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Roads To Clouds @forestrobots.bsky.social · 12h

This week a man online claims his chicken bears a passing resemblance to David Byrne and well, opinions are being had about it.

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Roads To Clouds @forestrobots.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I made a fire and watching it burn I thought of your future

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Roads To Clouds @forestrobots.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's the start of Fall so that means it's beginning of second Summer here in Southern California. Have fun with your pumpkin spiced lattes, everyone.

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Roads To Clouds @forestrobots.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Wide open country spaces, Geological Survey benchmarks and dirt roads.

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Roads To Clouds @forestrobots.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Remembered I owned these after finding them during a de cluttering session last weekend. I think they've been out of print for a long while too. Hadn't watched any of these in what feels like forever and it's been quite a trip down several decades of music culture lane the last couple of nights.

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Roads To Clouds @forestrobots.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The sting of that first shower after coming back from a xcountry hike and your legs are scratched up from the all prickly bushes you had to make your way through. The views though.

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Roads To Clouds @forestrobots.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Things that frightened me most as a child: The constant drift of time pulling us slowly towards an inevitable death. And quicksand.

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Roads To Clouds @forestrobots.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I've always liked Boards Of Canada's Geogaddi track "Sunshine Recorder" but admittedly I never asked myself what exactly is a sunshine recorder. I always just imagined a tape recorder "capturing" the sounds of sun rays. And well, I wasn't too far off. Sort of: www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/...

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At Auction: Sunshine Recorder (Heliograph) by Fuess, c. 1930

Bid now on Invaluable: Sunshine Recorder (Heliograph) by Fuess, c. 1930 from Auction Team Breker on September 12, 2026, 10:00 AM CET.

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Roads To Clouds @forestrobots.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

What a strange feeling knowing that in all likelihood these three saplings will still be around a thousand years from now. Long after you, I and this online platform have ceased to exist. I wonder how much bigger they’ll be by then.

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Roads To Clouds @forestrobots.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Exploring the roads less traveled this past weekend. Nature can make a soul feel grateful to be in its presence.

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Roads To Clouds @forestrobots.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I never know what I may run into in the middle of the mountains but an empty storage container is the least likely I’d expect.

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Roads To Clouds @forestrobots.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

A man came up to me at a restaurant yesterday asking "Is it really, you?" I replied "Well, I am me, so yes?". He was so happy, he gave me the biggest hug. I didn't have the heart to tell him I didn't know him so I just hugged him back, talked to him, and made him feel seen. Felt like he needed that.

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Roads To Clouds @forestrobots.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

The last two times I’ve been outdoors (to the same area) I noticed a beacon of light far away in the distance. Camera couldn’t zoom enough and I remained puzzled until I finally checked a few maps and researched around online. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crescen...

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Roads To Clouds @forestrobots.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Register box at the summit of Piute Mountain (12,561 ft), overlooking the Eastern Sierra Nevada. The temperature at the top was in the high 40s which felt so discombobulating given the time of the year and the fact it was nearly 100 degrees down at the valley. That’s nature for you.

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Roads To Clouds @forestrobots.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

It's becoming a personal tradition the last few years to spend time alone amongst ancient Bristlecone Pine trees when I turn a year older. There is something grounding about being surrounded by 2, 3, 4 thousand year old trees. This year I've even seriously considered having my ashes scattered here.

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Roads To Clouds @forestrobots.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

A week riddled with allergies, rainstorms and very cold weather. Weekend can’t arrive fast enough. Here’s to hopefully sunny days ahead. 🤞🏻

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Roads To Clouds @forestrobots.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Wind has been so loud the last 3 days, it’s been rough getting a good nights rest. So ready to give up and have caffeine IV dripped directly into my bloodstream.

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Roads To Clouds @forestrobots.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

It’s been a while since I’ve been able to spend time in nature on back to back weekends so I’m quite grateful that I did even if my body was quite sore both times afterwards.

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Roads To Clouds @forestrobots.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

A beautifully restored, deluxe release of The Panther Women (1967). Everything from the artwork to the 80 page booklet is wonderful. I remember accidentally seeing parts of this film during my childhood on Mexican broadcast reruns and my parents always turning the TV off for fear it'd be too much.

