Morning Audibles 9.9.10 - Are you READY?

The BREAD & CIRCUSES start tonight my friends...


My apologies, in advance, for any kind of random journey this thread may take, but publishing "original material" often means the author enters a sort of dreamlike state... You know how it happens in your dreams at night... These thoughts and clips kind of assemble themselves in some way that one could NEVER predict if they happened to be awake and/or conscious... The OUTPUT thereof, may end up being "Stanley Kubrick-ish", but that's the world I live in...


I suppose the CONTRARY to that would be a state of mind where NO ORIGINAL THOUGHTS existed... That "being-ness" happened to manifest itself as an OUTPUT of the random creative ideas of OTHERS... Those widgets were then "intercepted" and "programmed" into some kind of networked database by foolish & mindless drones (kinda like a blog, I suppose)... The final product ends up woven into something that only machines or sub-humans could understand... (those foolish mindless drones are CUTE & CUDDLY tho, aren't they?)...


That's the world that CV doesn't live in... (or DOES, but rebels against)...


BACK TO THE CIRCUSES... 





The "Modern Day Version" = THE NFL






Tonight is the "kickoff" spectacular... WORLD CHAMPION SAINTS vs. MINNESOTA VIKINGS (kind of a "WAAAAAAHHHHnabee" team [emphasis on "WAAAAAAAHHHHH"], that can never seem to get it totally together because of their propensity to COMPROMISE)... I'm leaving my GAME ANALYSIS out of the thread topic... It'll be found in the comment section... Instead, I'm going to focus on the peripherals...


SOCIO-ECONOMICS


Since "bread & circuses" alone no longer satiate the masses, the networks have taken to airing a PRE-GAME concert to add to the hype... One can think what they will about these PRE-GAME antics, but I assure you that they're NO DIFFERENT from the types of things that were presented II MILLENIA [or, MM] ago, in Rome, in the Colosseum... I know... I was there (as sure as "Lucius Aurelius Commodus" was emperor)...








OK... So about these PRE-GAME concerts... Let's just imagine for a minute that they ARE actually cool... I can go there with you if you want... Not TOTALLY... But I'll try... This year, I've heard, it's going to feature THE DAVE MATTHEWS BAND & TAYLOR SWIFT (more on that in a minute)... Last year, it featured THE BLACK EYED PEAS (who, CV has kind of a personal war against)... Actually - I'll admit that some of their songs are kind of "catchy", but I don't like the "message" they bring (in aggregate)... Witness for yourself the 2009 SOCIOECONOMIC version of BREAD & CIRCUSES...




Various Black Eyed Peas Lyrics: 
(sound familiar on Wall St., or in the ghettos, or in the voting booths across America)?



"We got five minutes for us to disconnect, from all intellect collect the rhythm effect..."

"Tonight’s the night night
Let’s live it up
I got my money
Let’s spend it up"

"Lets paint the town (paint the town)
We’ll shut it down (shut it down)
Lets burn the roof
and then we’ll do it again"

"Easy come
easy go
now we on top 
top top top top"

"we keep keep keep keep going up
we know what we say say
party everyday 
p-p-p-party everyday"



OK fine, thanks for telling me that (consider me informed)... It's obviously really helped me become a better person (thank you for that)... You've really given me HOPE... & CHANGED the world with that message...


Now we get to 2010... THE DAVE MATTHEWS BAND... First, TAYLOR SWIFT... I have to admit that CV has never heard of Taylor Swift, but here's a foto of her... 


All I can say is that I immediately approve simply due to the fact that she doesn't appear to be driving that car with a cell phone wrapped around her ear... At least it's a START!


DAVE MATTHEWS


Actually (damn I've lived a weird life)... CV has never met Dave Matthews, but my sister dated him in a clandestine way back in the beginning of time... She started up, and owned a travel agency in Charlottesville, VA back in the day, and they met just about the time the band got going, and had to start making travel plans for gigs... Of course it was just "one of those things", so it let loose shortly thereafter... My sister is somewhat of a Sheryl Crow "lookalike", so some of that might make sense to a random reader...




