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Capital of Conformity (my church is in the trees)

22 Sep 2023 2 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

In his own words, Aze Avora is a Canadian "writer & director who wants to bring you bizarre & thought provoking content" who "will be creating documentaries mixing reality with science-fiction."  His dystopian short film Capitol of Conformity depicts...

Alternatives to Audius, Band Camp, SoundCloud and Spotify

20 Sep 2023 9 minute read 6 comments Great White Snark

Don't get me wrong here; I think Audius is great in theory, but not in implementation (I can't claim any Audius I earn on the site) and Band Camp is almost everything for which I'm looking (except the high percentage it and PayPal take from anything...

Wild Irish Rose

31 Aug 2023 8 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

     "I got a hiccup truck,     but I ain't no hick"Laundromat on the Southside of Detroit   I have always liked graveyards.  They are like cornfields full of bones.   Beds of sleeping flowers, fertilized with ghosts.  Shall I awake the broken Rose? ...

Night on Bald Mountain (a journey through hell into heaven)

29 Aug 2023 2 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

"Burn your graves to the ground,Leave me handcuffed to the sky"Drive Your Brain Into The Sea   What do you do when you find yourself going down the wrong path?  When the temporary pleasures of dancing with the witches have proven to be a path to endl...

Ginger Rogers & The MGTOW Cthulhu

24 Aug 2023 7 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

“If I am mad, it is mercy!  May the gods pity the man who in his callousness can remain sane to the hideous end!”H.P. Lovecraft   Ever been drunk and looked back the next day at what you said and did and found it hard to believe?  "I said that?"  "I...

When Patience Becomes a Necessity

23 Aug 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

"Cover To Cover" is a 1975 short film by Michael Snow.  "When Patience Becomes a Necessity" is from the album Fabulous Dream. Thanks for listening. When Patience Becomes a Necessity And I for one am terrifiedof the big bad wolfand the bright blue sk...

Wrapping up another Concert Project

15 Aug 2023 2 minute read 0 comments bengy

Unsplash     Unsplash   Third concert for our inaugural year done... a slightly shorter lead in time from the second one due to the availability of our guest performers, which meant that the second concert was later in the year and the third...

Searching For The Sugar, Man

13 Aug 2023 6 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

"While the rain drank champagne,my Estonian Archangel came and got me wasted"Rodriguez   "The Weight" is a great song.  In fact it makes me kinda sad.  It reminds me what has been lost, and what has been thrown away.  I don't really want to talk abou...

Are You Happy, Mr. Superman?

10 Aug 2023 12 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

1.  Beginners Without End   "Not conservative master of one profession but the jack-of-all-trades by being the perpetual beginner."From The Amateur Manifesto   Western culture has become a city without green spaces.  Have you noticed?  A town without...

Lagoon of the Land of Palms

8 Aug 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

Chott el Djerid (Arabic: شط الجريد Šoṭṭ el-Jarīd) is a large endorheic salt lake in southern Tunisia.  The name can be translated from Arabic into English as "Lagoon of the Land of Palms."  "A Portrait in Light and Heat" was filmed there by Bill Viol...