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

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

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...

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

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!!

today and every day, death to america

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...

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!

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

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”.

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...

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.

“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!

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:

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

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…

“Puzzles of 2025”, by me and Hedra Rowan, is now up for pre-order!!!! it'll be out on December 5. meanwhile, you can read the liner notes and listen to 3 of the 40 songs now, which should give you an idea of how deranged of an undertaking it is. enjoy! puzzlesof2025.bandcamp.com/album/puzzle...

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

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

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...

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...

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

Re-posting this album trailer. I don't think i've ever before made a trailer for anything i was working on, so this was fun to do. If you turn on the sound you can hear some sound.

I have a brief video to announce my latest upcoming musical project. But I don't know what the etiquette is here on "Bluesky" for uploading videos, so I'm going to put it in the middle of this thread, so that hopefully it will not annoy anyone by playing automatically.

(oh also i got a booster for the covid vaccine today; it is still allowed to do that ! )

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.

Happy solstice, everyone!

wow! heady with lots of feeling is all i wanna be! plus i'm very ready to be at the forefront of a second wave of "indie classical". what the classical music world is missing is lo-fi recordings and getting notes wrong; i honestly believe this. thanks notype!

It is time to contemplate, it is time to dance. It is time for Satie Complete Piano Works Volume 12 by carrie z. carriez.bandcamp.com/album/satie-...

tomorrow night, if all goes well.

i'm doing well (considering), and i'm still spending time on music. (just thought i would "post" about that here on "bluesky" and "mastodon", in case anyone thought i'd disappeared for good (even though i think most of my like 3 social media followers are people i know in real life).)

It's time ow to write a promotional post here on "Bluesky" for my music. Today, since it is "Bandcamp Friday", on said platform they revenue share blah blah blah. fumikok.bandcamp.com

I made a "Bluesky" account at last, and this is the first post of that "Bluesky" account.