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previous events...

 

 

Friday, April 14 @ 7 pm
Filmed By Bike: a festival of bike-themed movies
Clinton Street Theater
Portland, OR
www.FilmedByBike.org

 

Thursday, April 13 @ 8 pm
Echo Park Film Center
1200 N. Alvarado St. (at Sunset Blvd.)
Los Angeles, CA  90026
www.echoparkfilmcenter.org

 

 

March 18
Rug Rat
, my PXL 2000 expose of a certain greedy newspaper magnate
Other Venice Film Festival.
www.othervenicefilmfest.com

 

 

The Here & Now @ Art by People In Love
Thursday, February 9, 8 pm
Echo Park Film Center
1200 N. Alvarado St.
LA, CA  90026
www.echoparkfilmcenter.org

 


The Echo Park Film Center Seasonal Soiree
Featuring Wine, Cheese and It’s A Wonderful Life
Thursday, December 15 @ 8 pm
1200 N. Alvarado St.
Los Angeles, CA  90026

 

Tuesday, October 11 & Wednesday, October 12
We travel to exotic Mexicali, Mexico to present two programs of our favorite small-format films as part of the Arte, Pan y Vino Cultural Festival.
www.fiestasdelsol.com.mx


Thursday, October 13

The Here & Now warm up the crowd for Albuquerque’s Basement Films crew with their patented blend of hobo rock n’ home movies.
Echo Park Film Center
1200 N. Alvarado St.
Los Angeles, CA  90026
$5; all ages


Sunday, October 16

The Here & Now play the Get Miss Emily Lacy Some Film Stock! Benefit. We are wildly enchanted by Miss Emily (who isn’t???) and this promises to be a fabulously fun-filled day. Plus, you can pick yourself up a copy of the hot-off-the-press Daphne The Painted Lady CD and your life will be instantly 10000 times brighter! Thank me later.
Il Corral
662 N. Heliotrope Dr. (at Melrose)
Los Angeles, CA 90004
3 pm

 

Not A Cornfield
1201 N. Spring St.
Los Angeles, CA  
Thursday – Sunday, 6 AM – 8 PM
FREE, ALL-AGES events are ongoing, including Open Mic/Open Screen Night, Friday October 21 with films curated by EPFC along with music by Very Be Careful and spoken word hosted by Radio Sonideros!


The LMX blows off the cobwebs to rock Brennan’s Pub in honor of Boston Rob’s birthday. Yeah, it’s not until November, but we’re telling you NOW so nobody can say “Ah, geez, I didn’t know you were playing!!!!” Plus there’s turtle racing!
Saturday, November 5
Brennan’s Pub w/ Adam Marsland’s Chaos Band and Others!
4089 Lincoln Blvd.
Marina del Rey, CA
www.brennanspub-la.com
310-821-6622
9 pm, 21+, no cover

 

The Here & Now Midwest Mini-Tour

Friday, September 16
Detroit Film Center
1227 Washington Blvd.
Detroit, MI 48226
2 blocks west of Woodward, 1 block south of Grand River
313-961-9936 * www.detroitfilm.org
8 pm * ALL AGES


Wednesday, September 14

Exclusive Engagement at Casa Lotus


Tuesday, September 13

The Ice Factory
528 N. Ashland
Chicago, IL 60622
8 pm * $5 * ALL AGES!



August 10

 Echo Park Film Center
 1200 N. Alvarado Street, LA 90026
 213-484-8846
 8 pm. $5. All Ages.
The Here & Now, Lowlights, The Places perform music that will NOT harsh your mellow.

August 11
 Echo Park Film Center
 8 pm. $5. All Ages
 Films by August birthday boys Lee Lynch and Paolo Davanzo including the WORLD DEBUT of “May The FOURce Be With You”, a new musical movie by The Here & Now!

August 12
 The Here & Now show a brand new movie and play a brand new tune as part of The Moving Word, a homemade evening of 16 mm films and poetry curated by Jen Hofer and David Gatten. Email me if you wanna partake in the fun.

August 26
 Downtown LA
 8 PM, All Ages, FREE
 The Echo Park Film Center & Radio Sonideros cohost Open Mic/Open Screen as part of Not A Cornfield. Movies! Music! Poetry! Popcorn! All FREEEEEEEEEEE!
 For more info, go to www.notacornfield.com

City of Angels: An EPFC Youth Documentary Project ends its summer run at the Skirball Cultural Center on August 14. Check it out!
 Free! www.skirball.org

 

 

 

 

 

Tuesday July 5 @ Acme Food & Drink
We heart Jo-Jo!
1305 SE 8th Ave Portland, OR 97214.
9 pm FREE!
(503) 230-9020

Wednesday July 6 @ The Know
Special Program: Polyester Prince Road Show Presents City of Angels
2026 NE Alberta, Portland, Oregon
7:30 pm
www.theknow.info

Saturday July 9 – Thursday July 14 SE British Columbia Bicycle Tour
Keep your eyes peeled for guerilla screenings in random public places throughout the Kootenays!

