More importantly, since it's the last weekend of the month, we'll be going to Pittsford Seafood (510 Monroe Ave.) for lunch on Saturday. They sell raw seafood, but also have a selection of fish-market specials ... mostly fried.

Anyway, I got to see Neon Hunk and Kites over at Le Club Shock at Analog Shock (674 South Ave.) last Wednesday, as I alluded to in past future tense. The show was a blast. Jason (not me) screened his video titled Twilight of the Slobs which wasn't overly painful ... just him and some of his friends on May 22, 1991 at Racquet Club Apartments at RIT (One Lomb Memorial Dr., campus map image) ... primarily one of the guys getting really really drunk. I think they should show the film in health class--no teenager could possibly drink after watching some guy make that big an ass of himself over the course of an evening. After that, though, was the fun of Staples X-mas Clearance Fun Time Giveaway where he gave away stuff from Staples clearance table, all wrapped up. There was a lot of candy and such and also a couple cassette players and a CD player. What a swell guy.

Next up was a couple noise bands. The first was Kites which was a guy and some keyboard stuff. I think I saw him before ... regardless, he was pretty cool with an interesting keyboard techinque combined with some distorted vocals. But I was really there to get a second chance to see Neon Hunk. For those who don't know me and haven't had the nearly abstract noise this duo makes forced upon them, they are a duo who makes a nearly abstract noise. This time it almost seemed more mainstream, but maybe I'm just getting used to it.

I also got the pictures I was hoping to get ... using the amazing Kodak's incredible Supra 800 color print film. These shots were done at about a half-second to a 1-second exposure with a f1.4 lens through an 80A incandescent correcting filter. All the overhead lighting was a string of miniature Christmas lights, and background was filled in with a couple 25 watt bulbs. In other words, the pictures look brighter than the room actually looked.

Hooray Kodak!

In other news, Kodak's discontinued their Supra 800 film. [What?] Yep, that's right. Since it doesn't sell too well they discontinued it. It would make sense to just make it more expensive ... after all, it does have virtually constant demand, albeit small. Oh, but they need to promote their digital cameras, and this whips the dainty pixels right off the map. Consider that just scanning to a PictureCD (1,500 by 1,000 pixels) nets you 1.5 megapixels, but you also have to take into account that one output pixel on a digital camera is interpolated from 1/4 pixel and its neighbors (red, blue, and two greens, I think) so they'd do some imaging magic (interpolate and sharpen, mostly) and call it 6 megapixels ... er, well, I'm getting pretty in depth with this, but what it all boils down to is that I'd have to drop about $5,000 on a Canon EOS 1D then probably another $2,000 more on lenses. All because Kodak wants to be an asshole.

So I found B & H Photo/Video and bought some Fuji FujiColor Press 1600, Agfa's AgfaColor Vista 800 and some of Konica's Centuria 800. Ok, so I also bought 60 rolls of Supra 800 becausse it just works so well.

Of course, none of that matters to anyone but me ...

• Personal Velocity: Three Portraits (at The Little) - Kinda like The Hours except without the puffy award-begging performances. Three women share similar journeys through turning points in their respective lives.
• Darkness Falls - Holy fucking shit: evil spirits have taken over the Tooth Fairy!
• Chicago - Based on the musical of the same name. (but since they had it first, see it at The Little instead of a dumb commercial theater.)
• Confessions of a Dangerous Mind - Who knew that Chuck Barris was a CIA hitman? Ok, let me put it this way: who knew that Chuck Barris was a CIA hitman and is still alive today?