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25 Apr 2024 3 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird!"John Keats ASMR exists in the cultural demilitarized zone between human interaction and total isolation and detachment. It is a no-man's-land of soft-spoken librarians and role-playing whisper chicks,...
20 Apr 2024 6 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
Van life is all about finding privacy, and staying clean. Things most people take for granted, from bathing to being able to change your clothes while standing up (without being outdoors), are all luxuries to be savored. The American West is good f...
17 Apr 2024 5 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
I have recently been brought up on charges in the court of the birds for perjuring myself in song. An indictment of insubstantial mist was filed against me, a cloud-based document of illegible precipitation in which I was accused of using my imagina...
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...
15 Apr 2024 3 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"Jesu, Jesu, the mad days that I have spent!" "Jesus, the days that we have seen!"Justice Shallow I wrote "Jesus The Days We Have Seen" sometime in the 90s. The title was inspired by a line from Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 2. It is an expression...
14 Apr 2024 2 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field; the which when a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field. Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man,...
7 Apr 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
While plowing the poem fields today, I discovered both the time and location of the war of the worlds, the bloody, existential battle for survival between the humans and the aliens. I was digging through the pixelated dirt with my implements of farm...
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...
3 Apr 2024 3 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"As he that taketh away a garment in cold weather, and as vinegar upon nitre, so is he that singeth songs to an heavy heart."Proverbs 25:20 I forgot about this song. One of the reasons I forgot about it is that it's obsolete. There are other obs...
31 Mar 2024 2 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"If you ever get the 'peace and contentment blues,' remember, the key words are PEACE, and contentment. After all the crap we've been through, the blues are the easy part. Don't you think?"Invisible Manifesto For A Rising Outlaw Nation (Take 3) I...
