The Diary of Antoine Roquentin

tempus fugit

Month: August, 2008

he told me I knew just what to laugh at

I have been so busy this week, it’s incredible. Concerts three days out of this week… I slept for like 12 hours yesterday. But zomg I have pics and videos! today’s the first day that I can actually catch up on… well… everything. I’m back at work and school and managed to shoehorn all of [...]

holyfuckingshitchkchkchk

I just saw chk chk chk tonight. It was fucking incredible. I have a ton of videos. I’ll post them as soon as I get off work tomorrow.

we ain’t goin’ to the town, we’re going to the city

My mom and I went into the city yesterday. We had a wonderful time. The weather was sunny as we left the Port Authority. Across the street, the new NY Times building. We walked a few blocks to Times Square and got on the 1 train bound for Christopher Street. Our destination was the IFC [...]

dream of a time when we weren’t torn at the seams

I’m in love with Jean Baudrillard. What I’m experiencing in my life is a large part Baudrillard’s indictments of our system of symbolic exchange. We are today in what I would call a ‘Moebius-strip’ system. If we were in a face-to-face, confrontational system, strategies could be clear, based on a linearity of causes and effects. [...]

couldn’t resist posting this one. Thanks, Rakim, we’ll get right on that.