Japanese CD Singles. These are the cutest packaging--i don't even care that i can't read the names of some of the bands...

You might say this is the "story behind the story" of The Rule of Four.

A wonderful set of links.

“Xanadu, the Gate Shattered”

Gossamer these days
And passing-bright, & also threatening rain;
And silent in the little things,
And full of raging fury for the rest.

My reach is a desire not to fall,
And i am ignorant how exactly far
This paradise of guns & shouting goes,
This neighbor & the gossamer that holds.

Silent, upon a peak in Darien.

10 27 04

Listening to: Bartok- Cantata Profana, plus Music for Strings Percussion and Celesta

“And the lonely Fomalhaut
In the dark south, paces low...
Stretching toward the kingly one
Dusky, dark Aldebaran.”

--Teasdale