This was on Spike Lee's list of must-see movies, and I'd never heard of it, so I checked it out. Quit (fast-forwarded) after about fifteen minutes, too depressing, and an amateur production. Poor blacks living in Watts ... father works in a slaughterhouse ... I was most interested in the scenes of lambs being butchered ... some good music, I've screenshot all the music selections below, which may be of interest.
Movies Watched -- Bears
On my documentary list ... watched 15 minutes then had to turn on mute since the Disney commentary was driving me nuts ... a year in the life of a mother brown bear and her two cubs in Alaska ... amazing footage throughout ... kids should like it since they won't be annoyed by the commentary like an adult would. Under 100 minutes.
Movies Watched -- The Babadook
A horror movie from Australia ... I watched to the end so it gets a yellow rating at least ... it's scary, kids should never ever see this ... demonic possession ... or maybe just an overwrought widow with small child and failing mental health ... under 100 minutes. If you like horror movies, check it out ... can't give it a blanket recommendation though.
Movies Watched -- Dear White People
Quit after 30 minutes ... the life of upper middle class black kids at a name-brand college, maybe? ... didn't grab me or interest me ... aimed at late Gen-Y and Millennials, I guess? No idea why it's on the Rotten Tomatoes top 100.
Movies Watched -- Deux Jours, Une Nuit
Quit after fifteen minutes ... didn't grab me ... weeping in French.
Washing feet before bed ... not pits and bits ... tres francaise
ETF Trading Portfolio Update -- May 11, 2015
Scratching the shorts in the Dow and Financials and getting long again. Choppy out there.
Visa Pop, 1 Minute View
02:40PM Visa Said in Talks to Buy Visa Europe for as Much as $20 Billion at Bloomberg
Bloomberg news shows up on the Terminal at least a minute before it hits the web, right? ... would have to dial down on the 14:39 bar to see where entry possible ... assuming a slowpoke entry of $67.94, it would have worked out into the close, but not been great from a risk reward perspective. Any human reader catch this at the time?
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The Honourable Woman -- Season One
Slick production but I don't know if the story made any sense ... starred Maggie Gyllenhaal who has kind of an awkward presence ... she seems gawky, like an overgrown child, and has a baby face ... she is cute but not in a grown woman way ... she has this posh British accent, not sure how real it is, and her pacing and enunciation is just like all the finishing school girls I know (unfortunately many) ... anyway, her father made a fortune manufacturing arms for the Israelis and now she's trying to make amends by building (fiber optic) bridges to Palestine ... she has a baby-faced brother who screws all her plans up (and he's screwing the housekeeper / PLA mole as well) ... there's a kidnapping, a suicide, er, assassination, mumbling and scheming British MI6 agents of both sexes, political machinations, evil Americans with crew cuts, Israeli terrorists, a drone bombing, it all gets confusing. Not sure I can recommend it. May best fall into the slick but dumb category.
Yelp Pop, 1 Minute View
Dial down to the tick chart to see where you could have gotten long old YELP, no way in the world is it below $42 ... hit DJ news ticker at 13:03? while the stock was halted, eons behind those in the know and our bot brethren, maybe it appeared earlier, just can't find it time-stamped anywhere ... assuming you're pathetically slow and half asleep halfway around the world, you may have paid $42 when it re-opened. Risk reward would have turned out to be kind of worth it -- depends on how clever your initial stop was.
StockTwits stream at the time ... several usual suspects, incl. predictably: OpenOutcrier
CSX Drop, 1 Minute View
People apparently expecting a bump in CSX from an Ackman mention at sohn conference (weak wordplay?) ... would have to dial down on the tick chart to see a realistic short entry price ... would have ended up being a scratch ... risk reward would look bad in hindsight probably ... again I'd need a tick chart to say for sure. Scanners lit up across the land, bots milliseconds ahead of mere mortals (and even the Chairman, fast asleep) as usual.
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