All My Troubles Seemed So Far Away

Yesterdays P&L: GBP 200.00

Yesterdays Booze: Not a thing

Yesterdays Soundtrack: The Beatles


Still no booze! If Keith Richards can give it up for a few months then so can I. Still not concentrating on trading properly, which pisses me off to no end as when I don't have any money on it my initial assumptions are generally right. I had a pretty good idea that Apple were going to do well and drag along the rest of the market. Apple seems to be able to do no wrong right now, which is curious as they generally supply a high-end segment in the market and the current recession should have favoured the lower end. Apple are quite a brand. I mainly use pc computers for working on but have owned a number of macintosh computers in the past and of course I have my Apple ipod touch. They seem to have made paying over the odds satisfying, like German automobiles. Products like this make you feel good even if you know you could get the same basic product cheaper. Its like my Montblanc pen or Patek Phillipe watch. I imagine its how women feel when they spend a lot of money on shoes or handbags or when someone gives them a gift from Tiffany. Anyway, I shall probably buy a new Apple computer when I have some more disposable income and just use it for something like music or video or something else I fancy myself doing in the future - a true vanity purchase.

Today I have been listening to lots of different music but mostly the Beatles, it really is an apple themed day. I suppose everyone likes the Beatles. but even people as old as me can't really appreciate the impact they must have had in the sixties. My father makes it out like the Beatles would release a record which would be number one until they released a new record which would take over. I knew they were huge but they couldn't have been that dominant. Anyway, my top five Beatles records:

Eleanor Rigby - An impossibly good song, perfect for those who feel isolated, first time I heard it was watching Yellow Submarine when I was a child. "All the lonely people, Where do they all belong"?

Penny Lane - For me this is a feel good song, although someone once told me that Penny Lane actually used to be the site of a slave market in Liverpool. I was at a Paul McCartney concert when he sang this and he seemed so ebullient when he sang "Penny Lane is in my ears and in my eyes" the crowd went nuts. But what is "Four of fish and finger pies"?

Paperback Writer - Ambitious song. A young man on the make, who wouldn't want to be a writer? You have to love the verse that goes;
"It's the dirty story of a dirty man
And his clinging wife doesn't understand.
His son is working for the Daily Mail,
It's a steady job but he wants to be a paperback writer, Paperback writer."

Help - What a surprise, someone like me loving a song like this, actually if I am honest I prefer the stilted cover version Tina did on her Private Dancer album."When I was younger, so much younger than today, I never needed anybody's help in any way.
But now these days are gone, I'm not so self assured"

Nowhere Man - This song appeals to me so much, I am not one of life's planners. I just tend to ricochet from situation to situation, seems like its always been that way.