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    <title>mandmolecules @ 2008-07-20T15:30:00</title>
    <published>2008-07-20T20:30:40Z</published>
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    <title>The Premier of Metal Steel</title>
    <published>2008-07-13T02:38:03Z</published>
    <updated>2008-07-13T02:38:03Z</updated>
    <content type="html">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 &lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/stpaulaeriearts"&gt;St Paul Aerie for the Arts&lt;/a&gt; events.  Our next show will be at The Uptown Bar on Wednesday, July 23rd and it will be a free show.</content>
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    <title>This Friday!!!!!</title>
    <published>2008-07-09T21:05:12Z</published>
    <updated>2008-07-09T21:05:12Z</updated>
    <content type="html">&lt;span&gt;&lt;table bgcolor="#ffffff" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" width="95"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&lt;font color="#000000" face="verdana" size="1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/stpaulaeriearts" target="_blank"&gt;St Paul Aerie for the Arts Presents:&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;July 11, 2008&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/monicaandthemolecules" target="_blank"&gt;Monica and the Molecules&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/onemandanny" target="_blank"&gt;One Man Dan (cd release!)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/thewhiskeysournotes" target="_blank"&gt;The Whiskey Sournotes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;St Paul Eagles Club, 287 Maria Ave, St Paul,&lt;br /&gt;Doors 8:30 pm, Music 9 pm, Cover $5&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.smileycentral.com/?partner=ZSzeb001_ZKfox000" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img alt="Custom Smiley" src="http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cus/e_1_58.gif" border="0"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</content>
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    <title>Someday...</title>
    <published>2008-04-26T16:07:43Z</published>
    <updated>2008-04-26T16:07:43Z</updated>
    <content type="html">Monica and the Molecules on the Simpsons. Now, here are the White Stripes:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="cutid1"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="ljcut" text="The White Stripes"&gt;&lt;lj-embed id="2" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content>
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    <title>7th Street Entry show</title>
    <published>2008-04-20T17:44:00Z</published>
    <updated>2008-04-20T20:13:23Z</updated>
    <content type="html">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.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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.</content>
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    <title>A new poster idea</title>
    <published>2008-03-10T00:31:07Z</published>
    <updated>2008-03-10T00:31:07Z</updated>
    <content type="html">&lt;a href="http://a466.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/1/l_bf2c60530e0c1f87081c7092dc5f7501.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" src="http://a466.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/1/l_bf2c60530e0c1f87081c7092dc5f7501.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font color="#ff0000"&gt;&lt;font size="4"&gt;Monica and the Molecules, Wednesday March 19th at Big V's&lt;br /&gt;$5.00 cover&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;</content>
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    <title>mandmolecules @ 2008-03-08T07:44:00</title>
    <published>2008-03-08T13:43:41Z</published>
    <updated>2008-03-08T13:45:12Z</updated>
    <content type="html">We've added a new You Tube video:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ubYXRtS5xs"&gt;That's Spaghetti&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and it's about time for this one!  This was from the Saint Agnes show in August, 2007.</content>
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    <title>The History of Hip</title>
    <published>2008-03-06T23:07:07Z</published>
    <updated>2008-03-06T23:35:07Z</updated>
    <content type="html">Monica went to the Turf Club Tuesday night to see a presentation by the Minnesota Historical Society.&amp;nbsp; It was "The History of Hip:&amp;nbsp; The Beats"&amp;nbsp; Presenters Maria Damon (professor at U of M) and poet J. Otis Powell discussed and read beat poetry and the famous beat poets.&amp;nbsp; 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.&amp;nbsp; Here are two examples that stayed with us:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="cutid1"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="ljcut" text="Amiri Baraka--Something in the Way of Things"&gt;Something in the Way of Things--Amiri Baraka&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  In town In town In town&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  Something in the way of things&lt;br /&gt;  Something that will quit and won't start&lt;br /&gt;  Something you know but can't stand&lt;br /&gt;  Can't know get along with&lt;br /&gt;  Like death&lt;br /&gt;  Riding on top of the car peering through the windshield for his cue&lt;br /&gt;  Something entirely fictitious and true&lt;br /&gt;  That creeps across your path hallowing your evil ways&lt;br /&gt;  Like they were yourself passing yourself not smiling&lt;br /&gt;  The dead guy you saw me talking to is your boss&lt;br /&gt;  I tried to put a spell on him but his spirit is illiterate&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  I know things you know and nothing you don't know&lt;br /&gt;  'cept I saw something in the way of things&lt;br /&gt;  Something grinning at me and I wanted to know, was it funny?