VEOH

Wow, so I've downloaded numerous movies with/at veoh.com, and I swear by it at this point. I'm hoping to get to a non-corrupted iDvd so I can try and create actual dvds with menus and such.

Why am I going to bed so late??

The last couple of nights I haven't slept very well and it is fairly upsetting! Tonight I'm going to see my first Ken Loach film with Summer, entitled Land and Freedom. I've been reading about Robert Altman's Nashville, which I've found to be an effective tool to build interest prior to seeing a film. Book length writing about a single film is really good stuff. Haha.

I've found veoh.com and downloaded numerous rare, hard-to-find films, including quite a few that aren't even available in region 1.

TGIS!

Since it is a real weekend, my celebratory mood continues.

I'm tired. I was up until about 1am before I realized I hadn't taken my nighttime medicine. After taking it, I was up another 5 hours or so. I must remain awake. I need to get some food in me, and then take a shower so I'm awake!!!! I need to get on a better schedule.

Apparently the official search for Haitian survivors of the earthquake has been ended. How tragic. 75,000 bodies, and somewhere between 115,000-200,000 dead. These are the real Christians. They are the ones that need to reach out counter-intuitively to a life better than this one that they've been granted. My hope goes out to them.

TGIF

First time in a while that I've had a conventional weekend, for whatever that's worth. I also have a bit of money for groceries so I can splurge a bit for some nice little treats. I think I'm just going to play Oblivion until I pass out.. yayyyyyyyyyy

Almodovar, work

I work two straight full days now, before having the weekend off. I just hope things aren't as crazy as they have been. Our pharmacy is so strange in that it is not busy enough to merit extra help, but it's too busy for sanity. Perhaps this is a common thing in retail pharmacy? I know some people think so, such as The Angry Pharmacist.

I finished Bad Education last night, and I'm beginning to see Pedro Almodovar as quite the constructor of intense drama. I'm now starting Volver in the hopes to see his newest, Broken Embraces, at our local arthouse.

Avatar is tearing up the ratings, despite what seems to be a complete clone of Pocahontas. In other news, this looks awesome. Banksy is a badass.

Blogs, Imaginarium, Blazers

Last night, after a good dinner at Cafe Yumm, I moseyed on over to the Bijou to visit a friend I haven't seen in ages and to sample the latest fare from Terry Gilliam. The visuals were Gilliamesque and certainly left nothing to be desired, but the narrative was severely disjointed and incomplete. That's what happens when one of the main characters dies during filming. RIP Heath Ledger.

I've been reading a lot of blogs about Facets Multimedia and how the quality of their material can be pretty subpar. Very interesting reads, and learning of many film directors and films that I've never heard of. Very intrigued by Raymundo Gleyzer, a filmmaker who "disappeared" and has never been seen since. WTF?

Lastly, I am continually shocked at the Blazers winning games without Greg Oden, Joel Przybilla, Travis Outlaw, and lately, their superstar, Brandon Roy. Wow.

A sense of order

I write this blog to attempt to tally the days and provide myself a sense of order. I've vowed to write in this blog daily now and so far I'm doing pretty well.

Originally I started this blog as a migraine diary, cataloging what medications I take and how often, and how few and far between my migraines became. So far I still get one every day. But I must qualify this comment by saying that my migraines aren't "real" migraines. I don't want to vomit, lose vision, need to lay in bed with a cold rag on my head, etc. That being said, there are times when they daily headaches do reach a point somewhere near those of a typical migraine. My head is just always slightly off, it seems. I have found a daily dosing that essentially keeps this condition in check, in 100mg of Amitriptylene at bedtime (845pm), 20mg of Propranolol three times daily (I take them at 845am, 245pm, and 845pm), and 40mg of Citalopram in the morning (845am). I see my PCP tomorrow, as I was fired by my neurologist for missing an appointment.

That is an update, which should organize my thoughts in this blog so that I can get into something even more organized.