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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? ...

9 Years Sober

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...

Requiem For Emily X

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...

Karaoke Night at the U.N.

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...

My Joey Year

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...

It May Not Be The End Of The World (but it's a start)

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...

Rise of the Partisan Arts

24 Apr 2023 5 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

"When they poured across the borderI was cautioned to surrenderThis I could not doI took my gun and vanished."The Partisan   What happens when the angels of fire have finally been extinguished, and deadly passion is at last destroyed?  If time spent...

The Peaceful Fray

18 Apr 2023 13 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

My neighbor listens to a lot of old-school U2.  He's a hardcore gritty mechanic type who speaks absolutely no English and whose yard is an open-air garage full of trees, prehistoric beercans, and car parts.  In fact his gate isn't a gate at all, it's...

Everything I Left The U.S. To Get Away From

14 Apr 2023 3 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

While looking around my YouTube channel, I noticed somebody disliked my "Vaqueros From A Distance" video.  Why would somebody bother disliking such an obvious afterthought of a video?  Do people actually believe their approval is important?  Is this...

The Art of Musical Taxidermy

13 Feb 2023 10 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

Bienvenidos, y'all.  This is an article in 5 parts, starting with the obligatory rebuke of musical idolatry, winding around some Venezuelan proletarian rap, the possibility that Jesus wouldn't be interested in turning the band's merch table into an a...