Friday July 15 @ Beach Blanket Film Fest
The Here & Now presents Vancouver Special and plays Music From Movies!
On the beach at Lake Okanagan, Penticton, BC
10 pm
www.beachblanketfilmfest.ca

Sunday July 17 @ The Gumboot Garden Cafe
Our triumphant return to the best venue in the world!
1059 Roberts Creek Road Roberts Creek, BC
8 pm; $5

Saturday July 23 Chez Smith
Bands! Bar-B-Que! Bingo! Beautiful movies!
Oakland, CA
All day and all of the night.

 

 

 

Miss Marr Sings Some Songs For You
Wavelength at Sneaky Dee’s

Thursday, May 5
Buck
w/ Bizzart (Experimental Hiphop), Sexytime Explosion (Great female fronted prog-punxs), The Red Onions (60's Mexican Garage punxs) & DJ Jah- Eclectic Word beats (Shahab)

Garage Theater
251 E. 7th Street (at Long Beach Boulevard)
Take a nap in the afternoon! We’re on at 11:45!!!

 

International Super 8 Day
Sunday, May 8
Echo Park Film Center
1200 N. Alvarado St.
Los Angeles, CA 90026
2 – 10 pm

 

For you New York area film fans, check out
Sunset: A Film By The Here & Now at the Fifth Annual Bicycle Film Festival

happening May 12 – 15 in le grand pomme. Sunset is part of Program 15, showing May 15 at Courthouse Theater. This festival will be roving the globe for the next few months, so keep yer eyes peeled, San Francisco, Tokyo and LA!!! For more info, check out http://bicyclefilmfestival.com/dev/index.html

 

Saturday, May 28
The LMX
with PRETENDO (members of Creedle & Skelton Key)

The NATURAL LIGHTS and VIVA K
@ The Echo (basement, enter in the back alley!)
1822 Sunset Blvd., Echo Park.
(213) 413-8200.
21+
We’re on at 10 pm!

 


431 College St., Toronto
Sunday, April 10
Doors at 9 pm and I am on very shortly thereafter!!!
Pay-What-You-Can (aw…how sweet is that?)
www.wavelengthtoronto.com


Vancouver Special @ Images Film Festival Super 8 Late Part 2
Cameron House
408 Queen Street W., Toronto
Wednesday, April 13
11 pm – 3 am
(www.imagesfestival.com
www.thecameron.com / 416-703-0811

The Here & Now, Dameon Lee, Listing Ship
Echo Park Film Center
1200 N. Alvarado St., Los Angeles
April 16, 8 pm


The Here & Now and Dameon Lee
Sea Level Records
1716 W. Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles
April 17, 3 pm

 

Buck @ Spaceland
1717 Silverlake Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA  90026
3.5.2005
8 PM   •   $10

 

The Here & Now

The Here & Now will do some jingle jangle at precisely 3 pm so don’t be late!
Here’s all the details!

Who:    Echo Park Film Center and YOU!

When:  Sunday, February 13, 2005
             2 pm until midnight

Where: The Smell
            247 S. Main Street (between 2nd and 3rd, enter in alley)
            All Ages!
            $5 admission (all proceeds go to Echo Park Film Center free filmmaking classes for neighborhood youth!)

What:  Music by Very Be Careful, Jim Brown, Wives, members of Mika Miko, Fireworks, Nuclear Club, Killick Ensign, Group of Folks, The Natural Lights, Mind Space Radio, Shinji Kitagawa, Vanessa Micale, The Here & Now and more!

            Films by Charles Phoenix, Doug Harvey, Polyester Prince Rambling Road Show, The Kids of Echo Park Film Center and many             more!

            Special Performance by Professor Cantaloupe!

            Plus… A limited edition poster designed by Bughouse!
            A new EPFC t-shirt designed by Tiny Industries!
            Patches by Martine Simms and Matrushka Construction!
            Groovy buttons and stickers!
            Cake!!!

Why: We're three years old!!!
For more info contact Paolo Davanzo (polyesterprince@hotmail.com) or Lisa Marr (LMarrinLA@hotmail.com) or call 213-484-8846.

 


The Here & Now

Matrushka Construction grand re-opening
4281 Fountain Avenue (just north of Sunset)
December 3 from 7 to 10 pm

 

 

The Here & Now

at the Good in trendy Silverlake (formerly Crest On Sunset, formerly The Crest) on November 19. Don't quote me, though. 3725 Sunset Boulevard.

