Ghost of Igloi wrote:
Seattle and Maserati,
The gentleman that my son communicated with was their technician. I told my son I couldn’t name a Metallica song. He described it as “conservative” hard rock. ?
Igy
It's basically like if Led Zeppelin was American.
And worse
Antiquated enough that I remember when Bob Dylan shocked the world by going electric.
Yeah, second the worse vote.
Igy, you were worlds ahead listening to the likes of Frank Zappa if i remember that correctly.
Surely Agip has an opinion.....
Tsla todamoon!??
Yeah the stimulus bill—is it prices in already? Yes. Will it be prices in a second time? Yes!
Today I wish I was overweight and not underweight US stocks. I knew this would come, but I just can’t seem to convince myself that I won’t get burned.
Gold up less than$12 so far on the news, but anything can happen.
Oil down, I am sensing opportunity.
watching futures and can't believe nasdaq only up a quarter percent. Makes me nervous, like tomorrow will see a sell off, maybe a fade the open move. Sure looks like priced in as you say.
Is there a way to know Tesla pre-market futures?
I'm def. overweight US stocks now, but plan to start paring back once it kick in a new ATH, just a couple of percent away at this point....
Metallica = US Zeppelin?!?!?
WTF!
Been drinking a lot?
The drumming...the vocals...the bass riffs...the syncopation...
If I didn’t have to drive later, this comment would make me reach for some and cue up some version of Kashmir.
Maserati wrote:
Metallica = US Zeppelin?!?!?
WTF!
Been drinking a lot?
The drumming...the vocals...the bass riffs...the syncopation...
If I didn’t have to drive later, this comment would make me reach for some and cue up some version of Kashmir.
Right. But i was going to let it pass.
the hard rock thing leaves me totally uninterested.
Don't like Metallica, only sort of tolerate Led Zep.
Love Van Halen though - that's as hard as I rock.
I read a great essay recently about Zep...apparently they took a 4-year hiatus, from around 1976 to 1979. When they left the battlefield, they were kings of 70s rock.
When they came back the world had utterly changed. The Clash, Blondie, disco, punk and early new wave had changed the world while they were away and made Zep's bluesy heaviness sound from a previous generation.
So they put on a festival in England to try to re-rev their career. Their press agent knew the band was feeling old...they were over 30! by then. So they were put in new wav-y skinny ties and jackets for publicity photos. Trying to keep up with the kids.
The publicity photos are painfully uncomfortable.
Bonham died a year later and it was all over.
I love the idea of a bunch of newly 30 somethings go from kings of the world to completely ancient so quickly. Esp in the context of our ancient rockers.
Maserati wrote:
Metallica = US Zeppelin?!?!?
WTF!
Been drinking a lot?
The drumming...the vocals...the bass riffs...the syncopation...
If I didn’t have to drive later, this comment would make me reach for some and cue up some version of Kashmir.
You miss the part where I said "but worse"? Metallica was the US continuation of hard rock/metal that started in the 70s. Led Zeppelin was the progenitor of the movement.
Racket you cannot “network in”. All the big money I know is old money. Even the biggest! What do you know about Italian silk walls? Are you good enough to play someone’s Stradivarius? Does Christie’s call YOU? Are you registered with the police on Cap Ferrat? Do you understand hallux valgus?
Etc. It is a bizarre world. Every time I go hang out it costs me thousands. Usually something like one of them fancies themselves a jewelry designer and makes some pieces in a home studio, then hands them out to friends at the social occasion to wear...and of course purchase. At the very least to bring an appropriate vintage—it must of course be a collector vintage that someone is unlikely to already have, because each family has at least one wine nut who lives the cellars andnis really nothing more than a thinly-veiled alcoholic dilettante. You’ve got to do something though, right?
Guy I was playing snooker with put his cue right through an original Warhol, and we laughed about it—he because he spilled lemonade on his custom Lobb’s, I because, as Capt. Picard once said, “sometimes you just have to bow to the absurd”. Of course everything was insured. Twice!
Or how about the time I had to drive someone’s brand-new Bentley, at the time 1 of 2 of that model, out of the ditch? His wife got liquored up and went for a drive around the estate (miles), and ended up stuck in the forest, off the road and in 2 feet of snow. We had a big party to celebrate the event, culminating in me driving it out, assisted by a tow from a guy with a new G-class “winter beater”. The ensuing private photo session (there is always one) was absurdity worthy of a Bloomsbury caper.
