carrie z

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the provisional album art for Satie 13, which is a photo of me at said park piano at like 1 AM, with a streetlight in the background (and a banner that says "Newton" revealing that this instalment was made in the great town of Newton from which presumably Isaac Newton hails). (actually it's a screenshot of the Mac OS X default image editing software while i work on that image. that's the same social-media indulgence that i did last year in my post about installmment 12, because it was so universally well-received last time.)
i'm hummingbird with 2049 points, 2 places above eyesack with 1998
You wanna be a prog hog or a scrip kid? choose how you want to play! leave behind the linear dungeons of classic broughlikes!! meet open-world adventure in the fractal cyberpunk future!!! face off against evil megacorps!!!! maybe save the world!!!!! Buy 868-BACK today [typing this out made me notice the detail of the increasing number of exclamation marks, good job]
The "868-BACK" leaderboard, with me ("hummingbird"), at position 48, with a score of 1436. According to Wikipedia, 1436 is the year Gutenberg began work on the printing press, though we know little of how his work progressed until 1450 when the press was in operation. It's also the death year of Jacqueline, Countess of Hainaut, a central figure in Holland's Hook and Cod Wars.
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.
me playing the harp for track 22 of "Puzzles of 2025"; it is snowing outside the window.
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
Video text: In 1925, at the height of The Cross-Word Mania, the renowned vaudeville performer and songwriter Elsie Janis (“The Sweetheart of the A.E.F.”; “The Regular Girl”) presented her new revue: “Puzzles of 1925”. A smash hit at the time, drawing crowds across the country, this cross-word-themed revue would quickly be forgotten: a mere footnote in the life of a woman who is herself a footnote in the history of musical theatre which is itself a footnote in the great story of Mankind. There in the dust-bin of history: there “Puzzles of 1925” has remained for 100 years! and there it shall remain even after… carrie z and Hedra Rowan proudly present: “Puzzles of 2025” A new revue for a new century!! (in auditory format) Forty songs!! (including the surviving songs from that forgotten revue of yestercentury) Hidden secrets!! (a puzzle in the background both unfair and unreasonable) Amidst a foul year, a fair breeze of frivolity!! (or so it has been to us) “Puzzles of 2025”! by carrie z and Hedra Rowan. To be released, if all goes well, before the year is out. (Also this image is of Elsie in the play, wearing a crossword-puzzle dress and standing next to Jimmy Hussey.)
"but i will never give up. on anything"
The album art for "Erik Satie: Complete Piano Works - Volume 12" by Carrie Z. It's the famous Ramón Casas portrait of Satie in the Chicago Art Institute. But I did a poor job taking a photo of it. It's shown here in image editing software and this post is being planned out in a text document in the corner of the screenshot. I admit that I find it mildly amusing to do this sort of thing.