Livin' In The 90s Month: Day Eight

movies:

• dead man on campus (1998) kyle hates this movie for no good reason, so i had to wait 'til he wasn't home to watch it, WHATEVER KYLE. MTV produced a number of good films in the 90s, including this one. co-written by mike white, personal hero/best amazing race contestant. jason segel & linda cardellini have a small role as a couple in this & a year later, played a couple in freaks & geeks (which, not so coincidentally, mike white also worked on). anyway, it's dark & funny & stars zack morris, so SHUT UP KYLE, SHUT UP.
  

• the devil's advocate (1997) whoa. i had no idea that this movie was this awesome. no one ever talks about this movie, is it forgotten? underrated? i remember it getting shit reviews when it came out. the chick who plays the medical examiner on law & order SVU gets a bit naked in this, so, uh...that was weird.

tv shows:

• beverly hills, 90210 (1990-2000) season five, ep 15. JUST FUCK OFF ALREADY WON'T YOU ANDREA, I REALLY, REALLY STRONGLY DISLIKE YOU. as if brandon & crew would really be friends with you. i always found it easier to pretend all the 30 year old actors were teenagers than that. ugh. 15 more episodes & she's gone, it's ok.

 no, no, no.

• home improvement (1991-99) season one, eps 4-6. i looked up my big pre-teen crush, JTT (a.k.a. jonathan taylor thomas), expecting him to go the way of most teen idols & look awful these days, but no, he's come off ok.

• caroline in the city (1995-99) season one, eps 3-4. still struggling to figure out why i like this show. maybe it's the fact that it stars marty mcfly's mum?

food & drink:

• second coffee making attempt went much better. plus whitman's chocolate truffle.

• baked egg & camembert & sake.

• diet dr pepper + watermelon & strawberries. 

• hot & sour soup, from my vegetarian chinese cookbook (1995).

musings/other:

for my (i think) 12th birthday, my mother made me a dolphin cake.

that's right, a motherfucking dolphin cake. 12 year old girls in the 90s were all about dolphins, but not all of them got a dolphin cake.

also part of the birthday spread were plenty of those AC soft drinks & chips you could get from kmart. oh & those choc chip biscuits also, oh man they were good.