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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...
18 Aug 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
“Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find;knock, and it shall be opened unto you:”Matthew 7:7 The only way to escape the coming wrath is to become a member of The Invisible Church. The Invisible Church can't be found on a map, but o...
15 Aug 2024 3 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"He was born in the wrong era, on the wrong side of the river, with the ability to do anything and finding nothing he wants to do."Rumble Fish The Pablo Smog Foundation is a fish tank posing as a think tank in the pet shop of the world. The main o...
12 Aug 2024 3 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"Machu Picchu is like a run-down mini-golf course in a bad part of town, compared to Heaven."Incan Mini-Golf I share the sense of urgency with the girl whose videos I posted at the bottom of my last article. Time is running out. Having recently w...
12 Aug 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"High Orbit" tells the story of 2 people who have constructed a small, psychedelic paradise in the casino graveyard of their former passions. They know better than to take their earthly circumstances for granted, and seem prepared, perhaps even will...
