My only real goal this year was to play more shows than my personal best year which was 52 shows in 2014. Last night I tied it, which I’m gonna consider a win because 2014 was over an entire calendar year. I did this in just 6 months while also working the most amount of overtime I ever have before.

A counter point to yesterdays feeling that music stuck to me more when I was younger, is that I love listening to an album I just kinda liked enough when I was younger but listening now with years of experience behind me it just hits so much harder. Today for me that was Pulp’s This Is Hardcore.

Listened to Transatlanticism on my way to work this morning and made me think that most albums I personally believe are 10/10 or damn near perfect all came out before or around when I was 26. So I’m gonna spend my Christmas break making a list and seeing if my theory is correct.

This answer often changes more times than not I’ll say my favorite Low record is The Great Destroyer, now is one of those times.

Playing in Utica New York tomorrow at the Uptown Theatre. May my tube amps keep you warm.

It’s officially wrapped day. I hope everyone enjoyed spending time with music however you take it in. I’ll post my lastfm wrapped once those are ready.

Started my drone set tonight with a sorta impromptu cover of Sunflower by Low

My set up for pfb is so barebones tonight, 2 amps, one guitar and like 4 pedals, yet my car is packed because I’m playing with my other band too, had a drum kit, synths, powered pa speaker for a monitor etc

Going with a kinda spaceman 3/sonic youth vibe for my set this Saturday

Thanks to @theflenser.bsky.social Black Friday will always haunt me, even 12 years removed from my last retail job. 25% off everything. No code necessary until Dec. 1st

Watching the rock hall ceremony and losing my mind when Salt N Peppa’s producer did the “all the fly ladies” call out cuz years ago on tour Karla and I listened to a SNP remix cd over and over and that call out has become and inside joke for us. Plus the music fucking slays.

Instead of getting mad at the annoying young couple who were clearly high as fuck during agriculture/boris last night, I thought to myself, I miss the careless feeling of drugs while loud music is blasting but I’m so glad that it’s not my life anymore.

Have a busy week ahead of me; seeing the boys in Chat Pile tomorrow night, playing my own show on Friday, seeing ink & dagger on Saturday and Boris on Sunday

Well I won my election and I’m now an executive board member as well as a trustee of my union hall.

Was well worth it to come into work tired as fuck today, got paid double time to sleep in my car until almost 1pm because we were on standby

The alarm clock going off 4 hours after I get home playing a showing hurts a lot more into my 40s. How the fuck did I do this when I used to drink?

Leaving the house at 445am and still not home from work has me thinking things like “wonder if the cats get bummed when I’m not home at my usual time cuz they wanna listen to some records but they don’t know how to put them on?”

PA’s liquor laws had me feeling like a loser mid afternoon cuz I had to go pay for the single tall boy for my beer cheese separately from the rest of my groceries.

Have a couple days off between jobs and I slept in until 6am today. I’m so pissed.

What in my brain makes me think hey wonder whats up with that one kid in the neighborhood while growing up that would only occasionally hang around us is up to now, as soon as I wake up in the morning, just to be reminded oh he died almost 20 years ago.

Apprentice came in late still fucked up from last night, we told go hang out in the corner of the scaffold and don’t get in our way. Like listen the two of us are alcoholics in recovery you’re not gonna work through this, just make it worse for us, chill out for a bit.

Been enjoying gear lately for the first time in forever. Just trying out different combinations of things I own and actively looking at new stuff

Wilkes-barre PA!!!

Shout out to Fender for helping me out with this new Jaguar to be a proper back up to the Phoenix.

There’s a smoldering home mixed with the fog this morning

I thought I was going to crush the microphone screen in my hand while singing the “I rot…” line in Whiskey & Wine last night. Today I’m half a decade sober.

I’ve lost like 35lbs since the beginning of my tour in June.

The supportive older people running this space are very confused by rob and i’s set ups.

If I never have to hear another “modern rock” cover of The Cranberries “Zombie” for the rest of my life I could die happy.

Wreck and Reference and Wreck and Reference. 8/24 - Seattle, WA - Mudlark Oddities - All Ages 8/25 - Portland, OR - Azoth Space 8/27 - Oakland, CA - Thee Stork Club 8/30 - Los Angeles, CA - LAX - All Ages Stay Calm.

Machina remix/remaster is good but it’s definitely missing something so I’ll just stick with my OG cd

It’s a real good idea when you’ve spent a week or more playing the am I sad or exhausted game to make an appointment to get your sternum tattooed after a 10 hour long work day.

My parents have been doing the whole “we are old and cleaning through the house” thing. My dad brought over a tote of high school era notebooks etc, I only skimmed briefly but found these two gems, both are from around 1999.

Took my wife to her first experimental kinda show last night and she thought it ruled. Hell of a show @planningforburial.bsky.social

Got new picks in the mail today.

Put Mellon collie and the infinite sadness on for the ride home. I always forget that I have a tattoo based on a lyric from this album

Realized I haven’t sang at all in the 3 weeks since I got home from tour. Voice was pretty fried there at the end. Tonight should be fun.

Sure glad I have long hair and I generally play in low lighting so no one can see the tan line on my forehead from where my hard hat sits.

Have to work on a Saturday but I’ve given up on thinking anything will get truly accomplished cuz my apprentice hit the penjamin too hard on break so now we’re just kinda hanging out listening to 90s hip hop, doing what we can.

Unloaded my car of amps etc and now I’m loading it with my tool boxes/buckets to go back to work tomorrow. Jumping right back into overtime. I hate this.

The thing I am proudest of as a musician is that I’m nearly 40 and haven’t quit

I nerded out when I found out this was the 4 track all those early Mamaleek albums were made on and needed to document that I was in its presence

Gonna ask anyone who has told me that driving from one end of Pennsylvania to the other is boring, if they’ve ever driven from the Bay Area down to Los Angeles. This is the most boring driven in the whole US.

First of four opener is currently playing longer than my planned set at a venue with a hard curfew

Said bye to Drowse this morning now I’m heading to Salt Lake City

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Playing 7th St Entry in Minneapolis tonight. Do you think Paul Westerberg likes drone/doom metal

Doing a other night drive tonight, heading to Chicago to crash at Mike from Standers place cuz I really need a day to just be in bed