Anyway... Me (CV), thinking of Dave Matthews, and thinking of SOCIO-ECONOMICS, made me think of this... Last year, the misplaced "optimism", that was abundant in America, produced the performance of "Let's Get It Started" & "I Got a Feeling" by the BEP's... Fast Forward 2010... What will Dave Matthews play?


Could it be?


CRASH
(He actually penned this song when he & my sister were, you know... So who knows? Strange...)


Oops, Cv doesn't want to be NEGATIVE "market wise"... I'll be my best American citizen here, and suggest that everyone invest in equities, you know, FOR THE LONG RUN... Maybe things won't quite be so bad (due to all that lever pulling and button pushing that the GENIUSES who have 100% control over tend to do in the PRE-ELECTION period [in order to assuage wannabe blog authors into focusing on parades, dog grooming festivals, bathroom remodeling projects, & vacation itineraries]... Anything... PLEASE... Just save me from the effort involved in coming up with original thoughts... If successful, the mammoth efforts by TPTB, largely due to the GULLIBLE nature of the Romans at large, if they're lucky, may have the net effect of producing...


THE SPACE BETWEEN
(Meaning: a long period of NOTHINGNESS)

"The space between the tears we cry
Is the laughter keeps us coming back for more
The space between the wicked lies we tell
And hope to keep safe from the pain"

"Look at us spinning out in the madness of a roller coaster
You know you went off like the Devil in a church
In the middle of a crowded room
All we can do, my love is hope we don't take this ship down"

"The space between what's wrong and right
Is where you'll find me hiding, waiting for you
The space between your heart and mine
Is the space we'll fill with time"



Don't come to me for any answers... I just work here (and try to dredge up original thoughts from time to time)...


I don't have much else to say here... The markets are confused... The ECONOMY isn't all that confused, but that's beside the point in a STAR TREK gladiator world, right?




All I can say is... "Enjoy your profits & losses"... "Enjoy your bread & circuses"... AND... Otherwise... Since CV needs his own personal BREAD & CIRCUSES too...


ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL!



283 comments:

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72bat said...

cv -
as noted fotos were great stuff.
i suspect titlings were recent, not contemporary with fotos, thus for today adjective was irrelevant & superfluous.

k -
universal human trait to adorn the body. fashions come, fashions go. eye of the beholder. yada yada.

karen said...

CV.. my jaw is agape..

CV said...

@72

"human trait to adorn the body"...

Hmmm... well when the fashion is to pour glue over yourself and roll around in $500 bills, I might cross over...

McFearless said...

all I know is Sheryl Crow is looking good in that pic in the thread.

I used to be a huge Dave fan back in the day, seen them in concert a lot, few times every summer for a lot of years, but not since the free show they did in Central Park years ago have I seen them live, that was awesome though, maybe the best concert I've been to just because of how huge it was, sort of fell out of love with the band for a long time, guess the world made my heart hard and the music became a little too fluffy for me.

CV said...

@karen

with all your gadgets, you could probably pop yourself a whole bowl...

ror

CV said...

@mcF

as I said... SC looks a lot like my sister...

Both are a little older now than when I imagine that foto was taken...

karen said...

cc, i don't have gadgets.. ? i have a phone and a laptop.. an old ipod that i have plugged into a receiver that holds my music collection..

McFearless said...

I've always thought SC was good looking, guess you have a hot sister, I can relate, I have two good looking younger sisters....it's annoying at times, been in a few fights over that crap.

Bruce in Tennessee said...

"I find this really interesting. The FDIC is already coercing buyers by entering into significant loss-share agreements. If now buyers are unwilling, even with the loss-sharing...well, you can imagine the consequences."

...This was on ZH this afternoon...IS the FDIC having trouble finding buyers of failed banks? Is this why BFF has been so lean lately?

I-Man said...

This shit is just cruel today if you're "projectin" lower.

CV said...

My sister is pretty athletic...

She got a partial ride (scholarship) to play basketball in college...

