Replacing my blog at http://pablosmoglives.wordpress.com
19 Mar 2022 3 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
I have recently been made aware of the phenomenon of "monitoring spirits," a kind of spiritual surveillance by entities who don't have your best interests at heart. This awareness has caused me to hesitate in posting new videos on YouTube. Lately,...
13 Mar 2022 7 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
I remember something Clint Eastwood once said in an interview, expressing his distaste for people who said they wanted to be actors instead of movie stars. He said, "if you're working, there's no difference." It's a refreshingly working-class attit...
2 Mar 2022 3 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
Licking The Fist That Feeds Is it because I’m alivethat I want to take a diveoff the brink of oblivionrather thanliving in a landwhere the houses built on sandand the churches built on quicksand? From the privacy of their own cage,mechanical apes of...
28 Feb 2022 5 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
The sorrow I felt when Ashli Babbitt was killed in Washington, D.C. on January 6, 2021 was overwhelming. I posted a video on my YT channel entitled "American Prayer," which received a fair amount of criticism. The last time I checked, the like/disl...
18 Feb 2022 2 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
When it comes to the arts, I'm not a believer in over-encouragement. I'm not in favor of discouragement, necessarily, but in this era of artistic relativism in which "anything is art because I say it's art," I think it's time to stop enabling artles...
11 Feb 2022 2 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
I've been attending a church here in Mexico for the last couple weeks, and find myself in complete agreement with the music they play beforehand. Stylistically, artistically, does it do anything for me? Not really. But I find that, to my own surpr...
11 Feb 2022 14 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"Every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment." Matthew 12:36 Less than a few weeks ago, I discovered I have a new artistic standard. I wouldn't say it's a total replacement of whatever my hopefully...
6 Feb 2022 4 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
I was big on Gregory Corso in the late 90s. He was my favorite Beat poet, along with Kerouac. I carried a copy of Gasoline on numerous trips; in fact I've always carried it with me, since I bought it at City Lights Books in San Francisco in '98 or...
5 Feb 2022 3 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
In the spirit of full disclosure, I'm going to cop to a fair amount of bitterness up front. I'm going to confess to not only indulging in it, but in not believing in it either. It's why I came to Mexico. I came to Mexico not only to overcome and g...
2 Feb 2022 5 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
I always loved the smell of used bookstores. There is something undeniably relaxing about walking between stacks of aged, dying paper, upon which is written the wisdom and stupidity of the ages. You'd wander past the gardening and how-to books, tow...
