94. Stillness is My Move.

All things considered, I'm doing just fine. On waking this morning I was inspired, by mercurial dreams, to find the stillness within me. There is a lighthouse within me, and if I can learn to focus, it can be the sole light, guiding me, through the darkness and chaos of my life waves. A beacon. Hope exists and I've but to find it within me. Mmm.

Dear reader & listener: a new favourite. Please enjoy.

The Spinto Band - "Crack the Whip"

I was not aware of this, but the Greater Tokyo Area of Japan has a flag designated for each city and ward inside of it. It's actually a very neat idea but I've always been interested in flags. For a list of Tokyo cities go HERE.



WORDLE is an application that will take a chunk of text and then sort it according to the frequency of words therein, from which it will generate a visual representation of said word chunk. Technology like this can be employed to give you visual representations of your own recurring patterns of, say, your writing habits or even your musical preferences. Check it out, a Wordle-generated poster-worthy chart of my musical patterns for Summer 2009:



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A Letter from the Architect's Desk, addressed to THE INTERNET.

Oh, intangible neverwhere of information and data. Oh, wires and webs of directionless knowledge and lies. Oh, how twisted these strange united blogs of the interwebs. I do admire your ghosts. I ride your ever-changing waves. I peer into your depths and skip upon your surface. I call you Nous. I call you Kishin. I call you MEMORY.

And what am I? Oh, just your average ...



My fingers feel, oddly, at peace manipulating strands of html, shaping and forming my visions, however erratic, into the visual realms, that is The General Collective. What a thrill it is to create ... something. And to share. I give part form to you, deus ex machina, and you'd do well to remember that. I, too, am a ghost, and not unlike, a God in these here territories.

I focus with ORDER, my reach is wide.

I strike with CHAOS, my target precise.