Alec Baldwin has a God Complex, and it is awesome:

Christian Bale in American Psycho starts to fall apart over business card envy:

Samuel L. Jackson shows in Pulp Fiction why he is the scariest man alive:

In this motivational speech from Full Metal Jacket, our favorite drill sergeant makes the list:

Speaking of the military, can you handle the truth? Jack Nicholson doesn’t think so:

Aragorn’s speech at the Black Gates stands as one of Hollywood’s all-time great calls to war:

Ben Affleck owns the introductory sales pitch in Boiler Room:

Many thought the Affleck scene in Boiler Room was in fact an homage to an earlier classic from the film Glengarry Glen Ross, once again featuring the great Alec Baldwin:

Michael Douglas as Gordon Gekko stands in the movie monologue Hall of Fame for his scene from Wall Street:

And finally, here’s what it’s all about – 40 inspirational speeches in 2 minutes:

It’s funny to realize after speaking with someone I haven’t seen since high school (Hi, Kedron!) that at times like this – when I describe my life – I realize it has been.. “colorful”.

The Air Force, traveling coast-to-coast across the country several times, surfing in San Diego, some nasty scrapes with the law, living in my car (briefly, yet more than once), starting several businesses (including one successful enough to buy my first home and live well), nearly go bankrupt, exploring the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina for salvageable sailboats, nearly drowned in Florida (on three different occasions.. I really gotta stay out of the water), was impaled on a sea wall; bought a boat on land, learned how to sail and put it into the water and lived on it; shot in the chest by a .357 Magnum and survived (obviously), had the best years of my life attending Moravian College dropping acid and chasing girls, lost everything I owned and down to my last $300 a few months ago — and find myself once more crawling out of the dirt to do it all over again with a fresh start.

Basically, my life is like Indiana Jones.. but fatter and without the cool soundtrack.

But it looks pretty good and is due out in the first quarter of 2010, so who knows? Maybe I’ll have my life back together by then. In the meantime, check out the trailer they’ve put together.

I’ve been a fan of the Miami Dolphins since I was a kid and there have been some good and bad. OK, other than Dan Marino, mostly bad. And even with #13 we collapsed under bad drafts and big-game chokes more often than not.

I’d hoped this year would be different but adding another chapter to what is becoming a miserable month, my beloved Fins just gagged on a 21-point lead to the New Orleans Saints, showing once again that in Miami, nothing much ever changes.

If you’ve never watched any other video I’ve ever posted, I dare you to watch just this one and see how good this fellow really is.

A lot on my mind today as I find myself at the first crossroads of my trading career, discarding an old strategy and trying to learn (gulp) three new ones. My efforts so far have been decidedly mixed and some discouragement is setting in. However, even with the sky typically overcast on yet another Pennsylvania day, I find I must stay the course. There simply are no other alternatives; I must excel at this, it is what I feel I am destined to do.

It is always on days like this I find my thoughts drawn as murky as the gray sky. Listening to the collection of Leonard Cohen music I had on my HD (which I have not heard in a long time), I recall how much I  felt the emotion of this song.

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