She plays a lot of tennis now...

CV said...

Met her husband "surfing"

I-Man said...

"Blown Lower High City"

72bat said...

cv -
suppose adorning the body can include "body sculpting" no add-on paraphernalia, just packing on sharply cut bulk

CV said...

@I-Man

all we need is a... PAUSE... drumroll...

CATALYST!

ror

CV said...

@72

So then I suppose SPARE TIRES are another form of adornment?

I-Man said...

"CATARYST!"
You meant, right?

karen said...

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/246131/great-stump-speech-or-greatest-stump-speech-ever-daniel-foster

AmenRa said...

CV

Arrgghh!!!! Now I'm stopping later to pick some up.

CV said...

@Amen

Now that you mention it... I may have to pick some up for myself...

Got a game to watch 2nite...

karen said...

Ben.. you thot the watermelon vid was good.. watch the above..

karen said...

oh.. he even mentions football! CV, you will appreciate it now..

bob said...

Karen,

Priceless.

McFearless said...

"IS the FDIC having trouble finding buyers of failed banks?"

so I'd have a very hard time believing this for a number of reasons, the most important though is that banks would be far more prudent getting closed bank assets rather than loaning out to consumers and taking that sort of risk. What an immediate benefit to be able to get your hands on deposits of a failed bank, deposits that you could loan against down the road. Months ago the claim was that banks wanted to get balance sheets as clean as possible so that when Friday's rolled around they might be the recipients of a few billion in new assets. Other banks are running all kinds of promo's, at least in my area, which is banker central USA, where you get $20 to open a savings account or checking and make a deposit.

McFearless said...

watching it now

my name is phil davidson!

what a spaz?

McFearless said...

masters degree in communication

ROR

CV said...

More football... (Nic - you'll like this because it surround your Golden Dome boys)...

http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/blog/dr_saturday/post/Joe-Montana-scores-another-touchdown-for-reality?urn=ncaaf-268408

Rudy story... (sounds like Obama to me)...

"And so reality continues its long unbeaten streak against trumped-up sentiment – not that Rudy Ruettiger minds, now that he's parlayed his 15 minutes into a steady career as motivational speaker and "corporate trainer."

I suppose anyone who's able to inspire and sell a bogus feel-good movie about himself being a run-of-the-mill scrub is destined for success"

McFearless said...

that was way too much....

McFearless said...

well, this move up does not have an impulsive look at all, we'll see what tomorrow brings, would seem 1127-1130 is certainly still in the cards, good luck to those that want to try for it.

bob said...

It was a Bill Murray impression gone horribly wrong.

spoonman said...

"I will not apologize for my tone"

loved it

McFearless said...

Rudy spoke at my high school when I was a junior, it was terrible.

CV said...

@karen

ROR - he needs some help from the TELEPROMPTER IN CHIEF on how it's done...

He kept having to go back to his written speech on the podium...

McFearless said...

there had to be people laughing right? or at least with a smirk....

McFearless said...

the best was when he said "one of my favorite quotes"

but he didn't even know the quote....classic!

AmenRa said...

Was that WWE or a political rally? I'd like to see how he talks after too many expressos.

AmenRa said...

"Government is about service but politics is about winning!"

CV said...

@McF

I liked the movie tho... Sometimes you don't really care how TRUE something is...

You just want to believe it's true...

Fine for movies... Bad for political administration tho...

CV said...

@Amen

& he was running for fucking Treasurer... lol

spoonman said...

maybe so, but the treasurers office was a mess, I'm told...

karen said...

we gotta go down or tomorrow will be torture.. per Ben's 3:37.

McFearless said...

yeah, Rudy is a great movie, I pretty much always shed a tear toward the end, usually while sipping a frou frou drinking and wearing my high school letter jacket.

mcHAPPY said...

I do like the difficulty passing this area on the SPX (1107-1110). I hope to see one more small push to just beyond 1110. Futures topped last night at 1111. Interesting times. The slow grind is hypnotic. There is really only two ways out of this, a fast collapse or a rocket rise.

