John Medina posted an article on Tracks In The Forest - Jan 26, 2012, 9:34 pm
I wish I had words of wisdom to share, words of comfort, and words of hope. If only I had the gift to put together words so profound and powerful as to leave mountains untouched but move hearts and minds all around the world. But wishes are seldom granted. And perhaps all this is naught but self agg...
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John Medina posted an article on Tracks In The Forest - Aug 10, 2011, 9:31 pm
Sometimes I imagine myself an old soul, wandering the the universe, watching, learning. Yet somehow, I know that wouldn't be right for me. There is still much to see and do on this Earth. I am, as of yet, too attached to this world, this plane. I would mayhap endure a thousand pains, suffer a ...
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John Medina posted an article on Tracks In The Forest - Aug 10, 2011, 7:51 pm
10:32 stories shared adventures followed laughed clapped gasped smiled then wondered and reminisced from half a world away attentions held thoughts provoked lives touched friends made in just ten minutes and thirty two seconds
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John Medina posted an article on Tracks In The Forest - Aug 10, 2011, 7:25 pm
vital connections In the moments when we share our stories, I feel as though I know you. Part of me wishes I really did. We call each other friends, but in truth... We are little more than faceless names and numbers, masked only in the facades we wish to sho...
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John Medina posted an article on Tracks In The Forest - Aug 1, 2011, 11:54 am
untitled words are sometimes shallow raindrops dancing vainly on mirrors words are sometimes deep ashes sleeping beneath a riverbed but oftimes words are just words snowflakes falling on the sea
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John Medina posted an article on Tracks In The Forest - Jul 3, 2011, 10:29 pm
untitled what is a spark two worlds colliding the birth of a flame a star's final moments what is a spark an idea a prayer a beginning
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John Medina posted an article on Tracks In The Forest - Jun 8, 2011, 8:57 pm
glass flower a beauty so enticing yet so frail and fragile reaching out in yearning wanting to know longing to feel just the feathery touch of a finger but that alone might shatter the dream facing a storm of fear and regret she stands at a...
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John Medina posted an article on Tracks In The Forest - Jul 27, 2010, 2:15 pm
Hello, everyone! If you're actually reading this, thank you kindly for your patronage and reader loyalty. It is greatly appreciated, much more so than I have let out. :) And if you're wondering where I've been, the answer is - right where I've always been, with the exception that I won't be he...
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John Medina posted an article on Tracks In The Forest - May 19, 2010, 8:36 pm
Here's an experiment that sprung from the question, can one really, accurately define true beauty without describing ugliness? I realized immediately that the resulting theme alludes to the Yin and Yang entities, and thus decided to make this shorter than originally intended. I wanted to write a lit...
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John Medina posted an article on Tracks In The Forest - May 18, 2010, 9:59 pm
You can keep punching a brick wall with your bare fists until you don't feel it anymore, but that doesn't mean you should do it. It might make for some good poetry brainstorming, except that it'll be hard to write or type anything afterward. please hurt me give it to me stab me se...
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John Medina posted an article on Tracks In The Forest - May 18, 2010, 8:58 pm
Which is scarier - Piecing together the jumbled fragments of a nightmare and looking at the finished picture? Or knowing that something so dark and morbid came from inside your own head? delirium the world is rocking to and fro am i shaking or is it the walls moving i don't know &...
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John Medina posted an article on Tracks In The Forest - Apr 25, 2010, 11:58 pm
The timespaces have started to converge, but Karasu and Yuu have yet to reach Haruka. I can't decide what I despise more - the whiny, neurotic annoying puff of smoke called Noein, or the depressed, bedraggled, corpse-like husk called Noein. Oh, wait. Nevermind. What happened to the omino...
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John Medina posted an article on Tracks In The Forest - Apr 11, 2010, 7:00 pm
Ai, Isami, and Miho look out into the vast (and mostly empty) expanse of Shangri La. In another inadvertent flash of the Dragon Torque's erroneous powers, Haruka's house, along with the people still inside it, gets ported to Shangri La. Miho's explanation, as usual, involves - wait for it... A...
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John Medina posted an article on Tracks In The Forest - Apr 11, 2010, 3:48 pm
Uchida meets with Professor Mayuzumi, former head of the Magic Circle Project. Themes of noble self-sacrifice and about-faced idealism abound in this installation of the pseudo-science fiction / fantasy hybrid. It's hardly surprising; though in effect, the mood of the series has become subdued...
