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Live in Santiago

6 Oct 2023 12 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

Five years ago tonight was the night I arrived in Santiago, Chile.  A long flight down from Mexico City, with a transfer in Bogotá.  It was a long day.  The flight left Mexico City at dawn, and the arrival in Santiago wasn't until 9 or 10pm.  I forg...

Suicide By Holding My Breath

5 Oct 2023 6 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

"The road to hell is fraught with pearl.Shiny people going down."Fraught With Pearl   This article is an afterthought to an afterthought, so I thought I'd use the title of a poem I refuse to write, "Suicide By Holding My Breath."  The gist of the poe...

Deriders on the Storm

2 Oct 2023 10 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

"Because thou hast made the LORD, which is my refuge, even themost High, thy habitation; There shall no evil befall thee,neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling. Forhe shall give his angels charge over thee,to keep thee in all thy ways."Psalm...

Capital of Conformity (my church is in the trees)

22 Sep 2023 2 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

In his own words, Aze Avora is a Canadian "writer & director who wants to bring you bizarre & thought provoking content" who "will be creating documentaries mixing reality with science-fiction."  His dystopian short film Capitol of Conformity depicts...

Alternatives to Audius, Band Camp, SoundCloud and Spotify

20 Sep 2023 9 minute read 7 comments Great White Snark

Don't get me wrong here; I think Audius is great in theory, but not in implementation (I can't claim any Audius I earn on the site) and Band Camp is almost everything for which I'm looking (except the high percentage it and PayPal take from anything...

Wild Irish Rose

31 Aug 2023 8 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

     "I got a hiccup truck,     but I ain't no hick"Laundromat on the Southside of Detroit   I have always liked graveyards.  They are like cornfields full of bones.   Beds of sleeping flowers, fertilized with ghosts.  Shall I awake the broken Rose? ...

Night on Bald Mountain (a journey through hell into heaven)

29 Aug 2023 2 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

"Burn your graves to the ground,Leave me handcuffed to the sky"Drive Your Brain Into The Sea   What do you do when you find yourself going down the wrong path?  When the temporary pleasures of dancing with the witches have proven to be a path to endl...

Ginger Rogers & The MGTOW Cthulhu

24 Aug 2023 7 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

“If I am mad, it is mercy!  May the gods pity the man who in his callousness can remain sane to the hideous end!”H.P. Lovecraft   Ever been drunk and looked back the next day at what you said and did and found it hard to believe?  "I said that?"  "I...

When Patience Becomes a Necessity

23 Aug 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

"Cover To Cover" is a 1975 short film by Michael Snow.  "When Patience Becomes a Necessity" is from the album Fabulous Dream. Thanks for listening. When Patience Becomes a Necessity And I for one am terrifiedof the big bad wolfand the bright blue sk...

Wrapping up another Concert Project

15 Aug 2023 2 minute read 0 comments bengy

Unsplash     Unsplash   Third concert for our inaugural year done... a slightly shorter lead in time from the second one due to the availability of our guest performers, which meant that the second concert was later in the year and the third...