Amanda By Night - ProfilesArchive

About Me

I'm a horror fanatic who just happens to love Made for TV Movies of the 70s and 80s and Slasher flix where the hair is feathered and the (Gloria Vanderbilt) jeans are tight!Oh yeah and Magnum P.I. rawks hard!

My Interests

I'm a girl who grew up glued to her tube so I'm well versed (yet still learning) in the world of TV during the 70s and 80s. I really like 80s music, all genres. I dig animals of all types, in fact I own a mouse. His name is Watts! But most importantly, I eat and breathe all things horror. One day I hope to become either a horror journalist or a screenwriter as a career (or a kept woman, I'm still working on that angle!) but for now I'm just happy seeing my work online, in various publications and on the bathroom walls...

I'd like to meet:

Rabid fans of horror, the 80s and the Drive-In babes of the 70s likeTHESE GUYS

Music:

Klaus Nomi, Pearl Jam, David Bowie, all things 80s especially The Outfield, The Fixx, Duran Duran, Whitesnake, Enuff Z'Nuff, The Voidoids, The Go-Go's, Madonna, Courtney Love, Genesis and so much more...

Movies:

Blood Diner, This House Possessed, Bad Ronald, Dark Night of the Scarecrow, Let's Scare Jessica to Death, Pin, Black Christmas, Harry & Tonto, Griffin & Phoenix, Twist & Shout, Profondo Rosso, The Beyond, Willard (2003), Twin Peaks Fire Walk with Me, The First Turn On, Body Double, Friday the 13th Part 2, Madman, The Burning, He Knows You're Alone, The Norliss Tapes, Just One of the Guys, Valley Girl, Toxic Avenger, Modern Girls, Cobra, Hard to Kill, Roadhouse, Dario Argento's Opera, Scarlet Diva

Television:

Made for Television Movies of the 70s & 80s, Magnum P.I., Reba, Golden Girls, California Dreams (and I'm being serious!), Columbo, The Brady Bunch, Double Trouble, Love Boat, Fantasy Island, Three's Company, Hart to Hart, Twin Peaks, The Young Ones, The Waltons, One Life to Live.

Books:

Anything written by Bret Easton Ellis, Joe R. Lansdale or Jackie Collins.

Heroes:

Claudia Jennings, Gillian Anderson, John Llewellyn Moxey, Ossie Davis.

My Blog

The Many (Cowboy) Hats of Jared Martin

(Slap a cowboy hat on that man and call me Bertha) Mmmmmm, Dusty Farlow. A man was an heir to a fortune but had the heart of a drifter. A bull riding thrill seeker who lived like a pauper...
Posted by Amanda By Night on Tue, 19 Sep 2006 10:08:00 PST

I Got the Jock Itch...

"Alright. I see your point" ... the Jock Ewing itch that is! Jock Ewing was last of the great cowboys. Thick, silver hair fell over his face like waves and his grizzled features belied&nbs...
Posted by Amanda By Night on Tue, 04 Jul 2006 10:44:00 PST

The Unloved Ewing: The Ballad of J.R.

"Howdy Ma'am" The name J.R. Ewing brings a chill down one's spine. Considered an evil sociopathic bastard who not only made his sister-in-law, Pamela, lose her first child, he also drov...
Posted by Amanda By Night on Sat, 06 May 2006 08:32:00 PST

Stefanie has got the Power!

As if it weren't bad enough that bell-bottomed-full-body-loungewear/jumpsuits have gone out of fashion, what has become of the smart, sophisticated woman? I'd be willing to compromise for b...
Posted by Amanda By Night on Thu, 16 Feb 2006 01:33:00 PST

This Parker Possessed

For those of us lucky enough to have come of age in the 70s (i.e. have our first crushes), there was no shortage of effeminate young men that I could feel safe being in love with (run with it, I was 5...
Posted by Amanda By Night on Sat, 31 Dec 2005 10:44:00 PST

The Detroit Tigers and an Icepick Saved My Life

Somtimes life sucks. There's no two ways about it, you go through life hoping to make it out with as few scars as possible and when you think you've got a grip on life, it throws you a curveball...
Posted by Amanda By Night on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Screamin', Steamin' Steve Marshall

I'm always a bit nostalgic, even for times that weren't even that good to begin with. Let's take the 80s's for example. Many good times, yes. But it was also a time of social unrest for mi...
Posted by Amanda By Night on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Wet Bars, Doctors and Frocks

What the hell does blog mean anyway? I'm sitting here in my darkened apartment feeling a bit overwhelmed by my workload and quite frankly, I've got a pain in my left ear so I think it's just a matt...
Posted by Amanda By Night on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Remember When Tough Guys Used Mousse?

Don Johnson Is it just me, or should Dirk Benedict have had his career? Don't get me wrong, I dig Don in all his sockless glory but it was Dirk who played the charasmatic/cocky pilot in Battlestar...
Posted by Amanda By Night on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

The Girl with the Golden Remote

I thought I'd make my first blog (what exactly does blog mean anyway?) about one of the things I'm most passionate about... The Made for TV Movie. And no, I don't mean modern TVMs, which are predomin...
Posted by Amanda By Night on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST