carrie z

great concept and list, i'll be watching some of these in the future!

i'm curious what you might think of "The Wind" (1928), which i think emphatically fits in to this list. (maybe my favorite silent movie, and writing a new score for it has been a vague dream since i saw it a couple years ago)

YouTube video by Chip Taylor - Topic Sweet Tequila Blues

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

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

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

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!

(that's just images of the text behind that "graphic media" tag, as a spoiler thing; i don't know if there is a better way to do that on this website)

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.

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)

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

that's it; there's nothing new from me for this "'bandcamp friday' day", but you can and should always give money to other musicians and other people. thx

Puzzles of 2025, by carrie z + hedra rowan 40 track album

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”.

Orgonomic Music, by Jessica Williams 14 track album

this more straight-ahead post-bop album from JJW is also incredible imo... nice sound from her group, Eddie Henderson in particular - JJW has a real good sense of registers - sometimes she plays real fast - out of nowhere she does a spoken word piece about christ's sexual energy - etc

it's sorta sad but also sorta nice to think about how Jessica Jennifer Williams just did the prepared piano thing for a couple years, did a couple performances and made a couple recordings (that weren't released until now, posthumously), and then moved on

Blue Abstraction: Prepared Piano Project 1985–1987, by Jessica Williams 8 track album

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...

new year's eve remains my favorite of holidays. i hope you all have a peaceful end to the year, and that next year will include some nice times.

it was a good year for me personally, and i'll try to accept that. released 2 albums (one of which is one of my fave things i've been part of); returned to reading books; [accomplishments not for sharing on 'social media']. yet in a grander sense, i accomplished nothing this year, and am proud of it

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.

oh for sure, nothing like letting the sound of that opening with the trees wash over you as you realize how that sequence really is going to keep going

thanks Computer𝔍𝔞𝔪𝔢𝔰…! (though i just played through yours and realized that we left out the fox rescuing and evil eurozone mechas essential to any crossword puzzle, which explains why Will Shortz has not come calling)

I saw Evil Does Not Exist last year in a theater with 2 other silent strangers in it, and it was also a spiritual experience! now i wonder if it would've been even better if those others had not been there... but there is no way ever to know, and that's fine

a screenshot of the Bandcamp Discover page for the tag '1920s', proving that this album is the best-selling album from that decade. Okay I admit that i took this screenshot last week. At time of writing, Glenn Crytzer is outdoing us. Fair enough. It looks like he's more committed to the 1920s than we are.

a screenshot of the Bandcamp Discover page for the tag '2020s', proving that this album is the best-selling album from that decade. I took this one today; even after the initial hype has died down, we're still universally acclaimed as the best album of the decade.

act now and download and/or listen to “Puzzles of 2025”: the best-selling album of the 1920s AND of the 2020s!

Puzzles of 2025, by carrie z + hedra rowan 40 track album

don't like crosswords? that's ok! “Puzzles of 2025” isn't just a crossword, it's also an album of 40+ songs! it's been called "cute" and "a blast" by MULTIPLE people. it's been called "'camp'". it's been called "awful". ppl are singing the tunes everywhere.

“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!

Puzzles of 2025, by carrie z + hedra rowan 40 track album

Here it is, “Puzzles of 2025”. It's 40 tracks long!

Hopefully there's something to delight and annoy all sorts of music fans, especially fans of albums that are also crossword puzzles.

be well ! ! !

puzzlesof2025.bandcamp.com/album/puzzle...

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:

(remember that you can listen to 3 tracks of "Puzzles of 2025", and follow us on "Band Camp", and listen to the whole farraginous thing when it comes out on Friday…)

puzzlesof2025.bandcamp.com/album/puzzle...

(it has been fun teaching myself to play the harp recently. i'm not very good at it yet but i think it still sounds nice on the songs that i use it for on the album. (in any case, there are certainly instruments we play on the album that sound worse (complimentary).))

a beautiful snowy day today, and it was nice to use it to work on music… the big project is in the home stretch!

anyway the books i've listened to have predominately been on the short and light side, a lot of mysteries. but that's okay, i've been having fun. anyway the point is that as the next logical step (bc i like the malloy musical) now before bed i'm going to try and start War and Peace…

i used to be something of a voracious reader, but over my 20s the pace fell to like 1 book every two years, if that. but now i've read two dozen books since June, and that feels good!

i've been delighted to discover over the last several months that listening to audiobooks from the library is a quite effective way around the various OCD-related problems that have made reading books and other longer texts extremely and embarrassingly difficult for me, for like over a decade…