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24 Apr 2026 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
Zelle: [email protected] I left the firebackat the waterfront. I made a list Of the executioners she kissed. I went away beyond the red line. My liver made the headline. How will I live beyond thedead line? The list is a fist, but... Wh...
23 Apr 2026 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
Zelle: [email protected] Do you believe in the theory of recreation? The idea that mankind can recreate the present moment? The gift of all eternity? Do you believe it with confident uncertainty? Are you the rational insurgency? Because,...
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...
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...
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...
17 Nov 2025 3 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"Nature abhors a vacuum cleaner salesman."Pablo Smog People have taken to the streets of the world en masse to protest the suppression of the arts by musico-terrorists, artless, warbling pawns whose stylistic waffling between corporate-sponsored de...
18 Aug 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
Experts say that excessive substance abuse doesn't actually shorten your lifespan, it simply shortens the length of your remaining years. Most people's years last for 365 days, but hardcore street junkies have been known to cycle through an entire y...
28 Jun 2025 3 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
It is good to be out of Arkansas, which is probably not the first time that sentiment has been expressed. I was sent there to get my legal status renewed, and to remember why I left the country. After 2 months of shaking cockroaches out of the Chee...
9 May 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
I can't remember the wordsto my ownstory The unauthorized autobiography The cautionary fairytale The boots that never fit The mansion in the driveway If you think you're not a writer you arewrite or maybewriting,maybe Wrong Not to say that you are...
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...
