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11 Jun 2024 4 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
It occurs to me that the sexual identity spectrum is a transhumanist phenomenon. If you can reduce most important aspects of your inner human being to a series of unpronounceable, meaningless letters, it won't be long before you are able to discern...
4 Jun 2024 4 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"I am a drug user! I am unclean!"The Carrion Preacher Kalifornia is a 1993 film in which David Duchovny and Michelle Forbes give Brad Pitt and Juliette Lewis a one-way ride to hell, by way of California. Duchovny plays a writer who is writing a b...
31 May 2024 4 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"I fell into a burning ring of fireI went down, down, downAnd the flames went higher"Johnny Cash I have a theory about love songs. It isn't chiseled into stone, but it might be chiseled into chocolate. It's edible. You can melt it down and eat i...
21 May 2024 10 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
“Nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit withina man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure.”Christopher McCandless There are 2 schools of thought regarding Christopher McCandless...
18 May 2024 4 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"A poet is called upon to provoke a spiritual joltand not to cultivate idolaters."Mirror It is time to return to the laws of music as the guiding organizational principle of our culture. The heavy-handed adherence to the gravitational pull of tech...
30 Apr 2024 2 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
The Dream of a Ridiculous Man is an animated short film by Aleksandr Petrov. It is based on a short story by Dostoevsky, and tells the tale of a suicidal nihilist who has a near death experience. Whether he survives his own suicide attempt, or is m...
30 Apr 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"Bleeding Heart" contains 3 chipped, plastic pearls of wisdom from the thrift store: 1. Don't fall in love until you fall apart 2. The sharp tongue is actually dull, and 3. Your shallow grave is deeper than you think If you fail to apply these...
20 Apr 2024 6 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
Van life is all about finding privacy, and staying clean. Things most people take for granted, from bathing to being able to change your clothes while standing up (without being outdoors), are all luxuries to be savored. The American West is good f...
17 Apr 2024 5 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
I have recently been brought up on charges in the court of the birds for perjuring myself in song. An indictment of insubstantial mist was filed against me, a cloud-based document of illegible precipitation in which I was accused of using my imagina...
16 Apr 2024 5 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"If love is a room,my life is a series of hallways"Love is a Room I used to love California. Especially L.A. When I lived in Silverlake, my idea of recreation would be to get really stoned, pop a CD into my portable sound machine, and walk to Hol...
