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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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
5 Mar 2024 3 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"Sleeping Sea" is a song in 3 parts, a dismembered musical body whose sonic ashes are scattered over 2 different oceans: The Pacific Ocean, and The Salton Sea. "Sleeping Sea #1," or simply "Sleeping Sea," was inspired by a drive up the Pacific Coast...
3 Mar 2024 2 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
As is often the case, I completely forgot the original inspiration for my last article, The Culture War is Spiritual. Because the music issue has been at the forefront of my consciousness for years, it has a tendency to take the wheel when I'm not l...
2 Mar 2024 7 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"How are you going to stop the progress of fascism, control, and centralized ugliness if you're not producing anything heroic or beautiful?"Requiem Mass in NY I crossed the border into Mexico at Laredo, Texas 2 weeks before the 2020 presidential el...
29 Feb 2024 5 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
I am not a fan of fast-food banks. I distrust a company that sounds like it manufactures chewing gum with a financial transaction of any kind. I'm looking at you, "Stripe." How many flavors does your money come in? I don't really want to know. "...