 

The LMX

will play some new songs and some old songs with or without Mike Flanagan at "low down dirty rock bar" The Scene (806 E. Colorado Blvd., Glendale) November 20. www.thescenebar.com

 

The Lisa Marr EXPERIMENT
and
Scott Biram

@ Alex's Bar
Thursday, October 14, 8 pm
2913 E. Anaheim St. (entrance around the back)
Long Beach, CA 90804
www.alexsbar.com
$3

JULY 2              LONDON                McGETTRICK’S FOUNDRY
JULY 6              NEW CASTLE        SIDE CINEMA
JULY 8              GLASGOW             MONO CAFE
JULY 11            EDINBURGH         FOREST CAFE
JULY 12            BELFAST               TBA
JULY 13 – 18    DONEGAL             EARAGAIL ARTS FESTIVAL
JULY 20            CORK                     TBA
JULY 21            DUBLIN                 TBA
JULY 24            BARCELONA       NEWMAN/SILVA CINEMA
JULY 31            MADRID                TBA

 

Thursday, June 17
The LMX plays with Miss Jesse Sykes
Alex's Bar
2913 E. Anaheim St. (entrance around the back)
Long Beach, CA 90804
 21+ $5 9 pm
www.alexsbar.com
562-434-8292  


Friday, June 4
The Here & Now perform as part of:
Untitled - a group photography show
curated by Marie Mingoia.
The Smell
247 S. Main St., between 2nd and 3rd Street
(enter in the alley in back! don't be scared, it's fine!)
Los Angeles, CA
213-625-4325
www.thesmell.org
ALL AGES • 8 pm


May 19, 8 PM

The Here & Now meets The Polyester Prince Road Show
7 Dudley Cinema at Sponto Gallery
7 Dudley Ave., Venice, CA
310-399-2078
www.81x.com/7dudley/cinema
FREE!


April 10

Hank's Saloon
46 3rd Avenue (corner of Atlantic Avenue)
Brooklyn, NY
www.hankstavern.com
Featuring: The Here & Now, Melomane and Aroma
set time: 9 pm
FREE!

 

Springtime in New York Tour, April 2004

The Polyester Prince Rambling Road Show

Pioneer Theater
April 3 + 4
155 East 3rd Street @ Avenue A
New York, New York 10009
212-254-3300
www.twoboots.com/pioneer




Lisa Marr and Friends

Pete’s Candy Store
709 Lorimer Street
Brooklyn, NY 11211
718-302-3770
www.petescandystore.com
April 5 - FREE!

The Sidewalk Café
94 Avenue A @ 6th Street
New York, New York 10009
212-473-7373
Set time: 11 pm
April 7 - FREE!

 

May 8
The Here & Now Present Movies & Music at the River Ridge Ranch
www.wildplaces.net

Saturday, February 7, 6 pm
The Here & Now play some songs as part of the Echo Park Film Center 2nd Anniversary Celebration!
Echo Park Film Center
1200 N. Alvarado Street (at Sunset)
Los Angeles, CA
For more info call 213-484-8846
www.echoparkfilmcenter.org

Saturday, January 31, 9 pm
The LMX plays with Vic Chesnutt at Spaceland
1717 Silver Lake Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90026
323-661-4380

Wednesday, January 28, 7 pm
Lisa Marr performs with Kent and Kevin Young as part of
KKY-151.2: ANOTHER MONOZYGOTIC EXPERIMENT USING TELEPATHIC CONVEYANCE
Cerritos College Art Gallery
11110 Alondra Blvd., Norwalk, CA 90650
www.cerritos.edu/gallery

 

 


previous film screenings...

 

Learning How to Fail

will be screening in Dublin as part of the 5th Annual Darklight Digital Film Festival, November 17 - 21. My goodness, my Guinness! www.darklight-filmfestival.com

 

Rug Rat

Fisher Price PIXL 2000 fans better get your booties over to the 7 Dudley Cinema at the Sponto Gallery in Venice, California on November 20 for PIXL This 14, Gerry Fialka's four-hour extravaganza of all things pixelicious... My brand-spankin' new short film Rug Rat will be in the mix along with such gems as an 80 minute radical lesbian 1990 sequel to Coal Miner's Daughter. Yoweeeeee! www.81x.com/7dudley/cinema

 

The Here & Now Super 8 Film
November 10
Hollywood's glamorous Egyptian Theatre
Part of the 4th Annual
Attack Of The Fifty Foot Reels festival.
www.flickerla.com

 

Learning How To Fail DVD Release Party
Thursday, September 16
8 pm
Echo Park Film Center
1200 N. Alvarado Street, Los Angeles
213-484-8846
echoparkfilmcenter.org

 

The Polyester Prince Rambling Road Show

Pioneer Theater
April 3 + 4
155 East 3rd Street @ Avenue A
New York, New York 10009
212-254-3300
www.twoboots.com/pioneer


previous radio appearances...

Lisa Marr at WHFR
The Skrockin' Yer Butow session...

Performance and interview recorded November 12, 2003, while on the Learning How To Fail Tour.

Originally broadcast December 19th on WHFR's Skrockin' Yer Butow show.

Preserved for your enjoyment as a bonus cd with the Learning How To Fail DVD, or as compressed mp3 files, downloadable from the press/downloads page.


LMX
live in the Studio at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
April 22, 2002
www.justconcerts.com