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Brains Are Not A Virtue

2 Aug 2022 2 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

“To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer.”George Bernard Shaw "The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness."William Blake   I forgot to say something in my last article.  I can't find it, but I read something once in which G...

How To Tell The Sheep From The Goats?

2 Aug 2022 14 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

“I wore black because I liked it.  I still do, and wearing it still means something to me.  It's still my symbol of rebellion ― against a stagnant status quo, against our hypocritical houses of God, against people whose minds are closed to others' id...

The Organic Tease (is punk mean?)

31 Jul 2022 7 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

"I always said punk was an attitude.  It was never about having a Mohican haircut or wearing a ripped T-shirt.  It was all about destruction, and the creative potential within that." Malcolm McLaren   While checking my last article for typos, I was h...

Breaking My Guitar Out Of Jail

30 Jul 2022 4 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

My guitar is in jail.  It was convicted on 5 counts of rocking too hard in the free world, and was sentenced to 3 years in the Kemp Calaboose in Kemp, TX.  Bonnie Parker of Bonnie & Clyde fame once spent the night in the Kemp Calaboose.  According to...

Any information on DAOs in the creative economy field?

23 Jul 2022 2 minute read 0 comments Spinner0134

Actually this is a repost of my Reddit text. And hope it won't break any rules of the publish0x platform but will help me to advance my research. In brief, my goal is to create some kind of DAO for Ukrainian creative economy representatives. Our coun...

Pittoresken für Streichinstrumente: IV. Das Gericht der Erinnyen [Philip Daniel; 2020]

19 Jul 2022 1 minute read 0 comments PhilipDaniel

          Fourth in a set of "picturesques" for varied combinations of bowed chordophones (string instruments), here scored for pardessus de viole (six-string soprano viol) and two arpeggiones (six-string "bowed guitars"). Entitled "The Judgment of...

Xad - Story (Music Time) || Non Copyright Music Library - Free to Use for Content Creators

17 Jul 2022 1 minute read 0 comments MusicTime2020

Music Time Channel ❤ Music For EveryoneNon Copyright Music Library. Free to Use Content.Xad - Story1080p❤ Subscribe channel and like videos to support❤ You can use these musics freely.❤ I labor to prepare content. If you like my videos I would appre...

Pittoresken für Streichinstrumente: III. Maskerade im Mondlicht [Philip Daniel; 2020]

7 Jul 2022 1 minute read 0 comments PhilipDaniel

    Third in a set of "picturesques" for varied combinations of bowed chordophones (string instruments), here scored for a quintet consisting of members of the "new violin family" or "violin octet" invented by Dr. Carleen Hutchins. The painting in t...

Pittoresken für Streichinstrumente: II. Capricietto canonico [Philip Daniel; 2020]

6 Jul 2022 1 minute read 0 comments PhilipDaniel

          Second in a set of "picturesques" for varied combinations of bowed chordophones (string instruments), composed for (necessarily seven-string) viola d'amore and (likewise seven-string) viola da gamba duo. The first section of this work in m...

This is a House of Warship

1 Jul 2022 14 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

This is a story I wrote for a book I published in 2012.  It's a snapshot of a certain mindset I was in when I lived in Chicago in the late 90s.  I was recently looking at a map of Chicago and the horror and beauty of those days hit me all at once, an...