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30 Apr 2022 5 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
When Se7en was released in 1995, I went to see it with some friends. We all went to The Red Lion Pub in Chicago afterward and "discussed the movie" over pints of Guinness, because that's what we went to movies to do: Learn and/or discover something...
20 Apr 2022 7 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
Listening to this song by a group of singers from the west coast of Colombia, it occurred to me, the reason for the coming hell. Tonight was the first time I've ever heard this song, so it has that glow that songs only ever have the first time you d...
19 Apr 2022 7 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
Remember in the 90s, when Bill Clinton was going through the Monica Lewinsky scandal, how everybody said they "don't care" about his personal life, as long as it doesn't interfere with his ability to do his job? Remember Chris Rock (was it Chris Roc...
11 Apr 2022 9 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
I was watching a documentary about "Narcocorridos" (drug ballads) a couple years ago, a phenomenon in Mexico where the artist is commissioned by the cartel to write songs about their exploits. In an age in which no artists can make an independent li...
7 Apr 2022 5 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
I just watched a part of a video called "Why 99% of movies today are garbage," and was amazed to listen to the middle-aged guy with grey hair talk about how "dropping the ball" with some comic book or Star Wars franchise is an act of "malpractice." ...
4 Apr 2022 2 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
I've been aware of it for awhile, but writing this post over the last hour or so, and then deleting everything I wrote, it has become obvious why my focus is slowly veering away from art and music, and towards Christianity and salvation issues. Not...
1 Apr 2022 5 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
Peacocks in the Mud God in Heaven, before I start, I want to thank You for healing my heart if I’d never been broken I’d never have needed any repairs if I’d never been choken I might never have come up for air * * * Many times I’ve...
29 Mar 2022 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
Dear Will Smith, God loves you. He knows you're in torment over your wife's infidelity, and He says, "IT'S OKAY." It's okay to feel bad about it. It's okay to have a broken heart. It's okay to not support it, to be against it, in spite of what ev...
25 Mar 2022 7 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"The moment you cross the little wire gate and you're in Mexico, you feellike you just sneaked out of school when you told the teacheryou were sick, and she told you you could go home." Jack Kerouac Not only do you feel like a kid who just got out of...
21 Mar 2022 10 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
I was driving on I-40 in Oklahoma, headed west toward yet another destination I didn't know I was traveling to, when the line "interstate highway, psychedelic snake" came to me. The sun was high and in my face, and I opened my journal book and starte...
