Extremely briefly

My hands are acting up, but I wanted to mention that the NASDAQ has finally broken down past the November intraday lows - it passed the closing lows some time ago - and we're back to 2003. We're not yet back to the 1990s in the NASDAQ, unlike the Dow and S&P500, both of which have broken not just the 1990s trendline but the 1980s bull-market trendline, rather decisively in both cases.

Oh, I'm sure everyone saw the jobs report - headline (U-3) unemployment now 8.1%, U-6 (full) unemployment rate now 16%. The BLS's birth/death model in unemployment added 134,000 jobs to the not-seasonally-adjusted data, which is pretty much just from Mars. According to their model, every employment sector had positive job creation from new business formation in February. Guys, the model is stupid. Make a new one. Last I checked, Mish hadn't taken the latest report apart yet, but I'm sure he will.

eta: Oh, there it is.

took long enough, youtube

Okay so two weeks ago (almost), I went to see the first concert by Bone Poets Orchestra, held at stealthcello's house cum event space. They're a new band formed by a bunch of the people formerly in Gaia Consort. I had my camera with me, so I took videos of the first performances of the new material.

I uploaded them to YouTube a couple of days later, but one of them literally took over a week to process, and in fact inexplicably disappeared for a little while, and I couldn't re-upload it because my original was on the drive that fell over and died. (I may not even have the videos anymore at all, which would make me sad.) But it finally reappeared, sat for four more days (!) processing, and they're all online now.

Anyway, please have enjoyment from the first-ever Bone Poets Orchestra performances^* of the new songs "Gathering Light," "Spin," and "Belladonna." (Clickie on titles to go to youtube and play.) And also wave to Betsy, who is the awesomely talented cellist on the far left. ^_^

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^*: Yes, I know Gaia Consort performed "Gathering Light" at their last show, but that wasn't Bone Poets Orchestra, that was Gaia Consort.