&lt;br /&gt;  Was it so funny it followed me down the street&lt;br /&gt;  Greeting everybody like the good humor man&lt;br /&gt;  But an they got the taste of good humor but no ice cream&lt;br /&gt;  It was like dat&lt;br /&gt;  Me talking across people into the houses&lt;br /&gt;  And not seeing the beings crowding around me with ice picks&lt;br /&gt;  You could see them&lt;br /&gt;  But they looked like important Negroes on the way to your funeral&lt;br /&gt;  Looked like important jiggaboos on the way to your auction&lt;br /&gt;  And let them chant the number and use an ivory pointer to count your teeth&lt;br /&gt;  Remember Steppen Fetchit&lt;br /&gt;  Remember Steppen Fetchit how we laughed&lt;br /&gt;  An all your Sunday school images giving flesh and giggling&lt;br /&gt;  With the ice pick high off his head&lt;br /&gt;  Made ya laugh anyway&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  I can see something in the way of our selves&lt;br /&gt;  I can see something in the way of our selves&lt;br /&gt;  That's why I say the things I do, you know it&lt;br /&gt;  But its something else to you&lt;br /&gt;  Like that job&lt;br /&gt;  This morning when you got there and it was quiet&lt;br /&gt;  And the machines were yearning soft behind you&lt;br /&gt;  Yearning for that nigga to come and give up his life&lt;br /&gt;  Standin' there bein' dissed and broke and troubled&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  My mistake is I kept sayin' "that was proof that God didn't exist"&lt;br /&gt;  And you told me, "nah, it was proof that the devil do"&lt;br /&gt;  But still, its like I see something I hear things&lt;br /&gt;  I saw words in the white boy's lying rag&lt;br /&gt;  said he was gonna die poor and frustrated&lt;br /&gt;  That them dreams walk which you 'cross town&lt;br /&gt;  S'gonna die from over work&lt;br /&gt;  There's garbage on the street that's tellin' you you ain't shit&lt;br /&gt;  And you almost believe it&lt;br /&gt;  Broke and mistaken all the time&lt;br /&gt;  You know some of the words but they ain't the right ones&lt;br /&gt;  Your cable back on but ain't nothin' you can see&lt;br /&gt;  But I see something in the way of things&lt;br /&gt;  Something to make us stumble&lt;br /&gt;  Something get us drunk from noise and addicted to sadness&lt;br /&gt;  I see something and feel something stalking us&lt;br /&gt;  Like and ugly thing floating at our back calling us names&lt;br /&gt;  You see it and hear it too&lt;br /&gt;  But you say it got a right to exist just like you and if God made it&lt;br /&gt;  But then we got to argue&lt;br /&gt;  And the light gon' come down around us&lt;br /&gt;  Even though we remember where the (light or mic) is&lt;br /&gt;  Remember the Negro squinting at us through the cage&lt;br /&gt;  You seen what I see too?&lt;br /&gt;  The smile that ain't a smile but teeth flying against our necks&lt;br /&gt;  You see something too but can't call its name&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  Ain't it too bad y'all said&lt;br /&gt;  Ain't it too bad, such a nice boy always kind to his motha&lt;br /&gt;  Always say good morning to everybody on his way to work&lt;br /&gt;  But that last time before he got locked up and hurt, real bad&lt;br /&gt;  I seen him walkin' toward his house and he wasn't smiling&lt;br /&gt;  And he didn't even say hello&lt;br /&gt;  But I knew he'd seen something&lt;br /&gt;  Something in the way of things that it worked on him like it do in will&lt;br /&gt;  And he kept marching faster and faster away from us&lt;br /&gt;  And never even muttered a word&lt;br /&gt;  Then the next day he was gone&lt;br /&gt;  You wanna know what&lt;br /&gt;  You wanna know what I'm talkin' about&lt;br /&gt;  Sayin' "I seen something in the way of things"&lt;br /&gt;  And how the boys face looked that day just before they took him away&lt;br /&gt;  The is? in that face and remember now, remember all them other faces&lt;br /&gt;  And all the many places you've seen him or the sister with his child&lt;br /&gt;  Wandering up the street&lt;br /&gt;  Remember what you seen in your own mirror and didn't for a second recognize&lt;br /&gt;  The face, your own face&lt;br /&gt;  Straining to get out from behind the glass&lt;br /&gt;  Open your mouth like you was gon' say somethin'&lt;br /&gt;  Close your eyes and remember what you saw and what it made you feel like&lt;br /&gt;  Now, don't you see something else&lt;br /&gt;  Something cold and ugly&lt;br /&gt;  Not invisible but blended with the shadow criss-crossing the old man&lt;br /&gt;  Squatting by the drug store at the corner&lt;br /&gt;  With is head resting uneasily on his folded arms&lt;br /&gt;  And the boy that smiled and the girl he went with&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  And in my eyes too&lt;br /&gt;  A waving craziness splitting them into the jet stream of a black bird&lt;br /&gt;  Wit his ass on fire&lt;br /&gt;  Or the solomNOTness of where we go to know we gonna be happy&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  I seen something&lt;br /&gt;  I SEEN something&lt;br /&gt;  And you seen it too&lt;br /&gt;  You seen it too&lt;br /&gt;  You just can't call it's name name name name name name name&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;written 2002 best that I can tell&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="cutid2"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="ljcut" text="Ted Joans--The Sermon"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Sermon--Ted Joans&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So you want to be hip little girls? &lt;br /&gt;You want to learn to swing?&lt;br /&gt;And you want to be able to dig and take in everything&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Yes dig everything as poet Ginsberg said?&lt;br /&gt;Now dig me pretty babies, I'd like first of all for you to get rid of that umbilical &lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; cord that your dragass prejudiced parents have around your neck,&lt;br /&gt;You don't need them to lay their antique anglo-saxon&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; puritanical philosophy on you now&lt;br /&gt;No pretty chick, you're much too slick to have eyes for their&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; late, ungreat, sick scene...but LOVE them for bringing you here!&lt;br /&gt;All you need now is you...real you, and people that are hip enough to&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; dig what's happening!&lt;br /&gt;So if your neighborhood ain't hip...SPLIT, leave it,&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; leave it for swinging surroundings.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I want you chicks to be real hip&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; I want you babes to learn the truth&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; I want you chicklets to get up off your lovely&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; behinds and participate in creative activity&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; I want you to find yourselves by doing!!&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; I want you to live it up!&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Action!!....Jazzaction!&lt;br /&gt;If you want to be hip DIG THIS SERMON:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you want to be a beautiful nonsquare angel, SLEEP&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; with everybody! but don't make it with nobody&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; but Santa Claus, J. C. and other bearded cats you dig!&lt;br /&gt;Please don't ball, pretty baby, without a DIAGRAM, a condom or a&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; DIAPHRAGM for what ever you gonna do!&lt;br /&gt;You don't want the nine-month blues, NOW DO YOU??&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you want to be a swinger, drink and get high&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; but be cool about it&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you want to be popular with real hipsters,&lt;br /&gt;DON"T TALK SO MUCH and please don't ever ARGUE!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you wish to be a sweet child of godlike intelligence, DIG JAZZ&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; support its musicians, go to all the jazz concerts&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; buy or cop Dixielnd as well as Bop&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; Ball to the music of Jelly Roll Morton&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; at least once in your life,&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; like your granddads did with my grandmothers,&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; dance to rhythm and blues, but SIT DOWN and LISTEN to Jazz!&lt;br /&gt;If you want to be hip my cute young lovely hens&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; then--you must own a copy of &lt;i&gt;Howl&lt;/i&gt;--&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; you must have a copy of Jack (on the road) Kerouac&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; on your shelf and know thouself&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; by reading Norman Mailer's "White Negro"&lt;br /&gt;You should read all the French Dada and Surrealist literature&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; and dig Whitman and Poe and all the great classics&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; so that you too will be in the know--&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; you should dig &lt;i&gt;Mad&lt;/i&gt; comics and read the &lt;i&gt;Village Voice&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; so that you will be "au courant"&lt;br /&gt;You must visit all the museums and DIG every zoo in the vicinity&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; AND YOU MUST NOT LET SQUARES BUG YOU,&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; you must have missionary eyes for them&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; FOR THEY KNOW NOT WHAT THEY DO!