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Just Biology

Posted on July 23, 2012 by judisunshine

“We really are just biology, aren’t we?” Nate Fisher says, upon seeing a corpse in “The Invisible Woman,” an episode of S2 “Six Feet Under.” It was a woman who’d become particularly decayed, as no one found her for awhile, … Continue reading →

Posted in AcTING!, Celebrities, Childhood, Driving & Other Transportation, Entertainment, Family, Friends, Miscellaneous, Movies, Supernatural :o, TV, Women | Tagged afterlife, claire isher, diet pills, emily previn, freddy rodriguez, funerals, Grey's Anatomy, hope, nate fisher, peter krause, ruth fisher, six feet under, the invisible woman, vegetarianism | 2 Comments

Life : Death as Forgiveness : Revenge

Posted on July 23, 2012 by judisunshine

(Warning! “Saw III” spoilers ahead!) Who do I want to kill? What if I were given the opportunity to kill that person? Would I take it? In “Saw III,” Jeff wants to kill the drunk driver who’d taken the life … Continue reading →

Posted in AcTING!, Animals, Entertainment, Miscellaneous, Movies, Superheroes/Villains | Tagged Amanda, cipher, drunk driver, hatred, Jeff, Jigsaw, murder, pigs, Revenge, Saw 3, slaughterhouses, the rack | Leave a comment

I <3 Rob Zombie

Posted on July 19, 2012 by judisunshine

So I’ve done a lot of lists lately, and part of me wants to do a big list of my favorite things that Rob Zombie’s ever done. And maybe I WILL, in the future. But for today, I just want … Continue reading →

Posted in AcTING!, Animals, Celebrities, Childhood, Driving & Other Transportation, Entertainment, Family, Food, Friends, Going Out, Miscellaneous, Movies, Music, Romance, Superheroes/Villains, Supernatural :o, Women | Tagged A Headbanger's Journey, actor's director, Adventureland Farmingdale New York, American Witch, Angel Five by Five, aplomb, Brea Grant, CD-making therapy, cool musician, Debbie Gibson, Eliza Dushku, Faith, Freddy Krueger, GNR, hyphen drinking game, Iron Maiden, Joss Whedon, Judy Collins, Living Dead Girl, losing my religion, Metallica One, More Human Than Human, Napster, Rob Zombie, Salem witch trials, Sherri Moon Zombie, Simon & Garfunkel, White Zombie, Youtube | Leave a comment

Jigsaw Is Kind of the Man

Posted on July 19, 2012 by judisunshine

This is part one of a blog. The second part will be about forgiveness. I am relating it to “Saw III,” but you don’t have to have seen it, or any “Saw,” to read part two. This part one is … Continue reading →

Posted in AcTING!, Animals, Celebrities, Childhood, Entertainment, Family, Food, Friends, Going Out, Miscellaneous, Movies, Music, Superheroes/Villains, Supernatural :o, Women | Tagged 1970s, active imagination, bloody sequel, Colorado, Donnie Wahlberg, Donnie Wahlberg Hangin' Tough, eeriness, eli roth, Eric, Gilmore Girls, great metal band, helples, helpless feelings, hostel 2, invaluable lessons, jelly omelet, Jigsaw, Legion of Grandeur, life meaning, Luke Danes, maggoty pigs, metal, movie theaters, New Kids on the Block, Poltergeist, red wine, Rob Zombie, Saw, Saw II, Saw III, Saw IV, Scott Pattersone, selective tolerance, torture, torture porn, violence, what do you do to live | 1 Comment

“Revenge” Season One: Awesomeness from Beginning to (Especially) End (Non-spoilery first half for anyone curious about the show)

Posted on July 15, 2012 by judisunshine

Okay so I was trying to figure out some kind of cohesive way to write about how kickass the finale of my favorite new show of the season was, and realized that my brain is FAR too discombobulated, due to … Continue reading →

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Intentionally Cheesy Movie Night 14: The Care Bears Movie

