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Walking Ramble (more music, less content)

12 Apr 2023 3 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

A rambling response to an email I received yesterday from an old friend asking me to send him more music, less emails (the emails consist of links to this blog, and samples from the articles).  I realize I've been waiting for that email for months i...

Nukular Hula Coast

2 Apr 2023 6 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

While the West is hung up on hating and getting laid with itself, the East is amassing an arsenal of bootlegged Rock & Roll records with which to annihilate its weakened, auto-tuned disco opponents.  There is a sect of the Eastern Orthodox Music Scen...

The First-Ever Church of Doomsday Life

15 Mar 2023 13 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

One story I never tell is the one in which I married a stripper in Vegas and moved into an Airstream in Black Canyon City, Arizona, only to break down near Pismo Beach, California after spending a week or 2 on military property, and waking up to the...

Observations of an American Infidel

20 Feb 2023 11 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

"I can hear the tolling of the bellOf the man I was before, I am a shellCash my welfare check and say farewellI'm proud to be an American Infidel."From American Infidel   In early 2003, I marched through Hollywood with 100,000 people, to protest the...

The History of Trees

19 Feb 2023 8 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

"Many years I've been away, Talking 'bout you night & day, Tellin' people 'bout my country" Dean Reed   While watching Adiós, Sabata recently, I became annoyed with the gringo thief Ballantine, played by Dean Reed.  After faking his death, Ballantine...

The Art of Musical Taxidermy

13 Feb 2023 10 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

Bienvenidos, y'all.  This is an article in 5 parts, starting with the obligatory rebuke of musical idolatry, winding around some Venezuelan proletarian rap, the possibility that Jesus wouldn't be interested in turning the band's merch table into an a...

The Artless Tsunami

7 Feb 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

"If the first part of a tsunami to reach the coast is a trough, rather than a wave crest, the water along the shoreline is dragged back dramatically, exposing parts of the shore that are normally underwater and stranding many marine creatures."From S...

The Princess of No Return

6 Feb 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

"They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy."Jonah 2:8   Has America reached the princess of no return? I think it's possible. What is the princess of no return?  Can we come back from the edge of the chick brink?  Will we live like th...

A Library Full of Empty Maps

2 Feb 2023 12 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

I grew up on 80s metal.  Maybe not.  Most likely, I grew up on radio pop, the most interesting figure of which was probably Prince (who was admittedly interesting), and discovering aggressive 80s guitar music was one of the ways I "found myself" in t...

Hellfire in a Nutshell

20 Jan 2023 6 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

"May they all sleep tight down in hell tonightor wherever they may be"Shane MacGowan   Did I ever tell you the story about getting smoked out by Billy The Kid?  It's true, Billy The Kid smoked me out from the great and horrible beyond.  I was hanging...