By Janessa Berlanga My long-time, off-again-on-again love affair with all things Japan started humbly enough: with an after school segment on Cartoon Network from the 1990's. That`s right, my lovelies, it`s time for another installment of *insert flashing lights, dancing anime characters, and confetti* THROWBACK THURSDAY!!
Back in the late 90's Cartoon Network launched this three hour block of cartoons called Toonami, and with it, I was launched into the world of Japanese anime. I didn’t watch the full three hours because homework, but three shows in particular will always hold a super special place in my heart. 3. Dragonball Z
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My senior year of college, I decided to watch every season of Grey’s Anatomy. I had always heard about it but had never seen it, much to the dismay of my best friend. So like the studious person I am, I set my textbooks aside, got on Hulu Plus and ordered a pizza. In no way was I prepared for what Grey's Anatomy had in store. Neither were my neighbors on both sides of my dorm room, as they had to suffer through my screams and sobs. I’ve made a list of four times that Grey’s Anatomy left me completely emotionally shattered but let’s be real- there are many, many more. (Fair warning: spoilers ahead!) In the season six finale, a patient has died and her husband deals with his grief by taking a gun to every person who was rude to him at Seattle Grace Hospital. In the most momentous scene, the gunman has just shot a doctor. Cue Alex Karev, my favorite character, who hears the shot and comes up behind him. Before he can finish his sentence, the man turns around and shoots him. The bullet lodges in his side and he falls to the ground dramatically, arms not blocking his fall. The scene ends without letting the audience know if he’s okay. I was on edge throughout this entire episode but when Karev was shot, I let out a scream as if someone I knew was being shot, not a fictional character. Thankfully, after the commercial break, Alex is crawling into an elevator like the intelligent little genius he is. Mark and Lexie find him but not before he is starting to bleed out. I had to stop, breathe, and buy a new tissue box from Dollar General before continuing. By Christie Gleason If you were to ask me, "Christie, what on this Earth do you love more than anything?" My family and friends, my dog, and Mariska Hargitay aside, I would say THE SPICE GIRLS. Easiest answer ever. Now, to some people, the Spice Girls are an irrelevant blip on the radar of pop music's past. To those people I say: you're wrong, you're tacky, and I hate you. (Just kidding...kind of. I don't know what kind of person you are if you don't love the Spice Girls.) To those same people, I also remind you that the Spice Girls changed pop music forever and were feminist icons in the 90's. They also had the funnest music ever, so you should just embrace it. This might sound silly to you, but I credit the Spice Girls (and my parents) with instilling in me the self-confidence I always had. As a young girl, I believed I could do anything, including calling a boy a "sexist pig" when he said I couldn't play basketball with the boys because I was a girl. I don't know how fifth grade Christie knew those words, but I did not hesitate to use them. Maybe it's because as an 8-year-old I spent my time throwing up the deuces and saying "Girl Power!" in a British accent. (My British accent is now flawless in my adult life, thanks to years of practicing as Baby Spice being interviewed by Carson Daly on TRL.) As a child, I didn't fully grasp the meaning of the "Girl Power" splashed across my tee-shirt but as I watched my idols repeat it time and time again, parts of it began to sink in. Girls are powerful. I have worth and value. I'm going to be somebody. I can do anything I want to do. Those messages from my parents and the women I idolized meant more to me as a little girl than almost anything else.
