The Diary of Antoine Roquentin

tempus fugit

Month: May, 2004

bad omen

Yes–I know–I don’t really believe in omens, but foreshadowing happens so much in novels it just might as well happen in real life. I mean, do novels reflect reality or vice versa? Well anyway, I went to Wal-Mart, and I went to pull into a parking spot and I drastically misjudged and came within inches [...]

there’s something rotten–in the air

I’m listening to Placebo’s new CD, “Sleeping With Ghosts,” and it’s really different. There’s pretty much no lyrical depth, and they’ve traded in their trademark guitar sound for lame synth effects. Well, I’ve only listened to half of it so I shouldn’t pass judgement. I got an e-mail from the tech guy at the school [...]

it seemed a place for us to dream

Yesterday I bought a sketch pad to keep by my bed so I could write down my dreams. So every time I came out of sleep, I’d jot down what happened. I guess it’s part of my comprehensive plan to blog twenty-four hours a day. Well, here they are. I’ll first have what I jotted [...]

earthworm

>Ohgr – Earthworm This is the cutest song ever. I uploaded it to my server, it should be available at this link: http://www.retroviral.net/music/ohgr_-_04_-_earthworm.mp3 Well, I’m at the Drift office, people were supposed to show up today at nine, so I got here at nine-thirty, and nobody was here. Which is actually kind of cool, because [...]

a benevolent psychopathology

Today was a no-computer day due to my carpal tunnel thing, but I thought this was interesting. I just wanted to share this. It’s the introduction to an illegal ebook of “Crash”. The paragraph breaks are screwed up because I pasted it from Acrobat, but I tried to make them as well as I could. [...]