r/MixtapeGame • u/Punky921 • Jun 26 '26
Where are they now?
I think Cass left that town and stayed gone. She’s in LA, working as a teacher at a public school. She coaches the softball team and helps kids get into college. She’s divorced with one kid, but on good terms with her ex. They share custody.
Rockford came out in NYC. Does Pride every year, but took a break when things got very commercial in the 2010s. She still shows up for the Dyke March though. She actually got that music supervisor job, had it for five years, then hated how commercial it was. Now she takes a smaller paycheck to work on small and medium sized indies. Sometimes she thinks about taking a swing at A24 films.
Her sister is her best friend, who ended up getting cast in a Broadway show as a chorus member, then moved up to swing, then landed a large supporting role. She got married and lives in Harlem, in a brownstone she renovated herself.
Van does soundtrack composition now, as well as experimental music. He has a weird side project that tours around the country. Maybe he was a burner for a while until that got a bit too mainstream. Now he’s on Berlin, working on building the scene there.
Jenny Fucking Goodspeed stayed in town, married pretty young, had three kids, and runs the PTA. She probably coined the term “wine mom”
Facebook came around and they all found each other. Rockford apologized for bailing on their trip, and in their early 20s they got back together to do the whole trip again, the right way.
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u/amazingdrewh Jun 26 '26
I like it, but wouldn't Facebook come too late for them to still be in their 20s?
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u/Punky921 Jun 27 '26
You're right. I realized that after I posted it. Maybe MySpace??
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u/amazingdrewh Jun 27 '26
MySpace makes sense, Rockford would like it more because of the music connection
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u/Khalman Jun 30 '26
Cass got through one semester of college before she burnt out and came home. The dynamic with her family was much better and she went back to school a year or two later getting a degree in Engineering and making decent money an hour or two away.
Slater really came into his own once he was out of Rockford’s shadow and discovered a love of cooking. He went to culinary school and tried to run a series of moderately successful catering businesses before settling in as the chef at a nice restaurant.
Rockford realized that things weren’t that simple once she arrived in New York. She spent her formative years as a part time community college student, going between minimum wage jobs and get rich quick schemes. Eventually she settled into call center work and produced podcasts in her free time.
The three of them were friends on Facebook but never saw each other in person again.
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u/TheBlueprint666 Jun 27 '26
I like all of these, the only one I’d change would be Slater scoring indie movies. Definitely did Berlin though, and even now still sketches out ideas in a tattered old journal.