Posted on July 9, 2012 by judisunshine

So the other night, I took a poll for the next Intentionally Cheesy Movie Night: “The Care Bears Movie” or “Cheerleader Massacre 2?” And “The Care Bears Movie” won by one vote. But because I am a foolish, foolish woman, … Continue reading →

Posted in AcTING!, Animals, Apartments & Other Domiciles, Celebrities, Childhood, Entertainment, Family, Friends, Intentionally Cheesy Movie Night, Miscellaneous, Movies, Music, Women, Work | Tagged " circus, 1985, abandonment, acid trip, and when you put it all together, Annie, Arna Selznick, awesome, awww, awwww, baby Care Bears, bubblegum, bumblebees, bunnies, callipe, Care a Lot, Care Bear Stare, Care-O-Meter, Carole King, Cheeky Monk in Denver, cults, Cupcake Bear, dancing at weddings, David O. Selznick, De Kitty, drug-using hippies, Earth, epic, Fetuccini, fight for souls, Forest of Feelings, Friend Bear, full overdrvie, funhouse, Funshine Bear, Gavin De Becker, Gilmore Girls, Gone with the Wind, Grace Slick, green glowing books, Grumpy Bear, handlebar mustache, house of cards, I Think I'm Gonna Like It Here, improbable, Intentionally Cheesy Movie Night, Iron Eagle, Jenny Lewis, karaoke, keeping score at home, kidnapped, Killer Klowns from Outer Space, Kim and Jason, Koosas, Lake George, lila fowler showdown, lions, lollipop, main circus dude, maypole, mean fat cat, Mickey Rooney, Milkshake Bear, monkeys, montage, Mr. Cherrywood, never say die, Nicholas, orphanage, parents, penguin, pigs, pink elephant, Pirates of the Caribbean ride, Poltergeist, potion, Qble, Queen in, Queen in "Snow White, Quidditch snitch, Rainbow machine, Rainbow Rescue Beam, Rainbow Rescue Team, rally the troops, Rilo Kiley, Secret Bear, sexist, sharing feelings, smoke monster on LOST, smoking bowls, spineless, square bubbles, stalker Care Bears, star ship, storms, stress, Sunshine, supporting a baby's head and neck, Survivor, Swiftheart Bunny, Tenderheart Bear, The Care Bears Movie, The Gift of Fear, the power to care, the power to share, there's a power no one can deny, weeping willows, yelling books | 1 Comment

Intentionally Cheesy Movie Night 10: Two of a Kind

Posted on May 3, 2012 by judisunshine

Right off the bat, you sort of know what you’re getting into with this movie, because there are John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John on the root menu, smiling, with matching feathered hair and Olivia Newton-John in blue ’80s sunglasses. So … Continue reading →

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13 Movies I Can Watch Over and Over (and over…and over…)

Posted on March 25, 2012 by judisunshine

13. Back to the Future “It’s the Libyans, Marty!” From the beginning, where Marty is a wailing, misunderstood guitarist, to the end, where he reunites with Jennifer before she was Elisabeth Shue, “Back to the Future” is awesome. Michael J. … Continue reading →

Posted in AcTING!, Celebrities, Childhood, Entertainment, Friends, Lists, Miscellaneous, Movies, Music, Superheroes/Villains, Supernatural :o | Tagged Across the Universe, Aerosmith videos, Alicia Silverstone, Amanda Seyfried, Amy Heckerling, Angelina Jolie, Annabeth Gish, Annie, Back to the Future, bingo, Black Keys, Black Snake Moan, Bobb'e J. Thompson, Breckin Meyer, Brittany Murphy, childhood movies, Christina Ricci, Christopher Lloyd, Clueless, Craig T. Nelson, Donald Faison, Elizabeth Banks, Evan Rachel Wood, Gia, Gogo Yubari, heart ripped out, Heather O'Rourke, Holly Hunter, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Jane Lynch, Janis Joplin, Jeremy Sisto, Jim Sturgess, Jimi Hendrix, JoBeth Williams, Julia Roberts, Kill Bill, Lacey Chabert, Lili Taylor, Lindsay Lohan, Lizzy Caplan, McLovin, Mean Girls, Michael J. Fox, Mila Kunis, monkey brains, movies, movies that have aged well, Mystic Pizza, Nikki Reed, orphans, Paul Rudd, Poltergeist, Quentin Tarantino, Rachel McAdams, rewatchability, Role Models, Samuel L. Jackson, scary clowns, Seann William Scott, Short Round, snakes, Spanish language lab, Stacey Dash, The Beatles, The Kind Diet, Thirteen, Tina Fey, Uma Thurman, wipe your conscience, Zach and Miri Make a Porno | 13 Comments

