Snakes in a camera and more

Firstly, I’ve totally fallen in love with Pushing Daisies. It’s an awesome show with a strong fairytale vibe. It’s like Scrubs, only the entire show is JD’s fantasy. It’s honestly so awesome that I’d probably be hard pressed now to decide whether I like this or Scrubs more. The light hearted presentation is just so charming and it makes me want to abandon this world and live in theirs. But then again, what good show doesn’t make you feel that way? (Horror movies of course excluded – unless you have a penchant for fighting for your life against totally unfair odds)

In other movie watching news, Machine Girl is also quite an awesome show. Awesome in the sense that the violence is so over the top that it’s ridiculous, and it’s so ridiculous that it’s terrible, and it’s so terrible that it’s brilliant again. It’s a show for watching with a group of friends, and you’ll burst out laughing in unison every…30 seconds or so. Comedy writers must feel pretty pissed off when shows like this emerge – I mean they spend their lives bleeding over scripts that may or may not be funny, and get lambasted for boring scripts when a complete dunce can come along and write a script as cheesy as this and fill it with bloodspray fountains that look more appropriate as fire sprinklers (except that the latter spouts colorless water). With a show like this, honestly, who cares about the plot?

Girl (I don’t even know her name!): Recognize this? You and your bullies killed my brother!
Bully: …I don’t know what you’re talking about
Girl: Well it doesn’t matter. Pretty soon you’ll all join him….IN HELL
*Slices guy’s arm off and proceeds to mow them down with a chaingun attached to hand*

Lastly, it seems that film cameras are really, really old school. Well, Leicas at least. Either that or I have a more mischievous reputation than I thought I did. As I’ve been running around school lately shooting on my grandfather’s Leica R6, an odd thing has been happening. No less than 3 times now, when I attempted to take a picture of someone, he ducked out of the way for variations of the following reason:

Me: What?! It’s just a film camera!
Guy: Oh? I thought like a snake or something will fly out at me.

No, seriously.

I’m also pissed as heck since the last roll of film I shot got jammed in the camera and thus not a single picture was captured at all. Talk about a waste of time and money. Well, tomorrow’ll be the last time I bring out the Leica, and I’ll try to finish the roll within the day. After which I’ll stick to the DSLR for the foreseeable future due to it’s spamming and previewing capabilities. The modern photographer in me yearns for these features which I’ve been so deprived of lately.