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21 Oct 2022 3 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
“I was perplexed as to what the usefulness of any of the arts might be, with the possible exception of interior decoration. The most positive notion I could come up with was what I call the canary-in-the-coal-mine theory of the arts. This theory argu...
28 Sep 2022 9 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"And it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst:" Deuteronomy 29:19 "Rock & Roll will die." ...
24 Sep 2022 6 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"How can anyone be happy when it's sunny every day?" Pablo Smog The neighbor kid came over last night to say goodbye before leaving town. I call him a "kid" because I'm old enough to be his dad, but in fact he's in his mid-20s. We're not great f...
12 Sep 2022 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
An interesting snapshot of the zeitgeist of the Bush years, when liberals were still interested in dissent and 9/11 truth, "Bad Americans" is from my 2008 album Blinded By Self-Righteous Degenerates. At the time, it was still considered an indictmen...
5 Sep 2022 12 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
I can't write about this topic anymore. Not only because it makes me viscerally nervous and ill, but because to say it a thousand more times would be even more gratuitous than it already is. The only reason I'm writing this is so I never have to wr...
18 Aug 2022 4 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
Today is the 10-year anniversary of Garage d'Or, my distorted rock album. Many of the songs were very old when they were recorded 10 years ago, but they never found a place on any of the other albums. Tired of waiting, the songs started a mutiny, a...
11 Aug 2022 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
Today is the 10-year anniversary of the release of Everything I Have Is Yours, my only gospel album to date. It consists of about half originals and half covers. The originals and public-domain cover songs are on the YouTube playlist. The entire a...
10 Aug 2022 2 minute read 1 comment Melina Mehr
Despite his initial interest in music, Mohammad Esfahani planned to become a capable doctor. He was seeking the best university and working hard to get there, staying up at night and studying, and he even worked for two years. Finally, he graduated...
5 Aug 2022 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
White Knuckles in the Spirit World when your world falls apart and you can no longer deny your broken heart may it all come down peacefully may the mountains collapse like cotton kittens in your lap and smother your dreams while you are sleepi...
2 Aug 2022 2 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
“To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer.”George Bernard Shaw "The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness."William Blake I forgot to say something in my last article. I can't find it, but I read something once in which G...
