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16 May 2021 3 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.10
Aside from my 1-second cameo in the Germs biopic What We Do Is Secret from 2007 (pictured below), I have appeared in many films over the years under the alias "Pablo Smog." Not including my participation in the music-industry allegory Full Metal Jac...
13 May 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.09
Watching the Israel/Palestine situation escalate, it occurs to me that there are people who will say religion is the problem. If not for religion, we could all just get along. Shouting, Fights, and Dancing at Pro-Israel Protest in Times Square The...
11 May 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.04
Most people aren't aware that Kubrick originally intended Full Metal Jacket to be an allegory about the death of the music industry, in addition to a biting commentary on the duality of man. From the beginning of the film, when the amateurs, wannabe...
4 May 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.04
"No One Seems To Hear" is a song I wrote in Austin, TX in 2009. While recording Fabulous Dream, I spontaneously recorded myself singing the lyrics in an entirely different style. I layered bass, guitar, and string samples under the a cappella vocal...
28 Apr 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.03
I don’t write poems anymore. I used to write an epic poem on occasion, as an act of artistic intent. The Stumblefish album contains 2 or 3 long, psychedelic garbage poems. I have written many poems. But I don’t sit down to write poems anymore. I...
28 Apr 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.11
Wonderland Covered In Tar lostin the weird boilingbrewof ethereal goo,the primordial suitcaseof single-celled shirtsand bacterial shoes where stars are mistaken for planes,madness for brainsstagnation for change where doorscreak open like crickswher...
17 Apr 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.03
"Music became my refuge then my salvation." Lena Horne There's an early scene in American Hustle in which Amy Adams and Christian Bale are gushing about Duke Ellington. Their characters share a great deal of enthusiasm about his music, and one of...
13 Apr 2021 5 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.04
“I've always taken The Wizard of Oz very seriously, you know. I believe in the idea of the rainbow. And I've spent my entire life trying to get over it. ” Judy Garland I made a video a few months ago titled "Showpeoples' Prayer," but I never poste...
30 Jan 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.04
In this era of fake demonic idiot-pop, monosyllabic children's strip-club music, retro-progressive cultural devolutionism, and Kanye West, I have decided to secede from the Union and declare myself the warlord of a cultural banana republic. I hereby...
19 Jan 2021 3 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.11
The Fire Will Burn Your Laughter Away whatever you do,whatever you say,the fire will burn your laughter away myriad lunatics,legion of swine,screaming at mountaintopsfrom gutters and crying,writing your epitaphin powderand clay,the fire will bur...
