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I updated MANDALARAMA with more music! better music! new 3D MODE if you can find it eyesack.itch.io/mandalarama

i ihate to post about ‘politics’ but at this point everyone agrees that the only reason Joanna Newsom’s 5th album isn’t out yet is becuase Gavin’s pressuring the recrod label to stop his weird cousine from being in the news & making him look worse by contrast (he cannot name a single bird), right?

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Reeder 🐋 @iamreeder.com · 29/09/2026

In Defence Of The Archivist Fourth Annual Listening Party 48 hours from NOW-ish iamreeder.bandcamp.com/merch/in-def... Be there or be not there

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In Defence Of The Archivist Listening Party from Reeder

Listening Party from Reeder.

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carrie z @somebypaths.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

i liked this story, alternately scary, funny, and sad in surprising places. i assume that this is the recent Western Massachusetts-related drama that people keep talking about?

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Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Daily bunny no.3348 finds a creature out of time

Four bunnies encounter a microraptor, a small dinosaur with colorful feathers. They are standing around the microraptor, who regards them with a curious bird-like grin

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carrie z @somebypaths.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Satie sample in "Near or Far" on the new Carly Rae Jepsen, and she actually seems to understand that the special Satie thing is less "soft gentle unintrusive" than "non-functional tonal harmony", which is pretty cool! good track. some fun chord progressions elsewhere on the album too. thanks Canada

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carrie z @somebypaths.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

update: memorizing remained fun & soothing. in absence of any other sort of performance chance, i decided to record the piece yesterday to mark 3 weeks since i started learning it. (spent a lot more time failing to fix a color grading problem than on the recording itself, c'est la vie.) it was fun!

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carrie z @somebypaths.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

it's still bandcamp friday day. lots of things to buy on there to support those indie musicians. you'd better do so.

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Reeder 🐋 @iamreeder.com · 04/09/2026

This Bandcamp Friday, you should listen to: iamreeder.bandcamp.com/album/the-ar... But I am a little bit biased still.

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The Archivist's Vision, by Reeder

6 track album

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carrie z @somebypaths.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

what the "bleyzes" could this next project be…

mysterious screenshot of my computer desktop with visible a window of typeset sheet music and a window of hand-written sheet music. the words "hydro" and "dredging the lake" and "then i", etc. but it's not my handwriting? by the way my desktop background is currently Irene Rice Pereira - Evaporating Night (1951). carrie lore for true fans: each day my desktop background cycles to a new painting from a big folder of abstract paintings. also the file of my fave ilya repin painting is visible in the corner. also idk if "bleyzes" has some kind of other meaning, but here it's just meant as a reference to Carla Bley. thanks for reading

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Sarah Hennies @sarahhennies.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Hey night owls, you can hear two clips from my new album with @successfulartist.bsky.social and pre-order the record NOW. sarahhennies.bandcamp.com/album/prison...

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Prisoner's Cinema, by Sarah Hennies & Tristan Kasten-Krause

4 track album

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carrie z @somebypaths.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

saw "Camp Miasma" and the indie cinema put a trailer for "Kwaidan" before it, and i've decreed that from now on every movie must have at least one exterior shot (preferably 15) using handmade matte paintings for backdrops

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carrie z @somebypaths.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

love the way tim curry always brought a touch more energy than the line or the choreography called for. check out how he skips across the stage here (i didn't know until today that he played the G&S Pirate King! what a career) www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWzq...

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Tim Curry as The Pirate King - 'The Pirates of Penzance -1982 - Royal Variety Performance

YouTube video by Tim Curry

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carrie z @somebypaths.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

this weekend i decided to start learning to play a random Haydn sonata from memory. so far it's been really fun and has soothed some of my art-related anxieties. it'd been way too long since i seriously memorized any music. in general memorizing things you like is so rewarding! recommended

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carrie z @somebypaths.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

the "auto-dub" that YouTube now imposes on videos, without the user asking for it, causes me immeasurable psychic distress. i despise it! if you must create a world of falsehoods, at least let me choose whether to enter it! 極めてなにか生命に対する侮辱を感じます!

