Category Archives: Entertainment

Salem’s Lot & Sleepless Nights

Posted on May 19, 2012 by judisunshine

I have been terrified of horror for as long as I can remember. Ghouls, mainly, when I was younger, scared the heck out of me. And even at five, I could tell that part of vampires’ power came from their … Continue reading →

Posted in Apartments & Other Domiciles, Childhood, Entertainment, Family, Friends, Going Out, Miscellaneous, Movies, Supernatural :o | Tagged Adventureland, Beverly Cleary, Buffy Innocence, buried alive, Eerie and Creepy comics, Farmingdale, ghouls, Hempstead, Home Depot, horror movies, little brother scratching at the window, Long Island, made for television movies, Merrick, Nickelodeon, parents, peach paint, Ramona the Brave, Salem's Lot, Saw 3, suburbia, The Adventures of Black Beauty, The Vanishing, vampires | 6 Comments

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 →

Posted in AcTING!, Apartments & Other Domiciles, Cats, Celebrities, Childhood, Entertainment, Intentionally Cheesy Movie Night, Movies, Music, Romance, Women | Tagged '80s, 1983, actresses, Airplanes, angels, Beatrice Straight, blonde wigs, cabs, Captain Kangaroo, carnations, carriage rides, Carrie and Big, criminals, Dawson's Creek, deep moral fiber, E.T., Edna Garrett, fate, feathered hair, fencing, fluffy hair, food fights, foxy, freeze frame, fried chicken, Gavin De Becker, Gene Hackman, Grease, Gremlins, GTA, Hallelujah chorus, headshots, high tea, Home Alone, Intentionally Cheesy Movie Night, inventors, jean jacket, Joey Potter's mugger, John Travolta, Just Shoot Me, karaoke, loan sharks, Manhattan, montage, movie epiphanies, Mr. Carosi from Saved by the Bell, mustaches, nutcrackers, Oliver Reed, Olivia Newton-John, pie in the face, pink and gray color combination, pink suit, Plaza Hotel, police, Poltergeist, portraits, punished spontaneity, refusal to date Batman, relationships, Richard V, roommates, root menus, sexual tension, Shakespeare, shout outs, soundtracks, spinectomy, SSCS, Stephen King, suit jackets, sunglasses, Sunshine, The Gift of Fear, The Merchant of Venice, throwing marshmallows off of buildings, tight pants, Turbo, Two of a Kind, TWoP, waitressing, Weird Al, what really matters in life, Zack | 1 Comment

Some Movie Remakes That I Think Are Cool

Posted on April 19, 2012 by judisunshine

So like five years ago at Boulder Creek, my friend Jay accused me of acting like a fuddy duddy because I was worried that kids on wheelies were going to fall and kill themselves on the sharp-edged fireplace in the … Continue reading →

Posted in Body Image, Buffy, Celebrities, Childhood, Entertainment, Family, Friends, Lists, Miscellaneous, Movies, Romance, TV | Tagged 000 Corpses, 1985, 1994, 21 Jump Street, 30 Rock, Angles, Anne of Green Gables, Anne Shirley, Boulder Creek, Brea Grant, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, butthourt, childhood, Christian Bale, Claire Danes, Colleen Dewhurst, Diane Keaton, early '90s, Elizabeth Taylor, Father of the Bride, fireplaces, Footloose, fuddy duddy, Funny Games, Gabriel Byrne, get off my lawn, getting older, Grease 2, Halloween, Halloween II, haterade, High school, hijinx, hold your horses, Hollywood, House of 1, Jaden Smith, Jimi Hendrix, Jonah Hill, Joss Whedon, Kevin Sullivan, Kimberly Williams, Kirsten Dunst, Larussu, Little Women, Megan Follows, movie remakes, Naomi Watts, Never Been Kissed, nostalgia, Passion perfume, period pieces, Poltergeist, Prince Edward Island, Ralph Macchio, restaurants, Richard Farnsworth, Rob Zombie, Robbie Williams, snow, Steve Martin, Sunrise Mall, Susan Sarandon, swans, tense expressions, terrible blender arguments, The Devil's Rejects, The Karate Kid, The Strangers, Them, Tina Fey, too soon, Trekkies, Trini Alvarado, uphill battles, Vampire Diaries, violent movies, wheelies, white lights, Winona Ryder, You're all right | 2 Comments

