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🎵Those old catchy songs you could never find again🎵

2 May 2026 2 minute read 1 comment Kovichni

I was listening to some old songs from a time life was so much more simple yet vivid. Maybe vivid isn't the right word, but I'm sure most of you who were growing up in the late 90s/early 2000s will understand how we truly were the last generation to...

The Real Greatest Hits

6 Apr 2026 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

For anyone unfamiliar with my music, the greatest hits albums on YouTube are the best place to start. I actually compiled them with the intention of letting people have them for free. But, other than the enjoyment I received from making them, it hasn...

Van Life: Beyond Human Limits

4 Apr 2026 4 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

I believe all caving mishap videos are coded van life videos. "Rescuers struggled to free the body, but after 20 years the victim's head had become permanently wedged between a tool box and a rucksack full of clothes from the thrift store. It took 12...

Proverbs of Smog #67

25 Mar 2026 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

Zelle: [email protected] Proverbs of Smog Chapter Sixty-Seven 1. Hell is the monster. 2. People in hell are the bones of the fire. 3. Handcuffed behind their back and screaming. 4. With bones of burning liquid. 5. It's real. 6. Don't go...

Proverbs of Smog #65

23 Mar 2026 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

Zelle: [email protected] Proverbs of Smog Chapter Sixty-Five 1. Pessimism is the great, great grandfather of optimism. 2. True optimism is born in a vacuum of hope. 3. Take heart, O disenfranchised one. It is the marginalized whose faith...

No Destination

11 Mar 2026 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

Written at the Mark Twain Hotel in Hollywood in 2004 or 5, probably, while pacing the room with a notebook and pen watching people walking by the post office across the street, "No Destination" is my farewell love letter to L.A.  It is a wistful good...

The Acid House

11 Mar 2026 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

"Wavelength" is a 1967 experimental film by Michael Snow.  Supposedly, it is an example of "structural film," a meaningless, self-important term applied to indulgent nonsense "whose shapes were often predetermined and which subordinated content to fo...

Where I Belong (into the dónde)

10 Mar 2026 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

When darkness is Mixing with Fear; When things are not as they Appear; When things get Weird, and the soul needs Fixing; When inertia Kicks in, and a dead-end Route teen begins haranguing you In your dreams; When your schemes are pounding Floorboards...

Rock & Roll Garage Sale (re-redux)

6 Mar 2026 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

A friend of mine in England recently reached out to me, asking how he could re-buy my discography. I took the albums out of private mode last April, but Bandcamp migrated over to Stripe, a fast-food bank with a chewing gum name I hate. I had a proble...

Suno.com User Review: @Chefjeffgrooves

21 Feb 2026 2 minute read 0 comments Betasyndicate.eth

Discovering the Magic of Suno: How AI Transformed My Music Creation Journey In a world where creativity meets cutting-edge technology, Suno stands out as a game-changer for aspiring musicians, hobbyists, and professionals alike. As an AI-powered musi...