SUNDANCE YOUR ASS OFF!

A little known fact about Gavin Allen and John-Ryan Shea is that we kicked off our friendship at the Sundance Film Festival WAAAAYY back in the year of 2003 at the little known NoDance Film Festival off-shoot. It’s where we conceived of our first independent film showcase Brew & View (before we were threatened by some fuckheads in Chicago and were forced to change the name to The Visual UndergroundI). Sundance is foundational to our friendship and that is why it is so amazing to have had the opportunity to come back together in Park City for the last episode of a three-year-long season 1 of Still Cool Right. A huge thanks to Sundance TV and VERB for hosting us and for all the wonderful people who joined a massively drunken after-pod-rty!

On this, a very special pod, we talk about the Dick Run Claire, the return of cassettes, the rise of Digi-Sexualism, a Lost Boys TV reboot, and cap it all off with a 97-year-old death metal singer on #StillCoolMusic. This shit is off-the-pod ya’ll!

WHAT’S ON THE POD?

Dick Run Claire (and Dick Run Claire)

Did you know there is a woman named Claire who uses her GPS run-tracking app to draw dicks? Did you know there are actually two women named Claire who use GPS run-tracking apps to draw dicks?? Yeah, apparently there is a competition for who the OG Dick Run Claire is.

Cassettes Are Back! 😡

The reason for this is clear. An entire generation of people never grew up buying the same damn tape over and over because their Walkman ate it. Due to this generational knowledge gap, cassette tape sales rose 23% in 2018. Twenty One Pilots (shitty fucking band), Brittany Spears, and the soundtrack to Stranger Things were dominant sellers, but a Marvel effort actually dominated all cassette sales for the year. Want to know who? Listen to the pod!

Pop Culture Goes Digi-Sexual

Fucking your robots. Yeah, don’t kink-shame man. You know you are watching West World and dug Spike Jone’s Her. These pioneers of human-android romance are carving out a new sexual identity – Digisexuals. Many of us have used dating apps to have sex (although Gavin and John-Ryan have only MySpace to thank for casual hookups), but deeper immersive technologies like virtual reality are changing the game when it comes to simulated and immersive digi-sex. No more worrying about the VHS in the player when your mom wants to watch a movie. Yup, now you have to worry about your mom walking into you masturbating with VR goggles and headphones on (you won’t even know she’s there…). Gross.

The Lost Boys Gets a TV Reboot

“You’re eating maggots Michael.” The cult 1987 two-Corey cult-classic could be getting a TV reboot. Heather Mitchell, of Grey’s Anatomy fame, has signed on to tune up the concept and your favorite vampire-infested sleep beach town may be headed back into the pop-culture mainstream. Let’s hope they keep the soundtrack solid with bands like INXS, Echo and the Bunnymen and… wait, who the fuck are Eddie and the Tide??

STILL COOL MUSIC: 97-Year-Old Fronts a German Death Metal Band

97-year-old Holocaust survivor now fronts a German death metal band. Yes, this sentence is actually true. Inge Ginsberg is now fronting Inge & the TritoneKings in a ballgown. Her story is absolutely amazing. There are few more #StillCoolRight than Inge Ginsberg.

Stay Still Cool, Friends,

XO // JRS & Gav

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