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10 Sep 2024 3 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"Baboon climbs the mountain, so hastily, so troublesome,Baboon climbs the mountain, so hastily and so troublesome,Baboon climbs the mountain to annoy the farmers.Hooray! For the jolly baboon..."The Last Fire Watch Since these are the end tunes, an...
18 Jul 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
Another song from the anti-produced Vampire Cats, the album that resists production value like a vampire resists sunshine. I tried to produce it, but every time I touched it with EQ, compression, or reverb of any kind, the songs burst into flames, o...
31 Jan 2024 3 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
On the FAQ page of my Discography site, I answer 2 of the most common questions I receive. The first, of course, is "What's your problem, anyway?" The second is, "Who is Pablo Smog?" This is Pablo Smog: Pablo Smog was my pen name when I lived in L...
28 Nov 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
The Neon Gaschamber I was napping through the war I heard nothing when the armored bumper cars overran the city, and ran off with my garbage, my garden of debris Weird, smokingbones of bicycleswere scattered on the lawn A motorcycle melted The rid...
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? ...
24 Jul 2023 5 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"I haven't felt this clean for a thousand years."Farewell Song Sweet From My Trees Today marks 9 years of sobriety for me. It hasn't been a struggle. The only struggle is in making up your mind. Hitting "rock bottom," perhaps. But once you've d...
4 Jun 2023 5 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
“Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.”Matthew 23:15 I mean it, y'know. The whole thing about not believ...
24 May 2023 2 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
In order to promote a more hardcore, Rock & Roll agenda of fake peace infused with bouts of controlled, profitable violence, and bring the DoucheCon levels back to reasonable levels, punk-rock dissidents within NATO recently hosted karaoke night at t...
10 May 2023 2 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
So this is how it ends.This is how we're going out. Maybe not we.Maybe just me.Empty and alone,Free at last, and faraway from"home." Free,at last,even though it's too late,and we or maybe I havelong-since been institutionalizedby the prisonin my hear...
30 Apr 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
Today is the 10-year anniversary of the release of Holy Smokes. Holy Smokes is a dark trip through outer space toward an existential nightclub on the moon. From upbeat, shimmering tunes like "Virgin & Tonic" and "Girls, What's Your Trip?" through t...
