Christian Molenaar

Category: Show

  • The Food Shed 10/8/2025

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    Shadow Ticket finally dropped today and you know I was always going to be a day one buyer. Read more

  • Two Nights

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    A week ago while eating In-N-Out, Max Turner Oestreicher found an extremely large french fry. Read more

  • The Witches Tower 3/5/25

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    Ryan asked me to play this show and the very next day had to back out upon realizing he’d double-booked himself to sit in with Swing Kids in LA the same night. Obviously I wasn’t going to begrudge him taking the bigger gig, but it did leave the question: how the hell do you play… Read more

  • Smoke Show

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    Five Free-Punk Stunts Read more

  • Mike’s Birthday

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    In the morning I dragged myself sleeping from the second connecting bus into your cafe, ordered a triple hammerhead and told myself I was ready for a job interview. Read more

  • The Brown Building 1/17/2025

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    I loved the concept for this show: the Brown Building’s proprietor and Make Believe DIY head Matty asked me to open for LA-based violinist Lina Tullgren; Amy Cimini on viola and I on cello would round out a sort of deconstructed string trio. Read more

  • Bikes Del Pueblo 11/17/24

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    Bikes del Pueblo is a community bike repair space in City Heights whose wide purview includes repair, refinement and — most importantly — riding. Humble Servant of the Worm is a composting co-op who have set up a community garden in the back of Bikes del Pueblo’s lot, focused primarily on local herbs but also… Read more

  • The Brown Building 11/9/24

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    Every single person I invited to this show declined for one reason or another: anniversaries, brothers’ birthdays, cousins’ weddings, TTRPG nights; apparently every event in the county had to occur on this particular Veterans’ Day weekend. Read more

  • Best Practice 9/5/24

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    I’ve played with Nick Lesley and Jonathan Piper both together and separately, but missed their duo’s premiere at the Brown Building last month. Apparently neither had played with Stevie Richards before, but that didn’t appear to be any obstacle. Read more

  • Read or Die!! 2023

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    Abominomicon reunited at the Che last night for Stay Strange’s first Read or Die!! zine fest alongside Badge Grabber and Bastard Noise. Read more

Thought:

“Any prose writer, even if he doesn’t use narrative the way narrative is traditionally used, is concerned with narrative. I mean the reader has to go from A to Z and it’s going to take a long time and that’s narrative. There’s no way to get around it; that’s the form.”

Kathy Acker