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The Great 2054 Human/Alien War at Tucson, Arizona

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...

The Cat Lady/Road Island

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...

A Sunny Day In Outer Space

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...

Peace & Contentment Blues

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...

Joy Street

27 Mar 2024 2 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

Suzan Pitt was an animator and painter who suffered a mental breakdown in 1980, when she was in her late 30s.  She fled her demons and the city, and traveled into the jungles of Mexico and Guatemala.  Her time there inspired the 1995 film Joy Street....

EPK s are a must! What goes into making a press kit for your music or brand? WHY?

12 Mar 2024 2 minute read 2 comments J Williams

  EPK Crafting an electronic press kit for your music? What you need to know. The purpose behind an EPK kit is to offer a snapshot that instantly conveys the essence and sound of the artist to promoters and labels. Plus, they are also a place for fa...

Behind The Freedom Curtain

12 Mar 2024 3 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

"The slow one now will later be fast, as the present now will later be pastThe order is rapidly fadin', and the first one now will later be lastFor the times, they are a-changin'"The Times They Are A-Changin' "These lines are usually read as Biblical...

Satan at the Movies

11 Mar 2024 2 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

"Satan at the Movies" is from the album Slow-Burning Fun.  It's one of those orphan songs that is instantly overlooked as soon as it is born, for reasons of being not gregarious enough to hang out with the other kids.  It is perhaps an antisocial pie...

Devil Again

11 Mar 2024 1 minute read 0 comments J Williams

Beaten. Broken. Unprepared. How do I get out of hell?   I'm beaten and broken, and I'm scared. Where do we go from here?  How long until you fall? You wanted everything, but when you had it all, It wasn't what you thought now that you watched it bur...

The Parallax View of the Paradox

7 Mar 2024 2 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

I was done, and I was okay with it, but then my friends reached out to me from Indiana, even though they're from Louisiana, and I met them in Mexico.  It made my day, so I said okay.  But since it's only been a day or 2 since my last email, I'm only...