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
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
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
May 1, 20228 min
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
Mar 10, 20222 min
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 1, 20228 min
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 16, 20215 min
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
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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heathermariedrain
Jul 18, 20211 min
ELECTRONIC VOYAGER: IN PRAISE OF RUTH WHITE
There are two key parts that move the vast majority of my nonfiction: heart & preservation. I'm a deeper dive writer, which probably...
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heathermariedrain
Jul 18, 20211 min
Love That Album Podcast 10th Anniversary a Go-Go!
One of the biggest and best perks of podcasting is the rich art of connection. It's like that one really long "begat" section in the...
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