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John Medina posted an article on Tracks In The Forest - Mar 21, 2010, 2:23 pm
A glum gathering of old and new friends in the underground city of La Cryma. At last, we are in the home stretch of the series, and things are getting more interesting. The shreds of quantum theory that have been sprinkled throughout each episode have finally come together. Whether or not they...
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John Medina posted an article on Tracks In The Forest - Mar 7, 2010, 3:04 am
Haruka watches a video of herself as a small child with her grandmother. Earlier episodes of Noein have played around with the theory of how existence can only be substantiated at a quantum level, as well as with the concept of existentialism. This episode gets a little more down to earth, foc...
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John Medina posted an article on Tracks In The Forest - Mar 7, 2010, 3:04 am
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John Medina posted an article on Tracks In The Forest - Mar 7, 2010, 1:29 am
This evening, I asked myself why, even after my month-long post-holidays hiatus, have I bothered maintaining my updates of Noein summaries? Am I a fanatic, a crazed anime fan who will watch a show until the very end and write incessantly about it even if it sucks? Erm, no. I don't think so anyway. S...
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John Medina posted an article on Tracks In The Forest - Mar 7, 2010, 1:29 am
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John Medina posted an article on Tracks In The Forest - Feb 13, 2010, 7:06 pm
After waking from a dream in which her friends had forgotten her, and where Noein makes her question her own existence, Haruka comforts herself by going through photo albums. Though he acts selfishly, either out of his own greed or due to Noein's influence, Kuina still harbors feelings for Amamiku....
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John Medina posted an article on Tracks In The Forest - Feb 13, 2010, 7:06 pm
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John Medina posted an article on Tracks In The Forest - Dec 29, 2009, 6:20 pm
I intended to finish a few more posts before the New Year, but sadly, I've been totally kaput. I've been sick since the 26th and haven't even felt like watching anime, much less writing about it. That gives you a fairly good idea of how crappy I feel. >. In other news... The remain...
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John Medina posted an article on Tracks In The Forest - Dec 29, 2009, 6:20 pm
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John Medina posted an article on Tracks In The Forest - Dec 23, 2009, 1:30 am
A Very Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, and Holiday Blessings To All! ^_^
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John Medina posted an article on Tracks In The Forest - Dec 23, 2009, 1:30 am
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John Medina posted an article on Tracks In The Forest - Dec 23, 2009, 12:39 am
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John Medina posted an article on Tracks In The Forest - Dec 23, 2009, 12:39 am
This is one of those songs that I can't help but play over and over. I first heard it on Lush, an internet radio station streamed on one of the Soma FM servers. It's also featured in the show "Six Feet Under", though I've never watched it. So many great artists are overlooked by mainstream bro...
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John Medina posted an article on Tracks In The Forest - Dec 22, 2009, 2:59 am
I'm curious as to what I look like when I'm playing the piano while deeply immersed in a song (though not all that keen on seeing it). This next piece reveals a part of that image, but it probably doesn't come close to the full picture. I imagine it's quite a strange scene. O_O This was inspir...
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John Medina posted an article on Tracks In The Forest - Dec 22, 2009, 2:59 am
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John Medina posted an article on Tracks In The Forest - Dec 19, 2009, 3:59 am
Haiku! (What? Bless you!) No, seriously. (What? Haiku?) Yes. It's all Haiku! After not having written poetry in any standardized format whatsoever in ages, I picked up my copy of "Patterns of Poetry" for the umpteenth time - I must sit down and read this thoroughly one day soon. Lo and b...
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John Medina posted an article on Tracks In The Forest - Dec 19, 2009, 3:59 am
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John Medina posted an article on Tracks In The Forest - Dec 18, 2009, 6:04 pm
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John Medina posted an article on Tracks In The Forest - Dec 18, 2009, 6:04 pm
There was brief implosion of this blog's markup which wreaked havoc on the layout. I apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. Fortunately, I had a backup of the code and everything has been reverted to Wednesday night's saved state. I'm still working on the film strip menu and the...
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John Medina posted an article on Tracks In The Forest - Dec 16, 2009, 4:29 pm
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John Medina posted an article on Tracks In The Forest - Dec 9, 2009, 8:22 pm
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John Medina posted an article on Tracks In The Forest - Dec 6, 2009, 10:10 pm
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John Medina posted an article on Tracks In The Forest - Dec 6, 2009, 7:51 pm
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John Medina posted an article on Tracks In The Forest - Nov 30, 2009, 12:29 am
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John Medina posted an article on Tracks In The Forest - Nov 29, 2009, 11:45 pm
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John Medina posted an article on Tracks In The Forest - Nov 24, 2009, 11:30 pm
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