Christian Molenaar

Author: cdmolenaar

  • Days and Ways

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    Edward Strickland, in his book American Composers: Dialogues on Contemporary Music, gives the story: After abandoning the solo concerts in early 1984, Jarrett began releasing albums of jazz standards with Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette, with whom he continues touring and recording. For a year and a half he devoted himself primarily to performing classical… Read more

  • An Abduction

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    “Assück featuring members of Assück.” Read more

  • Explosions at Dawn

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    I The ship movesbut its smokemoves with the windfaster than the ship Read more

  • Their Finest Hour, or, Triumph and Tragedy

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    I, Big George, do solemnly swear that on the second of July I captured my first bug. The reader should be reminded that in the jungle many sounds occur which it is impossible to account for; so that on hearing a sudden crash or wail or plea ahead, the only thing to do is shoot… Read more

  • The Way to Astrophysics

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    July 1, 19431: I was joining the Observatory of Haute-Provence. I was full of emotions and feelings, which certainly had, in a very subtle way, an influence on my scientific life. It was the beginning of an illegal life. I had a complete set of papers (false papers), identity card, food card, and most important… Read more

  • Coming Attractions

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    Two weeks from now I’ll be playing saxophone for Shanghai punks Round Eye on their East Meets West tour with Fang and the Besmirchers. Read more

  • These Swiveled Meanings

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    It’s June and summer’s heightthe longest bride of lightleaps from all the rivetsof the skyYet it’s of earthand nowhere else I have to speakOnly on earth has this light taken onthese swiveled meanings, only on this earthwhere we are dying befouled, gritting our teethlosing our guided stars has this lightfound an alphabet a mouth Read more

  • The Citadel

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    As Péguy said on June 17, 1940: “In war, I side with he who won’t surrender the citadel.” Read more

  • Vase de Noces

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    SALEM, June 15, 1835. – A walk down to the Juniper. The shore of the coves strewn with bunches of sea-weed, driven in by recent winds. Eel-grass, rolled and bundled up, and entangled with it, – large marine vegetables, of an olive-color, with round, slender, snake-like stalks, four or five feet long, and nearly two feet broad:… Read more

  • Three Year Agreement

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    Douglas Sirk’s signature on the 24-page (!) contract he signed with Universal before making Imitation of Life, which Leo Lensing rescued from a Baltimore book dealer. Read more

Thought:

“Unless you make yourself equal to God, you cannot understand God: for the like is not intelligible save to the like. Make yourself grow to a greatness beyond measure, by a bound free yourself from the body; raise yourself above all time, become Eternity; then you will understand God. Believe that nothing is impossible for you, think yourself immortal and capable of understanding all, all arts, all sciences, the nature of every living being. Mount higher than the highest height; descend lower than the lowest depth. Draw into yourself all sensations of everything created, fire and water, dry and moist, imagining that you are everywhere, on earth, in the sea, in the sky, that you are not yet born, in the maternal womb, adolescent, old, dead, beyond death. If you embrace in your thought all things at once, times, places, substances, qualities, quantities, you may understand God.”

Giordano Bruno

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