In Monaco I am always invited because I have never lost at a game of Padrida. Ever. Like my wife at Risk, I cannot lose. Curiosities are always welcome, and now I have ingratiated myself.
In other places I have been invited by pure accident. It used to be that everywhere I went, people would look at me in reverence, whisper behind my back, get shy and run away, you name it. It was insisted that I attend various social functions with heads of state, etc. I actually went to some, to find out wtf. I thought it was because I was good-looking, cultured, articulate, was seen at some of the right places/events, and had some family.
WRONG! Holy hubris! It turns out that I am the doppelganger of one of the greatest and most beloved footballers in history—and the same age, athletic build, etc. It is effing uncanny. Everyone thought I was him at first! Of course I immediately disabused people of their false beliefs, but by then I was “in”. The resemblance was the curiosity, and I guess I have been interesting enough to stand on my own. Those types don’t get to meet many ordinary, but independent, people, and many found me refreshing in a way.
There are some good times to be had, but I try to limit my exposure. Frankly, I can’t afford it. I remember somebody wanted me to rent the apartment next door because I knew food, kept my mouth shut, and their dogs loved me. It was a mere €150k per month. Utilities included.
Also, it’s stultifying. I do things they would/could never do, and I wouldn’t trade that for anything. I try not to remember any information, although the one thing impossible to forget is where the smoking hot mistress is kept near the presidential palace.
One thing I would like to get out of all that is to hang out with Gal Gadot, in the Wonder Woman costume, with her acting in full character as the powerful innocent—almost as powerful and innocent as my wife.
It feels good to unburden myself of some of this. What a bizarre life.
See you all at market open for the xmas bonus.
Ghost of Igloi wrote:
Seattle and Maserati,
The gentleman that my son communicated with was their technician. I told my son I couldn’t name a Metallica song. He described it as “conservative” hard rock. ?
Igy
One band member is a conservative.
[quote]agip wrote:
the hard rock thing leaves me totally uninterested.
Don't like Metallica, only sort of tolerate Led Zep.
Love Van Halen though - that's as hard as I rock.
I read a great essay recently about Zep...apparently they took a 4-year hiatus, from around 1976 to 1979. /quote]
Essay is wrong. 1977 was one of their biggest North American tours. I have like 4 live CDs from that tours. Pretty sure that's when they set a World Record for attendance and halfway through the tour Plant's son died and they canceled the whole thing. Never really re-materialized after that. I'm a big fan myself
https://youtu.be/4fWTc6_-90Iseattle prattle wrote:
Yeah, second the worse vote.
Igy, you were worlds ahead listening to the likes of Frank Zappa if i remember that correctly.
Surely Agip has an opinion.....
“Guy I was playing snooker with put his cue right through an original Warhol”
Tell him thanks, and good job. ?
Maserati wrote:
Racket you cannot “network in”. All the big money I know is old money. Even the biggest! What do you know about Italian silk walls? Are you good enough to play someone’s Stradivarius? Does Christie’s call YOU? Are you registered with the police on Cap Ferrat? Do you understand hallux valgus?
Etc. It is a bizarre world. Every time I go hang out it costs me thousands. Usually something like one of them fancies themselves a jewelry designer and makes some pieces in a home studio, then hands them out to friends at the social occasion to wear...and of course purchase. At the very least to bring an appropriate vintage—it must of course be a collector vintage that someone is unlikely to already have, because each family has at least one wine nut who lives the cellars andnis really nothing more than a thinly-veiled alcoholic dilettante. You’ve got to do something though, right?
Guy I was playing snooker with put his cue right through an original Warhol, and we laughed about it—he because he spilled lemonade on his custom Lobb’s, I because, as Capt. Picard once said, “sometimes you just have to bow to the absurd”. Of course everything was insured. Twice!
Or how about the time I had to drive someone’s brand-new Bentley, at the time 1 of 2 of that model, out of the ditch? His wife got liquored up and went for a drive around the estate (miles), and ended up stuck in the forest, off the road and in 2 feet of snow. We had a big party to celebrate the event, culminating in me driving it out, assisted by a tow from a guy with a new G-class “winter beater”. The ensuing private photo session (there is always one) was absurdity worthy of a Bloomsbury caper.
