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carrie z @somebypaths.bsky.social · 1d

he's sooo good and the fact that his role in Wu-Tang is still "the goofy stoner one" and not "the greatest rapper ever who accidentally ended up friends with a bunch of weirdos" is an astounding display of being chill

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carrie z @somebypaths.bsky.social · 6d

we plan to have Puzzles of 2025 done by the end of November. will it be a success? will we beat TMBG to their next album? will the constant atrocities pile up so much as to make releasing a collection of silly songs seem impractical or in poor taste? will we release it anyway? stay tuned….

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carrie z @somebypaths.bsky.social · 6d

here’s the trailer again. Elsie Janis stans rejoice and/or recoil www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1CM...

“Puzzles of 2025” Trailer

YouTube video by Ichnehmon Diagelegenaitoikon

www.youtube.com

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carrie z @somebypaths.bsky.social · 6d

hedy and i, your favorite regular girls, had a fun several days recording Puzzles of 2025 in person… it’s really happening !

hedra and i in “the studio”; i’m taking the photo and playing the accordion and taking the photo and hedra is playing a pink violin. we’re wearing matching shirts of palaeontological diagram and janet jackson respectively. we’re recording track 31 “My true love has marched away” in this photo, don’t tell anyone

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carrie z @somebypaths.bsky.social · 15d

this'll be in a bit! in chicago! i might be first actually, who knows. hope you're doing okay out there

carrie z @somebypaths.bsky.social · 20d

i'm going to make a rare live appearance, in Logan Square in Chicago, the evening of Thursday Sept. 25. it'll be a short set (following a set by Angel Destroyer), in which i'll either improvise atonally on the piano for half an hour or do something else.
comfortstationlogansquare.org/calendar/202...

carrie z @somebypaths.bsky.social · 18d

not to distract from the nice tune, but how is that chair creak at the start so incredible and so in time with what follows???

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carrie z @somebypaths.bsky.social · 20d

i also saw a large grasshopper on a rock. (this is the only interesting thing that has happened to me recently.) i took a photograph of it but i'm not going to share it. go outside and see a bug for yourself! !!

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carrie z @somebypaths.bsky.social · 20d

while i'm here (i have not been keeping up with "social media" and i have no intent to), i am doing fine and i hope you are as well. this week, i was pleased to get this year's vaccines, and to vote in the local election. i'm feeling lucky to get to do these basic things.

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carrie z @somebypaths.bsky.social · 20d

i'm going to make a rare live appearance, in Logan Square in Chicago, the evening of Thursday Sept. 25. it'll be a short set (following a set by Angel Destroyer), in which i'll either improvise atonally on the piano for half an hour or do something else.
comfortstationlogansquare.org/calendar/202...

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carrie z @somebypaths.bsky.social · Aug 1

promotional post-script: this sort of thing is what happens when you listen 2 music on "youtube". instead, avoid and/or maximize inexplicable bass solos by paying ur fave artists directly, e.g. using "bandcamp" on today, "bandcamp friday" ! ! ! even Chuck Mangione had a page there for some reason

carrie z @somebypaths.bsky.social · Aug 1

rose i am forced to admit that i have eternal affection for Escape from Monkey Island because it came out when i was a kid and was the first LucasArts game i played

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carrie z @somebypaths.bsky.social · Aug 1

then this youtube playlist follows the tune with an alternate take of the same tune, and at around 4:00, it sounds as though someone has added reverb to the horns for like a single riff?? what's going on with pre-smooth-jazz Chuck Mangione??? i'm going to bed!!!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=URs-...

Solar (Alternate Take)

YouTube video by Chuck Mangione Quintet - Topic

www.youtube.com

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carrie z @somebypaths.bsky.social · Aug 1

listening to the early Chuck Mangione album "Recuerdo" (1962) and they do "Solar"... and give the tune in the head to the bass??? it's probably partly because it's late and i'm stressed out, but i find this choice utterly absurd. Sam Jones rises to the occasion tho!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=usNX...

Solar

YouTube video by Chuck Mangione Quintet - Topic

www.youtube.com

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carrie z @somebypaths.bsky.social · Jul 27

i was in fact singing "So Long Mom" to myself just yesterday (for no particular reason). the satire aside, his rhymes and tunes are such a delight! his work is a fundamental influence on me whenever i'm trying to create a rhyme or a tune.

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carrie z @somebypaths.bsky.social · Jul 27

when i was a kid listening to Tom Lehrer, i learned about how the new Iraq War had a panoply of horrifying antecedents in 20th-century U.S. interventionist military policy, and i learned the word "fellatio" from the same song. rest in peace scoundrel

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