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You must help FREE our people behind the Cotton curtain&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; as well as those unfortunates behind the Iron one&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You must not live in Greenwich Village and pay high-as rents&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; to GREEDY LANDLORDS, you should either take in one hundred&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; room-mates or split to the East Village&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You should wear lipstick for only one reason:&amp;nbsp; KISSING!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You should never wear a phony brassiere--don't fake it!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You must not commit adultery and get caught!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dig food, you must eat as much as your belly can hold, but no meat!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You should dig all the OLD MOVIES and APPLAUD IN THE WRONG&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; PLACES on the new ones, CONFUSE HOLLYWOOD!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You should wear blue jeans and shorts as articles of clothing&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; and not as a badge of courage&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You must keep your openings and closings clean&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; and never lay the clap on any chap not even a square!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You should learn to kiss cats hello as well as goodbye with your&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; noisy pretty mouths wide open, you should go to all&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; swinging parties alone and dance like mad with everybody,&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; you should sit in the coffeehouses and beer bars&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; and spend some money on the far-out cats of the fine arts!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You should walk around home nude more often, Dig yourself in a&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; full view mirror&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; See the truth!&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; there shouldn't be anything&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; to be ashamed of in that mirror except old-fashioned virginity!&lt;br /&gt;YOU MUST NOT SIT AROUND AND WAIT for that mythological RIGHT&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; GUY to come along...NO pretty baby, you should read Gregory&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Corso's poem MARRIAGE before ever doing that bit&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; you may not fit!&lt;br /&gt;You should dig the bible, the koran, the torah,&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; and even oriental ZEN&lt;br /&gt;Read it all! but only have eyes for that which you NEED!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Don't get hung up like your parents.&lt;br /&gt;You should dig your parents...you should learn everyting&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; you can in school,&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; then you can come out and use it AGAINST THEM&lt;br /&gt;You should visit your psychiatrist as often as you visit your dentist,&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; once a year...STARVE THOSE MEDDLING BASTARDS!&lt;br /&gt;You should love your life out and live by loving&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; every minute of it!&lt;br /&gt;and you must learn to say YES YES YES more often&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, if you want to be hip&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; and you want to be able to SWING&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; and you want to be able to DIG and take in everything,&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; and avoid being a square&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; and be an IN chick with an OUT crowd,&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; and be cool but not ever LOUD&lt;br /&gt;Then dig my sermon, my sermon pretty babies, pick up on what&lt;br /&gt;I've just &lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; wailed, but don't flip your wig while doing it&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; be hip&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; be happy&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; be cool&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; be brave&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; and behave&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; and be mine, for I dig you all&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; You sweet angelic chicklets, chicks, and you too&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; lovely past forty old hens&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; A Man!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Copyright 1955&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We really enjoyed both of these and felt that they captured the beat mentality of the time.&amp;nbsp; 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.</content>
