Last night at the St Paul Eagles we premiered a new part time member of Monica and the Molecules. It was Metal Steel, who played some strings. We were happy to see a few friends out for this premier and to those friends who also provided support for the St Paul Aerie for the Arts events. Our next show will be at The Uptown Bar on Wednesday, July 23rd and it will be a free show.

Monica and the Molecules on the Simpsons. Now, here are the White Stripes:

Well, for everyone who passed over our show last night, be it for the holiday or for other reasons, really missed a fun and entertaining night. Monica and the Molecules kicked off the night with a mix of rock and cabaret songs, which may have opened the audience to things they have never dreamed. We received many nice compliments and thoroughly enjoyed the other three bands. We always enjoy Chooglin', and were happy to open for them once again.

One side note, though, drummer Buckminster Fullerene was distinctly missing last night and in his place was some odd Dr. Seussian creature calling himself Caffiene-y Lou Who. We'll have to find out what happened to our Bucky Ball before the next show.

We've added a new You Tube video:

That's Spaghetti

and it's about time for this one! This was from the Saint Agnes show in August, 2007.

Monica went to the Turf Club Tuesday night to see a presentation by the Minnesota Historical Society.  It was "The History of Hip:  The Beats"  Presenters Maria Damon (professor at U of M) and poet J. Otis Powell discussed and read beat poetry and the famous beat poets.  There wasn't much discussion regarding Monica's favorite two beats, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Jack Kerouac, but we learned about some others with whom we were not familiar.  Here are two examples that stayed with us:



We really enjoyed both of these and felt that they captured the beat mentality of the time.  Monica's father claims to have been a "beatnik", and while these poems certainly do not fit his ideas, after listening to the lecture, Monica can understand the part of him that was a beat.

Well, Molecule Ethanol and Monica are working on a new project for local arts. In order to help everything flow, we started a MySpace for the project (more on that later as we work out some details). But, we also decided to open a MySpace for Monica and the Molecules. We are currently just leading people to Live Journal, which I believe to be better if you want lots of information easily, but it opens up new doors for people to find our Live Journal. So, check out MySpace, but we will always be posting here. Our next show is March 19th at Big V's.

We have yet another posting to You Tube, this time, one of our originals "Only Thing Wilder (than me is you)" from our 4th Street Station performance at Halloween-time. Only Thing Wilder

Well, we survived another Club Underground show. This time, all behaved and we had some new molecule supporters come out to see us. We also debuted our new song "It's All About Me." One molecule supporter noted that You Tube did not do us justice, but we insist on putting up new videos none the less. Another adoring fan, who will remain annonymous, noted that he enjoyed our show even more now that Caveman is a part of the band. We all scratched our heads (knowing that Caveman has always been with us) and then he realized his error that he was thinking of another band that could use Caveman's touch. Alas, Caveman, aka Molecule Ethanol, needs to continue to concentrate on us and is not available to revive any other bands. Molecule Ethanol was quite complimented by the thought, however. Here is a video from our show. The sound quality was not the best, but none the less, we look cool.
Sex with the Devil

Well, a new video has been added to You Tube. It is Coin Operated Boy from the October 4th Street Station appearance. We have deleted the older video for this song due to the video quality. Here is the link: Coin Operated Boy

The show at the 4th Street Station was very fun and it is too bad that we didn't see more costumed people on this so-called Halloween weekend. It is difficult to compete with this city and all of its bars offering Halloween events on the Saturday before Halloween. I do love costumed events, though. Monica was definitely dressed for success at the show as she won 4th place in the costume contest. The 4th place prize consisted of tickets to the Minnesota Roller Derby. The show went on well, trials of new songs and sounds. All in all, we felt it to be our best show yet, and yes, we will get some new YouTubes out someday! We enjoyed new molecules for this show: Uracil Mustard, Dimethyltryptamine, Polyethylene, and Theanine. Later, Molecules Ethanol, Caffeine, Theanine, and Dimethyltryptamine went out with Monica to a bar on Randolph Ave for some extra socializing and drinks.
First prize in the costume contest was a person dressed as a cell phone, which was a great costume. Molecules Buckminster Fullerene and Ethanol were bagheads and we were technically Monica and the Baggage last night. Buckminster Fullerene tore his baghead early on and so it didn't quite work for him, but Ethanol held strong.
I hope that In the Basement Productions made enough on their fundraiser to make the evening worthwhile for them. We certainly enjoyed ourselves!

Well, Monica is getting back from New York just in time to rehearse and perform on Saturday, October 27 at the 4th Street Station. It is a benefit show for In The Basement Productions And we ask Monica, "How was New York?" Well, it was fun, of course. The flight started well, all flights being on a small jet. Then, it was a nap before dinner at Sardi's preceding a Broadway musical called Avenue Q. (It was hilarious and highly recommended if you also make the trek to New York). Then, sleep before the next day's events of The Sex Museum of NY, a Pub Crawl Literary Tour, and dinner in Little Italy. The Third day involved a walk around Manhatten before touring the UN Building, then the Museum of Modern Art, then the Museum of Broadcast history. At the third event of the day, Monica viewed a James Bond special, an interview with Leonard Nimoy with Tom Snyder, an episode of Dobie Gillis, and 10 episodes done by Jim Henson for Saturday Night Live. Dinner was in Brooklyn Heights at the Lichee Nut...then a walk around a Brooklyn Neighborhood. The fourth day involved a walk around Wall Street and to the World Trade Center site, a trip to Tiffany's, and a difficult wait all around at the Liberty Island/Ellis Island excursion, which ended up being 5 hours for basically a two and a half hour event. Then, dinner in the Village at a New York Italian restaurant. All in all a wonderful trek and hopefully a revitalizing trip so Monica can perform Saturday!