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Roads To Clouds @forestrobots.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Flashback Friday to 2018. T-Shirt courtesy of the amazing @erinotoole.bsky.social 🤍

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Roads To Clouds @forestrobots.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

The lyrics "And I'm gone gone gone, now I'm older than movies, let me dance away, now I'm wiser than dreams" on David Bowie's Dead Man Walking hits so different 29 years later. It's fascinating how lyrics evolve as time passes and what was once only a brilliant lyric, you feel you now embody it.

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Roads To Clouds @forestrobots.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

I was gifted this set for Christmas by the kiddo and her mother but for busy reasons, I've not had a chance to listen. But life is a little more manageable this weekend. Or perhaps it's the universe's way of creating beautiful synchronicity. Either way your absence still weighs heavy, Mr. Bowie. 🤍

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Roads To Clouds @forestrobots.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Had a hiccup last week on how a small section of a track translated from mix to master. It's amazing how just 30 seconds of a 40 minute album can sour the whole thing until the issue is taken care of. I did finally find a solution but it took 6 days to do so. Mixing music sucks all joy of life. 🤮

View of Bishop Pass (middle of picture) with Mt Agassiz (13,895 feet, 4235 meters) directly above it.Taken at the foot of Mt Goode (13,095 feet, 3991 meters) after successfully reaching its summit. Inyo National Park.

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Roads To Clouds @forestrobots.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

It is a very fine line between intolerable insecurity and narcissistic confidence. Don't ever let go of the people in your life that gracefully avoid either side of the spectrum.

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Roads To Clouds @forestrobots.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Spent most of my Sunday afternoon rearranging several modular setups and forgot what great artwork this module has on the back of it. As if the front isn't already, IMHO, bananas cool.

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Roads To Clouds @forestrobots.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

'24-'25 was the busiest I've ever been musically. Right down to the final day. I spent all that time finishing composing, mixing as well as overseeing the mastering of 7 albums with the mastering approval of the last album on the last day of 2025. Now to plan album releases for the next 4 yrs. Me:

Looking down at a straight drop of over 6,000ft while exploring the top of Half Dome in Yosemite National Park. Your hands instinctively want to grab onto something as you feel the weigh of gravity pulling you down. You don't want to be sitting there even when it's just slightly windy. You will go airborne and die.

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Roads To Clouds @forestrobots.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

2025 was a very challenging year but what year is ever without challenges? This coming year I wish everyone the capacity to see past the hardships and find gratitude in the thought that we still get carry on with the ability to love ourselves and others in our hearts. Happy New Years, everyone. 💜

At the summit of Panorama Peak. Summer 2025. Kings Canyon National Park.

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Roads To Clouds @forestrobots.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Thinking today about live performance setups and how a setup today would be so different than old ones (MiniAK, MicroKorg, Kaaosscilator, Laptop) if I were still performing and how despite the fact I no longer perform live, my relationship with instruments has nevertheless continued to evolve.

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Roads To Clouds @forestrobots.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

It's not hard to be grateful about every aspect of life when you've had 8 brushes with death. 8. And yet somehow, I still feel wildly unprepared for when that time comes. As in, I need more practice on my dignity and grace because that's what I'd like loved ones to remember me most by when I die.

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Roads To Clouds @forestrobots.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

As I continue to flesh out the modular synthesis sound I envision for future albums, modules have become redundant/irrelevant but rather than have them gather dust in the studio, I'll be selling them to help finance several projects in 2026. Active ingenuity is the reality and life of the creative.

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Roads To Clouds @forestrobots.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Only 10 days until xmas eve and staying in theme by sharing three out of 30 variants I've collected (since 2009) of Vince Guaraldi Trio's A Charlie Brown Christmas. The first vinyl copy I owned on green vinyl, the 2lp deluxe edition, and a 2nd green copy signed by the original 1965 choir singers.

