Things have been quite slow. I found a 16 gigabytes USB drive pen, whatever you call it in English, for only 40 euros in a store down the street. I think I'll buy it.
Other than this, I didn't sleep well, as often.
Visitors to my journal have been declining lately. I only get about 200 visits per day and sometimes even less. I was amazed yesterday I only got like 100 visits and in the last ten hours I only got 1 visit, but maybe there's something wrong with the software and the correct count will catch up later. It wouldn't be the first time.
I guess the fact that it doesn't talk about trading has really affected the visits count.
On the other hand, my profile is getting a whole lot of visits lately. I've got one of the most visited profiles, let alone the number of friends, where probably I hold a record, with 189 friends - of course I befriended every contact I saw visiting my journal ever since I started it.
Sorry but there's nothing to discuss, except that I somewhat recovered from the big losses I experienced in early May (I blew out my account again). If I make another 6000 dollars, I'll be back at where I was in early May, when I blew everything on just one trade on the EUR. I thought it'd bounce and instead it kept on falling forever, and it was at about 1.32.
So I am a pretty sick compulsive gambler top/bottom picker, so it's best that I keep on discussing movies and other things here.
Yesterday I was watching Napoleon Dynamite, which is quality stuff, comedy (
Heder is a great actor). No Hollywood bull****. There can be many categories into which to group movies, and certainly two of them are: mainstream hollywood and non-hollywood happy-ending crap. Usually I enjoy the second category, and it's really easy to discern the two categories.
For example. Napoleon Dynamite is non-Hollywood. All Ben Stiller movies are non-hollywood. It doesn't matter if it became successful and it became a huge hit - it is non-hollywood. Hollywood instead is almost all Tom Cruise movies.
More examples:
Hollywood mainstream crap:
Spielberg stuff
Brad Pitt
Matt Damon
Ben Affleck
De Niro of the 1990s and 2000s
Non-Hollywood original films:
Christopher Walken
Matt Dillon
De Niro of the 1970s and 1980s
De Niro is no longer making good movies. Sure, he's a good actor and his movies are watchable, but they used to be art, whereas now they are commercial. There's no comparison.
So I am not saying that all hollywood movies suck and all the other type are good. But I am saying that Hollywood movies are made with less intelligence and originality and coherence, and that is why I like them less than the other movies.
Oh, and the same exact thing applies to Pacino. He was doing art in the 1970s and 1980s and from then on, he's been doing mostly crap. Just like De Niro.
Needless to say, Scorsese has followed the same path. Masterpieces until 1990, with Goodfellas, and then mostly crap. I think he began producing hollywood crap as early as Cape Fear, in 1991, and then he never stopped. For example, Casino is not art, but crap - it is a replica of Goodfellas. It's like doing a sequel almost.
Follow Scorsese in the years and you go all the way to the Departed which is totally crap, of the worst type. Totally hollywood commercial crap.
There's a few hollywood crap movies that I appreciate and it's all the comedy films by SNL people: Aykroyd, Sandler, Will Ferrell and so on. Actually Will Ferrell makes masterpieces, and I guess all those people can be quite popular without losing their intelligence and originality because somehow comedy allows people to stay original and intelligent. As far as action movies, I don't know if Tom Cruise is already stupid to start with, or if he is encouraged to be stupid and superficial in order to appeal to a larger audience. Whatever the reason, his movies are stupid and almost unwatchable.