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24 Dec 2022 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird!"John Keats The Little Match Seller is a 1902 British short silent drama film directed by James Williamson from The Stooges. It retells the Hans Christian Andersen story of the tragic death of a little...
22 Dec 2022 6 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
Tonight, while picking limes from the tree out back so I could prepare my nightly bowl of boots & cream, I decided against watching the news, the amateur battle of the bands that is a proxy war between the heated elite and most of humanity, held in a...
17 Dec 2022 4 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
“My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.” Psalm 73:26 Ever find yourself in a place where you need to take your own advice? Not in a bad way, not even in a humbling way, but in a way that's sim...
13 Dec 2022 12 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
One of the greatest regrets of my life is missing the Iggy Pop show at the Vic Theater in Chicago in 1999 or 2000. I was strung-out on a chick at the time, and spent the night with her, instead of going to see Iggy Pop with my rockabilly friend. Th...
10 Dec 2022 7 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"It is not sufficientto be innocent—Jesus rhymes with cross"Los Espíritus How does a band or songwriter traverse the minefield of contradictory, dogmatic absolutes without being torn to shreds by an artistic booby-trap? How does a soldier, or a si...
7 Dec 2022 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
From the land of rhyming couplets, I beheld the burning, baleful eye of an omen so beautiful, it caused me to forget my rhyme scheme "He aquí, un caballo pálido," in a field all alone, behold, a pale horse waiting for an angel to untie him Beyond h...
4 Dec 2022 8 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
The purpose of this article is not to fill people with gratuitous hopelessness, which leads to death. It's to fill people with purposeful hopelessness, which leads to life. Or can. Death is always an option. At some point, it's the only option. ...
3 Dec 2022 7 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"With what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Or how wilt tho...
1 Dec 2022 7 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
Stupid Old Heart is my attempt at an album of nudes. Visual artists have life drawing sessions with nude models in an attempt to capture the human form in whatever medium they happen to be working in. So, why not music? Is it possible to capture t...
28 Nov 2022 6 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
“What I do is between me and the Lord, to examine and possibly alter the state of grace in which I live, and thereby the state of grace of anybody who listens.” Townes Van Zandt "There's hardly anything fun to do, since they made music illegal." Fr...
