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14 Aug 2022 6 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"Everybody's got a bombWe could all die any dayBut before I'll let that happenI'll dance my life away"Prince It doesn't take much to make me want to play these days. But I never do. It isn't playing I don't believe in. You don't want to know wha...
11 Aug 2022 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
Today is the 10-year anniversary of the release of Everything I Have Is Yours, my only gospel album to date. It consists of about half originals and half covers. The originals and public-domain cover songs are on the YouTube playlist. The entire a...
7 Aug 2022 9 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
“May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view." Edward Abbey "There's a cross on the side of the road with my name on it." Pablo Smog Desert Solitaire I found myself snarling at Border Patrol guards a...
5 Aug 2022 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
White Knuckles in the Spirit World when your world falls apart and you can no longer deny your broken heart may it all come down peacefully may the mountains collapse like cotton kittens in your lap and smother your dreams while you are sleepi...
31 Jul 2022 7 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"I always said punk was an attitude. It was never about having a Mohican haircut or wearing a ripped T-shirt. It was all about destruction, and the creative potential within that." Malcolm McLaren While checking my last article for typos, I was h...
13 Jul 2022 26 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
I came across a video on Bitchute tonight, dramatically titled "SOLO Camping: SUICIDE -- Don't Do It!" The title demanded my attention, so I clicked on it. The contents of the video were pleasantly disappointing, like a comfortable chair with bad u...
4 Jul 2022 23 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
In 2017, I went to New York to see a show an actor friend of mine was putting on, based on my album All The Diamonds You Can Eat. Not only was the play named after the album, but the plotline followed the jagged narrative he read into it (which is c...
1 Jul 2022 14 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
This is a story I wrote for a book I published in 2012. It's a snapshot of a certain mindset I was in when I lived in Chicago in the late 90s. I was recently looking at a map of Chicago and the horror and beauty of those days hit me all at once, an...
3 Jun 2022 7 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"Lots of drivers can drive fast, but very few drivers can race." Richard Petty When I was a kid, my brother, my dad, and I went to all the NASCAR races. It was in the days when the only track that wasn't in the South was in Michigan. Maybe that...
8 May 2022 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
While traveling in Latin America, it can become necessary to paint on the wall of a cracked-out taqueria to communicate effectively. If you're not fluent in the local language, whether it be Spanish or loathing, it is often expedient to scrawl your...
