Friday night was spent having dinner with some new and old friends at Guelaguetza, a great Oaxacan restaurant near Olympic and Normandie (right). The restaurant stands out like a sore thumb because it's a big, bold, non-Korean establishment smack in the middle of Koreatown. It has a Asian look about it, so maybe it used to be a Korean restaurant. Who knows. Afterwards, we headed to Club Tee-Gee, a favorite bar of ours in Atwater.
Saturday was a wasted day. Waking up at noon will do that to you. Basically I drove aimlessly around Eagle Rock, which is not to far from our house. East of Glendale and west of Pasadena, Eagle Rock is an area named after a big rock (left) that sorta looks like an eagle. We've heard from many people that it's an up and coming neighborhood, so we've begun scoping out the area and the real estate. 
Later in the afternoon I popped in the DVD of The Getaway (1972), but I had to turn it off after 20 minutes because Ali MacGraw was so unbearably bad. Beautiful people who can't act should not have speaking roles. Then at night, we watched Walk the Line, which was also quite bad (but bearable). The story was bare and formulaic (guy with tough childhood saved by good woman) and the performances good but not great. I don't see what the big deal was about Reese Witherspoon. If I were Felicity Huffman, I'd be pissed. Sunday was spent following open house signs in Eagle Rock and environs. We saw some good stuff. We're buoyed by the fact that some of these houses are staying on the market a relatively longish time. Bodes well for us.
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I couldn't not pay attention to Ali MacGraw. I wasn't zen enough to disregard her. Just thinking about her hurts me. I don't remember Sally Struthers. Must've turned it off before she came in.
Last night we watched The Constant Gardener (got our money's worth on netflix this weekend). It was not bad. The other movie we have is Nights of Cabiria. We have to psych ourselves up for subtitles.
None of this rings a bell. I saw up to the part where Ali MacGraw brings Doc home from jail. They wake up the next morning, he's making her eggs, she says something, and I turned it off.
Haven't seen Wild Bunch or Straw Dogs. Is Wild Bunch with Marlon Brando, or is that the Wild One? In any case, they all seem very masculine-oriented. Maybe I should give them a shot.
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