A Few Good Men

Posted on April 5, 2012 by judisunshine

Warning! Spoilers for the series mentioned ahead, if you haven’t seen them! So a lot of times, sensitive dudes get crap for showing their “feminine” sides. And I think that’s sad. Because as a woman who likes guys, I think … Continue reading →

Posted in Buffy, Celebrities, Entertainment, Friends, Lists, Miscellaneous, Movies, Romance, Superheroes/Villains, TV, Women | Tagged accidental pregnancies, Andy Botwin, Angel Batista, Anya, awesome guys, Ben Covington, BMOC, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Callie, Chris Messina, Cordelia, David Zayas, Dawn, Degrassi: The Next Generation, Dexter, Emma Nelson, Eric Dane, Faith, family, Grey's Anatomy, Hunter Parrish, J.J. Abrams, J.T. Yorke, James Gandolfini, Julie Bowen, Justin Kirk, Lexie, luminous redheads, Mary Louise Parker, McSteamy, Nancy Botwin, nicholas brendan, Nina Dobrev, Ryan Cooley, Scott Speedman, sensitive guys, Silas Botwin, six feet under, Six Feet Under finale, suffering, Ted, Tony Soprano, weakness, Weeds, Willow Rosenberg, Xander Harris, Zeppo | 8 Comments

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 →

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A New “90210,” 15 Years Later

Posted on March 23, 2012 by judisunshine

Last Saturday, the day after my reunion (woohoo, more on that another time though), I managed to finally, after 15 years, catch the episode of “90210” where Brandon uses Kelly as a decoy at some college government thing because Josh … Continue reading →

Posted in Body Image, Celebrities, Childhood, Entertainment, Friends, Miscellaneous, Romance, TV, Women | Tagged belly shirts, Beverly Hills 90210, Brandon Walsh, Brenda Walsh, Change Partners episode, cheating, Claire Arnold, college, dating, DEA, double standards with sex, Dylan McKay, Generation X, Generation Y, High school, Kelly Taylor, Muntz, Steve Sanders, unfriendly to ass years, Valerie Malone | 2 Comments

Intentionally Cheesy Movie Night 9: Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo

Posted on March 21, 2012 by judisunshine

My brother recapped it first! Click here for his take, and awesome site in general! We begin with an extensive montage, where everything that you remember from the mid-’80s flashes across the screen in lots of color! Boomboxes! Fashion! Dancing! … Continue reading →

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3 Awesome Memories from My High School Senior Lounge

Posted on March 13, 2012 by judisunshine

When I was in 12th grade, we were given a senior lounge. Whose idea it was to give a bunch of 17-18 year olds their own unsupervised classroom I don’t know, but let me extend a slow clap. Because it … Continue reading →

Posted in Apartments & Other Domiciles, Childhood, Entertainment, Friends, Lists, Miscellaneous, School | Tagged 12th grade, Dazed and Confused, entertainment of the chaste, fires, High school, Matthew McConaughey, senior lounge, senior year, South Shore Christian School, spinning, Spot the Looney, SSCS, washing machine | 5 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

The “90210” Survival Guide

Posted on September 29, 2011 by judisunshine

So the other day I was bumming around and found out “90210” was on. And I was very happy that although it was from a wretched post-Brenda year, it was not the wretchedest of the wretchedest. But I realized, how … Continue reading →

Posted in Celebrities, Entertainment, Lists, Miscellaneous, TV | Tagged 90210, Brenda, Dylan, Jennie Garth, love triangles, Niki, Shannen Doherty, SOAPnet, Tiffani Amber-Thiessen | 7 Comments

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