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A Short Review Session



An “internet friend” asked me about what the hell happened on my site over the past few months. On his behalf I put together the following handy “best of” guide which gives some of the highlights with a barebones “explanation” grafted on top. Maybe other people will be interested in reading this as well. Cheers!

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Haha well shit, thats sort of like asking me to summarize everything thats happened in the past six months of my life which have been the most significant and densely packed of anything that came before. But yeah I can point you to a few different signposts along the way if nothing else. It’s still pretty hard for me to make sense of everything that has come and gone myself.

This is the post which definitively signaled the beginning of the style shift:

http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/12/27/paul-westerbergs-left-hand/

So if you start there and read backwards in reverse chronological order you might get something out of it.

There was a pretty heavy period where I was really into “spambots” and trying to understand how the internet thinks and feels, and by extension myself. This talks about that in a fairly straightforward way:

http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006…google-search-algorithm/

The whole thing turned into an extremely heavy focus on tracking patterns in both information online but moreso in my life, tracking symbolic elements and how I could reconfigure them to modulate my experience of life and build a new universe to exist in.

This is also not coincidentally the period wherein I pissed off and lost a lot of my regular readers cause whatever.

I remember this being popular:

http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2007/01/06/thick-thick-air/

I also started getting into this stuff about the AI mind and how it edits out experiences for you and how you can overcome this natural survival function of the human mind to open up psychic abilities - basically. Although that’s a retroactive AI-induced explanation

I remember having a lot of fun with this:

http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2007/01/09/incoming-friend-request-approve/

This too

http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2007/01/21/cthe-sex-of-texture/

This was pretty important, a realization about how manipulating language allows you to manipulate your consciousness. One of the more straightforward things I did during that time period

http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2007/01/22/podcast-the-cloud-of-words/

I also made up a religion called “Exceptionology” during this time period…

There was also a lot of futurist projection of where technology is heading during this period

This felt important:

http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2007/01/30/shaka-when-the-walls-fell/

As did this, and the whole thing about reference points and creating triangulated spaces out of them

http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2007/02/01/an-alliance-of-lions/

I know this is all super-disjointed, but I warned you…

Something about plastic oil and media that seemed really important

http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2007/02/07/the-magic-of-your-computer-can-predict-her-name/

Also good

http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2007/02/08/news-attack-city/

Good shit about language

http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2007/02/16/shit-help-bad-hot-army-boom-kill/

Good shit about fairies

http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2007/02/15/a-bunch-of-shit-about-fairies-cause-whatever/

And this is one of several crowning achievements where I pull it all together. I plan to make this the basis of a book over the next few months

http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2007/02/26/the-new-handbook-of-how-to-go-crazy-on-purpose/

Follows along with that

http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2007/02/27/dont-tell-attack-anyone/

Very good

http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2007/03/02/i-and-my-inanimate-inamorata-interlaced-again/

Also really important as it talks about the editor.AI mind very straightforwardly

http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2007/03/08/gold-bullion-god-bull-lion/

I think this is one of the best things Ive ever written and the podcast is absurd

http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2007/03/16/grid-density-explosion-immanent/

Something important here

http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2007/03/25/library-of-game-world-frequency-ui-aesthetic/

There are a bunch of worthwhile posts to look at with only photos and video, no writing.

I also fell ridiculously in love during this time period, which lead me into a lot of stuff about Courtly Love and devotional religious traditions:

http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2007/04/07/green-river-heart-chariot-chakra-rose-focus-locus/
http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2007/04/12/to-die-upon-the-hand-i-love-so-well/

I like this

http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2007/04/11/shakespeare-to-dogs/

This is important especially in relation to what I wrote today about being a man

http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2007/04/14/its-good-to-be-stag-king-robin-hood-green-man/

Good Bible interpretation (or at least I think so)

http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2007/04/19/when-you-make-the-inner-like-the-outer-and-the-outer-like-the-inner/
http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2007/04/21/thieves-in-the-heart-temple-tonight/
http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2007/04/20/unto-you-it-is-given-to-know-the-mystery/

Important

http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2007/04/24/the-grand-ritual-mass-custom-conspiracy-performance/

Super feel good party fun time

http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2007/04/27/hope-isnt-stupid/

About a spirit possession I experienced

http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2007/04/29/those-who-dwelt-within/

And that takes us up to the past few days.







