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16 Sep 2024 4 minute read 1 comment Great White Snark
As my long-term readers will know, I've been searching for a Web3 platform/Website to host my music as Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs), due to not being completely satisfied with SoundCloud and Band Camp. Why music NFTs as opposed to traditional hosting?...
15 Sep 2024 2 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark
Long-term readers will know that I have released a number of albums on Band Camp, but haven't any traction there. (A whopping total of two people have bought any of my music from it.) I gave Audius a try, but haven't been able to earn any Audius Toke...
10 Sep 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Fast Heart Mart
Hello Fast Heart Mart fans! I hope this message finds you well! If not, blame all this summer heat! Gigs This Week I hope you can make it out to hear me sometime this week! Episode 77: I'm Ok, Don't Worry Lately I have been getting messages from f...
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...
27 Aug 2024 5 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"American Infidel" was written during the height of the Bush years, when reasonable people could still consider themselves to be liberals. I was a Bush-era liberal. I remember how strange it felt, standing in ideological opposition to the Patriot A...
22 Aug 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
When sailing the seas of hideous idiocy, you will come across people who revel in being obstacles to excellence for everyone around them. In grammatical terms, these are human nouns. Often, they are hung up on their "pro-nouns." When they ask you...
