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10 Jul 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"I wrote when I did not know life. Now thatI know life, I have no more to say."Oscar Wilde Too much life can be bad for you. It is important to take all things in moderation, except or perhaps including moderation itself. But what do you do when...
17 Jun 2025 3 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"Great lyrics and melodies about, but 'All I Want' makesthe whole thing worth having. A song to play at yourfuneral, or perhaps while you plan your funeral."Yavaran Oswald Chambers said, "where sin and sorrow stop, the song of the saint starts." He...
1 Jun 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"The purpose of our Christian training is to get us into the right relationship to the 'needs' of God and His will. Once God's 'needs' in us have been met, He will open the way for usto accomplish His will, meeting His 'needs' elsewhere."Oswald Cha...
30 May 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
Now through June 30th, get 20% off everything on my Bandcamp. Use promo code "pablosmoglives" at checkout. Entire discography available, including name-your-price deals like Angels on Fire and the early Breakfast at Cuneo's Drive-In demos, and Stum...
22 May 2025 2 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"She is the bird that evades every net: thewild deer that leaps every pitfall."The Great Divorce The Great Divorce is C.S. Lewis' response to Blake's The Marriage of Heaven & Hell. In it, a mortal is led through the afterlife like Dante with a bac...
15 May 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
Love is deadly serious business, so it's important to turn your heart into found VHS footage from a band on 80s Mexican public access TV, before it's too late. It's also wise to make sure the song is less than 2 minutes long. That way, the stone sh...
30 Apr 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
Piss Christ is a picture of a crucifix submerged in controversy. Piss Demons is the alternate title for the original cover art for Everything I Have Is Yours, my only gospel album to date. The stained background of the photo is so disgusting you ca...
21 Apr 2025 2 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
My Bandcamp is live again, after nearly a decade of being in private mode. Not only does Bandcamp fail to provide alternative payment platforms, such as direct deposit, they take it upon themselves to automatically donate their proceeds on certain d...
19 Apr 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
I already wrote the story behind this song in an article titled "Farewell Song Sweet From My Trees." Nick Cave once said something to the effect that his songs know more about his life than he does. So, for reasons I'm not entirely aware of, I'm po...
17 Apr 2025 2 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"The Lord seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outwardappearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart."1 Samuel 16:7 "Man is hung up on the cover art.God listens to the album."Pablo Smog Collin at House of Stone posted this video yesterday,...
