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11 Mar 2026 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
Written at the Mark Twain Hotel in Hollywood in 2004 or 5, probably, while pacing the room with a notebook and pen watching people walking by the post office across the street, "No Destination" is my farewell love letter to L.A. It is a wistful good...
11 Mar 2026 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"Wavelength" is a 1967 experimental film by Michael Snow. Supposedly, it is an example of "structural film," a meaningless, self-important term applied to indulgent nonsense "whose shapes were often predetermined and which subordinated content to fo...
10 Mar 2026 2 minute read 6 comments Nathan Payne
I miss New York. The summer I spent there 20 years ago remains one of the best times of my life. It's an amazing city. My last trip there wasn't so great, and to my own surprise NYC seemed small. It was weird. I wrote about it in the article NYC...
10 Mar 2026 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
When darkness is Mixing with Fear; When things are not as they Appear; When things get Weird, and the soul needs Fixing; When inertia Kicks in, and a dead-end Route teen begins haranguing you In your dreams; When your schemes are pounding Floorboards...
8 Mar 2026 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
Zelle: [email protected] Proverbs of Smog Chapter Fifty-Eight 1. It's not even a story anymore. It's just a tangled ball of broken Christmas lights. There is neither beginning nor end to it. 2. Or so it seems. 3. Don't you want to go to...
7 Mar 2026 2 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"Although it is not in the authorizedrepertoire, if my people request itof me, I am going to sing it."Jorge Cafrune Proverbs of Smog Chapter Fifty-Seven 1. I was not yet 500 years old, but I have spent a lot of time in vans; 2. Was I the two 19-year...
6 Mar 2026 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
A friend of mine in England recently reached out to me, asking how he could re-buy my discography. I took the albums out of private mode last April, but Bandcamp migrated over to Stripe, a fast-food bank with a chewing gum name I hate. I had a proble...
5 Mar 2026 1 minute read 1 comment Nathan Payne
"Searching for the sugar, man" Proverbs of Smog Chapter Fifty-Six 1. Rolling around in the sun with my grasshopper and helicopter friends is the best. 2. Every butterfly I know is a scientifical genius. 3. It may be kind of gross, but it isn't grand...
5 Mar 2026 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
Zelle: [email protected] Proverbs of Smog Chapter Fifty-Five 1. You are under the influence of a spirit of contradiction if you believe Rock & Roll is inherently evil, but guns are merely tools. 2. And vice versa. 3. Different genres, rh...
4 Mar 2026 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
Zelle: [email protected] Proverbs of Smog Chapter Fifty-Four 1. Many false prophets have a talent for ASMR. 2. Listening to a liar tell the truth will give you doubts about the truth, 3. Even if you know it's true, 4. Which is as harmfu...