Well, someone beat us to posting Monica dancing on You Tube. Madame X Here you can see Aaron Berg singing part of his song Madame X and Monica dancing in her 1920's Flapper costume. This might be plenty to post unless people want to see the whole song, which we of course have recorded.

The Turf Club show was wonderful. We had so much fun and we sounded quite good. Monica was wearing a red flapper costume which she thinks really helped (the fringe and all, you know?) The other acts were great, too. Rosy Nolan had a wonderful voice. Aaron Berg was a good folk singer. He invited Monica up to dance to one of his songs, which will be up on You Tube shortly.
A fun night. Look for us next at the 4th Street Station on October 27th. This will be a benefit show for In The Basement Productions.

Monica went out last night to see friends in 13 Hertz at the Loring Past Bar Red Room. Monica loves the Loring Pasta Bar and the Kitty Kat Club, but has never seen the Red Room. It was just as fantastic as the rest of those restaurant bars in that area. 13 Hertz did a great job as well. Even better, the show was FREE!

Now, off to practice for Sunday's show at the Turf Club:
Monica and the Molecules, Aaron Berg and Rosy Nolan, all at the Turf Club Sunday, October 14th, starting around 9-ish. On the website, cover charge is TBA, but typically, Sunday cover is $3. See all of you there!

Well, Monica and the Molecules had a show on Wednesday, Oct 3, which was a rough show for a number of reasons including:
1. Monica had spent a brief amount of time the previous weekend in the hospital
2. We were unrehearsed because of Molecule Ethanol's house arrest
3. Molecule Buckminster Fullerene had multiple shows that weekend with multiple bands
4. Molecule Ethanol and Molecule Buckminster Fullerene decided to party early in the night
5. We were all tired from above things coupled with supporting a very excellent band from San Francisco on Monday night: The Makes Nice Plus, they stayed at Monica's house, as did Molecule Ethanol, and well, I guess it might have been quite a bit worse if Monica had been feeling better, as the party might have continued longer...

The show on the 3rd was for DEMO. Monica and the Molecules were interviewed for some project someone is making to talk about DEMO. We were so out of it that we don't know if our comments will actually make it in or not, but we'll keep everyone posted. We were even so unaware that we don't know what the cover charge was, though we think it was $5, which supported DEMO. Our next show will be Oct 14 at the Turf Club...much more familiar grounds for us!

The weekend was relaxing. Had considered going to see Spider John as I saw in tccheapconcerts blog that he was free as part of Dinkyfest.  But, Saturday was cool, and being one of the first cool days of the season, I felt content to curl up at home and read.  I did attend Elvis Costello's show at the Minnesota Orchestra Hall.  The first half was quite good, the second half not quite as entertaining, myself not being an Elvis Costello fan (I attended with someone who was more of a fan.)  This afternoon was spent waiting for Molecules to call me so we could go pick up a drum set as Molecule Ethanol is starting an open stage in October at the St Paul Eagles club and wants to donate a set of drums for that purpose.  But, the person with the drums was out of town and never called any of the Molecules, so I went out to eat and will now watch Rear Window and maybe play a turn or two of online Scrabble.

Well, Molecule Caffeine and Monica had a wild time in San Francisco. More on that in a moment, but first, an entry on Friday, Aug 31st State Fair show. What a wonderful show. Monica has now become an official baker of St Agnes Bakery. Baker Klecko thought this was our best show. Molecule Buckminster Fullerene added so much to the show. We look forward to next year, both shows featuring the Italian Monica and the Molecules...will have to come up with a cool name. Our naming trend has just been to Americanize the name Oumo delle Caverne thus announcing the show as Caveman. We'll post it on You Tube once we have some free time.

Now, onto San Francisco. Molecule Caffeine has a cousin who had a wedding on Sunday, Sept 2. That cousin's brother is in a band, by the way, named "The Makes Nice." They are coming to Minneapolis, The Triple Rock Social Club, on Oct 1. (mark that on your calendars as also on the bill will be one of Molecule Caffeine's favorite bands named Peelander-Z.) The wedding was very tastefully done and was not in your face like some are. It was a fun family/friends united event.

We also attended the 40th anniversary of the Summer of Love event in Golden Gate Park. (Summer of Love)   Just like the comments on You Tube say, it was incredible.  We also entered the Castro district where Monica received some fashion ideas, which will be featured in upcoming shows.  Other events ended up being touristy, except eating at a great restaurant in Chinatown that did not look touristy and eating tasty food in Little Italy.  We did, of course, visit City of Lights bookstore and purchased some books for the ride home and visited the shrine of St Francis of Assisi.  Phillip Glass will be at City of Lights in Late September and Robert F Kennedy Jr was at the shrine Sept 5, when we were flying home.

The Molecules will be gathering at Monica's shortly to view the shows of the past week.  Then, plans for practice.  No shows in Sept, but some shows scheduled for October will be announced soon.