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@mayrbee.bsky.social
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Soft animal in Southern California
Self-portraits as artistic expression ✨
Music • Books • Films • Vegan cooking
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Hand reaching up toward a blue sky with the sun shining through the trees in the background
September 24, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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"It's a battle cry,
It's a symphony"
🖤🙏✨🥁🎙️🌌

Florence + The Machine - Ceremonials (2011)

It's Sunday and this is my church.
Thanks to my friend @shaunrutherford.bsky.social for this beautiful giftie a little while back. What an incredible album! Husband agrees. First spin today. 💫

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Florence + The Machine's Ceremonials album cover and 2xLP records displayed on my shelf Back cover of Florence + The Machine's Ceremonials LP, with tracklist Florence + The Machine's album, Ceremonials, spinning on my turntable Center gatefold of Florence + The Machine's Ceremonials LP displayed on my shelf, showing photos of Florence in various poses
March 30, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Bread break ✨

Husband has declared my sourdough bread is "too good." 😍

Helena Bonham Starter was really pumped up for this one! 🏋️‍♀️
My hand holding up a load of homemade sourdough bread Close-up overhead shot of homemade sourdough, cooling on a rack Cross section cut of homemade sourdough loaf, to show the (airy) crumb Lunch plate: slice of homemade sourdough toast topped with homemade chickpea salad, lettuce and tomatoes on the side
March 25, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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"And she'll take what you give her as long as it's free"
🎹 🚘🍷🍝 📿

Billy Joel - The Stranger (1977)

Throwback Thursday classic spin! 💫

Gotta say it was pretty wild to be a Catholic girl in the late 70s while singing along (loudly) to Only The Good Die Young. 🙏

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Billy Joel's The Stranger record and front cover displayed on my shelf Back cover of Billy Joel's The Stranger, displayed on my shelf. Billy Joel's The Stranger playing on my turntable, with front cover displayed Insert sleeve art for Billy Joel's The Stranger, with song lyrics
March 21, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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"I love your long shadows
And your gunpowder eyes"
🌪️🎸🔥🌏🖤

Neko Case - Middle Cyclone (2009)

I adore this album, especially its opening with a feverdream song about a tornado's love! Rawr! I'm a longtime fan of her music; recently reading her book made me a huge fan of Neko, the human. 💪✨

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Album cover of Neko Case's record, Middle Cyclone, on my shelf Back cover and tracklist of Neko Case's Middle Cyclone record, on my shelf Neko Case's Middle Cyclone record spinning on my turntable gatefold shot of Neko Case's Middle Cyclone record, on my shelf
March 20, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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Hand on Home 03/14/2025 tracklist: Matt Berninger - Bonnet of Pins Madison Cunningham - Who Are You Now Lucy Dacus - Talk Samantha Crain - Gumshoe Robyn Hitchcock - I Often Dream of Trains Marc Laidlaw - Evening Air Chris Morrissey, Emma Frank - Northstar Angelo Badalamenti - Dance of The Dream Man Annie Lennox - Train in Vain (Stand by Me) Somethin' For The People - Damned If I Do Pretenders - Show Me Sick Stusso - Well Acquainted Neko Case - Favorite Natalie Prass - Your Fool Dan Mangan - Melody Band of Horses - Slow Cruel Hands of Time Songs of Boda - Where My Hands Might Go Ryan Necci and the Buffalo Gospel - Pretty Good Way To Go Hand on Home 03/14/2025 tracklist: Matt Berninger - Bonnet of Pins Madison Cunningham - Who Are You Now Lucy Dacus - Talk Samantha Crain - Gumshoe Robyn Hitchcock - I Often Dream of Trains Marc Laidlaw - Evening Air Chris Morrissey, Emma Frank - Northstar Angelo Badalamenti - Dance of The Dream Man Annie Lennox - Train in Vain (Stand by Me) Somethin' For The People - Damned If I Do Pretenders - Show Me Sick Stusso - Well Acquainted Neko Case - Favorite Natalie Prass - Your Fool Dan Mangan - Melody Band of Horses - Slow Cruel Hands of Time Songs of Boda - Where My Hands Might Go Ryan Necci and the Buffalo Gospel - Pretty Good Way To Go Hand on Home 03/14/2025 tracklist: Matt Berninger - Bonnet of Pins Madison Cunningham - Who Are You Now Lucy Dacus - Talk Samantha Crain - Gumshoe Robyn Hitchcock - I Often Dream of Trains Marc Laidlaw - Evening Air Chris Morrissey, Emma Frank - Northstar Angelo Badalamenti - Dance of The Dream Man Annie Lennox - Train in Vain (Stand by Me) Somethin' For The People - Damned If I Do Pretenders - Show Me Sick Stusso - Well Acquainted Neko Case - Favorite Natalie Prass - Your Fool Dan Mangan - Melody Band of Horses - Slow Cruel Hands of Time Songs of Boda - Where My Hands Might Go Ryan Necci and the Buffalo Gospel - Pretty Good Way To Go Hand on Home 03/14/2025 tracklist: Matt Berninger - Bonnet of Pins Madison Cunningham - Who Are You Now Lucy Dacus - Talk Samantha Crain - Gumshoe Robyn Hitchcock - I Often Dream of Trains Marc Laidlaw - Evening Air Chris Morrissey, Emma Frank - Northstar Angelo Badalamenti - Dance of The Dream Man Annie Lennox - Train in Vain (Stand by Me) Somethin' For The People - Damned If I Do Pretenders - Show Me Sick Stusso - Well Acquainted Neko Case - Favorite Natalie Prass - Your Fool Dan Mangan - Melody Band of Horses - Slow Cruel Hands of Time Songs of Boda - Where My Hands Might Go Ryan Necci and the Buffalo Gospel - Pretty Good Way To Go
March 14, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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Hand on Home - 03/14/2025
💙🎶🎧