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Michael Brough @smestorp.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

another post that pretty well says what i'd been thinking of writing, please keep this up www.experimental-history.com/p/i-like-em-... (via @flantz.bsky.social)

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I like 'em thick

OR: an apology to my English teachers

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⛅🌫 @deer.jadeinter.net · 14/08/2026

it's out!!! it's out!! it's out. you can listen to it now jade-archives.bandcamp.com/album/and-ca...

CDs of the album attached sit against a grassy background.

CDs with the cases opened. The CDs are decorated with radial washes of blue ink and lined with intricate patterns.

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carrie z @somebypaths.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

i updated my list of Herman Melville cinematic adaptations, and all i could find after 5 years was several more Bartlebys. for shame. we need “White-Jacket but in the modern US Navy”. we need “Mardi but in space”. we need “A24 Presents: Bell-Tower”. letterboxd.com/somebypaths/...

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Adaptations of Herman Melville works other than Moby-Dick

That's 2 Billy Budds, 2 Typees, 12 Bartlebys, and one each of Omoo, The Encantadas (Sketch Eighth), Benito Cereno, and Pierre (with two versions of the same production). Some of these adaptations are ...

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hedy r @hedrarowan.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

carries new volume of satie works contain my new fav recording of the gymnopedies , which is a slow duet with a bus and other vehicles and birds also ur rose + croix fix for the month eat ur heart out aldo ciccolini

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carrie z @somebypaths.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

It's Erik Satie time once again! I think you'll enjoy Volume 13, especially if you like the sounds of birds and vehicles and stuck notes, for it's all recorded outside on two lovely weatherworn public pianos. carriez.bandcamp.com/album/satie-...

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Satie: Complete Piano Works - Volume 13, by carrie z

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Da Scary Rose @modernmodron.itch.io · 04/08/2026

“Today is August 4, 2026,” said a second voice from the kitchen ceiling, “in the city of Allendale, California.” It repeated the date three times for memory’s sake. - There Will Come Soft Rains

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"There Will Come Soft Rains" - Budet Laskovyj Dozhd

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Isobel Bess @echosequence.space · 04/08/2026

if you want trans culture (e.g., trans literature, trans cinema, trans humor, trans music, trans art) you have to support the people doing the social reproduction work to make it possible. No one will create those conditions from the outside.

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Donate to Help Keep a Small Trans Zine Press Going, organized by Isobel Bess

Hi! I’m Isobel. I run a small trans zine press and tape label called Other Spaces… Isobel Bess needs your support for Help Keep a Small Trans Zine Press Going

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carrie z @somebypaths.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I was honored to do some of the early playtesting for Escape from Wonderland, and i like it a lot. It has a nice balance between open storytelling and some intense and unique gameplay mechanics. If you like TTRPGs, i definitely recommend getting it when it's out, and/or trying the new beta now!

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carrie z @somebypaths.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

i don't have a chance of understanding even the definition of Burau representations any time soon, but Joan Birman herself seems really cool…

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carrie z @somebypaths.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

mike flanagan’s upcoming “carrie” miniseries is actually about me. mike flanagan found out that he shared a name with mike leigh and therefore decided to start making slow-paced heartfelt biopics of people whose lives aren’t particularly dramatic, starting with me. i’m honored.

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carrie z @somebypaths.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

saw a public piano in a park, and on a whim i decided to return in the middle of the night and record some Satie, so after i do some editing and stuff, Satie Complete Piano Works Volume 13 will probably arrive later this month! it’s going to be a good one i think

the provisional album art for Satie 13, which is a photo of me at said park piano at like 1 AM, with a streetlight in the background (and a banner that says "Newton" revealing that this instalment was made in the great town of Newton from which presumably Isaac Newton hails). (actually it's a screenshot of the Mac OS X default image editing software while i work on that image. that's the same social-media indulgence that i did last year in my post about installmment 12, because it was so universally well-received last time.)

