Jellyfish was a short-lived band that had some really amazing music and videos around 1990. Below is from a live concert in Germany, although the much higher-quality and easier-to-understand video is here (embedding it is disallowed). I am in awe of any drummer who can do the singing at the same time.
Slope of Hope Blog Posts
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Beat the Meetles
People often make glowing remarks about "California weather", particularly if they are visitors. This term usually gets deployed during instances of sunny, hot days. When it's sunny and hot, and people gush about California weather, I want to beat them with a beach umbrella.
There are three kinds of California weather I really like:
- Heavy snows – the kind of fluffy stuff that comes down for hours and makes for thigh-deep powder skiing;
- Fog-bound mornings with absolutely grey skies and a cool mist everywhere you turn;
- And the weather we had today – clear skies, strong breezes, and temperatures in the mid-60s.
That third category I find particularly exhilarating. There's something so uplifting about a blustery day; it feels like everything is being swept clean by nature. I confess it's one of the few times I feel really happy.
But you didn't come here for a weather report. The trouble is, I didn't come here to talk about the stock market either. I've got some other things to do: among them, set up and play with the new Beatles Wii game we got (complete with drum set, guitars, and so forth). I've never had any music games before (like Rock Band or Guitar Hero), but I love music, and I love the Beatles particularly, so this should be a kick.
I'll probably do a post much later tonight. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Heil Sei Dem Tag!
At my advanced age (43……) I've decided that, as long as you've got food on the table and a roof over your head, all that really matters in life are (1) love; and (2) art.
I'm a chartist, not an artist, but I appreciate the art of others – especially music. I've shown a version of this clip before – the finale of Fidelio – but I urge you to fire it up and even just listen to it in the background while you do whatever-it-is that you do in the afternoon. It's good for your soul. Thank you, LVB!
Puzzling Evidence
After watching the completely bizarre action on the /ES last night – – where hoards of short positions were "swept up" within a matter of moments at 1:40 a.m. – – this video sprang immediately to mind.
What Is Hidden Will Be Revealed
| Tuba mirum spargens sonum per sepulcra regionum, coget omnes ante thronum. |
The trumpet will send its sound throughout earth's sepulchres and gather all before the throne. |
| Mors stupebit et natura, cum resurget creatura, judicanti responsura. Liber scriptus proferetur, in quo totum continetur, unde mundus judicetur. |
Death and nature will be astounded, when all creation rises again, to answer the judgement. A book will be brought forth, in which all will be written, by which the world will be judged. |
My next post, I will state my projections for the S&P which I am using as the basis for my own trading.
