Stock Market Picks and New Rock Album

Well, I guess I'm feeling a lot more positive than when writing my previous post about the world ending. And hey, maybe it will all end in tears and fallout, but I might as well have an optimistic outlook as much as I can stomach. We've finally taken the plunge and invested in stocks. Of course we had to gird ourselves up for the probability that our stocks would fall as soon as we invested in them. Yes, we were ready for the rollercoaster ride, firmly entrenched with the thought that if our stocks tank, we won't panic. We'll just focus on other distractions and hang in for the long haul. This is, after all, a long term investment. Oddly enough, most our stocks have been up almost everyday and we've consistently been at a profit. Amazing! Hopefully this trend will continue and what with the miracle of compounding interest I'll be able to sleep at night in 20 years.

Just in case you're interested, we own stock in the following companies :

Archer-Daniels Midland (ADM) - Leading ethanol and bio-diesel producer, along with many other great products made from agricultural products such as soy. Wasn't it nice of President Bush to announce his disdain for our addiction to foreign oil and laud ethanol as the gas of the future? And hey, it's not too late. It's still a good time to get in.

Pacific Ethanol (PEIX) - Another major producer of Ethanol and so far my most profitable stock.

3Com Corporation (COMS) - These guys are in all the important places in the tech world and are bound to come back strong. Currently trading at under $5! This sucker has got to go up!

Corning (GLW) - Good company, great products. I think this is going to be a long term winner.

Coca-Cola (KO) - Yes COKE! Trading at around $42. I've alread made a profit since buying this stock which I kind of didn't expect. I'm just planning on re-investing the divedends and eventually owning a lot of valuable shares. Also, Coke is planning expansion into foreign markets which may drive the stock up. That would be cool.

I'm going to be soon putting some money into an index fund, or possibly investing in a certain combination of index stocks that have been consistently bringing in 20-25% returns for years! I'll blog the details of how to do this in my next post. I've got some details to iron out.

Lastly, and my ultimate hedge on optimism; My new album will be finished by next weekend! I spent two days at the studio this weekend and was on fire. Sometimes you're just on and your best stuff happens in one or two takes. Very very nice when that happens. We will put the finishing touches on next weekend and then it goes to mixing and mastering. My band is going to be playing a lot of incognito shows under a fake band name over the next couple of months to prepare for our big record release party and subsequent tour. Please buy my album! I promise you will not be disappointed. The label says we've got at least 4 strong singles with another 3 or 4 contenders! Let's hope they're right. If you're wondering, we don't sound like anyone else out there and we don't even sound like our previous album but our "Rock Intensity Level" is on the Beatles to Foo Fighters scale. "Emotion Intensity Level" is on the Weezer to Coldplay scale.

Thank you for taking the time to read this. Your comments are welcome!

"In no way let it be misconstrued that I do not disagree"

I'm bored, therefore I blog.

I think it might be the end of the world. I mean ya, they told me in church everyday while I was a small exitentialist sprout that the world would end at any moment. This caused me to go marginally insane and I became a kick ass musician with night terrors. (I use blogs occasionally to dispel minor bits of rage in the form of blunt sarcasm so please don't confuse my bloviations with egotistical self-absorbtion.) But aside from the fact that I think every religious doomsdayer I had the misfortune of listening to as a child was entirely full of shit, I think it's obvious that we have "progressed" to a technological level of total self destructive capability.

One example - Iran is going to eventually have the nuclear bomb and they're going to use it. I shouldn't have to explain this. If you read the news, you can understand how the hate machine of radical islam is charging headlong into be the undoing of the world; Especially since they tend to view us all as infidels and killing us off is a favor to Allah and the reward is a piefull of virgins. We're such an incredibly stupid race of sentient beings that we're going to destroy ourselves unless we are very very... well, lucky. If we ever survive our primitive notions of religious and political unreason, let us hope we do not meet our end in some other way such as gene leakage, due to genetic experiments gone awry, biological warfare, global warming, etc.

Anywho, I have an album coming out very soon. There are a few radio stations already committed to spinning it. I hope I will experience some success in music before the end comes. So please buy my album when it comes out. You will have the satisfaction of having contributed to local music and you'll love the album. I promise!