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!
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)
I like 'em thick
OR: an apology to my English teachers
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it's out!!! it's out!! it's out. you can listen to it now jade-archives.bandcamp.com/album/and-ca...
⛅🌫@deer.jadeinter.net · 2w ago"and cascade", my new album, releases on august 14th. you'll be able to download it on bandcamp at jade-archives.bandcamp.com or purchase a CD if that is your thing. this one has been a long time coming, i am incredibly happy with how it turned out. i hope you can look forward to it :-)
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/...
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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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
carrie z@somebypaths.bsky.social · 2w agoIt'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-...
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-...
Satie: Complete Piano Works - Volume 13, by carrie z
11 track album
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“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
"There Will Come Soft Rains" - Budet Laskovyj Dozhd
YouTube video by Candyrunner
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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.
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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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!
Turtlebun@turtlebun.com · 4w agoHi! We have been super not active on Bluesky 1. Because we’re bad at it & 2. Because we’ve been working on the public beta rules for our uncanny horror game, Escape from Wonderland. They’re ready! Read! Play! We’d love feedback and are thrilled to finally share them. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
i don't have a chance of understanding even the definition of Burau representations any time soon, but Joan Birman herself seems really cool…
Greg Egan@gregegansf.bsky.social · 4w agoWhile the Fields Medal celebrates the under-40s, the mathematician Joan Birman has, at the age of 99, solved a major open problem in representations of the Braid groups, a topic she has worked on for more than 60 years.
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.
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
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
ian.fenrisgames@fenrisgames.com · 2mo agoHockney's stuff was always somehow miraculous for me but never more so than with the wettest day anyone has ever captured RIP boss
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!
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
Patricia Petibon - Ragion nell'alma siede - Haydn (Official Video)
YouTube video by Deutsche Grammophon - DG
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Steve Smith@nightafternight.bsky.social · 3mo agoOkay, I'll admit it, this one blindsided me: Daniel Harding is the next music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. www.laphil.com/campaigns/da...
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...
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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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
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
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
@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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Olga Rozanova - Non-Objective Composition / Color Painting (1917)
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!!
carrie z@somebypaths.bsky.social · last yr.i hate war and i hate imperialism and i hate ethnonationalism and thus i've been continually ashamed for my entire life of the country where i live. it's meaningless to say this, particularly to an audience of no one, but i felt the need to say it publicly somewhere regardless.
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...
Neil Sedaka - One Way Ticket
YouTube video by bisindie 54
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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
Sweet Tequila Blues
YouTube video by Chip Taylor - Topic
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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!
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