Category Archives: Music

Faster, Campers! Eat, Eat!

Posted on June 15, 2012 by judisunshine

In 1989, I went to Tapawingo, an all-girl sleepaway camp in upstate New York, with Shannon and a few of her church friends. And the experience was just something out of a nightmare, really. There were some highlights — no … Continue reading →

Posted in Childhood, Entertainment, Food, Friends, Miscellaneous, Music, Women | Tagged 1989, Adirondacks, battle anthems, cafeteria, Camp of the Woods, character building, Cherokee, chores, church friends, counselor, disastrous hair, eating fast, fun, group activities, Hangin' Tough, meal time, New Kids on the Block, Oneida, potato chip sandwiches, Shannon, sunglasses, sweeping, Tapawingo, tennis rackets, The Brady Bunch, upstate New York, Yankees | 1 Comment

5 Reasons to Watch “Magic Trip”

Posted on June 14, 2012 by judisunshine

The other night, Josh borrowed “Magic Trip” from the library. As is the case with many of the movies he recommends, I’d both never heard of it before, and had no idea what to expect. All I knew was that … Continue reading →

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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

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

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

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

Hope Riding High: My Top 10 ’80s Fist-Pumping Movie Songs!

Posted on February 3, 2012 by judisunshine

So this has been a big, controversial year full of politics and rage. An election and a rejection. Fights. Fear. A collapsing economy. I figured out why. It’s simply been too long since we had great, motivating songs in our … Continue reading →

Posted in Celebrities, Lists, Miscellaneous, Movies, Music | Tagged '80s, Back to the Future, Beverly Hills Cop, Burning Heart, Danger Zone, Dokken, Dream Warriors, Eye of the Tiger, fist pumping, Footloose, Glenn Frey, Huey Lewis and the News, Iron Eagle, Joe Esposito, John Parr, Karate Kid, Kenny Loggins, King Kobra, Man In Motion, Michael J. Fox, motivating songs, Nightmare on Elm Street 3, Patricia Arquette, Rocky III, Rocky IV, St. Elmo's Fire, Survivor, The Power of Love, Top Gun, You're the Best! Around! | 4 Comments

In Defence of Spidey

Posted on November 21, 2011 by judisunshine

Click here for part one! One day at Boulder Creek, I was the only girl working a lunch shift. The guys were all engaged in this animated argument that was traveling throughout the restaurant. They’d fight, take care of their … Continue reading →

Posted in Celebrities, Childhood, Driving & Other Transportation, Friends, Miscellaneous, Movies, Music, Romance, Superheroes/Villains, Supernatural :o, TV, Women | Tagged Batman, Bruce Wayne, Clark Kent, Comics, Dawson's Creek, Imaginary Boyfriends, Iron Man, Love, Mary Jane, nice guys finish last, Peter Parker, relationships, Spider-Man, Superheroes, Superman, The Flash, Tony Stark | 5 Comments

This House…Is Clean?

Posted on October 19, 2011 by judisunshine

(And so the hauntings conclude (FOR NOW), not with a bang, but a whimper (TM my boy T.S.). So when I was living in my second Merrick apartment (the one before the current Levittown one), I remember trying to download … Continue reading →

Posted in Apartments & Other Domiciles, Miscellaneous, Movies, Music, Supernatural :o, TV | Tagged anthropomorphize, Appetite for Destruction, Bloodhound virus, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Calvin and Hobbes, Children of Bodom, David Byrne, Gilmore Girls, Haunting, iPod, iTunes, Like Humans Do, LOST, Merrick, mix CD, monkey movies, Rilo Kiley, T. S. Eliot, Tara Maclay, Veronica Mars, Windows Media Player | 1 Comment

North of the Border (A Harrowing Quest for Taco Bell)

Posted on September 13, 2011 by judisunshine

Can someone please tell me what self-respecting Taco Bell doesn’t have a drive-thru? Never mind, I’ll tell YOU. The one on Old Country Road in Hicksville (I think), that’s what…one…doesn’t. You know what I mean. Either way, that is the … Continue reading →

Posted in Driving & Other Transportation, Food, Going Out, Miscellaneous, Music, Restaurants | Tagged Cross Island Parkway, Directions, driving, Long Island, Skid Row, Taco Bell | 3 Comments

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Category Archives: Music

5 Reasons to Watch “Magic Trip”

Intentionally Cheesy Movie Night 10: Two of a Kind

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

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

5 Reasons To Watch Funny Games (2007 Remake)

Hope Riding High: My Top 10 ’80s Fist-Pumping Movie Songs!

In Defence of Spidey

This House…Is Clean?

North of the Border (A Harrowing Quest for Taco Bell)

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