Sorry To Keep You After You Were Gone

Added on January 20, 2016 by C. Maoxian.

No good live version of Sam Phillips singing "If I Could Write" on YouTube, so I'm forced to embed this. Discovered via Spotify's algo. I dig it.

The Songs of Roger Miller

Added on January 19, 2016 by C. Maoxian.

Not sure how many of these he wrote (most all of them?) or how complete this list is, but here goes:

A Man Like Me
A Million Years Or So
A World I Can't Live In
A World So Full of Love
Absence
Ain't That Fine
As Long As There's a Shadow
Atta Boy GIrl
Big Harlan Taylor
Billy Bayou
Boeing Boeing 707
Burma Shave
Burning Bridges
By the Time I Get to Phoenix
Can't Stop Lovin' You
Chug a Lug
Dad Blame Anything a Man Can't Quit
Dang Me
Do-Wacka-Do
Don't We All Have the Right (to Be Wrong)
Engine Engine No. 9
England Swings
Every Which-A-Way
Everything's Coming Up Roses
Footprints in the Snow
Guv'Ment
Half a Mind
Hard Headed Me
Heartaches by the Numbers
Heartbreak Hotel
Hitch-Hiker
Home
Hoppy's Gone
Husbands and Wives
I'll Pick Up My Heart and Go Home
In the Summertime (You Don't Want My Love)
Invitation to the Blues
It Happened Just That Way
It Takes All Kinds To Make a World
I've Been a Long Time Leavin' (But I'll Be a Long Time Gone)
Jason Fleming
Kansas City Star
King of the Road
Less and Less
Little Green Apples
Lock, Stock, and Teardrops
Lou's Got the Flu
Loving Her Was Easier (Than Anything I'll Ever Do Again)
Me and Bobby McGee
My Ears Should Burn (When Fools Are Talked About)
My Elusive Dreams
My Pillow
My Uncle Used to Love Me (But She Died)
Nothing Can Stop My Love
Old Friends
Old Toy Trains
One Dyin' and a Buryin'
Only Daddy That'll Walk the Line
Oo-De-Lally
Orange Blossom Special
Our Hearts Will Play the Music
Pardon This Coffin
Please Release Me
Poor Little John
Reincarnation
River in the Rain
Ruby (Don't Take Your Love To Town)
So Saith He the Lord
Sorry, Willie
South
Swiss Cottage Place
Swiss Maid
Tall Tall Trees
That's The Way I Feel
The Ballad of Waterhole #3
The Best of All Possible Worlds
(The Day I Jumped) From Uncle Harvey's Plane
The Good Old Days
The Last Word in Lonesome Is Me
The Moon is High (and So Am I)
The Wrong Kind of Girl
This Town
Tomorrow Night in Baltimore
Train of Life
Treat Me Like a Human
Trouble on the Turnpike
Walkin' in the Sunshine
What Are Those Things (with Big Black Wings)
What I'd Give To Be the Wind
What Would My Mama Say
When a House Is Not a Home
When Two Worlds Collide
Where Have All the Average People Gone
You Can't Roller Skate in a Buffalo Herd
You're Forgetting Me
You're My Kingdom

Listen to the list on Spotify

Syma Helicopters A Joy

Added on January 18, 2016 by C. Maoxian.

My boy recently turned 11 and I got him this little Syma helicopter as a gift. It's such a joy to fly that we fight over it, and Dad has had to order one of his own now (well, a larger model, the S032). It's super stable, charges using a USB cable, has a flight time of around six to eight minutes, and is beautifully constructed. A steal at $20!

Better Grab The Best Of Your Life

Added on January 18, 2016 by C. Maoxian.

Found via Spotify's Weekly Discover, Frazey Ford singing September Fields ... again, their algo is serving me stuff I like:

Shadow Cast Over First Solar

Added on January 17, 2016 by C. Maoxian.

Flipping through the charts this long weekend, I also see that First Solar (FSLR) set up short. It has already triggered, but the minimum target is so far down there that you should still take a look at it.

Bad News for Gold Bugs

Added on January 17, 2016 by C. Maoxian.

Despite the broad market sort of collapsing, gold isn't doing much. In fact, Barrick Gold (ABX) looks like a short to me for the third time in three years. Frayed-shirtcuff Elliott Wavers spotted a short set-up in February 2014, and again in May 2015. Now in January 2016, the voodoo is projecting a target price of $4ish. Ugly.