Category Archives: Miscellaneous

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

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 →

Posted in Entertainment, Friends, Going Out, Intentionally Cheesy Movie Night, Miscellaneous, Movies, Music, Romance | Tagged '80s, 1984, aerobicizing, all-purpose room, Annie, Audiotron, boombox, bow ties, breakdancing, Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo, Britney Spears, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Byron, Chatterton Elementary School, city hall, cockblock, community, cut-off shirts, Dead Man's Party, destroying records with knives, developers, Electrorocks, ginormous earring, headbands, helium balloons, Ice-T, Intentionally Cheesy Movie Night, Merrick New York, mimes, Miracles, Mr. Bundles, mullets, nunchucks, Oz, Ozone, Paris, Pepsi, Princeton, Ralph Macchio, rapping, rec center, Rhonda, save our streets, Seth Green, sleeveless leather vest, South Shore Christian School, The Karate Kid II, Turbo, twisty red headbands, WASPs, Willow, Willow Rosenberg, Xander | 2 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

A Star In Somebody Else’s Sky

Posted on March 15, 2012 by judisunshine

Just sometimes, it hits me. This place had a long history before us, has a long future after us. I keep thinking it’s a part of our lives, but, really, it’s the reverse. For a little while…I don’t know. It’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Apartments & Other Domiciles, Childhood, Family, Miscellaneous, Women | Tagged apartments, change, Colorado, Dragonfly Inn, Gilmore Girls, homes, houses, letting go, Lorelai Gilmore, Moving, moving on, New York, Sookie St. James | 3 Comments

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

5 Reasons To Watch Funny Games (2007 Remake)

Posted on March 11, 2012 by judisunshine

Spoiler alert! Though I think one could watch “Funny Games” and enjoy it after reading my blog, I do give potential spoilers for the movie! 1) The Soundtrack/Score I’ve always had a predilection towards metal and other scary sounds that … Continue reading →

Posted in AcTING!, Books, Cats, Celebrities, Childhood, Driving & Other Transportation, Family, Food, Friends, Going Out, Lists, Miscellaneous, Movies, Music, Superheroes/Villains, Supernatural :o, Theater, TV, Women | Tagged 1987, Adventureland, Alanis Morrissette, awesome kid actors, Balls of steel, Bonehead, Brady Corbet, classical music, Devon Gearheart, Devon Gearheart is a prodigiously awesome actor, emoticons, every woman should read Gift of Fear and Tomato Nation, Funny Games, Funny Games 2007, Gavin De Becker, Gift of Fear, idyllic vacation spots, IMDB, Michael Haneke, Michael Pitt, Naked City, Naomi Watts, Naomi Watts 'cause she is a fucking rock star, Naomi Watts acting the hell out of all of it, score, Soundtrack, sympathetic character, T. S. Eliot, Tm Roth | 5 Comments

Prithee, My Dear, Why Are We Here?

Posted on March 11, 2012 by judisunshine

They were all there. Stuck in the basement. Like it was a bomb shelter — not ideal, but necessary. For the time being. And I was one of them, but one day I wondered why I accepted it so easily, … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Apartments & Other Domiciles, Dreams, Miscellaneous, Superheroes/Villains, Supernatural :o, Women | Tagged basement, blood, bomb shelter, chase, floating above, gray and moldy, guard dogs, pin, pricked finger, safety in numbers, stabbed, time being, travel, vacation, waiting at the gate | 8 Comments

It’s Amazing

Posted on March 10, 2012 by judisunshine

And she began to see: how we cling to fragile walls… this first home/body pounded and grown out of necessity, love. Biting love. Survival love. ~ Ishle Yi Park Spring 2004 was the worst season of my entire life. I’d … Continue reading →

Posted in Apartments & Other Domiciles, Books, Family, Miscellaneous, Romance, Women, Work | Tagged abandonment, Aerosmith, alcohol, Amazing, anxiety, catharsis, Christina Aguilera, cigarettes, Clonidin, Cryptoquotes, divorce, Don Quixote, Elisabeth Robinson, first spring day, Get a Grip, Gravitron, H&M, hope, kittens, leukemia, Manhattan, marriage, Miller Lite, misery, New York City, paralysis dreams, Penn Station, Stripped, The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters, Tylenol PM | 10 Comments

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