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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. "...
23 Feb 2024 6 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
I woke up today with a sense of urgency I've never experienced. I've lived in fight or flight, hyper-vigilant panic/freeze mode for much of my life, and this wasn't that. The sense that time is VERY SHORT pursued me like a rabid, friendly animal. ...
18 Feb 2024 3 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"Thank you for your merch and forgiveness.You paid the price on Cavalry."The Church of Laodicea While making the lyric video for "Everything I Have Is Yours," I stumbled over 2 morbidly-humorous potential typos. Instead of "mercy and forgiveness,"...
17 Feb 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
Zen (n.) 1. A Japanese sect of Mahayana Buddhism that aims at enlightenment by direct intuition through meditation2. A state of calm attentiveness in which one's actions are guided by intuition rather than by conscious effort Will artificial inte...
11 Feb 2024 2 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
Dearest Wormwood, Like ketchup and mustard, or vultures and roadkill, Valentine's Day and Halloween complement each other perfectly. In an age when love is rape and lust is love, celebrate Valentine's Day this year by taking your mortal beloved on a...
8 Feb 2024 5 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
I wrote "When You Go To Hell" in the free camping area near Leadville, Colorado in September 2015. It was a popular live song with the swing-dancing crowd. People from the past would show up and dominate the dance floor with their ghostly, retro mo...
4 Feb 2024 8 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"When I was younger, so much younger than todayI never needed anybody's help in any wayBut now these days are gone, I'm not so self assuredNow I find I've changed my mind and opened up the doors"Help! I have long been a great appreciator of Chick t...
