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30 Apr 2022 5 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
When Se7en was released in 1995, I went to see it with some friends. We all went to The Red Lion Pub in Chicago afterward and "discussed the movie" over pints of Guinness, because that's what we went to movies to do: Learn and/or discover something...
4 Apr 2022 2 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
I've been aware of it for awhile, but writing this post over the last hour or so, and then deleting everything I wrote, it has become obvious why my focus is slowly veering away from art and music, and towards Christianity and salvation issues. Not...
19 Mar 2022 3 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
I have recently been made aware of the phenomenon of "monitoring spirits," a kind of spiritual surveillance by entities who don't have your best interests at heart. This awareness has caused me to hesitate in posting new videos on YouTube. Lately,...
21 Jan 2022 8 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
I call them "sister albums." Albums which are opposite sides of the same coin, usually made in tandem with each other, like twins. Vampire Cats and What's The Deal, Bufu Harem? are sister albums. So are Your Arms Inside Me and Is It For Real? The...
30 Dec 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
I have decided that Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the president of Mexico commonly known as AMLO, is also the president of ASMR. The dude is seriously relaxed. Beyond merely speaking slowly, he adds a lot of space in between his slow words. Add to...
24 Dec 2021 7 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there." Psalm 139:8 I heard a Christmas song for the first time this year today, at Walmart of all places. I don't remember which song it was, but it was a goo...
8 Dec 2021 2 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
For the first time, I understand white guilt. Not from personal experience, but as an embarrassing, optional social phenomenon engaged in by surprisingly large numbers of white people. This is the meme that finally made me get it: I now know why t...
3 Dec 2021 8 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
I quit drinking in 2014 after losing a drummer to alcohol drama. I also missed a show the next day, the only show I've ever missed. I had to cancel it due to being sick from drinking. Canceling that show bothers me to this day. It's a good thing....
28 Nov 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
I am taking the scenic route to Spanish fluency. It took me several months to learn the difference in "horse" and "onion." The words are very similar. "Caballo" means horse and "cebolla" means onion. I have never actually tried to buy a horse at...
10 Sep 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
Compared with eternity: Money compresses time and performs a thousand years of destruction in an hour. Art is an empty, meaningless clinging to a small, inflatable dinosaur in a kiddie pool of sharks. Love is a game of telephone among people who spea...