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carrie z @somebypaths.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

i've never really understood the appeal of David Hockney before, but i had not seen this picture and it's great and seeing it just now has made me retroactively like even his pictures that i didn't like in the past! i get it now, i just needed to be shown that the guy liked rain too

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carrie z @somebypaths.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

i played the computer game "868-BACK" over the weekend and somehow got a score that achieved 48th on the "leaderboard", which is the first and probably only time i'll ever appear on a leaderboard of any kind!

The "868-BACK" leaderboard, with me ("hummingbird"), at position 48, with a score of 1436. According to Wikipedia, 1436 is the year Gutenberg began work on the printing press, though we know little of how his work progressed until 1450 when the press was in operation. It's also the death year of Jacqueline, Countess of Hainaut, a central figure in Holland's Hook and Cod Wars.

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carrie z @somebypaths.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBYq... is the most charming classical music video ever, and that’s mainly because of Patricia Petibon and Joseph Haydn, but Daniel Harding also bears some credit (especially if he refined the string articulations), so i get why LA hired him as soon as they saw it

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Patricia Petibon - Ragion nell'alma siede - Haydn (Official Video)

YouTube video by Deutsche Grammophon - DG

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carrie z @somebypaths.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

i was listening to たま and came across this sweet little Kōji Ishikawa recording from recently. what a guy! are there other songs that do this finale trick, the fade-out followed by a decisive ending? i get so annoyed by fade-outs but this is a fun way to half-do one www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvwr...

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ラザニア / 石川浩司　Lasagna / Koji Ishikawa

YouTube video by 石川浩司公式ch　Koji Ishikawa　

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carrie z @somebypaths.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

anyway now i’ve seen Fuchigami to Funato (the best musical duo in the world) 3 times, and also talked with them for a while, and it was quite wonderful - i highly recommend meeting your own heroes if and only if they’re not very famous

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carrie z @somebypaths.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

back in the USA and getting to work by walking half an hour from an isolated bus stop along a street with no sidewalk while watching out for distracted-driver pickup trucks and unleashed dogs, and this area has a better mass transit system than most places of its size in the country; garbage country

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carrie z @somebypaths.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

saw the kabuki play 裏表先代萩 and Nikki Danjo is such a funny villain… modern storytellers take note, what people want to see is a guy get hyped up for 3 hours as a scary evil wizard, then when he finally appears, he turns into a rat & back for no reason and tries to kill a defenseless old man and fails

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Sarah Hennies @sarahhennies.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

@subvert.fm went public today, almost all of my music is there including a lot of stuff that hasn’t been available for a long time www.subvert.fm/sarah-hennies

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carrie z @somebypaths.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Olga Rozanova - Non-Objective Composition / Color Painting (1917)

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carrie z @somebypaths.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

the USA's destruction of swaths of people and of the world's environment, knowingly and for no reason at all but the enrichment of the rich, brings shame to all humanity. to say nothing of the thousandfold shame it brings to those of us who live there!!

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Isobel Bess @echosequence.space · 07/04/2026

today and every day, death to america

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carrie z @somebypaths.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

wow rip Neil Sedaka, whom i mainly know for the weirdest hit of 1959, "One Way Ticket" - it is him playing a word game that only 1959 audiences would realize is a word game, is about trains, and has weird production and vocals that keep coming into my head unbidden www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzzz...

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Neil Sedaka - One Way Ticket

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carrie z @somebypaths.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

new job & i must finally learn to drive the hated Automobile, after >30 years of relying on public transit & friends. its sad… but today i started a car for the 1st time & the radio was playing a song saying "here comes carrie!" which was nice. maybe i can forgive myself & try to find what fun i can

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Sweet Tequila Blues

YouTube video by Chip Taylor - Topic

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carrie z @somebypaths.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Mary Lovelace O'Neal - Untitled 200 (c. 1970)

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carrie z @somebypaths.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

okay that's it for my increasingly-rare return to "posting" my 'opinions' on «social media»; see you 「later」

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carrie z @somebypaths.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

i've got a good feeling about the upcoming TMBG album.. i like the picture, i like the big track count, the first single has both guys singing (and it's a satisfyingly bizarre concept and has good Linnell chord changes).. i'll probably like it regardless but maybe it'll be a actually rly good album!

