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8 Dec 2024 2 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
I'm changing my opinion of my favorite song of mine from "Fabulous Dream" to "All I Want." "All I Want" is the most-true song I will ever write. Not a trace of poetry anywhere near it. It's more like a crime scene set to music. Remember the falle...
7 Dec 2024 2 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"I was in high cotton just a-bangin' on my six-stringA-kickin' at the trash can, walkin' skin and bone"John Prine If God hadn't intended us to write love songs, He wouldn't have shaped the heart like a guitar pick. Because the future is a concrete...
3 Dec 2024 5 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"I immediately notice that his education is poor before he speaksHe asks me for identification with an ugly expression"Apache & Canserbero I walked onto the set of Total Recall today, for the purposes of buying a new phone. It looked like a mall,...
1 Dec 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
This is not a call to arms. It's a call to arms and legs. We need slippers on the ground to finance the financing of American Migrant, a Rock & Roll road musical across Mexico starring myself and Denver Williams. Subscribe to me on Subscribestar f...
29 Nov 2024 7 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
To Emily X, Malcolm Y, and Theodore Z, There was rightness with the people at the other place. It's about $100 cheaper. Mexico City is at least 4x as expensive as the house I'm being overcharged to live in now. My neighbor knew I was leaving, and...
28 Nov 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
If you have ever fallen in love with someone whose initials you carved into what you thought was a tree, only to find out later it was a rotten log... If you've ever participated in the skeleton circus, only to wake up in the hospital after overdosi...
22 Nov 2024 3 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"The wretches will suffer punishment, and will shortly meet the end which they deserve."Nero We're way beyond shaming people for hitting the political snooze button for the better part of two decades. There's no longer any point in arguing with wi...
19 Nov 2024 3 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"The musicians to have rest on the Sabbath Day, but the othersix days and nights, none without special favour."Article XI of the Code of Bartholomew Roberts Gibbeting is a practice in which the dead or dying bodies of criminals are hanged in cages...
17 Nov 2024 6 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
“Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!For ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.”Matthew 23:15 Falling in love with Judee Sill the other day was lik...
15 Nov 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
The spirit bomb has ruptured at theseam Life is not a dreamin lowerCalifornia The nightmare is a joyride And no sorrow is likeyours, myfriend; Silence is our tomb And we would have beenin love; We would have shaken itto pieces As only damaged soulsc...
