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CINESTHESIA: BOOK ONE

What is a bad movie? When does the fun start? How did David Cronenberg make a room full of nineteen-year-olds cry? Who *really* killed Abraham Lincoln? Why do birds suddenly appear every time Tippi Hedren is near? The Cinesthesia Boys answer virtually none of these questions, in any way, at all. Who are the Cinesthesia Boys? They're Jim Hickcox and Jason Michelitch! That was an easy one. 

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CINESTHESIA is produced by Iguanodonald Studios and distributed by Split Tooth Media. Music for Cinesthesia is generously provided by the greatest bands that have ever been, The Coctails and Soft Healer.

CINESTHESIA

"Tommy Wiseau's Lincoln" — CINESTHESIA Chapter 1

Time travel, mouths covered in plastic, fish-based revenge and another drive-by Cronenberg mention. Join the Cinesthesia Boys, Jim Cine and Jason Sthesia, as they get more talking done about bad movies, ironic appreciation, which Nolan brother is Mama Nolan's favorite and the ideal iteration of Jaws V: Sharks Hold a Grudge. It's another certified classic fresh from the presses (we call our mouths "presses" because we press them against each other, when we kiss!)!!

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CINESTHESIA is produced by Iguanodonald Studios and distributed by Split Tooth Media. Music for Cinesthesia is generously provided by the greatest bands that have ever been, The Coctails, Soft Healer and Misters Presidents.

Cinesthesia

"Kill Me With Your Fish" — CINESTHESIA Chapter 2

The Boys have been missing in action — wandering through the submerged depths of spacetime, the dead zones of material consciousness — but they ride the bathyscaphe up through the cracks in reality's sidewalk and surface with brain bubbles full of hot takes on Cyborgs and Spielbergs. Welcome back to Cinesthesia. Get your surfboards ready: This tide is only rising. Coming Feb. 24: HALLOWEEN HANGOVER!

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CINESTHESIA is produced by Iguanodonald Studios and distributed by Split Tooth Media. Music for Cinesthesia is generously provided by the greatest bands that have ever been, The Coctails and Soft Healer.

THE CINESTHESIA PODCAST

"Much Love, The Sloppy Justice Robots" — Cinesthesia Chapter 3

They just can't stop! Jim and Jason could talk about literally anything they want, but their brains are permanently trapped in the world of tricks and treats. This week, The Boys take a scattershot look at the convoluted history of one Michael "Halloween is my middle name" Halloween Myers, the once and future king of slashers, who is also maybe a puppet of Celtic witchcraft and an absentee father? Carve those pumpkins, kids, it's time for a Halloween Hangover.

NEXT EPISODE: More Halloween Hangover!!! Part 2 of [??!?] WHEN WILL THE MADNESS STOP P P PPP

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"Michael Myers Sheds a Tear" — Cinesthesia Chapter 4

With their heads still swimming in pumpkin guts, The Boys try to cure their Halloween Hangover by plunging into the films of William "The Exorcist" Blatty. Will Jim and Jason find salvation in his particular and peculiar brand of (very) Catholic pulp-existentialist horror? Find out as The Boys discuss The Ninth Configuration (1980), also known as "Twinkle, Twinkle, Killer Kane," also known as "The Actual Exorcist II," also known as the funniest movie ever made about the fear of dying alone in outer space after discovering there is no god. TAKE US TO CHURCH!

"The Passion of Cpl. Klinger" — Cinesthesia Chapter 5

The Boys are going on the road! Or, at least, Jason is. Or, well, he did. (This was recorded back when we all did things like leave the house.)

Jason is on a late night drive and Jim is his phone-a-friend in the trivia game of life. Together they ponder the important questions, the ones that sit deep inside your bones and echo through your chest cavity when you're trying to sleep: Did Alfred Hitchcock hate life or love death? How well did Dario Argento understand his own films? And perhaps most pertinent of all to the spiritual well-being of the human race: Is it possible to love and respect Nicolas Cage too much? (Spoiler alert: No.)

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CINESTHESIA is produced by Iguanodonald Studios and distributed by Split Tooth Media. Music for Cinesthesia is generously provided by the greatest bands that have ever been, The Coctails and Soft Healer.

