<description>&lt;p data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;During a moment of personal turmoil, &lt;a href="https://www.instagram.com/rockyvilla.hair"&gt;Rocky Villanueva&lt;/a&gt; gets an email from a long-time client.&amp;nbsp; His client is in his final weeks of life, and is getting his last wishes taken care of.&amp;nbsp; One of those wishes: to look like himself when he dies.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;Rocky says that many hairdressers and barbers have similar experiences: helping their clients through the last stages of life and letting them look the way they want to look for a final time.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;Rocky packs his haircutting tools and bikes across Berlin to spend an hour with his client, giving him a haircut and receiving advice on love and grief.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Producer: &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://jeffemtman.com/"&gt;Jeff Emtman&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Music: &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="https://theblackspot.bandcamp.com/"&gt;The Black Spot&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;, &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="https://serocell.com/"&gt;Serocell&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://phantomfauna.bandcamp.com/album/new-skins-for-the-coming-ice-age"&gt;Phantom Fauna&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sponsor: &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.lulu.com/shop/ann-fonsweer/the-summer-diary-of-a-lady-artist/paperback/product-844npqe.html?page=1&amp;amp;pageSize=4"&gt;The Summer Diary of a Lady Artist&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;The sponsor for this episode is The Summer Diary of a Lady Artist.&amp;nbsp; It’s a fictional illustrated diary of an artist navigating love and hatred.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;The Summer Diary of a Lady Artist is now available at all online book stores.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;See Jeff’s favorite images from the book, on the &lt;a href="http://bit.ly/HBM159"&gt;podcast website&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;Want to sponsor an episode? &lt;a href="http://hbmpodcast.com/sponsor"&gt;HBMpodcast.com/sponsor&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;Support Here Be Monsters with a small monthly contribution: &lt;a target="_blank" href="https://patreon.com/hbmpodcast"&gt;patreon.com/HBMpodcast/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>

A dying musician asks his hairdresser to make him look good one more time. 

HBM159: Final Haircuts

<description>&lt;p data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;Jeff walks to the edge of Berlin and explains why the Here Be Monsters feed has been quiet for so long.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;On the way, Jeff talks about plans for upcoming episodes, looks at the ways that moving to Berlin has changed him, and discusses a pair of films featuring Tilda Swinton: &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTjEJ3cEJnQ"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Cycling the Frame&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (1988), and &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YacABqJSo9w"&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Invisible Frame&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (2009). Both movies feature Swinton riding a bicycle around the entirety of the Berlin Wall—or, in the case of the latter, where the Berlin Wall used to be.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;Please follow Here Be Monsters on Patreon: &lt;a href="http://patreon.com/HBMpodcast"&gt;patreon.com/HBMpodcast&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;Field recordings heard in this episode (starting around the 17:20): a former site of the Berlin wall in Marienfelde&amp;nbsp; ~&amp;nbsp; birds and insects near Portbou, Spain&amp;nbsp; ~&amp;nbsp; canoe paddling near the in Germany’s Spreewald&amp;nbsp; ~&amp;nbsp; geese and peacocks calling on Peacock Island (Pfaueninsel)&amp;nbsp; ~&amp;nbsp; dusk crickets near Locarno, Switzerland&amp;nbsp; ~&amp;nbsp; a massive pipe organ that was part of Italy’s submission to the 2024 Venice Biennale&amp;nbsp; ~&amp;nbsp; public transport boats in Venice revving their engines&amp;nbsp; ~&amp;nbsp; Jeff singing in a bathroom while a faucet drips&amp;nbsp; ~&amp;nbsp; Water splashing against cement in Banyuls-sur-mer, France&amp;nbsp; ~&amp;nbsp; Hiking the Walter Benjamin memorial trail on the France / Spain border&amp;nbsp; ~&amp;nbsp; Baby goat at the peak of a mountain on the France / Spain border&amp;nbsp; ~&amp;nbsp; A canal boat passing in Amsterdam, Netherlands&amp;nbsp; ~&amp;nbsp; An announcement bidding visitors to be quiet while visiting France’s Cathedral of Our Lady of Strasbourg.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Producer: &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://jeffemtman.com/"&gt;Jeff Emtman&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Music: &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="https://theblackspot.bandcamp.com/"&gt;The Black Spot&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>

Jeff walks to the edge of Berlin while sharing news from the last two years.

The Thaw & Die Grenze

<description>&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;n the midst of a stressful move, HBM producer Jeff Emtman finds comfort in the phasing techniques developed by minimalist composer, &lt;a href="https://stevereich.com/"&gt;Steve Reich&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;Note: this episode contains sounds that cannot be accurately represented by speakers.&amp;nbsp; Please use headphones.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;Steve Reich compositions excerpted in this episode:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hH1j06bMHDQ"&gt;Clapping Music&lt;/a&gt;, performed by Steve Reich and Wolfram Winkel&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF479y9Gsr8"&gt;Violin Phase&lt;/a&gt;, performed by Jonathan Morton&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fU6qDeJPT-w"&gt;Pendulum Music&lt;/a&gt;, performed by Joan Cerveró, Víctor Trescolí, Isabel León, and&amp;nbsp; Estefanía Sánchez&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;Here Be Monsters is an independent podcast supported by listener donations.&amp;nbsp; If you’d like to make a small monthly contribution, visit&lt;a href="https://www.patreon.com/HBMpodcast"&gt; patreon.com/HBMpodcast&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Producer: &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://jeffemtman.com/"&gt;Jeff Emtman&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>

