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10 May 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
What is worship music? If you're playing "melancholic" piano music in tandem with some African guys preaching and praying with a heavy foreign accent, does that make this worship music? I don't see why not. What about this one? Is it melancholic,...
9 May 2024 7 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"Could it be that the world of Barbie is sheer hell,and for a movie ticket as an audience you canwitness sheer hell, as close as it gets?"Werner Herzog I have a theory about movies. It isn't ironclad, and if it was a scene in a movie, my theory wo...
4 May 2024 7 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"Hungry ghost is a term in Buddhism, and Chinese traditional religion, representing beings who are driven by intense emotional needs in an animalistic way."Wikipedia There's a scene in Kill Bill, Vol. 3 in which Bill wakes up from his own assassina...
2 May 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"The heart is deceitful above all things, anddesperately wicked: who can know it?"Jeremiah 17:9 Many people are chanting "death to the regime" in one form or another these days. Personally, I believe chants of "death to the regime" should be as be...
30 Apr 2024 2 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
The Dream of a Ridiculous Man is an animated short film by Aleksandr Petrov. It is based on a short story by Dostoevsky, and tells the tale of a suicidal nihilist who has a near death experience. Whether he survives his own suicide attempt, or is m...
30 Apr 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"Bleeding Heart" contains 3 chipped, plastic pearls of wisdom from the thrift store: 1. Don't fall in love until you fall apart 2. The sharp tongue is actually dull, and 3. Your shallow grave is deeper than you think If you fail to apply these...
28 Apr 2024 4 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"What happened to the days where guitarists were gods, like my ancestors? Technology has crushed us and robbedus of our culture. Turning us into machines."El Mariachi I love Roseanne. Her trademark laugh and sardonic wit were part of the prime-t...
25 Apr 2024 3 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird!"John Keats ASMR exists in the cultural demilitarized zone between human interaction and total isolation and detachment. It is a no-man's-land of soft-spoken librarians and role-playing whisper chicks,...
24 Apr 2024 4 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"The pope is like Hitler with wings."Certain Stratospheres I always thought the black burn marks in the field across the street were made by borrachos playing with matches and bottles of 90-proof gasoline at 2 in the morning. But as it turns out,...
21 Apr 2024 2 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
I saw into the future It was bitmap asadaall theway There were hash machinesand paper strippersblowing through the alley Everything was digital Money,hamburgers,desire,the footage of the grisly maulingdeath of a gang of nudistfurries,all of it,and...