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    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:mandmolecules:5859</id>
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    <title>We're on MySpace</title>
    <published>2008-03-02T23:22:51Z</published>
    <updated>2008-03-06T22:15:27Z</updated>
    <content type="html">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 &lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/monicaandthemolecules"&gt;Monica and the Molecules&lt;/a&gt;.  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.</content>
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    <title>mandmolecules @ 2008-01-28T21:05:00</title>
    <published>2008-01-29T03:05:34Z</published>
    <updated>2008-01-29T03:05:34Z</updated>
    <content type="html">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.  &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7Ja_ZblYdw"&gt;Only Thing Wilder&lt;/a&gt;</content>
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    <title>Club Underground January 23</title>
    <published>2008-01-26T23:10:28Z</published>
    <updated>2008-01-26T23:10:28Z</updated>
    <content type="html">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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Op-sldFWxTA"&gt;Sex with the Devil&lt;/a&gt;</content>
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    <title>New Video added</title>
    <published>2008-01-13T03:30:05Z</published>
    <updated>2008-01-13T03:30:05Z</updated>
    <content type="html">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: &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/3tjpd7RZPGE"&gt;Coin Operated Boy&lt;/a&gt;</content>
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  <entry>
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    <title>The 4th Street Station</title>
    <published>2007-10-29T02:59:38Z</published>
    <updated>2007-10-29T02:59:38Z</updated>
    <content type="html">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.  &lt;br /&gt;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.  &lt;br /&gt;I hope that In the Basement Productions made enough on their fundraiser to make the evening worthwhile for them.  We certainly enjoyed ourselves!</content>
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    <title>New York for Monica</title>
    <published>2007-10-24T02:30:55Z</published>
    <updated>2007-10-24T02:30:55Z</updated>
    <content type="html">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 &lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/itbp"&gt;In The Basement Productions&lt;/a&gt; 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!</content>
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    <title>Monica dancing</title>
    <published>2007-10-16T22:14:54Z</published>
    <updated>2007-10-16T22:14:54Z</updated>
    <content type="html">Well, someone beat us to posting Monica dancing on You Tube.  &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4LSOg5-z0M"&gt;Madame X&lt;/a&gt;  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.</content>
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    <title>Turf Club Show</title>
    <published>2007-10-15T22:31:26Z</published>
    <updated>2007-10-15T22:31:26Z</updated>
    <content type="html">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.  &lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/therosynolanband"&gt;Rosy Nolan&lt;/a&gt; had a wonderful voice.  &lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/theheavylove"&gt;Aaron Berg&lt;/a&gt; was a good folk singer.  He invited Monica up to dance to one of his songs, which will be up on You Tube shortly.&lt;br /&gt;A fun night.  Look for us next at the 4th Street Station on October 27th.  This will be a benefit show for &lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/itbp"&gt;In The Basement Productions.&lt;/a&gt;</content>
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    <title>Loring Pasta Bar</title>
    <published>2007-10-10T22:24:14Z</published>
    <updated>2007-10-10T22:24:14Z</updated>
    <content type="html">Monica went out last night to see friends in &lt;a href="http://www.13hertz.com"&gt;13 Hertz&lt;/a&gt; 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!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now, off to practice for Sunday's show at the Turf Club:&lt;br /&gt;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!</content>
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    <title>DEMO</title>
    <published>2007-10-07T02:13:01Z</published>
    <updated>2007-10-07T02:13:01Z</updated>
    <content type="html">Well, Monica and the Molecules had a show on Wednesday, Oct 3, which was a rough show for a number of reasons including:&lt;br /&gt;1.  Monica had spent a brief amount of time the previous weekend in the hospital&lt;br /&gt;2.  We were unrehearsed because of Molecule Ethanol's house arrest&lt;br /&gt;3.  Molecule Buckminster Fullerene had multiple shows that weekend with multiple bands&lt;br /&gt;4.  Molecule Ethanol and Molecule Buckminster Fullerene decided to party early in the night&lt;br /&gt;5.  We were all tired from above things coupled with supporting a very excellent band from San Francisco on Monday night:  &lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/themakesnice"&gt;The Makes Nice&lt;/a&gt;  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...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The show on the 3rd was for &lt;a href="http://www.demomn.org"&gt;DEMO&lt;/a&gt;. 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!</content>