HBM158: An Illusion

<description>&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;Allen H Greenfield is a UFOlogist and occult researcher.&amp;nbsp; He’s also a father of three.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;His first child, Alex was the subject of &lt;a href="https://www.hbmpodcast.com/podcast/hbm155-ghosts-aliens-burritos"&gt;HBM155: Ghosts Aliens Burritos&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp; In that episode, Alex tells stories from his childhood of chasing strange phenomena with his father.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;In this episode, Here Be Monsters host Jeff Emtman talks to Allen to get the “fatherly perspective” on UFOs, &lt;a href="https://www.wondriumdaily.com/the-link-of-theosophy-to-occultism-and-espionage/"&gt;black lodges&lt;/a&gt;, tarot, &lt;a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043456/"&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Day the Earth Stood Still&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, and (most of all) how to be a good parent.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;Allen Greenfield is currently working on the final installment of a trilogy whose first two entries are &lt;a href="https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/1940959.Secret_Cipher_of_the_Ufonauts"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Secret Cipher of the UFOnauts&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2541438.Secret_Rituals_of_the_Men_In_Black?ac=1&amp;amp;from_search=true&amp;amp;qid=BivSwCPDhb&amp;amp;rank=1"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Secret Rituals of the Men in Black&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp; The forthcoming book is yet to be titled.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;Also heard on this episode: Rick Emtman, who is Jeff’s dad.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Content Note&lt;/strong&gt;: Language&lt;br&gt;P&lt;strong&gt;roducer: &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://jeffemtman.com/"&gt;Jeff Emtman&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Music: &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="https://serocell.com/"&gt;Serocell&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="https://theblackspot.bandcamp.com/"&gt;The Black Spot&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sponsor: &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.palsplants.com/"&gt;Pal’s Plants&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;Pal’s Plants is a Flatbush, Brooklyn based subscription service for potted plants and intriguing zines.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;Plants can be delivered to the 5 boroughs of New York City.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;Zines can be delivered anywhere in the USA.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;Pal’s Plants is customized to your preferences.&amp;nbsp; They’ll have you fill out a short survey when you sign up so that you can be sure to get something you like each month in the mail.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;Pal’s Plants makes a great gift.&amp;nbsp; Use offer code&lt;strong&gt; HBM50&lt;/strong&gt; at signup to get half off your first month’s subscription.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;Thank you &lt;a href="http://palsplants.com/"&gt;Pal’s Plants&lt;/a&gt; for sponsoring Here Be Monsters.&lt;/p&gt;</description>

Allen H Greenfield on UFOlogy, evil magick, and parenting. 

HBM157: The Raw Whatever

<description>&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;Berlin’s &lt;a href="https://www.visitberlin.de/de/schwerbelastungskoerper"&gt;Schwerbelastungskörper&lt;/a&gt; is a massive concrete structure that, today, is hidden in plain sight between a railroad and an apartment building.&amp;nbsp; It’s one of just a dozen &lt;a href="https://www.exberliner.com/politics/nazi-architecture-in-berlin-germania/"&gt;remaining pieces&lt;/a&gt; of Nazi Architecture in Berlin.&amp;nbsp; And it’s not much to look at. It was built in 1941 as a test structure for &lt;a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Triumphbogen_by_Hitler.jpg"&gt;a triumphal arch&lt;/a&gt; that Hitler wanted to build in that spot.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;The Schwerbelastungskörper (“heavy load-bearing body”) is the arch’s test structure.&amp;nbsp; It weighs about 12,650 metric tonnes, or about 28 million pounds, and it’s the equivalent weight of one of the four massive legs of the never-built arch.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;This plan was abandoned as World War 2 accelerated.&amp;nbsp; And the structure remained, &lt;a href="https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/apr/14/story-of-cities-hitler-germania-berlin-nazis"&gt;slowly sinking&lt;/a&gt; into Berlin’s marshy soil, providing proof of the arch’s impossibility.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;In this episode, HBM host Jeff Emtman visits the Schwerbelastungskorper, records some &lt;a href="http://bit.ly/HBM144"&gt;impulse responses&lt;/a&gt; in the structure’s single room and reflects on his discomfort in finding beauty in another Nazi structure nearby, &lt;a href="https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20221031-tempelhof-the-single-site-that-embodies-berlin"&gt;Tempelhof Airport&lt;/a&gt; (now &lt;a href="https://www.npr.org/2018/08/11/634394533/the-site-of-the-berlin-airlift-now-serves-as-refugee-shelter-and-big-open-park"&gt;a public park and refugee camp&lt;/a&gt;).&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;Also mentioned on this episode: &lt;a href="https://history.state.gov/milestones/1945-1952/berlin-airlift"&gt;The Berlin Airlift&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://www.lonelyplanet.com/austria/tirol"&gt;Austrian Tyrol&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097757/"&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Little Mermaid&lt;/em&gt; (1989)&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;em&gt;Der Herr Der Ringe&lt;/em&gt; (&lt;a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120737/"&gt;Lord of the Rings&lt;/a&gt; movies dubbed in German).&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;Here Be Monsters is an independent podcast supported by listener donations.&amp;nbsp; If you’d like to make a small monthly contribution, visit &lt;a href="https://www.patreon.com/HBMpodcast"&gt;patreon.com/HBMpodcast&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;Registration for the &lt;a href="https://hbmpodcast.com/art/"&gt;Here Be Monsters Art Exchange&lt;/a&gt; is open until November 10th, 2022.&amp;nbsp; Sign up: &lt;a href="https://hbmpodcast.com/art/"&gt;https://HBMpodcast.com/art/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Producer: &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://jeffemtman.com/"&gt;Jeff Emtman&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Music: &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="https://theblackspot.bandcamp.com/"&gt;The Black Spot&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>

Bigness, ugliness and beauty as it relates to Berlin’s Schwerbelastungskörper. 

HBM156: Heavy Load-Bearing Body

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