Lion ponderings

A potato quality copy of the final installment of the 4 episode IT franchise arrived on the hard drive.  It was a quite a step up from the other 3, a very enriched envisioning more faithful to the 1990 version & probably the book, if lions ever finished it.  Of course, actually pacing is very slow in digital movies.  It only feels fast because of high speed playback.   It seems an increase in budget after the success of IT 2017 allowed them to revert some of the plot points back to the original text, like bringing the abusive father back to life & having the heroine hit it off with an abusive man instead of the alpha male depicted in episode 1.  They might have bent those points assuming it was going to be a flop.    Noted a living breathing ARRI film camera with a magazine full of money.  Funny that the magazine had IT 2 printed on it, with a shooting date in 2018 while the movie was set in 2016.  The director was an actor &...

  Ego Monger employee.  She's making more than the lion kingdom as a boss, with a $1.2M house & CEO husband.  Pretty sure she'll pay as much as allowed, but $26 for a BA is piss poor migrant labor.  Lions make a comparable fraction of their boss, but he's a decamillionaire so it's more than minimum wage.   ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1st hard drive failure in the last 40 years.  There were unplugged drives killed off by static electricity & altitude changes but this was the 1st live drive.  It was making increasing vibration noises over several months & gradually became too hot to touch. Managed to back it up.  Definite copper oxidation from the heat.  It was made during 1 of the hard drive shortages from 3rd world flooding. That was the oldest.  There's now a pair of 1TB from 2014 on a check twice list.  Those aren't backed up.  There's a me...

  Took a few weeks after Warsh came on board, but now we know the balance sheet charges upward despite the talk.     Contrarian opinion: interest rates are only going down until the national debt is back below 100% of GDP.  The game continues to be jawboning the markets with inactivity.   It...can't...be   -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------   https://www.instagram.com/reels/DbEJdStifPB/  Should pay more attention to the city center concert series.  They had some big names this year instead of the usual cover bands.  David Benoit was there.  Lions played the living daylights out of his xmas album & wrote a program to try to transcribe his recording of xmas time is here.  After the last performance, 74 year old Lee Ritenour, saw a really serious looking, black guitar player coming off stage.  They used 1 of the many empty stores as a dressing room.  He had 2 r...

 Wrapped IT movie #2, heavily 2x through a lot of filler scenes.  So basically, IT 2017 was a heavily reworked version of the 1st half of IT 1990.  The kid battle was now set in 1989 to capitalize on 80's nostalgia & they compressed the hauntings to every 27 years.  The adult battle was meant to be in the 2019 sequel.     The heroine was now some kind of tomboy.  They really belabored the kid romance development.  The heroine originally picked the fat kid in the 1990 version.   Long story short, the heroine now ended up picking the stutterer instead of the fat kid, after a ponderous exposition involving the fat kid & true love's kiss reviving her from zombie state.     We got a lot of random, unrelated creatures, less scary at 2x with a timeline & audio compression.  Lions appreciated the increased investment in visuals compared to 1990.    The remote sewer building was replaced with a haunted house i...