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    <title>The weekend</title>
    <published>2007-09-17T00:28:02Z</published>
    <updated>2007-09-17T00:28:02Z</updated>
    <content type="html">The weekend was relaxing.  Had considered going to see Spider John as I saw in &lt;span class='ljuser  ljuser-name_tccheapconcerts' lj:user='tccheapconcerts' style='white-space: nowrap;'&gt;&lt;a href='http://tccheapconcerts.livejournal.com/profile'&gt;&lt;img src='http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif' alt='[info]' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href='http://tccheapconcerts.livejournal.com/'&gt;&lt;b&gt;tccheapconcerts&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;blog that he was free as part of Dinkyfest.&amp;nbsp; 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.&amp;nbsp; I did attend Elvis Costello's show at the Minnesota Orchestra Hall.&amp;nbsp; 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.)&amp;nbsp; 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.&amp;nbsp; 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.</content>
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    <title>Back From San Francisco</title>
    <published>2007-09-08T23:25:42Z</published>
    <updated>2007-09-08T23:50:56Z</updated>
    <content type="html">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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We also attended the 40th anniversary of the Summer of Love event in Golden Gate Park. &lt;b&gt;(&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqtU5j7vUyw"&gt;Summer of Love&lt;/a&gt;)&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/b&gt;Just like the comments on You Tube say, it was incredible.&amp;nbsp; We also entered the Castro district where Monica received some fashion ideas, which will be featured in upcoming shows.&amp;nbsp; 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.&amp;nbsp; 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.&amp;nbsp; 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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Molecules will be gathering at Monica's shortly to view the shows of the past week.&amp;nbsp; Then, plans for practice.&amp;nbsp; No shows in Sept, but some shows scheduled for October will be announced soon.</content>
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    <title>Big V's and the State Fair</title>
    <published>2007-08-30T00:39:53Z</published>
    <updated>2007-08-30T00:57:41Z</updated>
    <content type="html">The Big V's show was fun.&amp;nbsp; Comments were made that this was our best show yet.&amp;nbsp; We had exciting new props and songs and had lots of good energy, despite starting 45 minutes later than expected.&amp;nbsp; I was disappointed, because I really thought we'd start on time this time.&amp;nbsp; Molecule Caffeine went home early to sleep for himself and for Monica.&amp;nbsp; Molecule Bremelanotide decided that Monica was good at delegating if she could get someone to sleep &lt;i&gt;for &lt;/i&gt;her.&amp;nbsp; The Molecule to be decided and Molecule Ethanol played pool and lost, but it was fun for them.&amp;nbsp; We all closed the bar, then back to Monica's and Molecule Caffeine's for a short after party.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Spaghetti Opera was fun this year.&amp;nbsp; Monica and Molecule Ethanol performed at St Agnes Bakery at 3 pm at the Minnesota State Fair.&amp;nbsp; Friday, all of Monica and the Molecules will be presenting the Spaghetti Opera at St Agnes Bakery stage in the Creative Arts building at 5 pm.&amp;nbsp; We were told not to toss the food around the stage so much this year, as last year, the general manager was cleaning for months after the fair.&amp;nbsp; So, what does Molecule Ethanol do first thing?&amp;nbsp; Toss Mostaciolli at the audience as we are being announced (and the audience was being warned about flying food).&amp;nbsp; Ah, but it is all in good fun.&amp;nbsp; Someone wanted samples of our spaghetti.&amp;nbsp; We are not allowed to give samples at the fair, but perhaps there will be samples at one of the St Agnes Bakery's first Saturday events.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We were all too tired to do too much at the fair, though Molecule Caffeine won $3 off at Chuck and Don's and Monica won a T-shirt.&amp;nbsp; Seeing as we have a dog (Molecule Civetone), we might use the coupon David won. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;P.S.&amp;nbsp; You can read about this and many other molecules at &lt;a href="http://scienceblogs.com/moleculeoftheday/index.php?page=1"&gt;Molecule of the day!&lt;/a&gt;</content>
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    <title>Back from the Minnesota State Fair</title>
    <published>2007-08-24T02:29:36Z</published>
    <updated>2007-08-24T02:45:19Z</updated>
