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8 Sep 2024 3 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
Time is the plume of ash from a volcano that obscures and blocks the sun. It is a floating, smoky menace. You can read the circumstances behind the song in the article Message in a Bottle, if you're interested. The lyrics are pasted below. Since...
7 Sep 2024 3 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"Trailer on the Moon" is from my 2011 album Broken Bird. A "broken-hearted vision of Las Vegas, achieved while scuba diving on acid," Broken Bird was originally conceived as a spoken word album, thus the title, which rhymes with "spoken word." It h...
5 Sep 2024 3 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
In 2007, I played banjitar for a punk-rock Irish band in Austin. They were in the style and spirit of The Pogues, Flogging Molly, bands like that. I wasn't right for them, but we played a couple shows. The banjitar is a banjo with a guitar neck, o...
3 Sep 2024 5 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"A caudillo (Spanish: [kawˈðiʎo]; Old Spanish: cabdillo, from Latincapitellum, diminutive of caput "head") is a type of personalistleader wielding military and political power."Wikipedia I was tired and hungover today. Not from drugs or alcohol, b...
30 Aug 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"I wish I was freeof that slaving meat wheeland safe in heaven dead."Jack Kerouac I was riding in the backseat of a car, playing guitar. There were 4 of us, but nobody was talking. Everyone was listening to the music that I played. There were no w...
28 Aug 2024 2 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"The goal of all life is death."Sigmund Freud In classical Freudian psychoanalytic theory, the death drive is the drive toward death and destruction, often expressed through behaviors such as aggression, repetition compulsion, and self-destructiven...
27 Aug 2024 5 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"American Infidel" was written during the height of the Bush years, when reasonable people could still consider themselves to be liberals. I was a Bush-era liberal. I remember how strange it felt, standing in ideological opposition to the Patriot A...
24 Aug 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
Generation X is the first generation to master the art of walking down the stairs by climbing them. Everybody knows the door to the basement leads to the attic. So what are you doing actually engaging the kid who's sticking his tongue out at you ac...
22 Aug 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
When sailing the seas of hideous idiocy, you will come across people who revel in being obstacles to excellence for everyone around them. In grammatical terms, these are human nouns. Often, they are hung up on their "pro-nouns." When they ask you...
20 Aug 2024 4 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"In today’s climate there remains a place for positive messaging. But in the 'post-truth' era, we must embrace subjectivity as the only way to drive it home."Art Can Win The War "Get real."Pablo Smog Doomers have an advantage. They lack the delu...