By Amanda Paschal This week's SNL highlight is brought to you courtesy of Mike O'Brien who stole the show with The Jay-Z Story. And once you finish watching it (and learning all about Jay-Z's rise to fame), I highly suggest you check out The Beygency from last season. The SNL writers must have the same kind of love for America's favorite musical couple that we do over here at Girl-ish! By Christie Gleason Back in the 90's, shows like All That and The Amanda Show were staples for a kid's prime time entertainment. I have always been a fan of Amanda Bynes, from her Nickelodeon days to What a Girl Wants (a classic film) to She's the Man and Easy A. I think she's a talented comedic actress and it saddens me that she's been having such a hard time in her personal life. (Still rooting for you, girl!) With that being said, I scoured the 'net for some of my favorite Amanda Show skits. I was chuckling as I watched them, so I hope they bring back some memories for you too! We'll start with "Courtney", a family favorite at the Gleason house. (I apologize for the low quality video!) You'll see a young Josh Peck as well! ANGELS. By Faina Matveeva I don't usually read a lot or watch television because I'm too busy studying. Last semester, however, I interned two hours away from home with no classes or exams to worry about (hurray!) and no internet (yikes!) So I booked it--get it?--to my local public library. As soon as I started sifting through the nonfiction, I realized that there has been a wave of publication by female celebrities and comedians in the last two years. I'm sure you've heard of them: Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Malala Yousafzai--okay the latter is not a celebrity, she's more of a Nobel-Peace-prize-winning-feminist-hero-powerhouse-hope-healer. Anyway, these books describe the journey of these authors to their own successes or offer advice that their readers could apply in day-to-day life. I call this phenomena the Femi-Memoir. I made it a goal for myself to read as many femi-memoirs as I could before the new year. Now that I've made it through four of them, I'm ready to apply all that advice and inspiration to 2015. This past semester, these books really pushed me to start thinking about what I wanted--not just as a woman, but as a student, an employee, and a friend. I loved them all and I hope you'll take the time to read them and apply them to your lives! However, if you're short on time, I would go straight to numbers 3 and 4--life changing, I swear! By Amanda Paschal Every Thursday, we’d like to pause and take a moment to remember one of the finer moments in pop culture’s past... The best weeknights were spent with Lizzie McGuire, That’s So Raven, and Even Stevens. Am I right? Thank you, Disney Channel.
Now onto a few of the best moments of That's So Raven. It's totally worth watching...I literally laughed out loud! By Lyndsay Rogers Approaching this piece, I found it difficult to find a starting point. To say television (in any form) has changed any aspect of my life is drastic—I’m the girl who has the ‘Kill your T.V.!’ button attached to her backpack. Religion changes lives. Love changes lives. Art. Children. Traveling. Money. Surely a television show couldn’t change my life? Yet, I continue to write, surprised at myself because there is one television show that has influenced me since girlhood. Even now, when people ask me what television shows I like, I often retort common answers like Game of Thrones or Once Upon a Time, but I continue to surprise with my ultimate number one, The Golden Girls. With the ability to continuously manipulate and transform my perception, this show has always transfixed me. Coming on right as I was settling in for sleep, The Golden Girls became my night-cap, making me tingly with laughter, coating my heart in comfort, and soothing my soul with reassurance. As I’ve grown, I’ve discovered that it is this feeling of reassurance that has not just impacted me, but has transformed the fiber of both my head and my heart.
Review From an Outsider By Hannah Henriques WARNING : This review contains spoilers. Proceed with caution. It’s sometimes difficult to find things to do with a sibling who is a whole eleven years younger than you are. But my thirteen-year-old brother Michael and I found a common love in superhero films. We love them. We discuss them, we analyze them, we obsess over the trailers, and we plan our lives around movie theatre showings and stuff ourselves with over-carbonated soda and greasy popcorn. This past Thanksgiving weekend we added another movie to our repertoire: Big Hero 6. Now this was a different kind of superhero movie for us. Typically, we don’t go see cartoons together--I suppose it’s part of the allure of hanging out with his 24-year-old sister--but we never miss a Marvel movie. And I mean never. So the fact that Big Hero 6 was not only Marvel, but was also an animated Disney film, intrigued us. After watching the hilarious trailer, which you can see here, we were hooked.
By Haley Mefford Last night kicked off award season in Hollywood! Tina Fey and Amy Pohler hosted the Golden Globes for the third year in a row, and it’s easy to understand why. Their quick wit and clever banter earned lots of laughs at the start of the show. They poked fun at Emma Stone’s huge eyes, Into the Woods, and George Clooney. But before we get to the awards, can we please talk about the RED CARPET? In my opinion, the red carpet is equally important to the actual awards show itself. In fact, it is a show in itself (hello E!). So, let’s take a look at some of the fabulous (and not so fabulous) looks from last night: On the whole, there was a lot of shine and sparkle. From glitter to sequins, the red carpet was bling-ed OUT. As usual, (almost) everyone looked stunning. It was so hard to choose just a couple best-dressed, so, in my humble opinion, these five glamazons brought it last night : |
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