December 10, 2005

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  Mixygirl and I caught the Cash biopic Walk the Line last night, featuring Joaquin Phoenix as Cash, and Reese Witherspoon as June Carter Cash.  I really enjoyed this movie.  I thought it went into a lot more depth, than Ray did.  I was also really impressed by how Joaquin Phoenix was able to sing just like Cash.  Even knowing that he did his own vocals beforehand, I was still in disbelief while watching the film. 

  
  

  

  
  

  Mixy, Jober, Toro and I just got back from GR2 for the PCP art exhibit opening.  PCP is a Japanese artist who is a brother of Toro’s friend’s friend.  His stuff was pretty cool, and we actually purchased the piece of art pictured above.  It actually has four panels, and the image above shows the left two panels.  I think it’s really cool looking, and beautiful at the same time.  Toro also purchased, two pieces there which I think will go really well in her new room.  Jober was suffering some sinus pressure pains, but he trooped through the exhibit as well. 

  
  

  

  
  

  Mixy got us a subscription to this season of plays at the Geffen playhouse which is in Westwood, and right across the street from the UCLA ER.  The two plays we’ve seen so far have been really good.  The first play we saw was called My Buddy Bill.  It was written and performed by Rick Cleveland (pictured above).  The play was basically him telling 6 stories about incidents in which he hung out with Bill Clinton.  It was hilarious.  Rick Cleveland was a writer for the West Wing and 6 Feet Under.  The play starts with the story of how he met Clinton at the Whitehouse while as a West Wing writer, and helped him to get Buddy to stop urinating in the oval office.  They eventually become unlikely friends.  The penultimate vignette involves Bill, Rick, and Christopher Walken smoking Lebanese Blonde Hashish together in Amsterdam.  The final vignette explains how they can’t be friends anymore because Hillary found out about that prior incident.  I don’t know how much of the play was a true story, or not, but it was awesome (Yes, Greedymonger, you can ask Mixygirl, it truly was awesome).  We also saw an entertaining version of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, featuring John Goodman as Big Daddy, which was pretty fun also. 

  
  

  

  
  

  In hospital related news this week, I went to an educational Symposium at MLK hospital department of emergency medicine this week.  The hospital has had a run of bad press lately and has had the trauma portion of their ER shut down.  A couple doctors from my UCLA program helped consult for their ER and set up a day for a lot of doctors from the local teaching hospitals to come down and do a conference in order to support our colleagues at MLK.  It was really cool, educational, fun and uplifting to participate in helping a group of ER physicians that were going through tough times.  Mixy joined me later in the week for the Torrance ER holiday party.  It was a less swanky affair than the black tie hospital physicians’ party last week, but fun nonetheless.  A group of 20 nurses and techs, and docs went out to go clubbing in Hermosa afterward.  Thanks for reading, and enjoy your holidays.

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