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Musician, scribbler, history freak, geek. Well known in a four block region.

Charlottesville, Va.

"Sometimes there are two persons who disagree, and there comes a third person and all unite together. Is this not the nature of music?" -Hazrat Inayat Khan

Love & Death In Charlottesvillehttps://lovedeathcville.com/contents.html
ReligionNot fooling myself
PoliticsNot fooling you
This day in history. 1945. Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun were married in his Berlin bunker and somehow within a day they were both suicidal.

To give you an idea of how much more a billion is than a million:

A million minutes ago was April, 2021 — a year into the COVID 19 pandemic.
A billion minutes ago it was November 121 CE — the height of the Roman empire.

Billionaires. Shouldn’t. Exist.

Guitar wiz David French and yours truly in his living room the other night.

Killing Time - Jamie Dyer and David French

#charlottesville
#music
#song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WLSTzaWZOI

Killing Time - Jamie Dyer and David French

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My education in autorecording continues, otherwise known as playing with myself at home. There's no singing on this as I'm trying to lessen suffering in this world.

"Samsara Blues" by Jamie Dyer

#music
#guitar
#song

https://youtu.be/RF15lhHhQ2o

Samsara Blues by Jamie Dyer

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My second effort in home recording. It's got warts but it hops.

#songwriting
#music
#charlottesville

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMf4wzKw8CU

Just About Now by Jamie Dyer

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I've been teaching myself how to do home recording. This is my first effort. I hope you can find a few minutes to listen.

"Eagles Path" by Jamie Dyer

#music
#songwriting
#diy
#charlottesville

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apkTIpchfRg

Eagles Path by Jamie Dyer

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Today, our TikTok account was permanently banned without warning or explanation. Mondoweiss is one of a small number of independent media outlets covering events on-the-ground in Palestine during an explosive rise in Israeli violence and a historic resurgence of Palestinian resistance.

The companies that run major social media platforms have a dismal record of suppressing Palestinian voices and news outlets that focus on covering the realities of Palestinians living under Israeli apartheid.

Crank it.

"Forgiving Is Easier Than Forgetting" by The Loving Sisters, 1974

#music
#1970s
#soul

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nd6hgt9lv9Y

The Loving Sisters: Forgiving Is Easier Than Forgetting / Peacock 1974

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I'm participating in a large software testing group. A comment by a participant is applicable to much of our lives in the 21st century:

"a lot of times the buttons don't work here"

#software
#accidentaltruth