My dynamic playlist is updated for the week. A mixed genre mid-March mix to chase the rainy-day blues away.
Digital double exposure cover photo.

Tracklist and playlist link in comments 🔗▶️
A double exposure image of my shadow cast over a pool while waving my hand, and a plane flying in a blue sky with clouds
March 14, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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Friday wake and bake 😉✨
Homemade sourdough loaf in pot, from the oven Golden homemade sourdough loaf, fresh from oven, cooling on rack Two cut halves of homemade sourdough loaf, displayed to show crumb Toasted slice of homemade sourdough bread, topped with avocado, tomato, spicy garlic seasoning, and balsamic glaze
March 14, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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Listening lately 🖤🎶
Top Artists — Short Term (4 weeks) Matt Berry Depeche Mode Sweet Honey In The Rock Exo The Cars Joe Jackson Sharon Van Etten Data Irma Thomas The Soft Boys Galan Galan Black Country, New Road Pedro The Lion The Innocence Mission Califone Damien Jurado Panda Bear Doctors & Dealers Richard Hawley Deep Sea Diver Japanese Breakfast Youth Lagoon The Cardigans Hildegard Bill Nelson Mogwai Eighties Ladies Tom Waits The Sylvers Dirty Projectors List generated by https://favoritemusic.guru/
March 8, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Another week of madness, another loaf of gladness 💛✨
Homemade sourdough loaf, just out of the oven Homemade sourdough loaf cut in half, with both halves held in my hand, showing the crumb Toasted slice of homemade sourdough bread, topped with mashed avocado and garlic seasoning Close-up photo of homemade sourdough loaf, showing the crust
March 8, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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"Substitution, mass confusion
Clouds inside your head..."

The Cars - The Cars (1978)
🚘🎶❤️🎸

Classic. Still sounds so cool!
Also, shout-out to long-gone joints, Roller City in Glendora and Skate Junction in West Covina, where I spent many hours of my youth rockin' and rollin' to these tunes. 🛼
The Cars self-titled vinyl record and album cover on my now-playing shelf Back cover of The Cars self titled vinyl LP on my now-playing shelf The Cars self-titled record spinning on my turntable, with the album cover displayed next to it Photo of my vinyl records stored on shelves in my family room, with turntable spinning The Cars self-titled LP, and music-related artwork on the wall
March 2, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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“Our life is March weather, savage and serene in one hour.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
March calendar page up on my wall, from the annual Lonely Palm Ranch hand silk-screened calendar. The image shows mountains and sky depicted in pink and greens and white.
March 2, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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Youth Lagoon - Rarely Do I Dream (2025) ❤️🎶

"...a triumph of American gothic imagination...Drifting between propulsive electronica and hallucinatory rock songs, Powers’ singular voice always glows front and center as the neon road sign pointing home."
- Bandcamp

experimental americana rural noir
Record and album cover of Rarely Do I Dream (2025) by Youth Lagoon, limited edition Dracula Red vinyl, on my now-spinning shelf, which decorated with tiny bumblebee lights Photo booklet that came with Youth Lagoon's Rarely Do I Dream vinyl LP. The displayed centerfold page shows a black and white close up photo of tall grass with the words, Papa always said, "Heaven's just a heart attack away." Artwork in gatefold album for Youth Lagoon's Rarely Do I Dream (2025) LP Youth Lagoon's Rarely Do I Dream record in limited edition Dracula Red, on the turntable, with album cover displayed
March 1, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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My Letterboxd last 4 movies watched, with rating stars: Night Moves (1975, 4.5 stars) The Stepford Wives (1975, 4.5 stars) Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992, 4.5 stars) A Different Man (2024, 5 stars)
March 1, 2025 at 5:04 AM
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March 1, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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Hand on Home - 02/28/2025
🌌💙🎶

My dynamic playlist is updated for the week. A mixed genre end-of-February-blues mix.