McFearless said...

Meredith Whitney's husband was a pro-wrestler, I didn't know that, he also played for the Raiders at one point.

karen said...

Please don't mention the Raiders..

CV said...

Oh here we go...

When the going gets TOUGH... The TOUGH?... um - grab their kids and hold them out in front of them so that the bullets will hopefully cease...

http://news.yahoo.com/video/politics-15749652/obama-on-explaining-bad-press-to-his-kids-21819643

Stop criticizing Obama people because the kids are too young to understand it...

mcHAPPY said...

LOL - JBL! I have a whole new respect for Meredith. I use to be quite the wrestling fan back in my teens (early to mid/late 90's).

Vince MacMahon's best line ever when asked how he took down Ted Turner and WCW (WWF competition at the time):

"To beat a billionaire, you've got to become a billionaire."

CV said...

"I think they know were involved in a TOUGH time... We're involved in two wars"

HA!

First of all, I thought you just ENDED one of them, you just said so last week...

Not that they would have known because the spent most of the summer on the beach in Spain & Martha's Vineyard...

AmenRa said...

SPX trying to hold the trendline using 2010 highs...

AmenRa said...

and also beat the high from 9/3/10 of 1104.51

karen said...

I'm seeing what i want to see.. a black spy candle on spy at the top of a climb, negative divergence and lower RSI(3), falling volume on the 7 day climb as well.

gold, copper, and crude rolling over..

karen said...

mrtopstep

#futures imbalace 450 mil to sell no trade here low volumes like this are scar

Andy T said...

Good stuff here:

http://www.businessinsider.com/chris-christie-vs-teacher-2010-9

I like this guy....

CV said...

@karen

sit tight for a minute... I'm going to put in a chart (which you might like)...

CV said...

NEW CHART IN THREAD

kind of simple... but ties in some important areas

72bat said...

cv -
had to step away the last half-hour.
in some cultures, yup, suppose spare tires denote "beauty"

Ben22 said...

AT,

I posted that video here a little while back, he's pretty much the focus of the news around here every night, dude is fearless.

karen said...

CV.. I more than liked it!

72bat said...

like the look of that achart, cv, but hard to believe that "they" would let things go down that road what witht he election coming up and all.

karen said...

trying to find us on Nic's chart:

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_D1n1atSWw4c/TIEH3oK5QtI/AAAAAAAABt0/bF4T3HP1ltI/s1600/spoo+240min.gif

I guess we broke out of the top..

karen said...

i'm sorry i brot up the whole belly button piercing thing!

karen said...

CV, anyway, that was really KISSing.. and I have a thing for parallel channel lines : )

AmenRa said...

Karen

It's not an issue to me.

lb surrogate said...

k -
so put up a new avatar and we'll forget the whole thing

Ben22 said...

uh....people see the AAII numbers today...guess we worked off the whole "too much bearish sentiment"

people....when the neutral level climbs...it's just bulls waiting.

karen said...

AR.. what isn't an issue? today's close? LOL..

ben22 said...

lets see if people come out of the woodwork the next few days to say there are too many bulls too soon, I believe this is one of the highest bull readings for aaii ever.

Recently we had people blowing the horn about bearish sentiment but if you look at the charts at the beginning of the 07-09 sell-off and compare sentiment then and now there is nothing too bearish at all, it just looks normal, the recent bear readings were maintined during wave 3 of Primary 1 for over 6 straight weeks, and got worse as the waves continued to develop. I'm doubtful there will be as many people crying too many bulls into next week, and meanwhile, we have analysts "lowering" S&P targets which are still well above where we are trading now...hardly bearish.

This reveals much bout the underlying psychology still out there.

72bat said...

cv -
sorry, the tongue-in-cheek was not more evident (needs an emoticon). i was thinking precisely of your debunking

Ben22 said...

lowry's is still showing accumulation though.....

CV said...

@72

Good then, I can take that link down...

That's a beaten down dead horse...

karen said...

i gotta run! will try to check back later but otherwise will attempt an early start..

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