Feed Us A Live Insect

Our next show...

noreply@blogger.com (Eli Monolator) — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 05:57:00 +0000

...is this:

Os Waffles

noreply@blogger.com (Eli Monolator) — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 19:25:00 +0000

A fan:

My friend Jorin is in town for a few days. I have been in a band with Jorin since the early 1990's (I think) called Os Waffles. Os Waffles started when I used to babysit Jorin when he was about 10 years old and I was about 16-17. He had an old acoustic guitar in his room and I would entertain him by writing songs together--later we would use an old radio shack tape deck to record these songs, and I still have some of the tapes. After we both moved away from East Lansing we would visit each other periodically and write more songs--some of which later became early Monolators songs (Radio's On, In My Dreams, Spandex Hitman) and Cobra Lilies songs (Lonesome Kitty Cat On The Range).

Despite existing for approximately 20 years Os Waffles has never actually played a live show, except that we will tonight at Sean Carnage's. Monolators play third, but Os Waffles will play a (very) brief set at the beginning of the night--9:45 sharp. This may be the one and only Os Waffles show, so please do come early.

Some Os Waffles mp3 magic:

Girls In My Town
In My Dreams
Kitchen Dance Party
Everyone Knows The Devil
Pee Pee
Like A Lightbulb

Os Waffles was not my first band, but it was the first one for which I ever wrote songs, and some of these are definitely my first attempts to (co-)write music. They are all pretty embarrassing/awesome little snapshots of time, some have aged better than others, but there you have it.

Another fan:

Tonight!

noreply@blogger.com (Eli Monolator) — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 15:45:00 +0000

Thank you so much to everyone who came out to the show on Friday, and many thanks to the members Avokubo, P.K. 14, Carsick Cars, and the Maybe Mars staff who were so friendly and gracious. I was told that Friday had the best turnout of the entire West Coast leg of the Chinese Invasion tour, and we were delighted to be part of it.

And don't forget--this is tonight! All ages! We have a surprise medley that we're extreeeeemely excited about--come on out!

This is possible for Friday night

noreply@blogger.com (Eli Monolator) — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 00:44:00 +0000

Really!

Cool Shavin' Ken

noreply@blogger.com (Eli Monolator) — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 05:49:00 +0000

This Friday w/ 3 bands from China

noreply@blogger.com (Eli Monolator) — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 18:02:00 +0000

I wanted to mention that we're playing this on Friday at the Highland Park American Legion Hall. Carsick Cars, PK 14, Av-Okubu, plus Signals and ourselves. I expect we'll go on somewhere between 10:30-11:00. Be there. It will be good.

Covers Magazine--buddy holly edition

noreply@blogger.com (Eli Monolator) — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 00:16:00 +0000

There's a very nice interview with Eli Monolator in this week's Covers Magazine, which happens to be Buddy Holly-themed--it covers, naturally, our Holly fixation, as well as a couple of other things, such as the origins of CA-3A-569 from Don't Dance...please take a look:

LINK

Neato screengrab! Thanks to Chris Ewing for conducting the interview.

Baby I Want You.

noreply@blogger.com (Eli Monolator) — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 16:15:00 +0000

BARRY MANILOW "Could It Be Magic" (live)

Ooops correction

noreply@blogger.com (Eli Monolator) — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 02:52:00 +0000

I accidentally wrote "April 9" for the Sean Carnage show. It is in fact on Monday, April 12, as the poster says. Sorreee.

But we are playing on the 9th. We are playing this, and I am excited. You should come to both!

Luv' luv' luv' luv' luv'

noreply@blogger.com (Eli Monolator) — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 16:20:00 +0000

Why can't we play a show with them?

April 12 Sean Carnage time!

noreply@blogger.com (Eli Monolator) — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 20:35:00 +0000

new monolators and cobra lilies recordings

noreply@blogger.com (Eli Monolator) — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 18:43:00 +0000

I have not been out much recently because we are hard at work recording new records for both monolators and cobra lilies. The monolators material was originally intended for a split 7" that may or may not come to fruition--if it doesn't, we're shooting to put out the songs on a new digital EP by the end of April. These recordings contain some interesting experiments with synthesizers (rather than pianos or organs) which are a bit new for us and we're quite excited about that!

The Cobra Lilies material is also for a new 4-song ep. We're slowly trying to catch up with our catalog of songs that we've got piling up, not an easy feat when we release records at the rate of 4 songs per year. We are trying to step up production a bit in that department.

Some shows coming up: Monolators play Sean Carnage on April 12. Cobra Lilies play Silverlake Lounge with Pizza! and So Many Wizards on April 19, and we're playing the Armory Family Art Festival in Pasadena on April 24. Should be sweet. More news as it comes.

Rotten melon

noreply@blogger.com (Eli Monolator) — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 07:51:00 +0000

I bought a melon today.
It was no good.
I sliced it open and
The juices ran down the side.
Too many juices.
The smell
Was
Beyond belief.
A dead smell, a smell of dreary islands, a smell of the vomiting helpless, of the forever lost, a smell of one billion sparrows rotting, churning with atoms, sliding into bile.
A smell saying,
This is not for you,
This is not for this earth,
This is not for [the flesh of men].
Beware young lovers. Beware curling locks. Beware bluebell eyes, flushed cheeks, roseapple lips. Drink your sweet wines and sigh but touch not the poisoned dew.
The melon spilled over the blue and white tiles of the floor
Spattering
Everywhere and everything
A stench like a whirlpool, I fought the tide and then
I made my peace
With the paper towels and the sink
And then a little later ate
Some risotto instead.

I bought a melon today.
It was no good.

I wish I could have seen this

noreply@blogger.com (Eli Monolator) — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:54:00 +0000

Mary and Jillinda in the band! Plus a boatload of friends...holy moley, what a sound! This is from Pehrspace on Sunday night.

Correction

noreply@blogger.com (Eli Monolator) — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 23:01:00 +0000

It was pointed out to me that I have in fact played a solo show fairly recently, at the moustache circus. I had forgotten about that. However, as I was standing on top of a picnic table and screaming over the noise of a crowd that was not listening, and clawing away at a guitar I could not hear, I guess I had blotted that incident from my memory. Does that count as a "show"?

$10 list for the Leslie & The LY's show

noreply@blogger.com (Eli Monolator) — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:46:00 +0000

We have a couple of discount slots for the March 4 show at the Echoplex with Leslie & The LY's--$10 instead of $13--please email us [mail at themonolators dot com] or send a facebook message or what have you with your name(s) if you'd like to be on the list.

Slow playing tape deck

noreply@blogger.com (Eli Monolator) — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 17:32:00 +0000

This sounds like my dreams:

Monolators w. Leslie & The LY's at the Echoplex

noreply@blogger.com (Eli Monolator) — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 17:21:00 +0000

Yah, you know who I'm talking about:

Her. Monolators will open for Leslie & The LY's at the Echoplex on Thursday, March 4. We will go on 1st, so, 9pm. I am very excited, but lord, I have NO IDEA WHAT TO WEAR. Can we compete? HOW?

Solo show! Plus Mary & Jillinda w. Tenlons Fort

noreply@blogger.com (Eli Monolator) — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 17:10:00 +0000

Hi all--

A little note--Mary and Jillinda (among others) are going to be playing a couple of shows as part of Jack Gibson/Tenlons Fort's band in the next couple of days--on Sunday the 28th at Pehrspace, and then on Wedneday March 3 at Synchronicity Space for Jack's record release show! Please come, I've heard the record and it is sweeeeeeeet!

ALSO--Jack is gonna screen part of a movie he's working on at the new Silver Factory space on Tuesday March 2nd, and he asked me (Eli Monolator) to play a solo set. To which I said, sure. Except that I haven't played solo in front of people for something like...um...15 years? So--this should be interesting! I'm gonna play some monolators stuff, some cobra lilies stuff (but heavily re-arranged, as you might imagine), and maybe a few new things I'm working on.

Silver Factory Studios has moved since it was shut down a few months back--I am told the new address is 4310 W. Jefferson Blvd. L.A. 90016. I don't have a set time yet but will report back as soon as I do.

This Is Rock And Roll

noreply@blogger.com (Eli Monolator) — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 20:52:00 +0000

Yes. Yes it is.

The Smell this Friday!

noreply@blogger.com (Eli Monolator) — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 23:13:00 +0000

I have to point out that we have NEVER EVER PLAYED THE SMELL before! We are extremely excited for this one--which is our only show for February. All ages! $5! Dig the poster!

Monolators on This Ain't A Scene

noreply@blogger.com (Eli Monolator) — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 22:18:00 +0000

A very, very nice interview/feature on volume 5 of Ben Hoste's This Ain't A Scene is up. Although--I don't know about...this:

"Their home is not messy, quite the contrary, it's very clean..."

Er...hmm.

On the Huffington Post

noreply@blogger.com (Eli Monolator) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:32:00 +0000

That's right. The BEST BAND(S) IN LA. It says so right here. You think I'm making this up? THINK AGAIN. Punk.

So anyways--a really nice interview/writeup from Jonathan Kim of Huffington Post is up. Please check it out, and thank you Jonathan!

Cobra Lilies this Wednesday at the Echo

noreply@blogger.com (Eli Monolator) — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:24:00 +0000

Cobra Lilies has always been a one-show-a-month proposition, and I am pleased to say that this month's show is nearly upon us. The Lilies will play this Wednesday at the Echo with Pizza!, Findlay Brown, and Superhumanoids. We go on 2nd (at 10pm). LA Underground is presenting and I am pleased to say we have special antics for you if you come, plus edible treats. Trust us. You will like.

Dream

noreply@blogger.com (Eli Monolator) — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 17:11:00 +0000

I am in a park in Louisiana when I see a large hawk/eagle (although in the dream it's identified as "a falcon") flying around in the sky, being attacked by a swarm of large fuzzy green wasps. The wasps eat off all of the falcon's feathers and it falls to the ground in a puddle. It looks dead. A small kid runs it over with his bike with training wheels. After picking up the falcon and squeezing the water out of it (like working an old-fashioned pump handle, which would have been, what? Its leg?) it turns out not to be dead after all, so I take it home.

The falcon likes to hang out in my basement (I do not have a basement outside of my dream) and watch television while its feathers grow back. Once its feathers do grow back, it turns out to be more of a bald eagle, except with the head of a dog, rather than a bird. So, a black-and-white dog-headed eagle-falcon.

Later I catch it going through the neighbor's trash cans. I tell it that it has to take a bath in the kitchen sink, and it says "Aw MAN!"

End of dream.

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