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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...
2 Feb 2024 4 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
Back in the day, you had to climb the stairs to the gallows. In the 1950s, you could take an elevator. Today, you can ride a rocket-powered spitball to the gallows. Spitball to the Gallows. Loogie to the stars. All our loogies are in hock. You...
19 Jan 2024 1 minute read 0 comments stefandiamante
The timing is coincidental as I’m not wont to make New Year’s resolution, but I’ve hit the 2024 ground running in my desire to make music on a constant basis. My productions ranging from fifteen-second reels of improvised guitar shred to complete son...
9 Jan 2024 5 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have ca...
8 Jan 2024 6 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"I am not a Christian artist.I am an artist who is a Christian."Johnny Cash Oh good, I already wrote it. The article about the crushing vacuum that holds it all together. The contrary forces of infinite pressure and heartbreaking void leaning on...
