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26 Sep 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
“Liberals can understand everything but peoplewho don't understand them.”Lenny Bruce "L.A. Makes Me Wanna Die" is an instrumental track from my 2008 album, What's The Deal, Bufu Harem? It tells the story of a space cowboy who escaped the Bufu warl...
24 Sep 2024 3 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"Wild hearts without no faithain't no wild hearts at all."Wild Hearts Forever I have spent a lot of time digging up musical corpses from graveyards of words in the woods. I have exhumed many poems and fitted them with wings to see if they will fly...
17 Sep 2024 3 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"Why does the world go unholy?Why does everyone fight more and more?Don't they know we have a savior?All we have to do is believe and pray"The Shaggs I was playing chess with my cat the other day, and he said he was in the mood for jazz and roasted...
14 Sep 2024 2 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"To shut us up, you'll have to make us a present ofwooden pajamas, after sprinkling it with lead."The Tijuana Story When the police have a vice squad, special units dedicated to the eradication of vice, virtue can live above ground. When the polic...
10 Sep 2024 3 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"Baboon climbs the mountain, so hastily, so troublesome,Baboon climbs the mountain, so hastily and so troublesome,Baboon climbs the mountain to annoy the farmers.Hooray! For the jolly baboon..."The Last Fire Watch Since these are the end tunes, an...
8 Sep 2024 3 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
Time is the plume of ash from a volcano that obscures and blocks the sun. It is a floating, smoky menace. You can read the circumstances behind the song in the article Message in a Bottle, if you're interested. The lyrics are pasted below. Since...
7 Sep 2024 3 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"Trailer on the Moon" is from my 2011 album Broken Bird. A "broken-hearted vision of Las Vegas, achieved while scuba diving on acid," Broken Bird was originally conceived as a spoken word album, thus the title, which rhymes with "spoken word." It h...
5 Sep 2024 3 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
In 2007, I played banjitar for a punk-rock Irish band in Austin. They were in the style and spirit of The Pogues, Flogging Molly, bands like that. I wasn't right for them, but we played a couple shows. The banjitar is a banjo with a guitar neck, o...
3 Sep 2024 5 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"A caudillo (Spanish: [kawˈðiʎo]; Old Spanish: cabdillo, from Latincapitellum, diminutive of caput "head") is a type of personalistleader wielding military and political power."Wikipedia I was tired and hungover today. Not from drugs or alcohol, b...
30 Aug 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"I wish I was freeof that slaving meat wheeland safe in heaven dead."Jack Kerouac I was riding in the backseat of a car, playing guitar. There were 4 of us, but nobody was talking. Everyone was listening to the music that I played. There were no w...
