As Spring Break '11 Goes On: Wednesday AKA Bitter Sweet Migraine In My Head
What's up everyone! Well, Spring Break keeps going and going! I hope you all had a relaxing Wednesday, and that your spring break or regular week is going well. Today was nice! Well, at least it started nice. I had a good lunch with two good friends at Giordano's which was pretty sweet!
Alas, after lunch, about a minute after I parted ways with my friends, I was struck by a migraine attack that came with all it's fury. Yes, loss of vision, numb in one side of my body, deathly horrible headache, nausea, and all. : ( : (
Migraines are never fun, and they always knock out my day. I hate them so much, so so so much. I always play "Give Me Novacaine" by Green Day when I have a migraine to get my spirits but, because I think they put it really nicely about how I feel at the time of a migraine attack. It's my migraine song haha! Check it out below, you'll see why.
So this caused me to basically stay in for pretty much the rest of the day, though I did cook veggie fajitas for another good friend of mine and also had dinner: part two with my roommate at Flaco's Tacos. Good times indeed!
But what did I spend a good four hours doing?...
...Finally watching Lawrence of Arabia, that's what! This film is a classic, directed by David Lean, and starring an amazing cast that includes Peter O'Toole in the title role of T.E. Lawrence. It also has Omar Sharif, Anthony Quinn, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, and more! It came out in 1962 and is, as I said before, a classic of epic proportions! It's also a pretty long one, clocking in at about three hours and fourty seven minutes. Yeah, it's long, but it has an intermission/entr'acte, as well as an overture and a "finale" of sorts, with the famous music that you probably heard at least once in your life. Anyway, the film is based on real life British Army Officer T.E. Lawrence and his experiences venturing out into Arabia during World War I, also during the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Turkish, and Lawrences affiliation with the Arab National Council. It also shows the struggles, both emotionally and physically, his adventure brings to him and how he deals with war and revolt. Peter O'Toole does amazingly playing Lawrence (he is very well known for this role, if it isn't his most famous one). He brings so much to this movie that makes in enjoyable, as well as the whole cast, including Alec Guinness who played Prince Faisal, who I realized towards the end of the movie was Obi Wan Kenobi in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, the first of the original trilogy to ever come out! His voice is very distinctive to me. Anyway, the whole cast did an amazing job! The desert scenes (which the movie takes place in the most in all honestly) are amazingly shot, especially when one of Lawrence's party gets lost in the Nefud Desert and Lawrence goes back to find him alone while being thurst deprived. He finds him and comes back to his party and goes up to Sherif Ali and tells him "Nothing is written", talking about his fate. You'll probably get it more if you see the movie, which I highly recommend as it is a classic and it is really epic! And that quote is probably now one of my favorite quotes ever! This is definitely one to watch, ladies and gents!
Tonight, I also got to finish reading a book. Actually I mean a comic book! And I'm really glad I read it! I haven't read a comic book in awhile, but when I was younger, I always enjoyed reading them! I really liked Ultimate Spiderman when they first started coming out! haha, ohh comic books! Brings me back, and I still do enjoy them quite a bit, I think they are a really underated art form! Anyway, so my roommate introduced me to this comic series called The Umbrella Academy by Gerard Way and Gabriel Ba. Gerard Way, I knew from My Chemical Romance, which I have also recently been introduced to by my roommate this year and can honestly say they are one of my favorite bands! I know, I know, I'm late as hell. I'm usually late with newer music haha! But anyway, he told me to check these out as we both knew Gerard Way from the band and he said they were really awesome, as he created the story for the comics, so he let me borrow them! I just finished the first volume, entitled Apocalypse Suite , tonight and I really enjoyed it! The story is about this family of super hero children with super powers who grow up and try to save the world from ending numorious times. In this volume (consisting of the six original issues that make up the volume), the family (or The Umbrella Company) try to save the world from a (literally) killer orchestra that is about to play a suite that will bring the world to a violent end, unfortunately with the help of one of their own. The super heroes include Space Boy, who has a gorilla body, The Rumor, who can state something and it will come true, and a few more! The world we are brought into is dark but sci-fi, and abstract. It's a very good read and the illustrations are AMAZING! I also really love the story, as it is very original and probably one of the most creative ways one can think of to end the world. So check it out, even if you don't read comics too often! It's been awhile for me, but I still love it!
Well, that's all for now! Time for me to relax, get some rest to fully recover from this migraine, and get ready for tomorrow as my dad is coming to visit!!!!
So I wish everyone a good night and keep it rock and roll! ; )
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