Lead Me Back To Myself

Molly Sarlé with “Human” (lead song of the concert) … hippie chick from Bennington College, pretty sure she’s high there, but it’s a great song, I dig it:

[Verse 1]
He's got long skinny legs and holes in his pants
I love the way he sings, I've never really seen him dance
He's got high hopes for the future
He's the kind of guy who might say something like "Maybe in another lifetime"
And really mean it
And I might believe him
Well, who hasn't talked to God like he's a man?
I do it all the time on accident
Sometimes I talk to you that way and I'm sorry baby
'Cause it's me
I made you in my image and if I asked you to understand

[Chorus]
That I see what I see
I don't see what I can't
You'd know I'm nothing other than human
Human
[Verse 2]
I want to tell you if you lead me back to myself
I won't go runnin', not to anyone else
But you'd probably say in some kind and vague way
That you're a free man and you don't love me, not like that

[Outro]
You see what you see
You don't see what you can't
And you're nothing other than human
Human

Movies Watched -- Burning (2018)

In Korean. 148 minute running time which means it was ONE HOUR too long … I don’t know what it was about, it’s forcefully mystifying, I have no idea what was really gong on (SPOILERS), but it’s about a poor countryside kid and a rich city kid and a girl they both (?) fall in love with (love triangle thing, you know, jealousy), then she disappears. The countryside kid wants to be a writer but is unemployed and completely inarticulate and constantly looks blank and dumb (loves Faulkner though), and the rich city kid is smarmy and easy to hate and may be a serial killer, but then again maybe not, you’re never really sure, but country kid (SPOILERS) ends up murdering him anyway. The end. Kind of interesting from a class hatred angle, but not really. This was a John Farr reco. It should be one star given it’s extreme length, but it I’m going to give it two stars (not terrible but not recommended either).

Peter Bradshaw is right about this: “He is great at showing the numbness and stunned, cowed acceptingness of Jongsoo’s existence.”

Burning a joint together

Movies Watched -- Love Jones (1997)

110 minute running time … black culture movie, I didn’t make it very far in … a movie about middle class, “educated” black people and their relationships, I guess, but I wasn’t interested and none of it rang true … I just read that 52% of black men have never been married, forget about married and divorced … starred a girl with almond-shaped eyes, beautiful skin, and chemically straightened hair … no idea how this movie got in my queue, but John Farr certainly isn’t to blame. One star.

I can't believe you f-cked him on the first date. Ho! You a ho! Slut puppy!

Got Away Or Gotta Wait?

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.”