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14 Jan 2023 3 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
Today was ridiculous. I copped a ride from a kid wearing a life preserver, and we went back in time to the 1930s. All the Mexicans were having a wedding, at which my great-grandfather was scheduled to perform. I bought a serape and a large hat and...
3 Jan 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"The streets are full of admirable craftsmen, but so few practical dreamers." Man Ray I propose that we start the new year with a dream. A surreal foray into the beautiful world of the broken heart. Not in real life, of course. No way. I'm not...
7 Dec 2022 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
From the land of rhyming couplets, I beheld the burning, baleful eye of an omen so beautiful, it caused me to forget my rhyme scheme "He aquí, un caballo pálido," in a field all alone, behold, a pale horse waiting for an angel to untie him Beyond h...
28 Nov 2022 6 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
“What I do is between me and the Lord, to examine and possibly alter the state of grace in which I live, and thereby the state of grace of anybody who listens.” Townes Van Zandt "There's hardly anything fun to do, since they made music illegal." Fr...
26 Nov 2022 17 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God." Colossians 3:2-3 "I've come back aroundto uncharted ground,or so it seems"Me I've never been here before. Have you? Mayb...
16 Nov 2022 13 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"'La Bruja' (The Witch) is a popular traditional song from the state of Veracruz, Mexico. There's various tales and legends in Mexico and one of those is of La Bruja, which can perhaps be compared to the legend of the vampire 'Dracula' (made popular...
2 Nov 2022 3 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
Wow the U.S.is a madhouse on ice Ghostsrun like micethrough the streets of Jerome Phoenix is gone,smothered in drug-clouds My buddy is twisted, sleepingin buckets Driving is easy,like navigating a birthday Cake when you're 8 The highway is ringing; m...
21 Oct 2022 3 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
“I was perplexed as to what the usefulness of any of the arts might be, with the possible exception of interior decoration. The most positive notion I could come up with was what I call the canary-in-the-coal-mine theory of the arts. This theory argu...
18 Oct 2022 4 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
Gómez Palacio. Just over the Durango state line from Torreón. What is apopleptic? Apoplepsy? Is that the word? They use dead bodies for the foundation of the highway. In order to ensure the ride is as insane as possible, they pour asphalt over...
13 Oct 2022 9 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
I wrote "Farewell Song Sweet From My Trees" under the giant Redwood trees in Northern California, only a few weeks after sobering up. My last drunk night was a party in Clarkdale, Arizona, with a handful of people, including a girl I was seeing at t...