Cinesthesia By the Chapter

"Philosophies of Death and Life" — Cinesthesia Chapter 6

Yachts rock, stars trek and men mattress in a brand new episode of Cinesthesia.

Setting aside the efficacy of applying spatial logic to an emotional reality, we are nevertheless drawn ineluctably towards an inverse representation of consensus reality, once the experiential model returns the — um... you have a little... yeah, right there... no, the left side. No. Yeah. You got it. No problem. Okay. So, the — Hold on. What was I saying?

The Cinesthesia boys are limber and loose with it tonight. Jim and Jason talk Tom Green, Robert Altman, Paul Thomas Anderson and John Grisham. The four major food groups!

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CINESTHESIA is produced by Iguanodonald Studios and distributed by Split Tooth Media. Music for Cinesthesia is generously provided by the greatest bands that have ever been, The Coctails and Soft Healer.

"Like an Uncle in an Ant Farm" — CINESTHESIA Chapter 7

This time it's personal. Jason Thesia digs into Jim Cine's deep dark past to answer the question on the burning tip of everyone's tongue. Wait, do we all have one collective tongue? Is this a Jungian thing? Do we have a Jung Tongue? Weird. Anyway, the burning question: what the hell is up with Jim? Why is he *like that*? You know what I mean. Don't pretend you haven't asked yourself the same thing. But we're all gonna get to the bottom of it together, in this Special Origin Story Episode of Cinesthesia. The Jim Knight Begins! 

Featuring drive-by namechecks of avant-garde filmmakers, 1980s downtown jazz musicians, film scholars Scott MacDonald and Ray Carney, and a brief discussion of whether Jackie Brown is the only good Quentin Tarantino film (spoiler: yes). PLUS, bonus Halloween Hangover content. This one is chock full of nuts!!!!

"Clark Gable Telling Errol Flynn a Poop Joke" — CINESTHESIA Chapter Eight

This special Howl'o'ween episode starts with an age-old question: are threequels *always* great? No. They are not. But some are! And the Cinesthesia Boys are here to tell you about one. In the bold tradition of Exorcist III, Halloween III, and Godfather III, which are all the very best films from each franchise (don't argue, you look like a fool) we present The Howling III: The Marsupials. Sharpen your fangs, guzzle some blood, and snuggle up in our New Wave natal pouch for a journey through an Ozsploitation legend. Shrimp on the barbie and all that shit! That's not a knife! Mate!!!

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"The Dialectics of Werewolf Sex" — Cinesthesia Chapter 9

Which is more stable — the metaphysics of Jason Voorhees or the regular physics of Jim's motor vehicles? 

In a new chapter of the Cinesthesia saga (say that five times fast), Jim and Jason float once again into the periphery of your consciousness, like a speck of dust flirting with your eyelash, or a dim memory of someone else's dream. Having never, not once, not one time, learned anything from their mistakes, the boys indulge in gratuitous grousing about a popular director (his name rhymes with "Rent? In Quarantine? Oh.") and then they explain how to fix his popular, financially successful, critically acclaimed films. Also, Jim tells some stories, the Boys spitball some ideas, and then Jason talks for way too long about Friday the 13th movies.

CINESTHESIA is produced by Iguanodonald Studios and distributed by Split Tooth Media. Music for Cinesthesia is generously provided by the greatest bands that have ever been, The Coctails and Soft Healer.

"On a 2D World in 3D Bodies with 4D Hearts That Beat Just 4U" — Cinesthesia Chapter 10

Ringing in the New Year? Save a dance for Cinesthesia.

Baby, baby, let's make romance. You know your old time lover hasn't got a chance. He's stranded in the jungle, just as mad as he can be. So come on, pretty baby, just you and me.

(Meanwhile, back in the jungle:)

It's a year-ender in a four-fender and the Cinesthesia boys are on a bender. Their drug of choice? Mel Gibson's innermost psyche. We're riding out the final moments of 2020 by bathing in the deranged, doom-soaked, blood-hungry Apocalypto (2006). We'll see you on the other side.

"Scents of an Ending" — Cinesthesia Chapter 11

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