    <content type="html">Well, it was another exciting day at the State Fair.  We won all kinds of trinkets for answering questions, got some free admissions to the Minneapolis Institute of Art through their art on a stick giveaways, and ate all kinds of bad for you food.  We also took several fun surveys in the Education building.  Does Monica and the Molecules support Mike Ciresi?  Well, we're not sure, but Monica was photographed talking with him about health, education, and wage issues.  Molecule Ethanol did well as Hommes des Cavernes at the French Crepes stage and was even asked back if there were openings.  He sounded and looked French, which, of course was his goal.  Monica won points at the Toyota Hybrid exhibit and opted to donate her points for a Sequoia tree to be planted in California (or at least a tree in a Sequoia forest.)  Molecule Caffeine  and Molecule Ethanol opted to turn in their points for a flashlight, which they're still working on to get working.  The Green Party was impressed by Monica's concern for the environment when she noted that she had recycled last year's fair buttons so as not to take repeat buttons this year, thus filling up the landfills.  The Green Party was also impressed by Molecule Caffeine's shirt.  The Green Party and the Democrats had petitions for &lt;a href="http://instantrunoff.com/"&gt;instant runoff voting&lt;/a&gt;.  The Republicans mostly had petitions&lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through;"&gt; for&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;against immigrants.&amp;nbsp; The Independence Party had nice bandanas that added to Monica's cuteness.&amp;nbsp; We met some of&amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="http://www.minnesotavixen.com/"&gt;the Minnesota Vixens&lt;/a&gt; whom we did not know much about.&amp;nbsp; We won bottle openers and chip clips from the Timberwolves and bottle carriers from the USPS.&amp;nbsp; Advil had a game to throw balls at aches and pains and win prizes.&amp;nbsp; Monica won a stress ball, but neither of the other two won anything.&amp;nbsp; We took a photo, which we'll find someday on the Advil link.&amp;nbsp; Qwest gave us a nice cloth bag at the beginning of our journey, and by the end, it was much appreciated.&amp;nbsp; We still had more we wanted to see, but we're back in a few days, so I'm sure there'll be more to update.</content>
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    <title>More about the Molecules</title>
    <published>2007-08-23T15:27:10Z</published>
    <updated>2007-08-23T15:39:16Z</updated>
    <content type="html">Well, Monica and the Molecules continue to rehearse once or twice a week.  Sometimes we start out by watching videos and relaxing.  Last week, for example, we watched Molecule Buckminster Fullerene's other band do strange things with Chicken Skins.  That led Molecule Ethanol to the conclusion that he had the right drummer in his band...someone sick enough to do that would be creative enough for all of his ideas, too!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We have discovered that there is a very direct link to all of our videos, which is &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/mandmolecules"&gt;http://www.youtube.com/mandmolecules&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now, we're off to the fair to see Molecule Ethanol as Hommes des Cavernes at the French Crepes show, but first, I should be safe and check the terror alert:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.geekandproud.net/terror/"&gt;&lt;img alt="Terror Alert Level" border="0" src="http://www.geekandproud.net/terror/terror.jpg" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;</content>
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    <title>Automatic Joy</title>
    <published>2007-08-22T02:13:50Z</published>
    <updated>2007-08-22T02:13:50Z</updated>
    <content type="html">Well, our fourth video has posted to You Tube now.&amp;nbsp; Monica heard this song on a compilation that one of Molecule Caffeine's former co-workers made.&amp;nbsp; It turns out many people have heard this song, but it is a cool song.&amp;nbsp; And, this video shows the band with Monica wearing her favorite dress while performing at Big V's.&amp;nbsp; (if you look carefully, you'll see it...the video is kind of dark.)&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ya3yJjj2cns"&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ya3yJjj2cns&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Video courtesy of Molecule Caffeine</content>
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    <title>It's Carnival Time</title>
    <published>2007-08-22T01:24:41Z</published>
    <updated>2007-08-22T02:14:41Z</updated>
    <content type="html">Years ago, on KFAI, we heard Ann Magnuson's song "Sex with the Devil."&amp;nbsp; We remembered it well and finally arranged our own version of it.&amp;nbsp; In addition, Molecule Ethanol remembers watching Doby Gillis as a child and watching the Beatnik character state that there were no jelly doughnuts in the window, little doggy, only death.&amp;nbsp; We used these themes to start our show at Lee's Liquor Lounge.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoJcPzO00Xs"&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoJcPzO00Xs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Video courtesy of Molecule Caffeine</content>
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