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carrie z @somebypaths.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

i was expecting some homosexual subtext in “War and Peace” by Leo Tolstoy, because that’s just what happens in classic literature, but i'm halfway thru and was really not expecting it to have multiple background transgender people and a t4t romance??? (spoilers for book 5:chapter 13, & 7:4, & 7:11)

Book 5, Chapter 13
“Ah, and Ivánushka is here too!” said Prince Andrew, glancing with a smile at the young pilgrim.
“Andrew!” said Princess Mary, imploringly.
“Il faut que vous sachiez que c’est une femme,” * said Prince Andrew to Pierre.
“Andrew, au nom de Dieu!” *(2) Princess Mary repeated.
* “You must know that this is a woman.”
* (2) “For heaven’s sake.”

Book 7, Chapter 4
A third person rode up circumspectly through the wood (it was plain that he had had a lesson) and stopped behind the count. This person was a gray-bearded old man in a woman’s cloak, with a tall peaked cap on his head. He was the buffoon, who went by a woman’s name, Nastásya Ivánovna.
“Well, Nastásya Ivánovna!” whispered the count, winking at him. “If you scare away the beast, Daniel’ll give it you!”
“I know a thing or two myself!” said Nastásya Ivánovna.

Book 7, Chapter 11
Whether they were playing the ring and string game or the ruble game or talking as now, Nicholas did not leave Sónya’s side, and gazed at her with quite new eyes. It seemed to him that it was only today, thanks to that burnt-cork mustache, that he had fully learned to know her. And really, that evening, Sónya was brighter, more animated, and prettier than Nicholas had ever seen her before.
“So that’s what she is like; what a fool I have been!” he thought gazing at her sparkling eyes, and under the mustache a happy rapturous smile dimpled her cheeks, a smile he had never seen before.
“I’m not afraid of anything,” said Sónya. “May I go at once?” She got up.

Book 7, Chapter 11
Sónya came along, wrapped in her cloak. She was only a couple of paces away when she saw him, and to her too he was not the Nicholas she had known and always slightly feared. He was in a woman’s dress, with tousled hair and a happy smile new to Sónya. She ran rapidly toward him.
“Quite different and yet the same,” thought Nicholas, looking at her face all lit up by the moonlight. He slipped his arms under the cloak that covered her head, embraced her, pressed her to him, and kissed her on the lips that wore a mustache and had a smell of burnt cork. Sónya kissed him full on the lips, and disengaging her little hands pressed them to his cheeks.

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carrie z @somebypaths.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Japanese-American Day of Remembrance is a day to remember our grandparents but also a reminder to destroy ICE and free all prisoners and open all borders. if the state can give rights to some people and not others (and it has and it does) then it is the enemy of mankind

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carrie z @somebypaths.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

carrie's self-promotion post: there's still time to be the 3rd person to solve, or the 13th or so person to listen to and enjoy, what is universally lauded as the most delectable musical album of the last several months (if not years): that beloved crossword album known only as “Puzzles of 2025”.

puzzlesof2025.bandcamp.com

Puzzles of 2025, by carrie z + hedra rowan

40 track album

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carrie z @somebypaths.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

i hadn't heard of jazz pianist Jessica Jennifer Williams until a couple days ago, but wow these rediscovered prepared piano recordings are so good imo! she gets some really cool sounds to happen and has a great control over the relationship between timbres pre-echo.bandcamp.com/album/blue-a...

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Blue Abstraction: Prepared Piano Project 1985–1987, by Jessica Williams

8 track album

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carrie z @somebypaths.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

nearly time once more to settle in on a beautifully cold night and contemplate the year as it ends. it was a notably awful year across the world, as has been every year i've lived through, but they've all had some good things to remember too.

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carrie z @somebypaths.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

“Puzzles of 2025” has been out for a week and already two people have solved the crossword puzzle! that means you could still be the 3rd solver, and then we'll be legally obligated to make a physical version to meet our foolhardy promise to give copies of said version to the first 3 solvers! wow!

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carrie z @somebypaths.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

it's a nice day to enjoy music, but so is every day! i have logged into social media because it is time for a promotional post for the new album:

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