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18 Aug 2022 4 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
Today is the 10-year anniversary of Garage d'Or, my distorted rock album. Many of the songs were very old when they were recorded 10 years ago, but they never found a place on any of the other albums. Tired of waiting, the songs started a mutiny, a...
17 Aug 2022 4 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
Most people don't know that in the Old West, The U.N. and New World Health Organization distributed free blankets to the Native populations of the Western Territories. Touting a forced, disingenuous interest in the "BIPOC" communities of the day, we...
14 Aug 2022 6 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"Everybody's got a bombWe could all die any dayBut before I'll let that happenI'll dance my life away"Prince It doesn't take much to make me want to play these days. But I never do. It isn't playing I don't believe in. You don't want to know wha...
11 Aug 2022 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
Today is the 10-year anniversary of the release of Everything I Have Is Yours, my only gospel album to date. It consists of about half originals and half covers. The originals and public-domain cover songs are on the YouTube playlist. The entire a...
9 Aug 2022 7 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"If we're out fixing the world but we're still damaged, we're just bleeding on everything we touch." Lisa Freeman I just caught episode 5 of HBO's "The Anarchists" series on BitChute last night, and found it more compelling than I expected to. At...
7 Aug 2022 9 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
“May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view." Edward Abbey "There's a cross on the side of the road with my name on it." Pablo Smog Desert Solitaire I found myself snarling at Border Patrol guards a...
5 Aug 2022 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
White Knuckles in the Spirit World when your world falls apart and you can no longer deny your broken heart may it all come down peacefully may the mountains collapse like cotton kittens in your lap and smother your dreams while you are sleepi...
2 Aug 2022 2 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
“To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer.”George Bernard Shaw "The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness."William Blake I forgot to say something in my last article. I can't find it, but I read something once in which G...
2 Aug 2022 14 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
“I wore black because I liked it. I still do, and wearing it still means something to me. It's still my symbol of rebellion ― against a stagnant status quo, against our hypocritical houses of God, against people whose minds are closed to others' id...
31 Jul 2022 7 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"I always said punk was an attitude. It was never about having a Mohican haircut or wearing a ripped T-shirt. It was all about destruction, and the creative potential within that." Malcolm McLaren While checking my last article for typos, I was h...
