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Robert Ashley

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A Life Well Wasted, I Come to Shanghai, always in the kitchen. Music, books, and games. Lexington, VA. www.alifewellwasted.com https://icometoshanghai.bandcamp.com/album/low-pressure

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Robert Ashley @robertashley.bsky.social · Sep 4

A Life Well Wasted episode 9: Game Over is up now. Grab a timed-edition poster by Olly Moss anytime in the next 7 days to support the show. Thanks for sticking with me! alifewellwasted.com

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Robert Ashley @robertashley.bsky.social · 20h

Yes please. Love this Bloto record and interested in anything in the wheelhouse.

The Tonearm @thetonearm.com · 20h

"Many remarkable artists didn’t make it onto this list, but I hope it inspires readers to dive deeper into Polish jazz and discover the vast universe of creative minds it holds."

Introduction to Today’s Unconventional Polish Jazz Scene (Part II):

Introduction to Today’s Unconventional Polish Jazz Scene (Part II)

Free Jazz Collective, reviews of avant garde and free jazz music and media

www.freejazzblog.org

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Robert Ashley @robertashley.bsky.social · 1d

A banger I got from this excellent post. youtu.be/ClMtZkglrZ8?...

Robert Ashley @robertashley.bsky.social · 2d

Ha, yes I did!

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Robert Ashley @robertashley.bsky.social · 2d

A friend of mine bought this one for $5 at a garage sale and gave it to me 15 years ago. It looked nicer before I baked a couple of hundred loves of bread in it.

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Robert Ashley @robertashley.bsky.social · 2d

Imagine living through the era of Instagram pans and believing this. Please send me your cheugy Le Creuset.

Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 2d

Le Creuset is Cheugy 👎

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Robert Ashley @robertashley.bsky.social · 2d

What a great variety of sounds in this post. I really appreciate the leg work. Thanks.

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Robert Ashley @robertashley.bsky.social · 2d

What I don’t understand is if there’s money to be made in producing short stories, why not just hire a short story writer to write some? Where is this even going?

Jon Ingold @jon.inkle.co · 2d

bleak. $150/hr to feed a shredder. on the plus side, i really do think stochastic modelling will never produce a good story, ever, no matter how many good stories you throw at it, so if you need the money you should take it. But also -- make sure you put the word aubergine in every story. Teach that

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Robert Ashley @robertashley.bsky.social · 2d

This new Agriculture album is a stunning listen. agriculturemusic.bandcamp.com/track/bodhid...

Bodhidharma, by Agriculture

from the album The Spiritual Sound

agriculturemusic.bandcamp.com

Robert Ashley @robertashley.bsky.social · 2d

They’re loopy as all get out, even lyrically. It’s more about the dynamic changes than the chord changes, and the structures are like verse/verse/solo/half a verse/chorus?/band nearly runs off the rails/end scene.

Robert Ashley @robertashley.bsky.social · 3d

Been looking forward to this one for literally years.

SKATE STORY @skatestory.com · 3d

SKATE STORY
Release Date Trailer - "Emptylands"

Skate Story | OUT DECEMBER 8 🛹

YouTube video by DevolverDigital

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Robert Ashley @robertashley.bsky.social · 3d

Googling “how to join Antifa” over and over until someone kicks my door down

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Robert Ashley @robertashley.bsky.social · 3d

For me one informs the other. It’s cool to hear him in the middle of a blitz by all the crazy instrumental voices.

Robert Ashley @robertashley.bsky.social · 3d

The thing that keeps pulling me into the new Geese record is the beautiful mess. Half the songs get run over by a train of freaked out percussion.

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Robert Ashley @robertashley.bsky.social · 4d

Thanks, but I prefer the Gene Tyranny solo work.

Robert Ashley @robertashley.bsky.social · 4d

YES. People who come to the stage to mock the act of singing and the love of music are cowards and don’t deserve a spot on the list.

Robert Ashley @robertashley.bsky.social · 5d

Saw Pile in DC, and it was cathartic. I am healed.

Robert Ashley @robertashley.bsky.social · 6d

Don’t get caught up on the number. It’s all about holding on to the curious, playful parts of yourself for as long as possible. Old versions of yourself have already died. This one will too.

essencesimmone.blacksky.app @essencesimmone.blacksky.app · 9d

Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?

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Robert Ashley @robertashley.bsky.social · 9d

This is the thing. MySpace Tom didn’t make us listen to his fucking band!

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Robert Ashley @robertashley.bsky.social · 9d

Feeling so nostalgic for MySpace Tom. We didn’t know what we had.

Robert Ashley @robertashley.bsky.social · 9d

Falling down the Geese rabbit hole, and a friend just pointed out that the singer’s mom is a famous Brooklyn polyamory influencer.

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Robert Ashley @robertashley.bsky.social · 10d

I tried this game the other day, and I don’t know man… Games like this are Baby Einstein toys for grown ups. Look at the crazy visual shit! Numbers get big! Fanfare! Massive damage!

Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 11d

Megabonk is $8.49 on Steam buff.ly/LrA0FJL

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posting this again cause intro sale ends tomorrow and this game is a good time

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Robert Ashley @robertashley.bsky.social · 11d

What your local playground didn’t have a concrete pipe that people took shits in? I just assume everyone had this kind of upbringing.

Robert Ashley @robertashley.bsky.social · 11d

Finally opened this today, and the only childhood memory it evokes is the concrete pipe at the playground that people regularly shat in. I can get into a funky coffee, but no…

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Robert Ashley @robertashley.bsky.social · 11d

Fantastic review. I haven’t even heard the album yet, but I had to read your review stem to stern. 10.0.

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Robert Ashley @robertashley.bsky.social · 19d

It’s peanut butter jelly time

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