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heathermariedrain
Mar 6, 202412 min read
Don't Like, Don't Subscribe, Just Watch: Interview with Barefoot & Independent’s Jason Heath
Seeking is, undoubtedly, one of the most rewarding things you can ever do in life. Too many folks walk around all boxed-in while not even...
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heathermariedrain
Feb 12, 20245 min read
Pants Off in the Art Museum: Gabriel Axel's Sex & the Law
Few things are more appealing, if not downright sexy, than when the lines between highbrow and lowbrow get blurred. It’s a cultural sweet...
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heathermariedrain
Dec 6, 20234 min read
Lights Like Fog: Lycia's Casa Luna
Beauty…true beauty…shifts into shapes and shadows. This is not the beauty that has been turned into a cold-hearted commodity to help...
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heathermariedrain
Nov 2, 20236 min read
My Sleepy Summer in Hell: The Polonia Brothers' & Todd Michael Smith's Splatter Farm
There is something inherently unhealthy about forced time with your family, especially when you’re younger and all but birthed onto an...
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heathermariedrain
Oct 27, 202321 min read
Teenage Blues Triptych: The Pom Pom Girls, Blue Summer, & The Last American Virgin
Growing up is hard. Not as hard as losing a limb while in the middle of guerrilla warfare, hosting an especially ugly intervention, or...
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heathermariedrain
Apr 20, 20235 min read
Missive to Loozanteen: We Love You, Robert Haimer
Robert Haimer is gone. Well, at least in his physical form, since a cat like that can never truly be gone. Some artists are so...
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heathermariedrain
Apr 19, 20239 min read
No Man is an Island:Bill Ward's Ward One: Along the Way
I originally wrote this back in 2017 for my old Mondo Heather blog. It's now a few years later and this album is STILL out-of-print....
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heathermariedrain
Nov 4, 20221 min read
Going on a Radiation Vacation: DR CALIGARI on Blu Ray!
Having a bad week? Day? Month? Years? The human condition rattling your bones a little too hard? Never fear, because Mondo Macabro has...
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heathermariedrain
Aug 21, 20223 min read
Why Wasn’t I Invited?-Welcome to the Self Doubt Game of Being an Artist
Recently, the British Film Institute’s publication, Sight & Sound, conducted their once-a-decade poll where key professional film...
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heathermariedrain
Aug 14, 20222 min read
Blood Drinking & Blue People: Fantastic Podcasting with The Kulturekast
One of the big benefits of being friends and collaborating with certain podcasters is that not only do you get to converse about movies...
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heathermariedrain
May 12, 20222 min read
Movies From Hell: Dewey Webb, Cinesirens, Birthdays, & Groovy Boys
Statements like "...it's a small world..." can seem trite, cliche, and invoking old-timey Disney rides. However, some things are cliche...
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heathermariedrain
May 1, 20228 min read
Rock & Roll Transcendence with a $30 Beer Tab: Blue Oyster Cult Live
One of the greatest shams that happened in the last few decades is the de-fanging of rock & roll: a genre that once inspired nervousness...
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heathermariedrain
Apr 8, 20227 min read
Minor Roles & Major Players:The Top 5 Small Parts in Cult Cinema
In the world of cinema, theater, and even mere prose, it is always the lead characters who get all the royal attention. After all, they...
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heathermariedrain
Mar 10, 20224 min read
Mad Mavericks & Madder Movies: An Ode to Dewey Webb
The act of creating is a sacred one. When the mind is sharp, the heart is racing, and the path free from all manner of nasty roadblocks...
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heathermariedrain
Mar 10, 20222 min read
March 2022 Updated-The Rockabilly Music Video Verne Langdon Edition
Spring is almost a-sprunging, which means we are more than overdue for a little Mondo-update! On the podcasting front, I have had the...
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heathermariedrain
Jan 16, 20227 min read
The Rocket Files: It’s Time for Androgyny…Here Comes Pat!
Walking outside right as dusk is waning almost completely into darkness, your eyes spot a twinkling light up in the pale-pinky-violet...
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heathermariedrain
Jan 1, 20228 min read
The Rocket Files: TV Party Tonight!
There once was a gift to the American television landscape and that gift was called local or public access. The act of truly...
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heathermariedrain
Dec 31, 20213 min read
Everyone Was Harmed in the Making of this Post
“Like What You Like & Don’t Be a Dick” -Brian Zane “Donka Doo Balls” -Amazing drunk woman on an old episode of COPS Brothers, Sisters,...
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heathermariedrain
Dec 16, 20215 min read
Your Nightmare is My Brand: The Art of Patriarchy
In an ocean of the expected, there is an angel of vengeance, a siren of light, and a ruddy-mouthed creature as an artist who goes by a...
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heathermariedrain
Dec 16, 20211 min read
P is for Patreon-Mondo Style!
2021 has been a strange year. Granted, I think I say that about EVERY year, but still, the statement stands complete with funny little...
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