{"id":1740,"date":"2009-06-18T22:50:14","date_gmt":"2009-06-18T22:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=1740"},"modified":"2009-06-18T22:50:14","modified_gmt":"2009-06-18T22:50:14","slug":"there_are_times_when_i_really","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2009\/06\/18\/there_are_times_when_i_really\/","title":{"rendered":"There Are Times When I Really Wish I Lived in LA…"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Yeah, sure, the City of Angels suffers from atrocious traffic, smoggy air, and a surplus of shallow, pretty people — and this is different from Salt Lake how? — but for a TV and movie lover like myself, the place also offers endless amusements that my home town simply can’t compete with. Like, for instance, a classic movie theater running a triple-feature of 1970s-vintage Battlestar Galactica<\/i> movies this Saturday.<\/p>\n

Darth Mojo<\/a> has the details, but, in a nutshell, Universal Studios once tried to recoup some of the costs of the original Galactica<\/i> by releasing several theatrical movies that were composed of edited episodes from the series and its bastard stepchild, Galactica 1980<\/i> (I shudder just typing those words…). According to Mojo, this will be the first time all three of these movies have been shown on the big screen in this country. Damn, how I’d like to be there! If nothing else, it’d just be cool to see in person that awesome Cylon graphic on the gorgeous old marquee shown above.<\/p>\n

The theater that’s hosting this triple-threat, American Cinematheque’s Aero in Santa Monica, apparently shows mostly classic films; browsing over its current schedule<\/a>, I think I’d probably be spending a lot of time there if I lived in the area…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yeah, sure, the City of Angels suffers from atrocious traffic, smoggy air, and a surplus of shallow, pretty people — and this is different from Salt Lake how? — but for a TV and movie lover like myself, the place also offers endless amusements that my home town simply can’t compete with. Like, for instance, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film-studies","category-the-glass-teat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}