Robert Ashley

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A record that changed my brain forever. Good read.

25 years ago it was normal for a music fan to spend $50-$100 a month on music. I used to spend more money on music than rent. We’ve paired it down to $13, and it all goes to dumb shit like this.

I was really into Elliott Smith in my college years, saw him live, bought all the CDs. But I never played him after his death. Not one time.

Lasagna season

Only interested in Ringo.

Incredible Ida show at Spacebomb studio in Richmond last night.

That’s the stuff

Is this like a pope/antipope type situation?

The freezer is the cook’s treasure chest.

Mom and pop restaurants doing incredible things with AI on Facebook.

I wish somebody could for me what breakfast tacos do for coffee.

We used Disk Makers for the 2009 I Come to Shanghai album on CD. Do it yourself is always more than yourself. RIP.

She’s gorgeous

Whoa, @noclipvideo.bsky.social posted video from the trip 2007 press junket I was on to visit the Chernobyl exclusion zone. So cool to see it again. youtu.be/VspwFw9U4og?...

Dipping back into my most complex radio story ever after months away and feeling overwhelmed. Every red line is a note. Every track is an interview mic.

Climate change is when you keep getting locked out of your phone because your sweaty legs spam the lock screen.

This was the album that made me want to record my own music. I went out and bought a half inch 8-track tape machine.

If the person you hire to do work on your house addresses you as “my friend,” you are in capable hands.

Everyone's immediate reaction to the visuals in the new Ocarina Of Time remake.

George Saunders came to town, and I got him to draw a smiley face in my copy of Lincoln in the Bardo.

They make recession Nutella now.

Subscriber since 2000, Tape-Op was my recording school. I met the first guy to ever bring me into a studio on the tapeop.com forums.

A friend of mine just put up a video for his epic metal Bilge Crab project. Peep. youtu.be/NPwahUg5Vo4

Just saw a trailer with three of the new USPS delivery trucks in tow, and it gave me a weird little flush of joy. Maybe even optimism.

Leftovers for lunch aint so bad.

Sausage and kale fusilli

Finally looking at replacing my beloved 17 year-old audio PC, and the Mac mini seems like a way better deal than anything else. I haven’t used a Mac since college, but windows is shit now, and I want something that will last a decade.

The tinniest coffee beans I have ever encountered. Fun fact: before cupping, coffee importers rated the beans based on size. Bigger was better. Extremely wrong!

I had a couple of hot dog buns left over and wanted a Chicago dog, but had no dogs (or sport peppers). Thus: Chicago omelet dog.

New Julia Holter yeeeeah share.google/OOVglHzkX37t...

This album implanted some extremely impractical romantic feelings in my head (along with all the hooks). I can’t even go back and listen now. It would be like calling up an old lover. I don’t want to stir that shit up again.

It’s weird that the deepest and most subtle game controller in existence is the pinball flipper button.

Huge double pepperoni upside down grandma pie. There’s a solid layer of deli pep under the cheese.

Got this record in the mail last week. Rules.

Just finished Denshattack, a game of pure joy. 11/10.

Man I hate squats. It only gets worse over time. The only reward is more weight.

Tuna melt time

Got a cheesy western at Roanoke’s famous Texas Inn.

I found the druggiest pinball machine of all time.

Having to face the person you’re speaking to creates a weird kind of intimacy in Big Walk. I was surprised how much it felt like actually hanging out with your friends.