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Robert Ashley

@robertashley.bsky.social

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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 · 5m

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 · 37m

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 · 2h

Been looking forward to this one for literally years.

SKATE STORY @skatestory.com · 5h

SKATE STORY
Release Date Trailer - "Emptylands"

Skate Story | OUT DECEMBER 8 🛹

YouTube video by DevolverDigital

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Robert Ashley @robertashley.bsky.social · 2h

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

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Robert Ashley @robertashley.bsky.social · 3h

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 · 5h

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 · 1d

Thanks, but I prefer the Gene Tyranny solo work.

Robert Ashley @robertashley.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 2d

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

Robert Ashley @robertashley.bsky.social · 3d

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 · 6d

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

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Robert Ashley @robertashley.bsky.social · 6d

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

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Robert Ashley @robertashley.bsky.social · 6d

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

Robert Ashley @robertashley.bsky.social · 6d

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 · 8d

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 · 8d

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 · 8d

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 · 8d

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 · 8d

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 · 17d

It’s peanut butter jelly time

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Robert Ashley @robertashley.bsky.social · 17d

I’m sure I’ll still be around. Just gotta break the habit of constantly opening these apps.

Robert Ashley @robertashley.bsky.social · 17d

Interesting!

Robert Ashley @robertashley.bsky.social · 17d

I’ve been having a mysterious health issue for about a year that cleared up almost instantly when I got off the internet. I’m just going to pop in from time to time, mainly for new music and possible ALWW stories.

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Robert Ashley @robertashley.bsky.social · 27d

It will be my only currency

Robert Ashley @robertashley.bsky.social · 27d

We sold 248. Thanks again everybody.

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Robert Ashley @robertashley.bsky.social · 27d

One of these days I’m gonna visit. Maybe I’ll become a refugee!

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Robert Ashley @robertashley.bsky.social · 27d

Industrial tortillas fry up nicely too. Man, I would have imagined that masa would be ubiquitous in Brazil. I know nothing about Brazilian food!

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