Last night's TFO was marvelous. The crowd for Meet the Feebles was larger and more enthusiastic than any I've seen this season. They really got into the lobby game - make your own sock puppets - and they literally stopped in their tracks to watch the Porn Puppet Show that Nick and Ana put on inside a big cardboard box. This crowd was friendlier than usual, too. Several people introduced themselves to me and one guy asked if I'd pose for a picture with him. (I happily obliged.) The stage show was karaoke with El Tigre and his three sexy chica backup singers, which was rudely interrupted by Mr. T (Robert Berry in his best I-pity-the-fool mode).
This was the second time TFO has tried a singalong. The other one, Phantom of the Paradise, ended up being ME singing loudly and badly while the audience cheered. Last night's audience, however, was ready to sing. I still managed to be loud and obnoxious, but at least I had help this time. And it was sweet to sing "Sodomy/You must think it very odd of me/But I enjoy the act of sodomy/You might call the wrath of God on me/But if you tried it then you might agree/That you enjoy the act of sodomy..." with a couple hundred friends and strangers howling along.
I shot off three rolls of film. Today when I picked up the prints I was hugely disappointed: every roll was exposed but BLANK. I don't know what happened. I use a Pentax K-1000, a camera that's known for its workhorse indestructibility, but lately I've been having trouble advancing the film. This film obviously advanced - it was exposed - but something went drastically wrong. I need to mess around with the camera and shoot off a test roll. I took the camera on a motorcycle trip last Sunday and I'm worried something may have shaken loose.
I've got a loaner K-1000 lined up for next weekend. Don't tell me to get a digital camera, I've tried half a dozen different brands and models and I simply hate the way they feel and work. I like the instant gratification of digital images but they have a weird transparent quality - like projected slides - that I don't like. Film images have a solid, opaque look that I can't describe but it's definitely different. I have trouble composing shots through digital viewfinders and on digital screens, too. I also don't want to spend hundreds of dollars on a piece of complex technology that has a one-year guarantee. I like things that are easy to use and built to last. My Pentax is nearly twenty years old and it's only recently started failing.
I've been depressed all afternoon over the loss of 72 images that looked fantastic through the viewfinder. Every TFO is different and I'll never see those images again: Dylan hiking her boobs up in her low-cut dress, Junior in his Bondage Big Bird costume, El Tigre punching Mr. T, the audience clapping along to karaoke, the porn puppet show.... I love snapshots; they capture moments and memories in a way no written journal can do. I feel like an evening's worth of great memories went up in smoke. I posted a comment on the TFO forum, asking anyone who had a camera with them last night (I saw many) to please submit their photos to the website. I hope somebody does.
This was the second time TFO has tried a singalong. The other one, Phantom of the Paradise, ended up being ME singing loudly and badly while the audience cheered. Last night's audience, however, was ready to sing. I still managed to be loud and obnoxious, but at least I had help this time. And it was sweet to sing "Sodomy/You must think it very odd of me/But I enjoy the act of sodomy/You might call the wrath of God on me/But if you tried it then you might agree/That you enjoy the act of sodomy..." with a couple hundred friends and strangers howling along.
I shot off three rolls of film. Today when I picked up the prints I was hugely disappointed: every roll was exposed but BLANK. I don't know what happened. I use a Pentax K-1000, a camera that's known for its workhorse indestructibility, but lately I've been having trouble advancing the film. This film obviously advanced - it was exposed - but something went drastically wrong. I need to mess around with the camera and shoot off a test roll. I took the camera on a motorcycle trip last Sunday and I'm worried something may have shaken loose.
I've got a loaner K-1000 lined up for next weekend. Don't tell me to get a digital camera, I've tried half a dozen different brands and models and I simply hate the way they feel and work. I like the instant gratification of digital images but they have a weird transparent quality - like projected slides - that I don't like. Film images have a solid, opaque look that I can't describe but it's definitely different. I have trouble composing shots through digital viewfinders and on digital screens, too. I also don't want to spend hundreds of dollars on a piece of complex technology that has a one-year guarantee. I like things that are easy to use and built to last. My Pentax is nearly twenty years old and it's only recently started failing.
I've been depressed all afternoon over the loss of 72 images that looked fantastic through the viewfinder. Every TFO is different and I'll never see those images again: Dylan hiking her boobs up in her low-cut dress, Junior in his Bondage Big Bird costume, El Tigre punching Mr. T, the audience clapping along to karaoke, the porn puppet show.... I love snapshots; they capture moments and memories in a way no written journal can do. I feel like an evening's worth of great memories went up in smoke. I posted a comment on the TFO forum, asking anyone who had a camera with them last night (I saw many) to please submit their photos to the website. I hope somebody does.
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I'm sore as hell today, how are you?