The Diary of Antoine Roquentin

tempus fugit

Category: Ennui

oh! centra

I had so much fun tonight, but I just got home. It’s 4 a.m. and my fingers feel too tired to type. So it’s a good thing that I have voice recognition software. I just fired it up for the first time in quite a while. The first thing that I did tonight was go [...]

accidental entertainer

Last night, I think, was the gayest night ever. Matt, Steven, Santiago, and I went to see Fischerspooner at Highline Ballroom. It was this free corporate show put on by Amstel Light, which I didn’t realize is not actually beer but a brand of carbonated dish soap. I had ten of those one after the [...]

to see it with my own eyes

I haven’t been writing much this week, despite an intense desire to do so. I’ve been reading that wonderful book in literary criticism—just got to the really juicy bits on structuralism and post-structuralism. Lévi-Strauss, Barthes, etc. I was watching TV briefly when I was over at Jorge’s friend’s house in Hoboken, and it seemed like [...]

Moscow, 1980: boat time

I had such a great time tonight at the party Matt organized for the five year anniversary of his blog, The Music Slut. The headlining band, Javelin, is kind of amazing live—tons of samplers, dead sexy—they’ve got it all. We were dancing like crazy all night as the boat went around Manhattan. Such an amazing [...]

beach house @ prospect park!

I had so much fun tonight! I saw Beach House tonight at Prospect Park with Matt. I’d never been to the Prospect Park Bandshell before, and it was a beautiful venue. They did “Gila” (which was mindblowing live) and a bunch of stuff from Teen Dream. It’s 2 a.m. and I’m just starting work. I [...]