Tracklist and playlist link in comments 🔗▶️
Cover photo of my weekly playlist: my hand partially blocking blue light from an LED "northern lights" fixture, which is shining against a blank wall, and making dark blue shadow fingers on the wall
March 1, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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treetop scenes this week 💙
One crow sits on a branch of a bare tree, and one crow flies away from the tree, into a bright, clear blue sky, at midday Two crows fly away from a leafy treetop into a bright, clear blue sky, midday Top of magnolia tree against late afternoon blue sky, which is streaked with sunlit white clouds. Facing west. Orangey sunset with hills in background and bare pear tree branches in foreground, with diagonal sun flares across the photo.
February 28, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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Sweet dreams 💛✨
Sun in the western sky at 5:30 pm, close to setting above the suburbs in my little corner of Southern California. Golden light! Evening sun through a small rectangular window casting a shadow of a woman's profile and her raised hand (hello!) on bathroom wall, with a towel rack and clock in the scene. The analog clock reads 6:30 pm, but it was actually 5:30 pm.
February 24, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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"All I've got is the truth
All I want is you."
💙🎸🚎✨🫂🔥🍀🎶

Cindy Lee - Diamond Jubilee (2024)

Happy Diamond Jubilee vinyl day to all who are celebrating! What a freaking huge joy it is to spin these songs! 🎉
TGIF, even in a coup.

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Cindy Lee - Diamond Jubilee (2024) vinyl record
February 21, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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"Are you hungry?
Are you sick?
Are you begging for a break?"

Radiohead - Hail to the Thief (2003)

This album, what a masterpiece. Forever in love with the zombie-like hand claps and jazzy freakout moment in We Suck Young Blood. ❤️
Radiohead's Hail to the Thief vinyl record
February 20, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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Latest loaf 💛✨
Sourdough loaf, from the oven Cut half of sourdough loaf in hand Sourdough loaf cut open in half Sourdough loaf cut for dipping in olive oil and balsamic vinegar
February 19, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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A moody love-day mix 🎧💙

Includes songs from The Softies, Jens Lekman, Bnny, Cat Power, Beach House, Mojave 3, Timbre, and more. ✨

Linked below
Cover image for Spotify playlist, My Saturnine Valentine. Pink kissy lips behind a rainy window pane.
February 14, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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Contemplating Her Long To-Do List 🖤

Diptych from a few Februarys ago
Diptych photo On left: self portrait, view of seated woman's back as she looks out the window in a steamy bathroom, before a shower. Golden hour sunlight is gently streaming in the window and also reflecting off the mirror, from behind the camera, into the scene. On the right: the words "let go" in cursive, written by me into the steam on the fogged-up mirror after shower. Water drips from the writing toward the bottom frame.
February 7, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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Tracklist in photos:
Hand on Home - 02/07/2025 My weekly playlist Tracklist: 01. Will Johnson - Just to Know What You've Been Dreaming 02. Bonnie Prince Billy - Is My Living in Vain? 03. Half Moon Run - Back on the Road 04. David Gray - Now and Always 05. Black Country, New Road - Besties 06. Deep Sea Diver, Madison Cunningham - Let Me Go Tracklist, continued: 07. Lucius - Gold Rush 08. Zinnia - Reaching For You 09. Beyonce - MY ROSE 10. Courtney Barnett - Lotta Love 11. Ann Peebles - I Can't Stand the Rain 12. Ella Raphael - See You Through Tracklist, continued: 13. Sam Moss - Feathers 14. Ryan Necci and The Buffalo Gospel - The Letting Go 15. Rilo Kiley - Gravity 16. Richard & Linda Thompson - I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight 17. Low Roar - Some Day Come Back To Me 18. Josh Ritter - Where the Dream Ends End of playlist 🩷
February 7, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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Hand on Home - 02/07/2025

Updated my dynamic weekly playlist. As usual, it's filled with old and new gems, often on the more contemplative side, and dripping with emosh. To me, every song is a love song. These are the ones I'm cryin' and groovin' to this week. 🎧🎶

Link in comments
An unpicked pink rose cradled for a moment in my hand, in the sunlight, on my morning walk. Cover photo for my Hand on Home weekly playlist
February 7, 2025 at 9:29 PM