Movies Watched -- Leviathan (2012)

87 minute running time … the operations of a commercial shipping boat as performance art … boat based out of New Bedford, Mass … it was an interesting idea, it was cool, but I sure didn’t watch it at normal speed … no dialogue, no narration, and sound design and camera placement to maximize the horrors (and wonders). As one critic wrote, it’s a “nightmare vision” and “hallucinatory” … if you know anyone who is interested in working on a fishing boat, show them this movie and they’ll drop the idea fast. I didn’t hate it; this is capital A.R.T. art.

Bye by-catch

Going with the Flow

Laville singing Easy … I dig it.

Movies Watched -- Requiem for a Dream (2000)

102 minute running time … I wasn’t in the mood for a druggie movie, but this looked interesting … I liked the parallel of the mother popping diet pills and the kid shooting smack … sort of a scared straight, don’t-do-drugs-kids story. My disc didn’t have subtitles so watching it on fast forward I wasn’t able to read along as I usually do, which didn’t help.

Love those choke necklaces

V8150 Plays, Week Ending March 19, 2021

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)

scAMEX Plays, Week Ending March 19, 2021

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.

Movies Watched -- Papillon (1973)

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.

Movies Watched -- The Red Balloon / White Man (1953)

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.

Movies Watched -- Sudden Fear (1952)

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.

Honor Thy Stop (Part 2)

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.

Now You're Lookin' Pretty in a Hotel Bar

Cute version with Kenton Chen of a song that may hit close to home for many hotel bar patrons: