Well, first the obvious part: the name of the guy that runs this website is Jeremy. And because the handle @Jeremy was already taken, you might internet know that Jeremy guy better as “@HI54LOFI”. And since IRL and URL worlds sometimes collide, ‘Jeremy / HI54LOFI’ pretty much covers all the bases of this one-person (1) operation.

FOR THOSE ALREADY FAMILIAR with what ‘Jeremy / HI54LOFI’ does AND JUST WANT TO Offer your much appreciated financial SUPPORT (even if it's just a far away coffee purchase) here's a couple buttons for DOING just that:

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or use the button below to make a donation of your choice via PayPal

Or you can also support HI54LOFI on MIXCLOUD SELECT

(where you can support the memory of the Mix Tape Radio show w/ offline listening to 300+ HI54LOFI digital mixtapes & mix cds made during my time of “music blogging” in the 2010s-to-early-2020s)

↑ special hi5 to anyone who clicks one of those buttons ↑

For those not already familiar with what ‘Jeremy / HI54LOFI’ does and want to know more before they even think about doing something crazy like hitting a donate button for Some scatter brained elder millennial on the internet…

Ok, so… I have been a (mostly) big fan of how almost anything is possible on the internet for quite some time now (in spite of all the *gestures around disappointingly*) — and because of said general internet appreciation, I have been mucking about on it for many years.

I’ve run a record label that wasn’t a record label.

I've had a 24/7 internet radio station stream.

I've shared both thoughts and feelings, unprovoked, publicly.

I'm old enough to have had a brief love affair with Myspace before it was “My___” (which was a brief window of social media time before Facebook took over) — and I am young enough to realize how old that makes me sound.

I’ve started and stopped and re-started many a project, slightly changing names and domains along the way.

I am a Canadian that has not always lived in Canada (although I currently call a small mountown in BC home) — and I've had a few moments of minor internet relevance (very minor) amongst a plethora of online invisibleness (very plethora), and, in the end, it has all amounted to not very much that one can hold in their hands.

Well, except for an ongoing stream of content filled with little treasures you can still take back to your own orbit…

…but other than that: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Well, I suppose it has also led to me playing around with trying to use “the internet” (ie. websites and newsletters and whatever’s left of socials) in a bunch of different capacities, which currently has me doing some “cataloging” & other library things at the local public library, communications for a local food security network, turning compost and other board responsibilities at a local community garden, helping show weekly films at the cozy local theatre, and a bunch of other random things that come with living the life that comes with working on things you don’t always get paid for working on (which includes some indefinitely paused projects like 95EH and Mountown Signals and Moun.Town/FM lurking around in the background).

So… if you’re still reading this and you’ve enjoyed and/or continue to enjoy any of the HI54LOFI / HI54.BLOG / HI54ETC efforts & output from over the years (in all its different “successfully unsuccessful” forms) — please feel free to scroll back up and hit one of those buttons above that allow for “tips” of the cash money variety (which I report to the tax money as “diy blog income” whilst continuing to have that fantasy of having a perfectly respectable/sustainable amount of other people enjoy what I do on websites enough to feel inclined to want to reward me with a very small token of their hard earned yearly dollars (that they earn doing whatever it is they do for money earning over in their neck of the woods).

But I also know what it is like to roam the internet streets while attempting to spend as little money as possible due to *gestures at everything*… so genuine cheers for swinging by + I hope you found something of use to take back to your own orbit!

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