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Roads To Clouds @forestrobots.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Tonight's holiday playlist: Andrew Bird for the folks that don't like holiday music, Hall & Oates for the melodious serotonin hits and Chilly Gonzales collaborating with Feist and Jarvis Cocker. 🎄❄️⛄🎅💫 #Music #MusicSky #Vinyl #VinylSky #VinylCommunity #VinylCollectors #VinylRecords #NowPlaying

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Roads To Clouds @forestrobots.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

More seasonal themed vinyl tonight. Tchaikovsky, Ellington, and master crooners Belafonte and Williams elevating standards into classic performances. 🎄❄️🎅⛄ #Music #MusicSky #Vinyl #VinylSky #VinylCommunity #VinylCollectors #VinylRecords #NowPlaying #NowSpinning

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Roads To Clouds @forestrobots.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Every year, for one month only, I reach out to a vinyl crate I have in the studio and play-with great relish-every album inside of it. December is that month and these are the 4 albums I've enjoyed so far. 🎄☃️🎅🍍 #holiday #vinyl

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Roads To Clouds @forestrobots.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Can't believe I've only found out about this Bjork cover by Robyn 15 years later. A sublime and oh so beautiful interpretation. And with Bjork in the audience watching, what a tall order to perform in front of. 🧡 youtu.be/jTIKatHKxPc?...

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Hyperballad - Robyn (Björk Cover)

YouTube video by Polar Music Prize

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Roads To Clouds @forestrobots.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Another Vince Guaraldi PEANUTS soundtrack vinyl post in honor of Thanksgiving. A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving had its television premiere on CBS in November 20th, 1973. The special continued to air every year on CBS (except on 1982, 1983 1988) through 1989. 5 vinyl variant releases.

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Roads To Clouds @forestrobots.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

A cousin recently shared this magnificently preserved picture and I can’t stop looking at it. Maternal grandmother sits on the far right, she is the youngest, sharing space along great aunts and uncles. Picture was taken late 1910s.

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Roads To Clouds @forestrobots.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Lake Gregory. San Bernardino Mountains. Grateful for experiencing moments like this throughout 2025.

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Roads To Clouds @forestrobots.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

We’ve had rain for 2 days in a row. Missing clear skies and getting around on the 🏍️.

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Roads To Clouds @forestrobots.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

John Benchmark, named after John Bull. I’m guessing there were enough British expats out here in this area in the 1960s to influence the naming process.

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Roads To Clouds @forestrobots.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

When the last rays of Sun envelope the autumn leaves into an unforgettable golden hue.

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Roads To Clouds @forestrobots.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Back on the grind today but grateful for family and for this past weekend. It was idyllic and full of love.

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Roads To Clouds @forestrobots.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

A few random things: - Skyfall is not only a great Bond film. It's great cinema as well. - Roughly 80% of the music I've purchased in 2025 has been by female artists or groups led by a female vocalist. - This month marks 4 years since I last imbued an alcoholic beverage. - I miss this view.

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Roads To Clouds @forestrobots.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Continuing on yesterday's Vince Guaraldi theme and in honor of yesterday's US elections, here are 2 variants of CBS 1972 Peanuts special You're Not Elected, Charlie Brown. This long out print soundtrack was re-released last year to coincide with last years presidential election.

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Roads To Clouds @forestrobots.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

I may or may not have mentioned this in the past. My only music vice is collecting Vince Guaraldi Peanuts TV broadcast soundtracks and Wes Anderson film Soundtracks. In honor of Halloween having just passed, here are variants from the 1966 CBS TV broadcast of It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown.

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Roads To Clouds @forestrobots.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Attended an ABBA/Queen candlelight concert this past weekend. It was held at a church which as a venue is always a bit problematic for me because of the religious aspect of it. However, the acoustics were undeniably superb as were the musicians performance.

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Roads To Clouds @forestrobots.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Had the pleasure of visiting The United Theater on Broadway in Downtown LA for a screening of The Phantom Of The Opera starring Lon Cheney that included a live orchestral performance. It was spellbinding viewing this film in this Spanish Gothic style venue built in 1927. Happy Halloween everyone.

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Roads To Clouds @forestrobots.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Once again it’s that time of the year when Southern California goes through second Summer. #California

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Roads To Clouds @forestrobots.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

I’ll miss you, yesterday’s weather.

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