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12 Nov 2025 4 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.03
"Last stop for a resolutionend of the line, into confusion"Elliott Smith The story of Tracy Cat is a story of love and death. It is a drama laced with poison, a harrowing tale of addiction and desire. I wrote the outline in the "Good Morning Holl...
9 Nov 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.05
Proverbs of Smog Chapter Twenty-One 1. Strength is no substitute for a battered suitcase of rock & roll damage. Or maybe it's the other way around. I can't remember. 2. There is more rejoicing in the songwriting world over one bad lyric that finds r...
5 Nov 2025 4 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.07
“For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gainthe whole world, and lose his own soul?”Mark 8:36 And so it is thus that the adventures of Jax and Lila, the rock & roll burnouts, continue... Act 1: A Little Love Operating under the influence of...
2 Nov 2025 6 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.06
I wasn't looking for it, but this video describes perfectly one of the many reasons, maybe the reason, I am more comfortable in Latin America, a place where I am an obvious foreigner, as opposed to the Anglosphere, where my foreign-ness is perceived...
1 Nov 2025 7 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.14
"I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a tokenof a covenant between me and the earth."Genesis 9:13 Jax is a rock & roll singer from the edge of the world, the place where the sea drops off into outer space. He grew up watching all mann...
30 Oct 2025 2 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.05
Zelle: [email protected] Proverbs of Smog Chapter Twenty 1. I was caffeinated, stoned, and drunk on acoustic speed metal. I don't remember why. 2. Tundra body : temperate mind : tropical heart. 3. The desert soul is rolling. 4. Anglopho...
28 Oct 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.02
"Home is so far from home."Rasputina Proverbs of Smog Chapter Nineteen 1. I will never again derive comfort from the warm narcotic buzz. No longer in pursuit of a synthesized eternity. 2. My blood is fine the way it is. 3. The spider stitched a grav...
24 Oct 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.03
Zelle: [email protected] Proverbs of Smog Chapter Eighteen 1. Who are the streets? 2. Where did I put my iron candy bar? 3. What blasphemous spraypaint theology has led us to faith in the neverending party fire? 4. Books of bleeding con...
22 Oct 2025 3 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.09
"The mind is an attribute of the individual. There is no such thing as a collective brain."The Fountainhead I was at a library with a friend recently, and happened upon a book of poetry by Federico García Lorca. I opened the book, and was immediat...
21 Oct 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.02
Zelle: [email protected] Proverbs of Smog Chapter Seventeen 1. Resist the temptation to join the candy batteries dissolving on the automated tongues of power. 2. Zombies of reason; the disembodied brains of children. 3. Imagination is th...
