too!
Thanks again to Ron Taylor and my sister for making it all possible.
(I was off playing hookey at the Singularity Summit hanging out with Jamais Cascio during most of what was supposed to be our practice time on Saturday!) (Soooo much more on all that later!)

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… 🙂

Video of Appellate Arguments in AT&T/US Government Domestic Spying Case

I finally finished making clips of the arguments in front of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals last week in the AT& T/US Government Domestic Spying Case.
I’ll be blogging about this in more detail, but for now, everything’s here:

http://video.lisarein.com/eff/byshow/cspan/08-15-07/
I’ve split them up into folders:
– US Gov (att-gov)
– AT & T (att-kellogg)
– Frap (frap) (representing AT&T consumers — and really the American public at large, in this case.)
The Judges were asking good questions and looking out for our best interests. It seems like they weren’t buying the U.S. Government’s argument that merely discussing the possibility of a relationship (or even the non-existence of one) between AT&T and the Government constitutes a “state secret.”
More on this over the next few days! I just wanted to get this up there so others could use it/learn from it.
It’s great stuff!