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27 Jul 2023 8 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"If only I can fight off the voices of my parentsand gather a sense of self-esteemThen I'll be able to REALLY sing..."Sinéad O'Connor I hearya sister. A buncha right bastards, aren't they. I was at least blessed with a great mother. Unfortunatel...
24 Jul 2023 5 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"I haven't felt this clean for a thousand years."Farewell Song Sweet From My Trees Today marks 9 years of sobriety for me. It hasn't been a struggle. The only struggle is in making up your mind. Hitting "rock bottom," perhaps. But once you've d...
17 Jul 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"Sin is the missing link."Pablo Smog There is a silver lining to all this madness. Every time something unbelievable happens, it is an opportunity to see the world as it really is. Not a treasure trove of light and shallow virtue, in which powerf...
16 Jul 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"The Sleep of Reason produces monsters."Francisco Goya "The Sleep of Reason produces Tik-Tok cringe compilations."Pablo Smog Francisco Goya was the father of the modern Tik-Tok challenge. The acts of dangerous idiocy depicted in his work predate t...
13 Jul 2023 6 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"The imagination betrays the mindby sabotaging it into becoming a heart"Blackbird I wrote the song "Blackbird" in the summer of '94. I worked at a golf course during the day as a landscaper, and smoked weed and drank beer with my brother and his f...
11 Jul 2023 5 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
“He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.”Matthew 10:39 While I'm on the topic of dying to self, of initiating divorce proceedings from the devil and hell, and not turning back, I'm going to pos...
8 Jul 2023 3 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels & God, and at liberty when he wrote of Devils & Hell, is because he was a true Poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it."William Blake Was Lot's wife a songwriter? Was she looking...
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...
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...
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...
