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95EH.CAMOUNTOWN.SUBSTACK.COMMOUN.TOWN/EVENTS
MOUN.TOWN/FMMOUN.TOWN/RADIOET.CETERA/ETC

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Because it’s not supposed to be a competition, it's supposed to be a collaboration.

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SO HERE’S SOME 🔥™ CONTENT TO COMMENCE YOUR CLICKING WITH:

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but, since this website is not only home to a “music blog” that’s been successfully running unsuccessfully for over a decade, run by a “blogger” who also happens to live in a small mountain town where he also foolishly attempts to run a local area events calendar on the same paid Squarespace site + run an attempted-collaborative community site over on a free tumblr site, which is why you’ll see the mention of an url-inspired made-up word called “mountown” & other interconnected moun.town links sprinkled about all over — which can seem like a lot of moving pieces to try and stay on top of, especially if you clicked over here looking for something specific — So, below you will find my attempt at making a ‘table of contents’ to help you either find that specific thing you were looking for more easily or… maybe you’ll just fancy going exploring on here once you have a bit of a map, eh?

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THE ‘UPDATED ON THE WEEKLY’ STUFF

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MOUN.TOWN/FM

Because I’ll probably never have my own physical FM radio antenna, I figured I would just use the streaming library of Spotify to curate a bunch of ongoing mix cd playlists that can be tuned into by anyone whenever/wherever they are (or whatever).

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To go explore this #MountownFM idea further, just become friendly with the url ‘MOUN.TOWN/FM’ (maybe even bookmark it in your brain for future revisits + you can also put that url into Spotify’s search bar to find all the other ‘moun.town/fm’ mix cd playlists that way) OR you can also just have a flick thru the most recently “shuffle update’d” below…

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THE 95EH EVENTS CALENDAR @ MOUN.TOWN/EVENTS

If, like me, you happen to live in the Canadian province of British Columbia (or have plans to come hang) — more specifically speaking: in the Kimberley & Cranbrook area (aka: unceded Ktunaxa territory) — well then, you might be interested in checking out this FREE local events calendar that aims to give the widest picture of all the happenings happening in the local HWY 95EH.CA area. The 95EH Events Calendar is also the first area of my ‘internetting’ work where I am hoping to attempt to bring in some more consistent funding/support via an idea called ‘Mutually Beneficial Employment’ — and you can check all of that stuff out by clicking the button below or by committing the url “moun.town/events” to your memory and punching it into whatever browser window you fancy, whenever you fancy checking out some local highway 95/a/eh area happenings.

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And while we’re in the local neighbourhood, please note that EVERY Tuesday, a new THE WEEKLY EH?! newsletter gets sent out to email inboxes with a FREE highlight of what’s going on in the Kimberley/Cranbrook area that week & beyond!

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MTR - FRESH TAPES

In my ongoing exploration of “Hey… maybe you don’t need to literally have a radio station in order to share music like a radio program?”, for quite some time I’ve been making digital mix tapes over on the @HI54LOFI Mixcloud page… and then I’ve been stringing all those mix tapes together in an online music player called Mix Tape Radio on Moun.Town/Radio (which I also sometimes call ‘MTR - Fresh Tapes’ for obvious acronym and/or silly NPR pun appreciations).

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Jump over to MOUN.TOWN/RADIO to explore this idea further + maybe bookmark that url in your brain for future revisits, as EVERY Wednesday I update the SIDE A and SIDE B Mix Tape Radio players, which will both play human-made digital mix tapes one-after-the-other all dang day once you press play) OR you can also have a flick thru some of the most recent digital mixes featured on MTR - FRESH TAPES below…

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I also end up updating my FM/TV ‘all day music videos’ playlist throughout the week with new/old music videos as I got about maintaining all of the above ‘weekly updated stuff’ (so CLICK HERE if you fancy checking that out) AND I also recently moved the 95EH.CA domain from being associated with its own paid-Squarespace site to now being tasked with trying to use a free Tumblr-powered site to carry on the torch of trying to be a local area collaborative community online diy zine radio (so jump on over to HWY 95EH.CA to check the status on that, if you fancy… and please say ‘hey’ if you also happen to use Tumblr in the 2020s).

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Ok. At this point of your scroll, you might find yourself wondering: “I wonder if there are any ways that I could support the work that goes into all of this HI54/95EH stuff?” — so it is here that I’d like to mention that you can check out THIS PAGE for some different options on how you can be a friendly supporter of some of the time/energy that goes into this site, OR… maybe you’d like to get in touch about that ‘Mutually Beneficial Employment’ thing I mentioneD I am looking to experiment with over on MOUN.TOWN/EVENTS. Oh, you weren’t starting to wonder about that stuff until I mentioned it? Oh, ok. Let’s just keep scrolling then.

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The ‘UPDATED CONSISTENTLY RANDOM’ STUFF

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HIGHLY RECOMMENDED W/ Q&A

This is a long-running Q&A series where I ask a bunch of different creatives for their top shelf recommendations for some of life’s best categories (more specifically: a music recommendation, a film/tv recommendation, a book recommendation, an internet recommendation, and an anything recommendation). CLICK HERE to read more or just have a flick thru some of the more recent Q&As on the content carousel below:

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FANDCAMP

I’ve always been a fan of the way that people can leave little reviews about the music that is in their Bandcamp collection (ie. music they’ve purchased directly from artists/labels, the greatest review of all) — AND — as a “music blogger” who is always looking for good recurring blahg bits to offer up to the content algorithms, I had the thought many years ago to take some of the nice fan reviews I find under an album I’ve been enjoying & cobble things together for a 'QUICK HIT’ blog tag called ‘FANDCAMP’. So either CLICK HERE to read more about this OR just have a flick thru some recent examples to see if you can’t find something you might want to add to your own Bandcamp collection:

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LONG PULLS & LISTS

Sometimes I’ll have an idea for an “essay” (aka: a long-ass blog post) that won’t go away no matter how many times I procrastinate writing it until I finally just sit down and get the thoughts out of my headspace and onto the internets, and around here we call that a ‘long pull’. In a similar vein, sometimes I get the urge to want to curate personal ‘Top 25’ or ‘Top 36’ or ‘Top Etc’ lists for certain topics and if it’s an urge that doesn’t go away (because sometimes it’s more rewarding to work on expressing your own thoughts than listening to another podcast of someone else’s opinions), eventually I put the list together (so far, this list making has mostly been for retro video games, but you never know what’s next ese).

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ok, there is actually more stuff that could be listed on this ‘table of contents’ homepage, but some of the stuff needs a bit more figuring & finessing as I try to figure out how best to keep a bunch of different urls & ideas up in the air as a one-person operation operating multiple websites and social media accounts for the often low cost of “we like the stuff you’re doing, but we’re not sure how we can support and/or work with you in any way that might help you procure rent and/or food but we also hope you keep at it somehow” — so please don’t hesitate to tell anyone else you think might like checking out what’s going on over here (as sharing is always a legitimate form of caring) :

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Jeremy / @HI54LOFI