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11 Apr 2022 9 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
I was watching a documentary about "Narcocorridos" (drug ballads) a couple years ago, a phenomenon in Mexico where the artist is commissioned by the cartel to write songs about their exploits. In an age in which no artists can make an independent li...
7 Apr 2022 5 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
I just watched a part of a video called "Why 99% of movies today are garbage," and was amazed to listen to the middle-aged guy with grey hair talk about how "dropping the ball" with some comic book or Star Wars franchise is an act of "malpractice." ...
4 Apr 2022 2 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
I've been aware of it for awhile, but writing this post over the last hour or so, and then deleting everything I wrote, it has become obvious why my focus is slowly veering away from art and music, and towards Christianity and salvation issues. Not...
1 Apr 2022 5 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
Peacocks in the Mud God in Heaven, before I start, I want to thank You for healing my heart if I’d never been broken I’d never have needed any repairs if I’d never been choken I might never have come up for air * * * Many times I’ve...
29 Mar 2022 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
Dear Will Smith, God loves you. He knows you're in torment over your wife's infidelity, and He says, "IT'S OKAY." It's okay to feel bad about it. It's okay to have a broken heart. It's okay to not support it, to be against it, in spite of what ev...
25 Mar 2022 7 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"The moment you cross the little wire gate and you're in Mexico, you feel like you just sneaked out of school when you told the teacher you were sick, and she told you you could go home." Jack Kerouac Not only do you feel like a kid who just got out...
21 Mar 2022 11 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
I was driving on I-40 in Oklahoma, headed west toward yet another destination I didn't know I was traveling to, when the line "interstate highway, psychedelic snake" came to me. The sun was high and in my face, and I opened my journal book and starte...
19 Mar 2022 3 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
I have recently been made aware of the phenomenon of "monitoring spirits," a kind of spiritual surveillance by entities who don't have your best interests at heart. This awareness has caused me to hesitate in posting new videos on YouTube. Lately,...
13 Mar 2022 7 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
I remember something Clint Eastwood once said in an interview, expressing his distaste for people who said they wanted to be actors instead of movie stars. He said, "if you're working, there's no difference." It's a refreshingly working-class attit...
2 Mar 2022 3 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
Licking The Fist That Feeds Is it because I’m alive that I want to take a dive off the brink of oblivion rather than living in a land where the houses built on sand and the churches built on quicksand? From the privacy of their own cage, mecha...
