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30 May 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
Now through June 30th, get 20% off everything on my Bandcamp. Use promo code "pablosmoglives" at checkout. Entire discography available, including name-your-price deals like Angels on Fire and the early Breakfast at Cuneo's Drive-In demos, and Stum...
26 May 2025 3 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"Armageddon is not a battle. It is silencewhen we are all gone."Sam Vaknin I did an image search for "sucker's rally," and a picture of an astronaut crawling on the moon was among the results. The astronaut is clearly in distress, and has a torn...
22 May 2025 2 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"She is the bird that evades every net: thewild deer that leaps every pitfall."The Great Divorce The Great Divorce is C.S. Lewis' response to Blake's The Marriage of Heaven & Hell. In it, a mortal is led through the afterlife like Dante with a bac...
18 May 2025 4 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
I was hanging out with my friend Robot Redford the other day, and he told me all about the robot singularity. We were sitting at The Hogwash Café over steaming cups of hogwash, and Robot Redford told me that artificial intelligence was going to take...
15 May 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
Love is deadly serious business, so it's important to turn your heart into found VHS footage from a band on 80s Mexican public access TV, before it's too late. It's also wise to make sure the song is less than 2 minutes long. That way, the stone sh...
12 May 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
I turned the pages of the streetfrom 99 & Broadwayto the narrow path downtown I walked the length of the entirebookin an hour and ahalf I scrubbed the blood off the doorpostswith a dishrag soaked inwine I drove a symbol through an open field I did...
11 May 2025 2 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
The "Fates" are a group of disgruntled, mythological textile workers who determine the fate of man. According to legend, they weave the threads of life into a tapestry of pain and good fortune, in whatever proportion they please. In spite of their...
9 May 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
I can't remember the wordsto my ownstory The unauthorized autobiography The cautionary fairytale The boots that never fit The mansion in the driveway If you think you're not a writer you arewrite or maybewriting,maybe Wrong Not to say that you are...
30 Apr 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
Piss Christ is a picture of a crucifix submerged in controversy. Piss Demons is the alternate title for the original cover art for Everything I Have Is Yours, my only gospel album to date. The stained background of the photo is so disgusting you ca...
21 Apr 2025 2 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
My Bandcamp is live again, after nearly a decade of being in private mode. Not only does Bandcamp fail to provide alternative payment platforms, such as direct deposit, they take it upon themselves to automatically donate their proceeds on certain d...
