Good morning, my name is Ugly, and I am a loser. I have it in me to do serious financial damage to my account.

Dear Diary,
LCUT may be one to keep an eye on.
I would also watch FMCN.
It is thinly traded, but otherwise I really like the looks of AMAC.
SWN is an overachiever, outperforming the rest.
I really like the chart on COSI.
Portfolio picks CUTR and SRLS made new highs.

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The US premiere of The Hidden Blade is opening “The Beauty of the Everyday: Japan’s Shochiku Company at 110” segment of the New York Film Festival. Yoji Yamada has spent his entire career at Shochiku. It is playing Saturday and Sunday, Sept 24th and 25th at 7pm and 6pm. You samurai and great classic film fans, like myself, should also pencil in four hours on Fri Sept 30 @ 6:30 pm or Mon Oct 3 @ 2:00 pm for a rare screening of The Loyal 47 Ronin. And Harakiri is playing again!
There is a whole list of Japanese movies that I haven’t heard of, including Akira Kurosawa’s Scandal. I will definitely be there to see that one. If I lived in NYC, I would probably watch every single one of these movies. Luckily, Philadelphia isn’t too far away.
Others that look good are: Three Outlaw Samurai, My Sons, Yasujiro Ozu’s A Story of Floating Weeds and Late Spring, Japanese Girls at the Harbor and Night and Fog in Japan. Check out the full schedule here.

“It is one of the great paradoxes of the stock market that what seems too high usually goes higher and what seems too low usually goes lower.” - William O’Neil

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The number of Japanese people over 100 is now about 25,000 compared to only 153 four decades ago.

“Don’t eat too much,” said 90-year-old Noboru Fukushima, strolling in the Sugamo area of the capital, when asked about the secrets of long life. “Eat in moderation and chew a lot. Then you will be satisfied and get enough nourishment.”

Good morning, my name is Ugly, and I am a loser. I have it in me to do serious financial damage to my account.

Dear Diary,
NTRI, the hottest stock in the market, made a nice move today.
ENG also looks damn good.
There goes NTES - nice.
I really like CTRP and I have mentioned it many times before.

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“It is one of the great paradoxes of the stock market that what seems too high usually goes higher and what seems too low usually goes lower.” - William O’Neil

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* CCI is making a bullish crossover 100
** Stocks that have closed at new closing highs - adjusted for dividends and splits - data should, but may not always be correct - please verify with other sources
Nasdaq and AMEX stocks mostly

I saw Harakiri at the Oak Street Cinema on Friday. The movie was totally awesome. The new 35mm print was the same one shown at the Film Forum in NYC only days before. The story is great, and Kunio Watanabe did an awesome job of directing the movie. Toshiro Mifune couldn’t have played Ryozo Kasahara’s part any better, which is a huge compliment to Ryozo Kasahara. I had never heard of him before seeing this, but now I will have to see his other stuff. Watanabe also did Chushingura with Mifune, which was great - but I will have to look into his other movies too.
I saw the new Zatoichi movie on DVD this weekend. It sucked. Zatoichi now has bleached blonde hair?? And there is a long, lame dance scene at the end. What the hell is that all about? I enjoy the older Zatoichi films much more. Like Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo, with Toshiro Mifune, which I also saw this weekend on DVD but is playing this Thursday at the Film Forum.

Good morning, my name is Ugly, and I am a loser. I have it in me to do serious financial damage to my account.

Dear Diary,
SDA looks interesting.
RTSX looks to bust a move.
Singapore made a strong move on Friday.

Come on Indians, don’t let me down like you have every other time in my life. I am impressed with their late season rally and I will be even more impressed if they can push it into the post season.

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I’m listening to the last of the Cleveland-Minnesota game right now on the radio. Indians up 7-2. They have won 17 of their last 22.
It is especially nice to watch Cleveland beat Minnesota while visiting in Minneapolis.
Sports can be a waste of time, especially if you obsess about it. But, like a glass of wine or beer after work with dinner, it can be a nice break and really relaxing. And as long as you don’t do it too much, I don’t think relaxing is a waste of time.

You can use this form to calculate your life expectancy. It uses many interesting tables as a base for the calculation. But it says I will only live to about 80, which is around 400 years less than what I expect - so I don’t know how accurate it is.