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Pablo Smog's End Tunes Oddcast #1

10 Sep 2024 3 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

"Baboon climbs the mountain, so hastily, so troublesome,Baboon climbs the mountain, so hastily and so troublesome,Baboon climbs the mountain to annoy the farmers.Hooray!  For the jolly baboon..."The Last Fire Watch   Since these are the end tunes, an...

Time is a Floating Menace

8 Sep 2024 3 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

Time is the plume of ash from a volcano that obscures and blocks the sun.  It is a floating, smoky menace. You can read the circumstances behind the song in the article Message in a Bottle, if you're interested.  The lyrics are pasted below.  Since...

Trailer on the Moon

7 Sep 2024 3 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

"Trailer on the Moon" is from my 2011 album Broken Bird.  A "broken-hearted vision of Las Vegas, achieved while scuba diving on acid," Broken Bird was originally conceived as a spoken word album, thus the title, which rhymes with "spoken word."  It h...

Gaslighting 101: How governments hijack pop-culture and lie to We The People

6 Sep 2024 2 minute read 0 comments Tigerius

I've been thinking lately about gaslighting, war-mongering propaganda and other 'soft power' psy-ops visited upon us by those in positions of authority, who constantly divide us with the sole motivation of retaining, consolidating and perpetually inc...

Psychotic Sky (please don't hurt me)

5 Sep 2024 3 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

In 2007, I played banjitar for a punk-rock Irish band in Austin.  They were in the style and spirit of The Pogues, Flogging Molly, bands like that.  I wasn't right for them, but we played a couple shows.  The banjitar is a banjo with a guitar neck, o...

American Caudillo

3 Sep 2024 5 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

"A caudillo (Spanish: [kawˈðiʎo]; Old Spanish: cabdillo, from Latincapitellum, diminutive of caput "head") is a type of personalistleader wielding military and political power."Wikipedia   I was tired and hungover today.  Not from drugs or alcohol, b...

Raptured From A Kerouac Dream

30 Aug 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

"I wish I was freeof that slaving meat wheeland safe in heaven dead."Jack Kerouac I was riding in the backseat of a car, playing guitar.  There were 4 of us, but nobody was talking.  Everyone was listening to the music that I played.  There were no w...

Freudian Death Drive 2024

28 Aug 2024 2 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

"The goal of all life is death."Sigmund Freud   In classical Freudian psychoanalytic theory, the death drive is the drive toward death and destruction, often expressed through behaviors such as aggression, repetition compulsion, and self-destructiven...

Learning piano

28 Aug 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Quaro

Since I was a child, I have always loved music. I was very lucky in that my parents sent me to piano lessons from the age of 11. After a few years, however, adolescence made itself felt, and I naively thought that there were much more important thing...

American Infidel

27 Aug 2024 5 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

"American Infidel" was written during the height of the Bush years, when reasonable people could still consider themselves to be liberals.  I was a Bush-era liberal.  I remember how strange it felt, standing in ideological opposition to the Patriot A...