This isn’t a competition. It’s a collaboration.
All in ODDS
The HI54 ‘Provincial Playlists’ idea continues, this time with 95 nice tracks from 95 different artists being carefully exported from the Canadian province of Saskatchewan for your listening pleasure / headphone tourism needs.
“I think one thing that could help everyone is just to be more mindful with your actions, your speech, and even the conversation you participate in or even just hear. For myself I always aim to try and take in more positivity because, especially in today's age, with the access we have, it's very easy to paint a bleak picture.”
Here's the 9th instalment of the Mixcloud series where I go back to the iTunes organizational system I had setup when I used to run a 24/7 internet radio station… and then I shuffle up a selection of 'Mix Tape Radio approved' tunes and put together an 18-track HI54 Mixed CD.
“Dan Reeder has such a soothing voice… sometimes you don't even realize that he's singing about how his lady won't give him a bj on his birthday or the flaws of a beach ball.”
I started a weekly Substack newsletter called THE WEEKLY EH?! to HIGHlight FIVE things FOR the current week in the highway 95/a area where I blahg from — it gets sent out EVERY Tuesday, and you can read the latest one OVER HERE!
“Back in 1967, Timothy Leary, Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, & Allen Cohen joined Alan Watts on his houseboat to chat about society. And they taped it. And now we can tune in to the conversation up here in the 2020s (where we could all do with some 'turning on' and 'dropping out'). Yay internet.”
“Immersed in a sea of musical textures. A million moments realized. Transported.”
I am going to be giving myself a wee vacation from all of my self-assigned blogging duties for at least the next week or so (as my nieces are coming to visit and offline Uncle Mode™ will need to be activated).
“Hug your friends hello and goodbye. Life is super fragile and honestly pretty wasted in general. We should be spending a lot more time telling each other "I love You". Everyday there are people that change my life for the better and I want them to know that.”
