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6 Nov 2021 7 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.04
I can't listen to The Handsome Family anymore. I was a big Handsome Family fan from the late 90's through about 2009. We shared a back page in the Illinois Entertainer, in which my band had received a 25-word write-up; they had an ad for a show or...
1 Nov 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.01
I have been known to compare Anthony Fauci to Josef Mengele, but I think there's more to it than that. Thanks to the video posted below, in addition to Mengele I now also liken Fauci to Jim Jones, who forced his followers to commit mass suicide by d...
31 Oct 2021 3 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.03
I finally made it through the film Chicuarotes, which features this great version of "I Fought The Law:" I can't tell if singing it in Nāhuatlahtolli is an attempt at "decolonization," which is the kind of thing you'd expect from people today, or si...
22 Oct 2021 3 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.05
A funeral blocked me from leaving a cemetery the other day. I heard nearby mariachi music while I was walking between the graves, and after awhile thought it might be cool to find out where the music was coming from. The search was not difficult. ...
20 Oct 2021 4 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.02
I feel like I do when a beloved celebrity dies. While looking for images to use as a thumbnail for this article, I did an image search for "We Are The World," and was horrified to learn that they remade the song sometime in the last decade or 2 for...
18 Oct 2021 3 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.00
In September 2014, students from a small, socialist farming school in the state of Guerrero were traveling in a caravan of 5 buses to Iguala, Mexico. When they arrived in town, they were followed by police. The police stopped them, blocked them in,...
17 Oct 2021 4 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.05
Apparently, one of my old lyrics is trending as a hashtag on Twitter. Something similar happened to me in Hollywood: I heard a line from a song I used to play regularly at a well-attended open mic in a movie that came out the next year. The song w...
10 Oct 2021 3 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.04
Ever feel like you're clinging to a piece of driftwood, tossing to and fro in a sea of artless, myopic sanctimony? Ever feel like you're the only person in the room, regardless of how many people are there? Not in a solipsistic, "other people are m...
8 Oct 2021 12 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.01
*Spoiler Alert - You have been warned! Quentin Tarantino lost me a long time ago. The first scene of his I ever saw was the scene in which the names are assigned in Reservoir Dogs, and Mr. Pink is trying to talk his way out of his alias. Based on t...
6 Oct 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.02
From now until Oct. 12th there will be a 50% off the entire discography sale. Normally, the deal is $20 for 3 albums and $100 for the whole discography of 21 albums (20, actually, since my first album Angels on Fire is already available for free on...