In Monaco I am always invited because I have never lost at a game of Padrida. Ever. Like my wife at Risk, I cannot lose. Curiosities are always welcome, and now I have ingratiated myself.
In other places I have been invited by pure accident. It used to be that everywhere I went, people would look at me in reverence, whisper behind my back, get shy and run away, you name it. It was insisted that I attend various social functions with heads of state, etc. I actually went to some, to find out wtf. I thought it was because I was good-looking, cultured, articulate, was seen at some of the right places/events, and had some family.
WRONG! Holy hubris! It turns out that I am the doppelganger of one of the greatest and most beloved footballers in history—and the same age, athletic build, etc. It is effing uncanny. Everyone thought I was him at first! Of course I immediately disabused people of their false beliefs, but by then I was “in”. The resemblance was the curiosity, and I guess I have been interesting enough to stand on my own. Those types don’t get to meet many ordinary, but independent, people, and many found me refreshing in a way.
There are some good times to be had, but I try to limit my exposure. Frankly, I can’t afford it. I remember somebody wanted me to rent the apartment next door because I knew food, kept my mouth shut, and their dogs loved me. It was a mere €150k per month. Utilities included.
Also, it’s stultifying. I do things they would/could never do, and I wouldn’t trade that for anything. I try not to remember any information, although the one thing impossible to forget is where the smoking hot mistress is kept near the presidential palace.
One thing I would like to get out of all that is to hang out with Gal Gadot, in the Wonder Woman costume, with her acting in full character as the powerful innocent—almost as powerful and innocent as my wife.
It feels good to unburden myself of some of this. What a bizarre life.
See you all at market open for the xmas bonus.
Sometimes you think the Illuminti is this dark scary super secret organization but then you realize it's a bunch of people who are, according to the above, basically autistic. Does money really solve that many problems? Like how are these people even still alive? It's a miracle they haven't killed themselves.
Fact checker wrote:
Ghost of Igloi wrote:
Seattle and Maserati,
The gentleman that my son communicated with was their technician. I told my son I couldn’t name a Metallica song. He described it as “conservative” hard rock. ?
Igy
One band member is a conservative.
Hetfield is probably a conservative but at least he's normal about it
Ghost of Igloi wrote:
https://youtu.be/4fWTc6_-90Iseattle prattle wrote:
Yeah, second the worse vote.
Igy, you were worlds ahead listening to the likes of Frank Zappa if i remember that correctly.
Surely Agip has an opinion.....
Zappa was a genius. His musical ability so vastly ahead of his time. There has really never been anyone since like him.
Metallica is awesome. You gotta look past their immediate commercial successes and dig into their catalog. Thrashy and catchy guitar riffs. Hetfield’s voice is powerful. It’s really all just straight energy.
Alright, so for the market what’s the move? Just keep throwing in? Is there a chance of a new covid strain being resistant to the vaccines?
I wonder what stocks will be solid dividend moves in 2021 with the environment. Banks?
Dr. Racket wrote:
[quote]agip wrote:
the hard rock thing leaves me totally uninterested.
Don't like Metallica, only sort of tolerate Led Zep.
Love Van Halen though - that's as hard as I rock.
I read a great essay recently about Zep...apparently they took a 4-year hiatus, from around 1976 to 1979. /quote]
Essay is wrong. 1977 was one of their biggest North American tours. I have like 4 live CDs from that tours. Pretty sure that's when they set a World Record for attendance and halfway through the tour Plant's son died and they canceled the whole thing. Never really re-materialized after that. I'm a big fan myself
well whatever, the skinny ties is the point.
Another weirdness I have about Zep is that at my junior high school dances they'd play Stairway as the last song. You were expected to dance slow with your date. None of my friends knew or cared about the bloody song - we were 14 and the song was a decade old by then.
Probably the point was that the song went on for bloody ever and the adolescents were ok with a long last dance. Or maybe the DJ the school hired was a Zep fanatic. I don't know.
One of my strongest memories of junior high. Along with my first races, on a dirt track.
Dr. Racket wrote:
Fact checker wrote:
One band member is a conservative.
Hetfield is probably a conservative but at least he's normal about it
I assume he did not mean politically. Conservative as opposed to radical heavy metal.