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7 May 2026 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"O Beauty! dost thou generatefrom Heaven or from Hell?"Charles Baudelaire It's in our nature to idealize things. Even hell. It's in our nature to bring anger to a laugh fight, Fury to a funhouse, Tragedy in lights. We pause before the abyss To ki...
6 May 2026 3 minute read 2 comments Nathan Payne
Zelle: [email protected] The following is the transcript of a text exchange I had with a friend tonight. Out of the blue and way after the fact, I got an email about a job opening from a tire shop in Arkansas today, less than 24 hours af...
5 May 2026 4 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
Zelle: [email protected] https://www.gofundme.com/f/arkansas-run As many of you know, I drove around in Mexico illegally for a year and a half before crossing up through narco checkpoints and the border with both expired driver's license...
2 May 2026 9 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
A short while after Swervedriver leave the stage, on this already dreamlike seeming night in December of ’93, the target of our latest infatuation finally materializes before us: Smashing Pumpkins, a Chicago foursome who’ve blown up beyond belie...
2 May 2026 2 minute read 1 comment Kovichni
I was listening to some old songs from a time life was so much more simple yet vivid. Maybe vivid isn't the right word, but I'm sure most of you who were growing up in the late 90s/early 2000s will understand how we truly were the last generation to...
6 Apr 2026 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
For anyone unfamiliar with my music, the greatest hits albums on YouTube are the best place to start. I actually compiled them with the intention of letting people have them for free. But, other than the enjoyment I received from making them, it hasn...
4 Apr 2026 4 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
I believe all caving mishap videos are coded van life videos. "Rescuers struggled to free the body, but after 20 years the victim's head had become permanently wedged between a tool box and a rucksack full of clothes from the thrift store. It took 12...
25 Mar 2026 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
Zelle: [email protected] Proverbs of Smog Chapter Sixty-Seven 1. Hell is the monster. 2. People in hell are the bones of the fire. 3. Handcuffed behind their back and screaming. 4. With bones of burning liquid. 5. It's real. 6. Don't go...
23 Mar 2026 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
Zelle: [email protected] Proverbs of Smog Chapter Sixty-Five 1. Pessimism is the great, great grandfather of optimism. 2. True optimism is born in a vacuum of hope. 3. Take heart, O disenfranchised one. It is the marginalized whose faith...
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...
