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Is There Life After The City?

8 Jul 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

Ghost is an experimental film made in 1984 by Takashi Ito.  "Lay Low" appears on the Rural Mortis album.  Both the film and the album ask the same question.  A question from the slave pits of condemnation, asked by people who are tired of the darknes...

The Paris Hilton Riots

6 Jul 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

I'm super-heartbroken about the Paris Hilton Riots unfolding in Paris.  The burning, the fire, and the flames.  All the cool countries are being looted lately.  I knew this day would come, and have prepared a virtue-signaling meme in advance.  I've b...

Double NARCAN Espresso, To Go

6 Jul 2023 2 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

Back in the day, coffee shops served coffee, pharmacies could be trusted to provide clean, medical-grade pharmaceuticals, and Madonna was a pop star. Things have changed. According to Mexico Daily Post, "pharmacies in several northwestern Mexico citi...

Good Night For A Mexico Spirit

3 Jul 2023 2 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

"McCarthy was right."The Internet   In a moment of existential despair and self-absorbent angst, I purchased a pack of Mexico Spirit cigarettes today.  Not Mexic-an Spirit, Mexic-o Spirit.  The first drag was brutal.  Clearly, the tobacco was cured i...

It's a Gateway World

1 Jul 2023 17 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

“Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.”Ephesians 4:29   I am in Mexico for every reason.  Good, bad, and everything in between.  Beautiful a...

Untitled Lovers

30 Jun 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

Unbalance is a film by Takashi Ito.  "Untitled Lovers" is a collaboration with Trey Blake of Brighton, England.  She provides background vocals and original poetry.  You can hear her original work in the song "Free Me Love," pasted below. Thanks for...

The Bible is the Truth (read it!)

18 Jun 2023 12 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

1.  The Museum Glass of Heaven I went to Juárez, Mexico with a church group in January of 1994.  We were there to build a house.  By "house" I mean concrete structure that may or may not have had any holes in the floor or walls for plumbing and elect...

God Puts a Mexican Filter on NYC

15 Jun 2023 3 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

"Mexico is sepia, old, and shadowy."Dulce Maria Sauri   I'm in the middle of re-watching Steven Soderbergh's 2000 film Traffic, which is better than I remember.  It's an interesting snapshot of the time in which it was made.  Pre-9/11, pre-2006 Mexic...

Note for the Jiménez Bros. Band

10 Jun 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

Estimados Hnos. Jiménez, I overheard your concert in the backyard the other night.  I liked the part where you led the entire audience in a rousing chorus of whatever you call that noise you make.  The audience seemed enthusiastic, everybody singing...

Requiem For Emily X

4 Jun 2023 5 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   I mean it, y'know.  The whole thing about not believ...