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More on Club 3500: Member perks will include VIP parking, a VIP entrance, and its own “Exclusive men’s and women’s rest rooms, with sound in them, new paint, mirrors, sinks, and counters, and stalls,” according to Hahn. “The Arena Club in the past always had to utilize the rest rooms that are also available to anybody in [sections] A, B or C on the floor.” Hahn is also outfitting Club 3500 with Arena memorabilia from the venue's glory years. “Few houses have this kind of history,” he says. “A lot of people saw their first concert here. We’ll have over 120 pictures showing the actual [Sports Arena] history, like Pink Floyd in ‘74, or the Stones in ’72. I’ve got a great shot of Elton John, one of Elvis in ‘73 or ‘76, and I think a Led Zeppelin ‘75 shot. We have a great photo of James Brown here in 1967, and one of John Denver in the mid-seventies, which I particularly like.” He feels the Arena itself will once again host the top touring acts, thanks in part to the renovation but also due to the booking clout wielded by their new majority-owner/partner. AEG operates or is involved with around a hundred arena facilities worldwide, though Hahn notes “We’re an open building. So, whether it’s Live Nation or AEG or anyone else, all shows are not only welcome but encouraged here.”
— September 16, 2009 12:40 p.m.

The Sentinel

When I saw it new in theaters as a young teen, I didn't have the patience for the very gradual buildup, and I don't even remember most of the flick. It was a treat to finally re-watch, and see so many later stars like Chris Walken, Jeff Goldblum, and Beverly D'Angelo, not too mention old Hollywood faves like Burgess Meredith, Ava Gardner, and John Carradine. It's odd how the forces of God are shown to be just as creepy and evil looking as the forces of Satan, and how both are equally uncaring about what they do to innocent humans in order to maintain the cosmic stalemate at Hell's gate?? One thing confused me, tho - were the previous Sentinels murderers, which seemed to be indicated? If so, what did the poor new girl do to deserve the crappy Sentinel gig? It was her boyfriend who allegedly had someone murdered. Then again, the boyfriend also gets killed and zombie-fied, so perhaps the murderers get "sentenced" to hang around the gate, while some innocent is forced to commit suicide and man the gate itself. I'm also confused about why sentinels need to retire and be replaced - if they kill themselves first in order to work the gig, do they keep aging and "die" again anyway? The film suggested several sentinels had served over just a few generations ----- Anyway, lovable old Burgess Meredith was great in full creepy mode, and (very) old John Carradine was about as scary as I've ever seen! It was an unexpected treat to watch this again so many years later -
— September 10, 2009 8:21 p.m.

Cloverfield

Cloverfield FAR exceeded my expectations! It wasn't an A-plus effort but, having heard nothing but "yuck" reviews, I was amazed I liked it as much as I did. Perhaps the whole jiggly camera thing isn't so annoying on a little screen - I imagine in a theater I would have needed dramamine pills to handle all the jerking around. But on a TV screen, I thought it was a unique and entertaining way to tell a story - showing a huge event like a monster tearing down NYC, but focused thru a tiny handheld camera lens. I watched the making-of docus too, and they were also entertaining, especially to realize how much of the "script" was improvised by actors who weren't even told what the movie was about yet - like the Blair Witch concept, but done far batter and backied with really terrific special FX. I like that the movie doesn't cheat you out of at least one long, slow, intensely closeup look at big ol' Clover. Far better movie than I was expecting -- tho I still refuse to watch Lost, JJ Abrams is fast becoming one of my favorite count-on Hollywood powerhouses.
— September 10, 2009 8:18 p.m.

Secret Assassin

Joe Macaskill from Trophy Wife emails to say "I remember those guys when I was a young rocker dude in Chula Vista. When I was 14 I was a "roadie" for Frenzy, who's singer went on to Bang Tango. I was a little punk guitar player going to the houses of these guys and jamming! I'm assuming I was pretty bad but what a blast! I'm sure you remember some of those great concerts from back then. That stuff will always be in my blood!"
— September 7, 2009 11:32 p.m.

Star Trek

I'm not a big fan of the original series (Next Gen is much better), but there were some fun movie moments in the recast restart that caught the funny vibe of a lot of the 60s episodes. But the rest of the movie was indistinguishable from any number of mediocre sci-fi films, with nothing Trek-like about it, least of all the actors playing the original cast characters. Only the guy from Heroes playing Spock seems to grasp his predecessor's work (probably because Nimoy is in the movie too, and probably coached him on-set), other than a couple of quick moments from the guy now playing chief engineer Scotty (who should have had a larger role in the movie) – Funny about the guy who played Bones - he seemed more like the character as written in the better Trek novels than like his TV predecessor. Since the books tend to add a lot more character fine tuning than TOS, in a way the new guy is a better Bones than DeKelley - the new guy certainly brings a lot more instant- personality than De did when debuting on the air in Trek's Man Trap/salt vampire ep, one of George Clayton Johnson's poorer stories (tho he had very little info about the show when he wrote it). It took awhile for DeKelley to get into his full grumpy southern doc groove - It may seem silly, but I have a huge problem with Scotty being portrayed in the new movie as someone who would have used Captain Archer's pet beagle Porthos (from the Star Trek: Enterprise series) in a transporter experiment that resulted in Porthos being left in transporter limbo somewhere in space. Well, at least the same thing happens to Scotty himself in the original non-altered timeline, where Scotty rematerialized years later on Picard's ship. But I take great exception to the notion of him not only endangering (and losing) Archer's beloved (and famous) dog, needlessly (any living creature would have worked - or rather, NOT worked), but then Scotty seems to find this a funny tale to tell. I find this intolerable, matter how young and rash he may have been at the time ---- I've never thought much of most Trek fan fiction, but now I have an idea for a "Return of Porthos" story that would sure as Hell teach that alternate timeline Scotty an ass-biting lesson or three --- Shabby way to treat one of the few pets ever seen or referenced in the Trek universe(s), other than the Shelat Spock grew up with, Phlox's medicinal animals, Data's cat Spot (his Ode to Spot below) and, I guess, tribbles -----
— September 6, 2009 9:49 p.m.

Watchmen

Against all odds, the film did indeed capture a lot of the storytelling form and underlying heart pioneered so successfully by the original Watchmen comic creators. Which is not to say it was a perfect movie… For one thing, the music misfires. Frequently. Songs by the likes of Simon and Garfunkel and – gawd help us – Nena (“99 Luftballoons,” fer chrissakes), are far too fixed in our real world recollections to be anything but jarring in the Watchmen universe. Never mind that songs like Hendrix’s version of “All Along the Watchtower” are 10 or 15 years mistimed for the film’s setting in a wonky “alternate timeline” ‘80s. Yeah, yeah, Luftballoons is about nuclear war, one of the movie’s “big” themes, and Hendrix sings “Two riders were approaching” just as Owl Man and Rorschach are staggering thru the snow to Ozymandias’ arctic hideaway (having ridden there in the Owl Ship) – chuckle chuckle. Now get back to the movie ----- The characters all ring fairly true to their comic counterparts, and I think they’ll feel real to non-comic types too. Despite (and sometimes thanks-to) the often silly costuming (superheroes, by definition as much as design, dress funny). Great moviemaking transcends genre, and everything about Watchmen: The Movie is pretty great, from the performances to the costumes, the tech, the script, the minute set details, even Doc Manhattan’s otherworldly blue glow and his occasionally 50-foot penis – There’s a much bigger story being told in Watchmen than the end of superheroes, or even the end of the world ---- Bigger even than the various love stories that unfold (a couple of the movie’s other rare misfires happen during the “sex” scenes, even/especially when suddenly there are at least FIVE blue penises flopping around Doc Manhattan's very flustered young girlfriend). The big picture is the one of humanity itself. Watchmen holds up all the ugly, for all to see, side-by-side with all the love, the power, the piety, and all the other messy ingredients that make up mankind. Holds them up and presents them as one long unchanging, unending sequence ("sequential art" is a phrase commonly - perhaps wistfully - used to describe comics), ie one of those old “infinity cover” comics, where someone is holding a comic with a cover of them holding the comic, with a cover of them holding the comic, with a cover of them holding the comic, the same image repeated again and again, unto infinity, with no indication that one image is greater or less - or first or last - compared to the others. Watchmen: The Movie holds all of this up before us, (im)perfectly framed within the felt trim that surrounds the movie screen, with no one facet of mankind deemed greater, or lesser, or more or less important than any other. Each ingredient that makes us the malicious, miraculous, bug-fuggen crazy mofos we are, each is necessary, in equal measure, to what we were, are, and will ever be. For better or worse.
— September 6, 2009 9:45 p.m.

Ashoka the Great

Not only is the menu very diverse, with lots of veggie delights, but the market next door sells many of the same items out of a deli style counter, with additional to-go goodies like sweet halava, pakoras (veggies flash-fried in ghee, like yams, cauliflower, squash, and broccoli), and various dishes with peas, rice, curries, bean curd, and tofu. Wherever and whatever you eat at Ashoka, it's well worth getting some flat bread to scoop it all up - cuz it's all good to the last drop! Any time I'm in Mira Mesa with a little time, I stop by and nibble --
— September 5, 2009 6:56 p.m.

Letters

The Record Release Roundup referenced by Diana Death previewed a dozen upcoming local albums - no label was listed for ANY of them. The label-free Roundup format is due to space limitation, not omission, let alone "shameful" omission. I'm mystified as to why she refers to content in a Blurt by ME (JAS) as "self-promotion" - is she under the impression that Bart Mendoza and I are the same person? Almost her entire comment concerns her ire over HIM - I can assure all Reader readers that I am not, nor have I ever been, Bart Mendoza. Tho I'd be hard pressed to come up with a photo showing the two of us in the same place, at the same time...................
— September 4, 2009 2:58 p.m.

Stripped

Related articles on the Reader site: "Battle Of The Peeps" - feature article about running a San Diego strip club called Jolar, for the nation's second biggest pornographer, Harry Mohney (Deja Vu Showgirls founder). http://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/bands/2008/… "Pussycat Theaters - When 'Cathouses Ruled California" -- for the first time, the detailed inside story of the west coast Pussycat Theater chain of adult moviehouses, which peaked in the '70s but later died out. Told by those who actually ran the theaters! http://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/bands/2008/… "Stripper Poker" - local internet cafe with porn biz backing run by San Diego strip club owner specializes in online gambling - but is it legal? http://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/bands/2009/…
— September 2, 2009 5:04 a.m.

Lindsay White

Separate full-length Lindsay White interview and profile on the Rock Around the Town blog - http://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/bands/2009/…
— August 26, 2009 12:57 p.m.

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