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20 May 2023 5 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.08
Two nights ago, I only got 2 hours of sleep. About a week ago, God led me to Isaiah 41, and led me to focus on verses 10-14. He was preparing me for the attack leveled at me a couple days ago. Here's a graphic with verses 10-11. Verse 12 is anoth...
15 May 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.11
Last month I released Nukular Hula Coast, a selection of nihilistic bug-out tunes for the zombie apocalypse. Since then, I have made a handful of colorful music videos based on (or inspired by) the experimental short films of Len Lye, who died in 19...
10 May 2023 2 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.08
So this is how it ends.This is how we're going out. Maybe not we.Maybe just me.Empty and alone,Free at last, and faraway from"home." Free,at last,even though it's too late,and we or maybe I havelong-since been institutionalizedby the prisonin my hear...
7 May 2023 6 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.09
"Will I succumb?Will my heart grow numb?Or will I save the worldBy using my mind like a gun?"Books of War This article is a postscript to a postscript, the trailing, echoing afterthoughts of the 2nd half of my last article. I didn't originally int...
7 May 2023 12 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.07
"We may have all come on different ships,but we're in the same boat now."Martin Luther King, Jr. Today I saw the dead, bloody body of a guy who killed 8 people at a mall near Dallas, and wondered how he feels now among the burning worms, the suffoc...
30 Apr 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.07
Today is the 10-year anniversary of the release of Holy Smokes. Holy Smokes is a dark trip through outer space toward an existential nightclub on the moon. From upbeat, shimmering tunes like "Virgin & Tonic" and "Girls, What's Your Trip?" through t...
28 Apr 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.04
The Eye Like A Strange Balloon Mounts Toward Infinity is a lithograph made by Odilon Redon in 1882. It was inspired by Edgar Allan Poe, and is on display at the L.A. County Museum of Art: In 1995, the BBC commissioned Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin...
24 Apr 2023 5 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.02
"When they poured across the borderI was cautioned to surrenderThis I could not doI took my gun and vanished."The Partisan What happens when the angels of fire have finally been extinguished, and deadly passion is at last destroyed? If time spent...
22 Apr 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.04
Sociologists have many ways to measure the health of any given civilization. Economic data, birth-to-death ratios, employment numbers, and applause meters are all effective ways to determine the vitality of a group of people. While these mainstream...
20 Apr 2023 10 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.04
When I lived in Austin, I contacted a church in the north suburbs about being a worship leader. It was a small, storefront church, and we talked on the phone and decided it would be worthwhile to meet. The pastor and his wife were friendly, and see...
