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8 Feb 2025 7 minute read 3 comments Perfectionist25
If you had a bottle of water in your hand and I was dying of thirst, would you share a glass with me? I mean, anyone would, right? You would do that, but they didn’t. The Resnicks, California’s water-rich family, did not share their water with anyone...
7 Feb 2025 2 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
I was working up some songs with my old friend Mr. Unicorn Man today, and it occurred to us that our gringo friends are still clinging to their self-righteous indignation and virtue like a person who falls overboard will stubbornly cling to a bloody...
10 Jan 2025 4 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"Isn't that something? Middle of a drought and thewater commissioner drowns. Only in L.A."Chinatown In the spring of 2005, I lived in a defunct motel in Malibu for 2 weeks, free of charge. It wasn't a motel in the traditional sense, but rather a...
10 May 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Fast Heart Mart
I've been traveling up in Northern California, doing some construction work with a friend, for the past 10 days and I did my first livestream from my motorhome on this edition of my podcast. Songs: - 1:00 "Play On" by Fast Heart Mart (banjo) - 24:35...
16 Apr 2024 5 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"If love is a room,my life is a series of hallways"Love is a Room I used to love California. Especially L.A. When I lived in Silverlake, my idea of recreation would be to get really stoned, pop a CD into my portable sound machine, and walk to Hol...
4 Apr 2024 3 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"This is California, we're going into the sea."1937 California Earthquake Dream At the beginning of the article Soul Sicarios, I mention the idea of dismissiveness. The article took an immediate left turn into uncharted territory, but it was origi...
5 Mar 2024 3 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"Sleeping Sea" is a song in 3 parts, a dismembered musical body whose sonic ashes are scattered over 2 different oceans: The Pacific Ocean, and The Salton Sea. "Sleeping Sea #1," or simply "Sleeping Sea," was inspired by a drive up the Pacific Coast...
12 Sep 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Fast Heart Mart
https://youtube.com/live/Sk3sfSPNnTg?feature=shareI have been in San Diego for exactly 10 years this month and this episode I did some reflecting about how that has been. Frankly, this episode is mostly me talking about my battle with clinical depre...
4 Aug 2023 2 minute read 3 comments SweptOverNiagara
In the last few months, I've read articles of people getting fired for trying to stop thieves from walking out without paying. Most often, these stories originate in California. I wonder why??? Thieves have brazenly stolen bags full of items, literal...
5 Oct 2022 2 minute read 1 comment tych0_21
For my third and final Wednesday Walk submission relating to my recent trip to Northern California, I would like to share a few images taken from a day spent along the North Californian coastal town of Bodega Bay and, later on, in the Armstrong Redwo...