Used to Be

Posted on March 17, 2012 by judisunshine

I used to be a cheerleader. I’d dreamed of being one for as long as I could remember, but definitely no later than at 10 when I started reading Sweet Valley High. It was everything I loved in the world … Continue reading →

Posted in AcTING!, Childhood, Friends, Miscellaneous, TV, Women, Work | Tagged Benjamin Bratt, cartwheels, characters, cheerleader, chicken fingers, college, community theater, costumes, depression, exercise in embarrassment, existential crisis, fat lip, fundraisers, glamour, going through the motions, High school, Josh-U-AH!, junior high, junior year, laps, M&M sales, middle school, Modern Family, moving in unisonsquad, Nassau Community College, NCC, NCC theater, no sadder phrase, Rachel Greene, reahearsals, slow learner, stagnation, stationery, student, supherheroes, Sweet Valley High, Tate Donovan, tedium, theater, theatrical highs, uniforms, used to be, waitress, yelling | 3 Comments

Intentionally Cheesy Movie Night 21: Like Father, Like Son

Posted on March 12, 2012 by judisunshine

“ICMN is just a front to watch all your favorite movies under the veil of irony,” my brother Eric texted me before when I told him of my illustrious viewing choice for this evening. And he’s not wrong, at least … Continue reading →

Posted in AcTING!, Apartments & Other Domiciles, Cats, Celebrities, Childhood, Entertainment, Family, Intentionally Cheesy Movie Night, Miscellaneous, Movies, School | Tagged '80s movies, 7th Heaven, Autograph band, blondes, Bloody Mary, brain transference serum, Cap'n Crunch, Carol Seaver, Catherine Hicks, celebrities, cheerleaders, chief of staff, Chris Hammond, Cocoa Puffs, curly hair, doctors, Don Johnson, Dr. von Rockenstein, Dudley Moore, freeze frame, frog dissection, Funny Games, getting a C, giving birth at truck stops, Grey's Anatomy, Heather Locklear, High school, high-speed car chases, hospitals, ICMN, Intentionally Cheesy Movie Night, Jack Hammond, Jaguars, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Kids Incorporated, Kirk Cameron, lettermen jackets, Like Father Like Son, Linda Ronstadt, Margaret Colin, martinis, Merrick New York, Michael J. Fox, montages, Motley Crue Wild Side, mumbo jumbo, Northwestern University, Ozzy Luth, panthers, Pegasus, Peggy Sue Got Married, Principal Snyder, red Jeep, red jeeps, Rick, Sean Astin, shoulder pads, speeches, surgery, Sylvester Stallone, Tabasco, Teen Wolf, The Baby-Sitters Club, tinkly piano music, Tri-Star, Uncle Earl, wiseasses, yuppies, zombie video games | Leave a comment

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Category Archives: AcTING!

Just Biology

Life : Death as Forgiveness : Revenge

I <3 Rob Zombie

Jigsaw Is Kind of the Man

“Revenge” Season One: Awesomeness from Beginning to (Especially) End (Non-spoilery first half for anyone curious about the show)

Intentionally Cheesy Movie Night 10: Two of a Kind

13 Movies I Can Watch Over and Over (and over…and over…)

Used to Be

Intentionally Cheesy Movie Night 21: Like Father, Like Son

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