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Tragic Neurons

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...

Setting Up Crypto Tipping for My Covers of Eighties Songs

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...

Rad Lieutenant

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...

Music For Transients Only

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...

Dark Side of the Dog

5 Jan 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

Most people have been to the dark side of the moon.  But wisdom is not there.  Wisdom is hiding on the dark side of the dog. Dark Side of the Dog Am I good enough to bethe causeof all your problems? I'm gonna hang my sleeping bagin the skyI'm gonna...

Sea of Tranquility

14 Dec 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

There is a pile of wordsstacked in the hallway It could be a poem,or a purpose But it isn't I was tired, so I took my restbeside a sea of digitalnoise Somewhere on the moon The locals observed me withcurious amusement I spelled "S.O.S." in giant let...

The Last Highway

11 Dec 2023 2 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

“We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope; without it the life of the cities would drive all men into crime or drugs or psychoanalysis.”Edward Abbey   I packed my van this weekend, for a trip I may never take.  I don't have any fur...

Building an Underground Arts and Entertainment Cryptocurrency Scene

9 Dec 2023 9 minute read 0 comments stefandiamante

I spent last Saturday night shooting footage for a short film. Nothing special in terms of production value. A loose no-budget interpretation of a scene from a screenplay I wrote titled Discothèque. Itself inspired in part by the 1978 exploitation ci...

And The Asshat Saw The Angel

7 Dec 2023 7 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

"I am God.  I am God thinking about Godthinking about Steve McQueen."Nick Cave   I was living in my van in Jerome, Arizona when One More Time With Feeling was re-released in December 2016.  It had come out in September, but I'd been in New Orleans tr...

Death Inside of Life

5 Dec 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

"Le Ravissement de Frank N. Stein" is a short film made by Georges Schwizgebel in 1982.  It depicts the point of view of a monster moving through an alienating series of rooms towards an unknown goal, before finally falling in love with a crazy perso...