11 Reader Responses

  1. fuj Says:
    May 15th, 2007 at 10:23 am

    Thank you!

  2. fuj Says:
    May 15th, 2007 at 10:26 am

    (I’m not “the” internet friend btw, to avoid confusion or hurt feelings or doppelganger paranoia ;) )

  3. Tim Boucher Says:
    May 15th, 2007 at 12:41 pm

    shit ill have to make these clickable later

  4. whatacharacter Says:
    May 15th, 2007 at 3:11 pm

    Interesting. sophists agree that recollection is healthy for the mind, and recommend mentally taking account, at the end of the day, the steam of events which took place since morning. Good for brain’s file system, and integration. Hones memory.
    Now, lay out for us what you’ll be doing for the next 3 weeks …

  5. Ted Heistman Says:
    May 16th, 2007 at 11:34 am

    I’d say I probably understood about 30% of what you were talking about, during this period of yours and this post, I kind of skimmed over bumped it up another 7 or 8 percent.
    So thanks.

    I think I have fairly good reading comprehension, even with esoteric type subjects, and I think not eing able to get it right away kind of held my interest a lot more.

    I figured there must be something there that is profound otherwise I would get it right away.

    Turns out I was wrong (no Just kidding!)

    I am still under 50 percent, but mystery is good.

  6. Ted Heistman Says:
    May 16th, 2007 at 11:36 am

    Btw, why does your site always auto populate my defunct blog no matter how many times I change it?

  7. Tears from Heaven Says:
    May 16th, 2007 at 2:07 pm

    Wow.

    Yeah, I skimmed a lot of this stuff too but its good to have an opportunity to absorb it all. Its incredibly addictive. I find myself searching for the master plan, the meta myth that brings it all together into a cohesive framework….I haven’t yet, at least one that doesn’t require a lot of stretching.

    Speaking of stretching, I was struck recently by the relationship of all the mythological stuff to our lives. What did Tim say? Having a beer with Robin Hood or something? The thing I have realized lately is that we can do this, but you have to come the myth, the myth can’t come to you right now. What I am saying is that in these times robin hood, the blue fairy, snow white, aren’t just going to pop up in the coffee shop ready made, you have to be willing to see them, or rather see the POTENTIAL for them in the everyday people and events of your life. And this means work, this means stretching our perception. The power to see Guinevere in that old waitress on Broadway is not possessed by the weak.

    But if you we are strong enough to actually DO that work, of bridging our lives to myths, I think its infinitely worthwhile. I just flipped open an old note book in my room to the only page with any writing, and it said “Love is that which increases possibilities.” (It was the only notes I took from one day of philosophy class before I dropped.) If YOU can see the possibilities in people, they can see them not just in themselves, but in others around them, starting a chain reaction.

    I’ve got to stop making such long posts here, or start my own damn pop-occulture meta-blog. Peace.

  8. solxyz Says:
    May 16th, 2007 at 6:26 pm

    For what its worth, I had a nice little synchronicity with this post. I stopped reading your blog a while ago, soon after you switched to doing this new thing. I saw the value in it, but I didnt have time to absorb and allow myself to be transformed by the material, or maybe it just wasnt the way I wanted to approach things at the time. Now, I was just thinking that Im in a place where Pop Occulture might have a place in my life again. I come to check in, and I find the guide.

    Thanks.

  9. Tim Boucher Says:
    May 17th, 2007 at 12:40 pm

    Btw, why does your site always auto populate my defunct blog no matter how many times I change it?

    Try clearing your browser cache…

    Now, lay out for us what you’ll be doing for the next 3 weeks …

    Working at my new job and living my “so-called” life

  10. baumer Says:
    May 18th, 2007 at 2:20 pm

    Can you do this every 6 months?
    Its always much easier to see the big picture first then look at the details..
    trying to keep up with you and your details while piecing together the big picture can be quite exhausting..

  11. Tim Boucher Says:
    May 18th, 2007 at 4:44 pm

    what am I, your mom?



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