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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...
heathermariedrain
Mar 6, 202412 min read
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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...
heathermariedrain
Feb 12, 20245 min read
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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...
heathermariedrain
Dec 6, 20234 min read
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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...
heathermariedrain
Nov 2, 20236 min read
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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...
heathermariedrain
Oct 27, 202321 min read
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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...
heathermariedrain
Apr 20, 20235 min read
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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....
heathermariedrain
Apr 19, 20239 min read
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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...
heathermariedrain
Nov 4, 20221 min read
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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...
heathermariedrain
Aug 21, 20223 min read
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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...
heathermariedrain
Aug 14, 20222 min read
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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...
heathermariedrain
May 12, 20222 min read
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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...
heathermariedrain
May 1, 20228 min read
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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...
heathermariedrain
Apr 8, 20227 min read
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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...
heathermariedrain
Mar 10, 20224 min read
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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...
heathermariedrain
Mar 10, 20222 min read
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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...
heathermariedrain
Jan 16, 20227 min read
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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...
heathermariedrain
Jan 1, 20228 min read
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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,...
heathermariedrain
Dec 31, 20213 min read
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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...
heathermariedrain
Dec 16, 20215 min read
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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...
heathermariedrain
Dec 16, 20211 min read
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