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Able To Be Horrored

8 Jul 2023 3 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

"The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels & God, and at liberty when he wrote of Devils & Hell, is because he was a true Poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it."William Blake   Was Lot's wife a songwriter?  Was she looking...

Is There Life After The City?

8 Jul 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

Ghost is an experimental film made in 1984 by Takashi Ito.  "Lay Low" appears on the Rural Mortis album.  Both the film and the album ask the same question.  A question from the slave pits of condemnation, asked by people who are tired of the darknes...

Untitled Lovers

30 Jun 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

Unbalance is a film by Takashi Ito.  "Untitled Lovers" is a collaboration with Trey Blake of Brighton, England.  She provides background vocals and original poetry.  You can hear her original work in the song "Free Me Love," pasted below. Thanks for...

To Emily X, Who Died in the Reign of Terror

4 Jun 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

“Hope is the thing with feathersThat perches in the soulAnd sings the tune without the wordsAnd never stops at all.”Emily Dickinson   I have an English degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago, and never once, not once, ever, have I heard an...

Karaoke Night at the U.N.

24 May 2023 2 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

In order to promote a more hardcore, Rock & Roll agenda of fake peace infused with bouts of controlled, profitable violence, and bring the DoucheCon levels back to reasonable levels, punk-rock dissidents within NATO recently hosted karaoke night at t...

The Great Taco-Truck Bug-Out

15 May 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

Last month I released Nukular Hula Coast, a selection of nihilistic bug-out tunes for the zombie apocalypse.  Since then, I have made a handful of colorful music videos based on (or inspired by) the experimental short films of Len Lye, who died in 19...

It May Not Be The End Of The World (but it's a start)

30 Apr 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

Today is the 10-year anniversary of the release of Holy Smokes.  Holy Smokes is a dark trip through outer space toward an existential nightclub on the moon.  From upbeat, shimmering tunes like "Virgin & Tonic" and "Girls, What's Your Trip?" through t...

The Eye Like A Strange Balloon

28 Apr 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

The Eye Like A Strange Balloon Mounts Toward Infinity is a lithograph made by Odilon Redon in 1882.  It was inspired by Edgar Allan Poe, and is on display at the L.A. County Museum of Art: In 1995, the BBC commissioned Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin...

Rise of the Partisan Arts

24 Apr 2023 5 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

"When they poured across the borderI was cautioned to surrenderThis I could not doI took my gun and vanished."The Partisan   What happens when the angels of fire have finally been extinguished, and deadly passion is at last destroyed?  If time spent...

Everything I Left The U.S. To Get Away From

14 Apr 2023 3 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

While looking around my YouTube channel, I noticed somebody disliked my "Vaqueros From A Distance" video.  Why would somebody bother disliking such an obvious afterthought of a video?  Do people actually believe their approval is important?  Is this...