Happy Hour Jams: Neil Young - On the Beach

Except for the Farmer's Market
And I still can hear him say:
You're all just pissin' in the wind
You don't know it but you are.And there ain't nothin' like a friend
Who can tell you you're just pissin' in the wind. - Neil Young, Ambulance Blues
I've been scrambling to bring on more help for my disparate businesses...I even need help on this CodyWillard.com apparently, as last night I couldn't log on from my home no matter what I tried.

Sigh.

So, better late than never, here's my review for Neil Young's On the Beach. Every day we'll feature an album that I've personally selected for the show. Most of the time I'll try to make it theme-based...sometimes it'll just be fun.

Tonight's show will feature Pink Floyd as requested by Gogo. Find out what Pink Floyd album we feature tonight.

As for On the Beach: You ever put a new album on in the background as you work or play and after about the third or fourth song, you actually stop whatever you're doing to just concentrate on the art of the music? It's a different thing than when we hear that song that hits ya and gives you chills. The album itself becomes one big piece of music that evolves and speaks to a deeper part of that place in your mind that makes music matter to you.

As I explained when I killed New Music Friday's from TheCodyBlog.com back in 2006, I was just sick of all the repackaging that the once-artists but now yuppie businessmen who seem to control all facets of popular music was pushing on us. Too many greatest hits albums, too many cookie-cuttered nationally-approved radio playlists, and too many once-great songs run into my head's ground as they ran behind one too many commercials or appeared in one too many movies and TV shows. So I've bought hundreds of complete, non-greatest-hits albums in the last few months off iTunes and lately have been in hog heaven using the subscription services from my Zune.

Perhaps the best album of them all so far has been On The Beach by Neil Young.

What an album.

The last song, Ambulance Blues, will leave you breathless. I hear there's a great version of it with Neil and Dave Matthews on a live spot from a charity event.

Regardless, Neil's a friend for telling us all that we are just pissin' in the wind.

I wish all my friends would tell me when they truly think I am.

Tech, Regional Banks and Noise Pollution

In a back and forth on Facebook, I posted that I'm not much of a believer in gaming seasonality...my tech bull call is more about the strength of the cycle and the desperation of the Fed in juicing the rest of the economy...multiples will expand on top of the strong earnings cycle.

In response to my counterpart's argument that regional banks are where to be, I write that the regional banks are too expensive despite their nice yields, IMHO. Robert Marcin's written some great stuff about this on RealMoney...mid teen P/Es and I think it's too early to judge how much exposure most of them will have to the real estate reset to lower prices that is picking up around most of the country.

It's a rainy day outside in NYC and so no tennis for me that I really was looking forward to all week. I do get to go jam with my bandmates of Museum of the Horse though.

I've been playing the same Les Paul Studio that I bought back at Grandma's Music Shop in Albuquerque in college. I'm now in the market for a new old one...I want a completely original stock equipment Les Paul from the 1960s or 70s. I'm heading to Rivington Guitar shop to see if they've got one in stock this weekend. And then it's on to the studio on 23rd in a smelly building full of Chinese medicine and health shops. At least the studio is pretty clean. Rock n roll, right?

Here's hoping we're making rock n roll and not noise pollution. (A classic three chord AC/DC jam if there ever was one.)

Happy Hour Shout Out

So whatcha guys thinking around here? We had a little bit too much fun and not enough biz / Wall Street on tonight's show....one thing I've learned for sure is that we're making a series and not just a show each night. How about my getting to ride Tony Hawk's very own skateboard? That was, well, a trip.

Still learning and tweaking. Give us your feedback.

Ask me anything -- I'll answer it on the air. Trading questions, tech questions, market/economy, anything...

I posted something similar to this on the Happy Hour Group page on Facebook, so if you're on there, we can interact there too.

I'm having a blast... and learning so much.

Socialist Capitalist Bankers

Oil, stocks, real estate, gold, milk, most any other currency...the dollar seems to be losing value against just about anything that exists physically or monetarily.

But Citigroup and all these other bankers who paid out hundreds of millions of dollars to select individuals just a few months ago now want the government to use your tax dollars and/or print more non-productivity dollars to bail themselves out. That's not going to be good for the US dollar either.

Prince might be the worst bank CEO from an execution stand point, but all of these guys are hypocritical capitalists. Gotta wonder if short GS paired with a long C trade is akin to shorting Moto paired with a Nokia long that I used to write about last year.

PS. So, yeah, check out Rebecca Gomez' and my new show, Happy Hour on Fox Business Network tonight at 5pm EST (and replayed at 11pm) if you're near a TV that receives the still-centrally-controlled broadcast. I'll be asking RealMoney's own Joe Capone about these bankers and trading ideas tonight.

Position: Not long or short any stocks right now

Something About You

Something About You

Yes Jesus Loves Me

The Cody Show - Yes Jesus Loves Me

TV, Revolutions, and the market too

Hey, how about that market? So much for the market wanting more Fed cuts, eh? The credit crunch is over if the bond and stock action tells us anything I suppose.

If you're anywhere near a TV, turn to Fox News for a minute at 4:50, I'll be announcing with my new co-anchor our new show...it's pretty cool.

Also, I need someone who understands Revolutionomics and Flipping It and all the other theories I write about on this site. If you're hungry and know my stuff and wanna work in Soho, email me at [email protected]. Be ready to work and work hard immediately though.

Position: Pumped!

The First Rule of Revolutionomics

Just a reminder to the readers:

The first rule of Revolutionomics is that those who empower win; those who protect lose.

Position: Confused by those who don't understand the virtuous cycles of empowerment

Help — I Need Somebody; Or Job Growth Indeed

And not just anybody...

The goobers at the government say that about 95% of the people on this planet who are registered as citizens of this country who want a job still have one. That means this is still one of the most remarkable times and places to be alive in this history of this planet and this country.

PS. I used to use Dougie's old, "Who's more scared, the bulls or the bears?" to generated discussion on these pages. I wonder that the answer to that today is.

PPS. My new spin on that for this week at least -- Who's more scared, that other financial network or the new one about to hit?

Position: Getting paid by the man (NWS) these days

Of Apples and Super Tecmo Bowls

I'll log off tonight with this thought, a thought I'm learning in these couple weeks that I've stopped managing money:

It's easy to be bullish. It's harder to be long.

Position: Rockin on