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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
2 Dec 2023 3 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"May the ghosts that howled 'round the house at nightNever keep you from your sleepMay they all sleep tight down in hell tonightOr wherever they may be"Lullaby of London I've been dreading this day for a long time. I was thinking about it recently...
25 Nov 2023 8 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"Part of being a songwriter is to forever live in a state of trepidation as to what the next song may bring... Each comes with its own inherent danger."Nick Cave It's all therapy. Or can be. It certainly has been the case for me. Maybe that's wh...
22 Nov 2023 7 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"The whirlwind is in the thorn tree."Johnny Cash While headed west in the winter of 2013, I stopped at Shakespeare Cemetery in New Mexico, in search of the local ghost town. It was hidden behind a locked gate and a PRIVATE PROPERTY/NO TRESPASSING...
29 Oct 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Me and I
We all have a dark side to us. You may think you dont but you do. Whether it be lust, addiction, revenge or malice. Its within you. The best way to let go of it, is to express it. It is best not to suppress your negative emotions. Some people scream...
