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rgable
Menlo Park, CA
robert gable is a modest musical enthusiast who can be reached via robert.gable at gmail dot com.
Interests: rgable's current interests include american classical music, dachshunds, and staying employed in the american economy. with his family, he lives at 1331 american way, menlo park ca 94025, usa, near the old henry cowell homestead.
Recent Activity
The Velvet Underground (2021). John Cale, Henry Flynt, La Monte Young et al! ⭐⭐ Where Danger Lives (1940). ⭐ Honeymoon for Three (1941). Anne Sheridan is appealing, George Brent is annoying and unfunny. Tenet (2020). "What's happened, happened" as told in an inscrutable manner that may not be worth the... Continue reading
Posted Dec 4, 2021 at monthly
A Hard Day's Night (Remastered) - The Beatles ⭐ Continue reading
Posted Dec 4, 2021 at monthly
Iowa at Purdue W 77-70. Purdue led by 19 but Iowa pressure kept it close. Purdue will be ranked #1 for the first time in program history. Jayden Ivey has world-class speed. ⭐ San Francisco at Seattle L 30-23. Lots of strange plays and the Niners failed to score from... Continue reading
Posted Dec 3, 2021 at monthly
San Diego Padres at San Francisco Giants W 11-4. Clinched the NL Western Division on the last day of the season by one game, versus the Los Angeles Dodgers (the best second place team of all time?) . 107th win, a club record. Logan Webb was the winning pitcher and... Continue reading
Posted Oct 3, 2021 at monthly
Indiana Pacers - Loss to Miami for the sweep. They fought hard but not talented enough? next 100 - Taylor Swift, Elliott Carter, Alan Hovhaness, .... Am I the only person in the world who listens to both Swift and Carter? Continue reading
Posted Aug 24, 2020 at semi-private log
⭐️Alpine County - Up and down highway 88. ⭐️⭐️Amador County - Up highway 88. Spotify - next 100 (Billy Cobham), aworks top 56 (John Williams, Jon Gibson). Continue reading
Posted Aug 24, 2020 at semi-private log
⭐️<aworks top 53>: Made a pass through the list. This will be harder when the list is longer. Make a short pass through the top 10 soon? Reno hotel required a two-night stay for weekends, so will stay in Carson City instead. Have second Amazon Echo Studio. Was trivial to... Continue reading
Posted Aug 22, 2020 at semi-private log
⭐️⭐️SF - India Basin, Illinois Street, Chase Arena, 14 degree pitch on Taylor Street, The Fillmore, The Haight, Burnett Avenue, Plymouth Avenue then Daly City. ⭐️arborists - Here to work on the drought-impacted trees. Surprising amount of tree debris. Pixel 4A - Smaller screen than my current Motorola phone. Hopefully,... Continue reading
Posted Aug 20, 2020 at semi-private log
⭐️Poki Bowl - off Curtner Avenue in San Jose. A former employee of the Palo Alto store recognized me and said that store won't open due to lack of evening business. ⭐️John Cage - ThreeTwo, Twenty-Three, Six, Twenty-Six: The First Recordings. Christina Fong, Glenn Freeman, Karen Krummel. Not on Spotify.... Continue reading
Posted Aug 19, 2020 at semi-private log
Half Sister (2017) Windsor Hum (2017) My Children (2017) Processed By The Boys (2020) Michigan Hammers (2020) albums considered: Michigan Hammers (2020), Relatives in Descent (2017) Continue reading
Posted Jun 13, 2020 at select
Trailways Ramble (2015) With the Black Twig Pickers. Decline of the Stiff (2011) "Steve Gunn occupies the A-side with the Fahey-esque 12-string expressions of 'Decline Of The Stiff', picking out a ribbon of complex but soulful Blues joined by his own husky vocals which are gently reverbed around the space.... Continue reading
Posted Jun 13, 2020 at select
"Taika Waititi’s Jojo Rabbit, a comedy about a 10-year-old member of the Hitler Youth who must decide what to do when he discovers that his mother is hiding a Jewish girl in his attic, will be released on Friday." Slate Continue reading
Posted Oct 14, 2019 at bobbing for media
New Miles Davis documentary. imdb Continue reading
Posted Oct 13, 2019 at bobbing for media
The Allman Brothers Band - Ramblin' Man. Happy song. Frank Zappa - It Must Be a Camel - 1969 Mix Outtake. 6 disc reissue coming in December. This track is, dare I say it, tasteful. Glenn Branca - Twisting in Space. Pitchfork calls the album "a shrine to ecstatic disorientation." Continue reading
Posted Oct 13, 2019 at bobbing for media
Social media filters via syften, a better alternative to Google Alerts. Medium "Should the president ask foreign countries to investigate political rivals?" AP "“The only way to afford it here is if one person (in the family) is working in the tech industry.” Palo Alto Online Continue reading
Posted Oct 12, 2019 at bobbing for media
Glen Brown - Raw Dub. Dead at age 79. Glen Brown - Limit Dub Continue reading
Posted Oct 12, 2019 at bobbing for media
✔ Terry Riley - A Rainbow in Curved Air & Poppy Nogood and the Phantom Band Riley started on the work in 1967. 1969 Sony Music Entertainment Inc. $2.95 at Rasputin's. ✔ American Folk Blues Festival '72 Other years are on Spotify but not 1972. Big Mama Thornton playing when... Continue reading
Posted Aug 28, 2019 at rgable's inbox
✔ Taylor Swift - Lover So many songs about relationships; some about a famous life. But endearing, I suppose. 2019 Taylor Swift ✔ Todd Anderson-Kunert - Conjectures "Conceptually my work stems from psychological and emotional themes surrounding human existence. I’m particularly interested in complex emotions/experiences/situations that words can often fail... Continue reading
Posted Aug 27, 2019 at rgable's inbox
✔ Baltic Baroque, Grigori Maltizov - Vivaldi Collection 4 RV 16-20 the World Premiere Recording All Vivaldi Violin Sonatas I suppose the full collection will be released over time. For now, it's only 7 volumes. The early sonatas are low-key compared to the later "baroque washing machine" music by Vivaldi.... Continue reading
Posted Aug 27, 2019 at rgable's inbox
1: IIII - Follakzoid, Model Shop - Jacques Demy. crabhands: "Blue" Gene Tyranny - Trust in Rock. 1976 Berkeley concert. Bach, Vivaldi, Devendra Banhart, Floating Points, Francis Bebey, Steve Gunn, Richard Reed Parry, mediocre old Beatles covers. 935 songs to go at start. x , Continue reading
Posted Jun 18, 2019 at semi-private log
3/2/19 Ohio State at Purdue. Continue reading
Posted Feb 9, 2019 at opponents