QUERY_INITIATED

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...

Eclixar Journal

Every article is a scene. Every word, a frame of something that would not have remained, had it not

been written

From the archive.

almost one year downstairs
Essence & Future

almost one year downstairs

the random job under my house somehow became one of the main rooms of my year. # The salon feels different at Christmas. Customers bring chocolates and biscuits, everybody wishes...

god is a dj
Music & Sound

god is a dj

some songs become rooms you can walk back into. # Faithless tonight and God Is a DJ still does something to me even though I’ve heard it so many times...

four years
Affinity & Heart

four years

four years, hundreds of nights and one nickname that escaped containment. # Four years. Yuri + Alice. I was thinking tonight about Bambolina and how funny it is that the...

almost four
Affinity & Heart

almost four

four years is approaching quietly, which somehow makes it feel bigger. # December 5. Four years with Yuri. I don’t know why four sounds so much longer than three. Maybe...

christmas emergency tanning
Questions & Musings

christmas emergency tanning

apparently christmas parties require urgent intervention involving shoulders. # The Christmas party clients have begun. `”I have a dinner.”` `”I have a company party.”` `”This dress shows my shoulders.”` Shoulders...

hardcore therapy
Music & Sound

hardcore therapy

cheaper than therapy unless you count entrance, drinks, taxi, cloakroom and outfit. # The Stunned Guys. Tommyknocker. The Viper. Yuri beside me. Black boots. Angel. Home after five with my...

fine, peace
Affinity & Heart

fine, peace

at this point our arguments should have opening credits. # Peace. He understood what I meant. I understood why he gets defensive. Nobody died. He said he doesn’t want me...

tea, four biscuits, perspective
Questions & Musings

tea, four biscuits, perspective

tea fixes nothing but at least gives the argument somewhere to sit. # Tea at five. Four biscuits. Sunday. I think part of the reason Edo and I fight so...

Edo ruined saturday before saturday started
Affinity & Heart

Edo ruined saturday before saturday started

I would like one calendar quarter without becoming somebody’s relationship comparison. # He did it again. Not exactly `”be like Alice”` this time, but close enough to make me furious....

perfume shelf
Beauty & Art

perfume shelf

I have accidentally started collecting invisible clothes. # My perfume shelf is becoming a thing. Angel obviously. Birthday perfume. Summer perfume. Autumn perfume. Samples everywhere. Things I loved on paper...

we stayed in
Affinity & Heart

we stayed in

a relationship can apparently survive one saturday without a club. research ongoing. # Yuri and I stayed in tonight. I know. Please respect our privacy during this difficult transition. I...

questions at 4am
Music & Sound

questions at 4am

the best nights don’t answer anything, they make the questions prettier. # Franchino tonight. I love that progressive nights can make something extremely simple suddenly feel enormous. Time, choices, where...