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Song of the Day – “Summer Vacation” by The Party

If you were a tween girl in the early 1990’s, odds are you will remember the band The Party. A pop group bred from the Mickey Mouse Club 2.0, they had were the perfect tweeny bopper pop group, with songs about girlfriends, summer vacation and lost love. I was obsessed with them back [...]

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Hollywood Continues to Disappoint With the Remake of “Footloose”

As a child, there were few movies I loved more than “Footloose”. In fact, I made my mother bring me to see it multiple times in the theater just so I could dance in the aisles and its soundtrack will be one of my favorite albums ever. And as I grew up and could [...]

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This never gets old.

This really should be a review of “Watchmen”, but I am still attempting to wrap my brain around all three hours I spent in a theater on Saturday. And also avoiding the quickly materializing crush on Edward Blake or “The Comedian”.

So let’s instead end the night hanging out with Bert and [...]

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Dear Hollywood, Stop Remaking My Favorite Things…

Nothing really is sacred in Hollywood anymore. Yesterday it was announced that Universal as part of their partnership with Hasbro will remake the classic film “Clue”.

Every gosh darn day there is something from my childhood being taken from me and remade and I am not sure if I can take this anymore. [...]

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Could 2009 Get Any Better For Us Alterna Fans?

Oh happy day. I am not sure if 2009 can get any better tour wise, but I beg it to attempt to prove me wrong. Well at least if you grew up in the 80’s it is. First, Jane’s Addiction announced it would bring the original line up back together for a U.S. tour [...]

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Candy Land…The Movie?

Um am I the only one who doesn’t think making “Candy Land” into a movie is a bad idea??? Well, apparently not, since Universal Pictures just tapped Etan Cohen, from Tropic Thunder fame, to scribe the screenplay and Kevin Lima, best known for Enchanted, to direct the live-action big screen take on the children’s board [...]

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