scAMEX excluded:
3/15 Monday — CHEK, FAMI, NTEC, SGLB, RUBY (shooting star), LKCO, OCG
3/16 Tuesday — STRM, JILL (unsatisfying into close), SVRA (massive size available)
3/17 Wednesday — ZCMD (amazing), IMTE (sorta)
3/18 Thursday — OCG, JFIN (amazing purple), MOXC (no GZ entry), WKEY (no entry, required O/N hold)
3/19 Friday — SPCB (no GZ entry)
3/15 Monday — GBR (6.78), TKAT (6.30 — did test trend two days later, then mega squeezed)
3/16 Tuesday — CANF (2.96), AMPE (2.14), SSY (3.92, 7.62 high, squeezed V8150 max loss then gave three opps to “get it back” above stop during RTH), BIOX (17.00), BGI (5.04)
3/17 Wednesday — TMBR (2,51), TKAT (6.97, 24.90 high, mega squeeze, multiple max losses then hit 40.54 during OR next day, ultimate scAMEX crush, max loss on max loss black swan)
3/18 Thursday — TKAT (21.20, 40.54 high), CANF (3.14), DXF (2.02)
3/19 Friday — TKAT (31.60, AH high 43.90)
BOLD are V8150 plays.
150 minute running time … it’s very long, like an epic … a prison movie and an escape movie … it’s pretty good, memorable for sure, I’m sure some consider it a classic … but it’s too long, maybe cut out the Steve McQueen going native section, among others … for this reason it doesn’t get a green-go, but if you split it up to watch over three nights, say, then you should see it. Papillon calls for a fan edit.
Oh, very much.
34 and 40 minutes, respectively … two short films from 1950s France … Red Balloon very cute, maybe too cute, loved the “special effects.” Is it a must-see? Non, but it’s mignon. White Mane is about a boy and a horse … and French cowboys (wild horse wranglers). Pretty brutal horse fight within, not PETA approved. Again, it’s a nice little short, but is it a must-see? Non.
110 minute running time … at least 10 minutes too long … I wish they could have tightened it up a bit, but I liked this one … Lucille LeSueur, er, Joan Crawford is always so good and you don’t need to be a homosexual man to appreciate her acting skills (this movie is Farr recommended, of course). Volodymyr Palahniuk, er, Jack Palance is absolutely terrifying (he was nearly undefeated as a boxer), and Gloria Grahame plays a great blonde tramp. That’s her list below of “horses that owe me money,” which made me laugh … I have a similar list, though with ticker symbols.
Solid noir from the early 1950s … money, romance, revenge, scheming, love, hate, mistaken identity, violence … it has all the elements. This is a green-go.
From Homer’s Odyssey:
“First [Circe] bade us avoid the voice of the wondrous Sirens, and their flowery meadow. Me alone she bade to listen to their voice; but do ye bind me with grievous bonds, that I may abide fast where I am, upright in the step of the mast, and let the ropes be made fast at the ends to the mast itself; and if I implore and bid you to loose me, then do ye tie me fast with yet more bonds.”
Never pull the stop. Never add.
Cute version with Kenton Chen of a song that may hit close to home for many hotel bar patrons:
The California Honeydrops with Long Way…. note that the horse is trotting to the beat:
106 minute running time … Dennis Price narrates this tale of revenge in his smooth, posh voice as young Obi-Wan simultaneously plays six or eight parts … it’s good, I enjoyed it, it gets a green-go. Thanks to John Farr for the reco. Tony Lane wrote, “I regard it as the best Oscar Wilde film ever made, despite its not being adapted from Wilde.”
The fact is, old boy, we sold short … and the market hasn’t dropped as we expected.
An Irish lad’s version of a classic, Hozier covers Say My Name:
