Dudes in Prison & the Hot Babes That Love Them: Incarceration in 1980s Hard Rock/Metal Music Videos
The concept of incarceration in the real world is terrifying. Anytime you lose autonomy via a highly flawed system, and then are forced...
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heathermariedrain
Mar 612 min
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 125 min
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
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
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
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
Aug 26, 202310 min
Polyester in Blood: An Ode…of Sorts to Doctor Gore
“Hey, Kid! Wanna chikn’ biscuit?” the greasy man smiles as you slowly start to back away, even though you are a little hungry. Then...
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heathermariedrain
May 18, 20232 min
April-May Showers Bring Podcastin' Flowers
If one was to program a podcast series in honor of the Spring season, they might be tempted to discuss the technicolor jubliance of...
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heathermariedrain
Apr 20, 20235 min
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
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
Feb 17, 20235 min
La La La La Means I Love You: My Favorite Cinematic Moments of Amour
When it comes to this special and often chaotic thing called life, love might not rule the world (though it should), it does charge the...
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heathermariedrain
Dec 8, 20226 min
‘Taint What You Do (It’s the Way That You Do It):BDE In Horror
Throughout the decades of horror cinema, various descriptors are often invoked when it comes to characters, both heroes and villains...
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