Tag Archives: ’80s

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Posted on September 5, 2013 by judisunshine

While I’m no slave to fashion, I’m not immune to what’s all the rage, especially when I was a kid. Here are seven examples! Golddiggers/Termites When I was five, I really didn’t watch much TV. It was mainly the ‘70s … Continue reading →

Posted in Apartments & Other Domiciles, Childhood, Family, Friends, Lists, Miscellaneous, The '80s, Women | Tagged '70s, '80s, 1984, Barbies, Cabbage Patch Kids, Catholic school, charm bracelets, charm necklaces, Christmas, Corn Silk, Electric Company, fashion, Garbage Pail Kids, Golddigger jeans, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little House on the Prairie, Madonna, memories, Mister Rogers Neighborhood, PBS, playground, puffy stickers, rubber bracelets, school, school uniforms, Sesame Street, Six Flags Great Adventure, sticker books, stickers, style, Termite shoes, Trends, Trivial Pursuit, Tweety Bird, Xavier Roberts | 4 Comments

Intentionally Cheesy Movie Night 22: Who’s That Girl

Posted on March 8, 2013 by judisunshine

I would like to extend a hearty Thank You to Krysi for suggesting tonight’s fine movie! One that frankly I’m surprised I hadn’t already seen, but I hadn’t. The opening credits sequence to “Who’s That Girl” features Madonna in cartoon … Continue reading →

Posted in AcTING!, Celebrities, Entertainment, Friends, Intentionally Cheesy Movie Night, Miscellaneous, Movies, The '80s, Uncategorized | Tagged '80s, After Hours, Anna Faris, Burt Bacharach, Catherine O'Hara, Chips, Creepshow, Cut Me Down, Dexter Season Four, Drusilla, Elvis, fire engine red lipstick, force of nature, Girl Can't Help It, Griffin Dunne, Guy Pearce, House Bunny, jail, Jayne Mansfield, John Lithgow, Josh, Livia Soprano, Lovey Howell, Madonna, Marlon Brando, Memento, monkeys, Murray the tiger, New York City, Nikki Finn, Philadelphia, Principal Snyder, Raul, Rosanna Arquette, sassiness, skipping, taxis, The Penguin, tricks, weddings, Who's That Girl movie 1987 | 3 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

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

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

Blonde Ambition

Posted on August 11, 2011 by judisunshine

If you are going to get to know me at all, then I really must explain to you my hair in 1989. First, you need to understand just how much we as girls in the ’80s needed to look like … Continue reading →

Posted in Body Image, Celebrities, Childhood, Entertainment, Friends, The '80s, Vacations, Women | Tagged '80s, 1989, Alyssa Milano, bad haircuts, bangs, Brooke Theiss, camp, cheerleading spirit, Christian camp, dull scissors, Elliott from "Scrubs", Hairstyle magazines, ice cream, Just the 10 of Us, Les Miserables, Ogilvie, Ogilvie home perm, perms, Ray Bolger, Rory Gilmore, Samantha Micelli, Shannon, sleepaway camp, Teen Beat, The O.C., touch of sun, Wendy Lubbock, Willow Rosenberg, Wizard of Oz scarecrow | 20 Comments

Debbie Gibson’s “Electric Youth”: A Review!

Posted on August 8, 2011 by judisunshine

“Electric Youth” was Debbie Gibson’s second album. And see, I get that Debbie Gibson might be considered cheesy by some, but I feel that despite her career longevity, her ’80s self is underrated. She wrote all her songs, played guitar … Continue reading →

Posted in Celebrities, Childhood, Entertainment, Lists, Miscellaneous, Music, Romance, The '80s, Women | Tagged '80s, Debbie Gibson, Electric Youth, karaoke | 1 Comment

Debbie Gibson’s “Out of the Blue”: A Review! (That rhymes.)

Posted on July 31, 2011 by judisunshine

Now that I am done reviewing the redheaded rebel of the late ’80s otherwise known as “Tiffany,” it is time to focus on her towheaded arch-nemesis — Debbie Gibson. I can’t lie to you. For me, it was not even … Continue reading →

Posted in Childhood, Lists, Miscellaneous, Music, Romance, The '80s, Uncategorized, Women | Tagged '80s, '80s pop stars, bridges, Debbie Gibson, Foolish Beat, horns, junior high, Only In My Dreams, Out of the Blue, Tiffany | 1 Comment

“Tiffany”: The Review!

Posted on June 28, 2011 by judisunshine

True story: I have both Tiffany albums in my iPod. And by both, I mean, the two that I know of — “Tiffany” and “Hold An Old Friend’s Hand.” Tiffany holds the ultimate key to my heart, as she sang … Continue reading →

Posted in Celebrities, Childhood, Friends, Lists, Music, Uncategorized | Tagged '80s, Debbie Gibson, junior high, Tiffany | 4 Comments

You Know You Grew Up In The ’80s If: The Deluxe Edition, Now With Commentary!

Posted on June 15, 2011 by judisunshine

1. You’ve ever ended a sentence with the word SIKE. Yeah, okay, when did that become the spelling of it? I used to make fun of Krysi for writing it that way. But yeah, I did say it a few … Continue reading →

Posted in Childhood, Friends, Lists, Uncategorized | Tagged '80s, Baby-Sitters Club, eighties, feathered bangs, New Kids on the Block | 2 Comments

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