Chartreuse with “Three Days” … I dig it. I think the algo surfaced this one because I liked Rayland Baxter’s version of that tiny Jewish rapper’s Small Worlds:
Trading Psychology Is Bullshit
Mall Cop is right on the money with these comments from today’s stream, I agree completely.
“I've never read a trading psychology book in my life. Actually I have. I wasn't impressed. Because it's an illusion. It's not the trading psychology that is your problem. Your problem is that you don't have an edge, you don't have a set-up, because you haven't put in the work, because you're lazy. That's your problem.
There's nothing wrong with your trading psychology. You should put in thousands of hours studying set-ups, specific set-ups. If you find a set-up, you think it works, you spend at least a few hundred hours studying that one specific set-up and try to master it, and then you just look for that one set-up and understand when it works and when it doesn't work. And boom, you don’t need to do any trading psychology stuff, it's all bullshit. The psychology is going to take care of itself.”
Movies Watched -- Stray (2021)
72 minute running time … a no-narration documentary about stray dogs in Istanbul with an added 20 minute bonus of other stray dogs in other places in Turkey … apparently a lot of homeless Syrian and Afghan youth in Turkey too … looks poor and depressing … I made it about 20 minutes in before going to fast forward … sort of interesting but better as 20 minute short, not a 72 minute short. Two stars (not terrible but not recommended).
Zeytin, a handsome bitch
Movies Watched -- Pig (2021)
92 minute running time … Nic Coppola as fight club former chef turned truffle hunter … this was some W.D. By thing by a Portlander with a trust fund probably … the critics will love it, the audience will hate it … I hated it anyway, though I do like Nic Coppola, I think he has a good sense of humor and he looks pretty good for 58. Billed as a ”revenge thriller” but it’s neither.
One star (terrible).
Keith Uhlich gets it right: “I … think the mournful tenor of the project is bullshit, appealing mostly to a regressive, reactionary, dewy-eyed defeatism that’s too much in vogue these days.”
The heck with Seattle
Movies Watched -- Cube (1997)
90 minute running time but I quit 45 minutes in … no sub-titles on disc so couldn’t watch on fast forward and read along … neat set design and maybe not a bad idea (if you are a teenage pot smoker), but terrible writing and acting made it more or less unwatchable. One star (terrible). This was not a John Farr reco so he is thankfully not to blame for once. Don’t waste your time on this.
Marc Savlov gets it right: “It's an existential, Kafka-esque nightmare with no real resolution, although if you've been biding your time waiting to see some high-strung, ham-handed bickering on-screen, this is your A-ticket … Conversations, of which there are many, touch on everything from eco-terrorism to government cover-ups to UFOs, all while providing virtually no backstory about the cube or its inhabitants … Cube seems to have it all backwards: It's a film in search of a one-act play.”
How Would You Know You Had A Heart
Sunny War with “If It Wasn’t Broken” (lead song) … great stuff:
Learning How To Lose
The great Chip Reese:
“I think one of the most important qualiites to be a top poker player at a top level over time is learning how to lose. When I was young in my career in Las Vegas, I got broke a lot of times the first three or four years I was here because I couldn't quit. I think one of the qualities that we all have is that we are very competitive and we don't like to lose, so when you're young and you're just starting out and you get into a game and you get behind, you just feel like you've gotta get even that day, and it's a very desperate, terrible feeling, and it takes a long time to get over that and some guys never get over it.”
Bye Bye Baby
Mr Cutts with “Weekdays” … I dig it:
The Devils Must Be Tired
Sunny War with “She Just Don’t Care” … late to discover her, but wow. Finger-picking, a great voice and smart lyrics, I dig it:
Movies Watched -- Manakamana (2013)
118 minute running time … if you want to be trapped on a Nepalese cable car for two excruciating hours, this movie is for you … it’s another production from the Sensory Ethnography Lab like Leviathan and The Iron Ministry (which I liked because I know Chinese trains well), both of which were more successful than this one … if two hours wasn’t enough, the DVD includes another 30+ minutes of footage of more morose Nepalese trapped inside a cable car. They showed this one at Abu Ghraib on repeat in between dog attacks and rubber hose beatings.
John Farr is to blame, once again: “Not for all tastes, but patient, adventurous viewers should feel rewarded.” Rewarded or suicidal.
When Kalika heard this, she fled. [Except she was trapped inside a cable car]