Rebel Prince

A bit of hometown news: it turns out the UA Metro movie theater in Colma is being torn down. Wow. I guess one could see it coming. Though located at one end of a medium-sized strip mall anchored by Home Depot and Barnes & Noble, other larger shopping areas abound, and so it seems remote in comparison. And the fact that it borders on the quiet, cemetery-side of Colma probably didn’t help. It’s the closest movie theater to my parents’ house in Daly City, but we’d usually go instead to the theater near Tanforan in San Bruno, or more recently, the fairly new, almost too huge cineplex near the BART station, which (I reluctantly concede) has become pretty much the place for local suburban moviegoers. It’s hard to escape the gravitational pull of twenty screens and stadium seating.

Anyway, I became aware of the Colma demolition only today, through a posting on the Stanford networking e-mail list. Movie screens or seats, anyone?

The UA Theater in Colma, CA (next to Daly City) will be demolished in 7 days and I am selling the movie screens and movie theater seats to any who are interested. The screens and seats are in good condition and could be easily removed and reused (e.g. home theaters, schools, churches, etc.)…

14:08 | Permalink | TrackBacks (0) | Comments (1)

Some assorted bits and bobs:

Did we all watch SNL last weekend? How hilarious was the Queer Eye spoof, where they gave Santa a makeover, with Elijah Wood as Jai? He suggests, “Make eye contact with Mrs. Claus.” Santa is incredulous: “That’s it?” “Yeah, that’s all I do.” Heh. Speaking of QEftSG, tomorrow night’s episode is a reunion with some of their past makeovers, followed by a half-hour feature on the “making of” the music video “All Things (Just Keep Getting Better),” the show’s theme song by Widelife.

Thom and I watched The Fellowship of the Ring at the Uptown last week, and during a scene in the Mines of Moria, with their dangerously steep, winding, crumbling stairs, Thom remarked, “Don’t the dwarves believe in railings?” “Yeah, that is not ADA-compliant,” I said.

There have been some pretty good episodes of Faking It this season, like radiographer to fashion photographer, and punk rocker to orchestra conductor. Waiting on the TiVo is emergency call operator to live TV studio director, and next week is kickboxer to ballroom dancer. Cool.

Rufus Wainwright is one of many musical guests (Cyndi Lauper, Anonymous 4, et al.) on a holiday episode of A&E’s Breakfast with the Arts, which airs this Sunday morning. Speaking of A&E, Thom and I watched the newest installments of Horatio Hornblower. Wonderfully swashbuckling stuff, all helmed by the dashing Ioan Gruffudd. Now I want to go back and watch the original series from the beginning. An aside: Ioan will play Lancelot in a film adaptation of King Arthur, scheduled for release in July 2004. Clive Owen plays Arthur, and Keira Knightley is Guinevere.

11:59 | Permalink | TrackBacks (0) | Comments (2)