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4 Feb 2024 8 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"When I was younger, so much younger than todayI never needed anybody's help in any wayBut now these days are gone, I'm not so self assuredNow I find I've changed my mind and opened up the doors"Help! I have long been a great appreciator of Chick t...
2 Feb 2024 4 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
Back in the day, you had to climb the stairs to the gallows. In the 1950s, you could take an elevator. Today, you can ride a rocket-powered spitball to the gallows. Spitball to the Gallows. Loogie to the stars. All our loogies are in hock. You...
8 Jan 2024 6 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"I am not a Christian artist.I am an artist who is a Christian."Johnny Cash Oh good, I already wrote it. The article about the crushing vacuum that holds it all together. The contrary forces of infinite pressure and heartbreaking void leaning on...
5 Jan 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
Most people have been to the dark side of the moon. But wisdom is not there. Wisdom is hiding on the dark side of the dog. Dark Side of the Dog Am I good enough to bethe causeof all your problems? I'm gonna hang my sleeping bagin the skyI'm gonna...
14 Dec 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
There is a pile of wordsstacked in the hallway It could be a poem,or a purpose But it isn't I was tired, so I took my restbeside a sea of digitalnoise Somewhere on the moon The locals observed me withcurious amusement I spelled "S.O.S." in giant let...
11 Dec 2023 2 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
“We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope; without it the life of the cities would drive all men into crime or drugs or psychoanalysis.”Edward Abbey I packed my van this weekend, for a trip I may never take. I don't have any fur...
7 Dec 2023 7 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"I am God. I am God thinking about Godthinking about Steve McQueen."Nick Cave I was living in my van in Jerome, Arizona when One More Time With Feeling was re-released in December 2016. It had come out in September, but I'd been in New Orleans tr...
5 Dec 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"Le Ravissement de Frank N. Stein" is a short film made by Georges Schwizgebel in 1982. It depicts the point of view of a monster moving through an alienating series of rooms towards an unknown goal, before finally falling in love with a crazy perso...
2 Dec 2023 3 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"May the ghosts that howled 'round the house at nightNever keep you from your sleepMay they all sleep tight down in hell tonightOr wherever they may be"Lullaby of London I've been dreading this day for a long time. I was thinking about it recently...
27 Nov 2023 6 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
“All the days of the afflicted are evil: but he that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast.”Proverbs 15:15 I considered making this the most honest piece of writing I have ever written, but that would be impossible. There's no way to tell the...
