Christian Molenaar

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  • Mike’s Birthday

    February 21, 2025

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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

  • 2024

    December 31, 2024

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    Year in Review

    Pandemonium of New Year’s Eve: chaos of snow and mud churned up by a thousand carriages glittering with toys and bonbons, swarming with cupidity and despair; official frenzy of a big city designed to trouble the mind of the most impervious solitary. Read more

  • November 4

    November 4, 2024

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    Nothings

    I am no doubt occupied with weighty thoughts, I am on the way to certain discoveries, an invincible power bears me toward a luminary which shone at an early age on the darkness of my moral life; but what name can I give to the power that ties my hands and shuts my mouth, and Read more

  • Blackberries

    October 27, 2024

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    Nothings

    Out under yellow bulbs at a long weathered table, Zoyd found himself trying to help Flash with the shock of meeting so many in-laws in one place, both men from time to time looking around fearfully, like unarmed visitors in a jungle clearing, as out beyond this particular patch of light Traverses and Beckers went Read more

  • Strangers on a Train

    July 22, 2024

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    Nothings

    I want an Amtrak hamburger. And a coffee. Read more

  • Recantate

    June 25, 2024

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    Music

    I’m back from the desert with some new (old) songs. Read more

  • Laughlin Cantate

    February 13, 2024

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    As keen readers of this blog would know (if there were any), this time last year Lucas and I drove out to Laughlin to visit his dad and do some work in Bullhead City, with digressions into Chino, Joshua Tree, Twentynine Palms, Oatman and basically anything else planted on the long stretch of the 10 Read more

  • 2023

    December 31, 2023

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    Year in Review

    Another banner year for barren yields around these parts. Keen eyes may have noticed I only released one new recording this year, but for once I’m not measuring my productivity by its public-facing side. Read more

  • Those Darn Gnomes @ The Void, San Bernardino 11/30/19

    December 2, 2019

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    Noah’s couch had fallen apart some time since we had last stayed there so Hannah and I slept on the floor, which, combined with the 44 degree weather and lack of blankets or heating, meant very little sleeping was actually accomplished. Regardless, I woke up with King Diamond’s “Welcome Home” looping in my head, so Read more

  • Those Darn Gnomes @ The Smell, Los Angeles 11/29/19

    November 30, 2019

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    Took FlixBus up from San Diego this morning with Hannah at 10am. A treacherous bouquet of human excrement greeted us immediately upon entering the bus, immediately betraying the fact someone had broken the cardinal sin of long distance mass transit: never shit in the bathroom. In spite of the odor, nearly every rider on the Read more

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“You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.“

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