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Early Empire

17 Apr 2025 14 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey

As someone who was at their first and last shows, not to mention countless in between, I had a bird’s eye view of their all too brief flight path. During that time, Early Empire went from being a good group to one I was going around proclaiming as t...

No Place For Me

1 Apr 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

"No Place For Me" is from the album Wild Irish Rose.  It also appears on the Hellfire in a Nutshell collection. Thanks for listening. No Place For Me The sky is redmy heart is deadit's time to head on down the line Don't care about your pastI'm sor...

Cafe Bourbon Street: Columbus Ohio's Preeminent Rock Club

1 Apr 2025 19 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey

Though a local live music institution at this point, it’s kind of funny to look back and recall that Cafe Bourbon Street took considerable arm twisting before owner David Brown agreed to host a single show. Considering it was the guys from Sup...

House of Stone

28 Mar 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

Well, it's confirmed.  First actual show in almost 6 years.  If you're in the DFW area, I'm playing at the House of Stone in Weatherford on Sunday.  It's at some guy's house, presumably of stone.  He films the performances.  It's a  house show, but p...

The Singularity Lane

21 Mar 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

I found myself in the singularity lane at the border recently, and it was very efficient.  If you're tired of long lines at the border, sign up for the Singularity Program. The singularity program is for cars who want to disappear into the transdime...

BBQ Lovecraft

15 Mar 2025 5 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

Hello,   I am currently in a hotel on I-35, in the high-density traffic corridor between Austin and San Antonio, and am considering my options.  Which is a worldly way of saying I'm waiting to see where God's finger points.   Thank you for your praye...

American Migrant 2: Burgers With Dust

27 Feb 2025 4 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

How do you make a sequel to a movie that has never been made? Ask the dust. The idea for American Migrant has changed.  A lot.  While the desire to keep it apolitical persists, and the goal would be that conservatives and liberals could sit next to...

The Weight of Fire

25 Feb 2025 3 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

"You don't always get what you go after.  But you do getwhat you wouldn't have got if you hadn't goneafter what you didn't get."Blaze Foley   I have reached another level of expat dissociation.  When you live so long with the locals that they talk to...

Martyr, Migrant, or Moron?

20 Feb 2025 4 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

"Don't wanna be an American idiot."Green Day Hello, I am writing to request asylum for my friend, an American refugee who has been living in Mexico for over 4 years.  The leader of "Nathan Payne & The Wild Bores," Nathan Payne is an American songwrit...

What happened to my staying power? (A Mini Rant)

18 Feb 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark

I'm not one to consider myself blessed with an abundance of endurance or stamina (for which I blame my ADHD). What little I do have seems horribly diminished. Perhaps shockingly, I'm ready to throw in the towel before I've even found a job to keep me...