take me home
home is apparently a place, a person, a smell and occasionally a song # Take me home. Country songs use home constantly and I’ve started noticing because home in music...
Music & Sound
ECLIXAR
digital diary
Journal.
fragments of quiet intelligence
There is a manner in which certain things ask to be written, not so that they may be found, but because to exist in silence, for too long, eventually becomes insufficient. It is not urgency. It is something closer to a necessity that makes no noise, waiting patiently until it discovers the proper form. This archive was born in such a way.
Not as a diary. Not as a blog. Not as something that is updated merely for the sake of appearing alive. It is a place where certain thoughts come to rest, those which do not dissolve, those which return, those which insist with the silent obstinacy of things that truly belong to you...
Every article is a scene. Every word, a frame of something that would not have remained, had it not
been writtenFrom the archive.
Crisis & Rebirth
returns from hell
some days finish and deserve no further analysis # Returned from hell, by which I mean Friday at work, not an actual metaphysical event. Everything that could be slightly irritating...
Journey & Time
the usual things
nothing happened today, which is not the same as today being empty # The usual things today, and I almost didn’t post because there is nothing to announce. Then I...
Traditions & Culture
the circus comes back to town
same lights, different year, everybody pretending this is the first time # The circus comes back to town, metaphorically more than literally, because summer Milano has started doing that thing...
Questions & Musings
the difference between knowing and believing
certainty is a very expensive word and people spend it like loose change # Knowing and believing are not the same thing and I wish people would stop using «I...
Music & Sound
another country song
one more song, she said, six albums ago # Another country song. That’s how this keeps happening. «I’ll listen to one more.» Then one voice leads to another name and...
Questions & Musings
thoughts that stop halfway
i had a point when i started this sentence # Thoughts that stop halfway are bothering me because I have started noticing how often I don’t actually finish thinking something....
Body & Energy
sleep disorders
my body wants sleep. my brain would prefer to review every thought since 1998 # Sleep and I are having administrative disagreements. Not insomnia properly, I don’t think, because I...
Laws & Universe
mars weather report
today in milan: warm. today on mars: please bring several coats # I have reached the completely reasonable stage of this Phoenix obsession where I am checking the weather on...
Laws & Universe
martian soil
may ends with me emotionally invested in dirt located on another planet # Martian soil. This is apparently where May leaves me: sitting at my computer on Saturday night after...
Questions & Musings
variety
apparently one «variety» post per month is insufficient # Variety again because May refuses to have a single personality. In one week I have gone from Sichuan and tectonic plates...
Laws & Universe
water under the dust
dig. analyse. ask the dirt what happened. science is sometimes beautifully literal. # Water under the dust. That’s what has me now. Phoenix didn’t travel all that distance just to...
Why?
Because every thought leaves a trace. If something moved you, disturbed you, softened you, or made you think, leave it here, quietly.