Replacing my blog at http://pablosmoglives.wordpress.com
28 Feb 2022 5 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
The sorrow I felt when Ashli Babbitt was killed in Washington, D.C. on January 6, 2021 was overwhelming. I posted a video on my YT channel entitled "American Prayer," which received a fair amount of criticism. The last time I checked, the like/disl...
18 Feb 2022 2 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
When it comes to the arts, I'm not a believer in over-encouragement. I'm not in favor of discouragement, necessarily, but in this era of artistic relativism in which "anything is art because I say it's art," I think it's time to stop enabling artles...
11 Feb 2022 2 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
I've been attending a church here in Mexico for the last couple weeks, and find myself in complete agreement with the music they play beforehand. Stylistically, artistically, does it do anything for me? Not really. But I find that, to my own surpr...
11 Feb 2022 14 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"Every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment." Matthew 12:36 Less than a few weeks ago, I discovered I have a new artistic standard. I wouldn't say it's a total replacement of whatever my hopefully...
6 Feb 2022 4 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
I was big on Gregory Corso in the late 90s. He was my favorite Beat poet, along with Kerouac. I carried a copy of Gasoline on numerous trips; in fact I've always carried it with me, since I bought it at City Lights Books in San Francisco in '98 or...
5 Feb 2022 3 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
In the spirit of full disclosure, I'm going to cop to a fair amount of bitterness up front. I'm going to confess to not only indulging in it, but in not believing in it either. It's why I came to Mexico. I came to Mexico not only to overcome and g...
2 Feb 2022 5 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
I always loved the smell of used bookstores. There is something undeniably relaxing about walking between stacks of aged, dying paper, upon which is written the wisdom and stupidity of the ages. You'd wander past the gardening and how-to books, tow...
31 Jan 2022 7 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
“I wore black because I liked it. I still do, and wearing it still means something to me. It's still my symbol of rebellion ― against a stagnant status quo, against our hypocritical houses of God, against people whose minds are closed to others' id...
27 Jan 2022 4 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
“Booble, the world must know of your ways. I will fight for your survival. One day people will understand and stop destroying your homes and killing your kind. I'll return next year, and protect you, Booble.” Timothy Treadwell Humanity is the onl...
21 Jan 2022 8 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
I call them "sister albums." Albums which are opposite sides of the same coin, usually made in tandem with each other, like twins. Vampire Cats and Blinded By Faggots are sister albums. So are Your Arms Inside Me and Is It For Real? There are oth...
