The Song Makes You King

Added on by C. Maoxian.

I can understand maybe 10% of the lyrics, but I dig her voice and the song … I think she’s a halfsie like Alicia Keys:

Rigged Ticker Review for Wednesday, November 17, 2021 -- $INM

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$INM was today’s rigged ticker, rotating the float nearly 13 times on 236,000 trades.

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When I Replied I Lied

Added on by C. Maoxian.

Can’t get enough of Vicky Sometani… I think she’s great:

Lyrics as I hear them:

someone on the tube

was wearing your perfume

and it soothed my soul

all i could do

was think of you

and the youth we used to know

someone on the tube

was wearing your perfume

when i replied i lied

i told you i'd find time

the last night you asked me to stay

we never said we'd try

forgot to say good-bye

and for our love that remained

no promises were ever made

i'll never forget when we first met

couldn't get enough

was in my head

that we once said

that we'd mend the world's broken hearts

i'll never forget when we first met

when i replied i lied

i told you i'd find time

the last night you asked me to stay

we never said we'd try

forgot to say good-bye

and for our love that remained

no promises were ever made

i was afraid to make mistakes

i was afraid right from the start

it's just the way that these hearts break

when you lose it all

i knew that they say

you have to be brave

if you want to make something new

but I ran away

i couldn't take the truth

when i replied i lied

i couldn't make up my mind

the last night i ran away

we never said we'd try

forgot to say good-bye

and for our love that remained

no promises were ever made

someone on the tube

was wearing your perfume

and it soothed my soul

someone on the tube

was wearing your perfume

My Retarded Night in Twitter Jail

Added on by C. Maoxian.

Yesterday some weasel goaded me into calling him a “retard” on Twitter, then reported me to the Twitter police for “hateful conduct,” which resulted in a 12-hour ban assuming I agreed to “Delete the content that violates our rules.” Seems like overkill to me.

Rigged Ticker Review for Tuesday, November 16, 2021 -- $GOVX

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$GOVX was today’s rigged ticker, rotating the float over 5 times on 85,000 trades.

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Rigged Ticker Review for Monday, November 15, 2021 -- $SSNT

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$SSNT was today’s rigged ticker, rotating the float over 20 times on 102,000 trades.

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You Lay Down Next To Me

Added on by C. Maoxian.

I’m a fan of YEBBA (Abigail > Abbey > backwards) … here she is singing about a crazy girlfriend who is being two-timed. The past tense of lie is lay.

Movies Watched -- A Place in the Sun (1951)

Added on by C. Maoxian.

121 minute running time which means, yes, it was 20 minutes too long … the courtroom scene at the end, which lasts about half an hour, really kills the momentum … but in many ways this is a classic, an unusual movie for the time, based on Teddy Dreiser’s book, “An American Tragedy.” Social class, alienation, ambition are all interesting ideas that are explored … the first two-thirds of the movie are green-go, but I don’t know if I can recommend it from start to finish.

Did you promise to be a good boy?