Bill Frisell’s version of “We Shall Overcome” … I dig it.
Movies Watched -- Brooklyn Castle (2012)
92 minute running time .. sweet documentary about the chess team at a public middle school in Brooklyn (I.S. 318) … the kids are mostly black and Hispanic and they have won every middle school competition at the national level for a long time … two white teachers, John Galvin and Elizabeth Vikary, lead the chess club … Vikary is interesting for sure, she seems to be somewhere on the autism spectrum (FIDE std 2149) … they try to dramatize things with budget cuts threatening the program post-GFC (not able to fly 57 kids around the country twice a year, plus the train trip to Saratoga) … I enjoyed it.
The answers really aren’t clear to anybody
Movies Watched -- L'Eclisse (1962)
In Italian. 125 minute running time so at least 30 minutes too long. Monica Vitti is nice to look at but I wasn’t interested in the boring? love? story (despite the stock exchange scenes) and fast forwarded through it. Next!
Movies Watched -- Amores Perros (2000)
In Spanish. 153 running time so way way way too long … three overlapping stories of people living in Mexico City, which is sort of a gimmick … one story low-lifes and dog fighting, another story about a man who leaves his wife for a model who is then in a horrific car accident, the model, not the man), and the last story is about a former college professor who is now a bum / hit man. Amores Perros is translated as “Love’s a Bitch,” so they’re all love (and betrayal) stories of sorts, but none of the characters is likable … I got what the director was doing (“the anguished nature of love”), I only wish he had been able to do it in 100 minutes or so….
Andrew O’Hehir wrote a good review … “cruelty and violence … are always evil and always corrosive.”
Name the baby Octavio
Feel Like I'm Born To Lose
Son Little with “Neve Give Up” … big fan of Son Little and love the way he ends this one:
Movies Watched -- A Special Day (1977)
In Italian. 105 minute running time. I have no idea how this ended up in my queue but I’m glad it did since I LOVED this movie … it’s a great story shot in interesting ways, just really well done, absolutely a green-go. Ah, it was John Farr who recommended it, which figures, and I agree with him 100%. Bravo, Ettore Scola!
“You’re not like the others, you’re here with me,”
Ain't Got Much Goin' My Way
Soul Scratch with “The Road Looks Long” … I dig it:
MicroSectors™ ETNs
Hadn’t heard of these before today:
BNKU 3X Leveraged Exposure (Equally weighted 10: BAC, C, GS, JPM, MS, PNC, SCHW, TFC, USB, WFC), ave vol 223,000
BNKD -3X Inverse Leveraged Exposure, ave vol 71,000
BULZ 3X Leveraged Exposure (Equally weighted 15: AAPL, ADBE, AMD, AMZN, CRM, FB, GOOGL, INTC, MSFT, MU, NFLX, NVDA, PYPL, SQ, TSLA), ave vol 3.16MM
BERZ -3X Inverse Leveraged Exposure, ave vol 64,000
FNGU 3X Leveraged Exposure (Equally weighted 10: AAPL, AMZN, BABA, BIDU, FB, GOOGL, MSFT, NFLX, NVDA, TSLA), ave vol 7.06MM
FNGD -3X Inverse Leveraged Exposure, ave vol 719,000
GDXU 3X Leveraged Exposure (75% GDX, 25% GDXJ), ave vol 732,000
GDXD -3X Inverse Leveraged Exposure
NRGU 3X Leveraged Exposure (Equally weighted 10: COP, CVX, DVN, EOG, MPC, OXY, PSX, PXD, VLO, XOM), ave vol 193,000
NRGD -3X Inverse Leveraged Exposure, ave vol 123,000
OILU 3X Leveraged Exposure (25 components, exploration and production of oil and gas), ave vol 107,000
OILD -3X Inverse Leveraged Exposure, ave vol 67,000
Weight of the Planets
Aldous Harding says “In your eyes I see the weight of the planets, And it's sucking you out.” I dig it:
Movies Watched -- Repo Man (1984)
96 minute running time … this was a weird one, but weird in a good way, wonderfully weird, must be a “cult classic” … I enjoyed its early 80s vibe, goofy story, and heavy-on-punk-rock soundtrack. This is a green-go.
Ebert correctly wrote: “‘Repo Man’ comes out of left field, has no big stars, didn't cost much, takes chances, dares to be unconventional, is funny, and works.”
It isn’t sausage, Otto