Reclaim the Night 2009

International acknowledgement of womens right to live safely in our community. SIN is lucky enough to host the event this year but it is the same reclaim the night, the same message and we invite and encourage all women and supporters to come along and help us sendour message!!

ALL WOMEN DESERVE TO BE SAFE! MY BODY MY BUSINESS!

7PM RALLY AT VICTORIA SQUARE
ASSEMBLE OPPOSITE HILTON HOTEL
8PM AFTER PARTY - YUGONDI COURTYARD
LION ARTS CENTRE [cnr North Tce + Morphett St]
MALE SUPPORTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO SHOW THEIR SUPPORT FROM THE SIDELINES AND ARE WELCOME AT THE AFTER PARTY

After party entertainment to include:
Mr Bigpants (Debby Doesnt Do It For Free)
Nancy Bates
sandyj

Some Monday Fuckery

I'm a bit behind on news and blogging at the moment. I'm irritatingly busy with work, so please forgive this perfunctory post.

First, did you all here about this?

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,25763071-661,00.html

We all know already that Sam Newman is a tool, and is pretty high up the list of Fuckery Masters - this is just another example.

The other piece of fuckery that's been irritating the crap out of me, is this:

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25743956-2722,00.html

Um....can I hear a WHAT THE FUCK? A six game suspension for taking a shit in public? And that fuckstick football player Bock got only a ONE GAME suspension for hitting his girlfriend in public. Seems fair doesn't it? Like an appropriate response really.

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/sport/afl/story/0,26576,25693176-19742,00.html

Rugby and football administrations are hereby placed high on my list of Masters of Systemic Fuckery for their inability to appropriately discipline and respond to the ingrained misogyny evident in the culture of these sports.

Ann Coulter is the Spawn of Satan

You know, just when I thought I couldn't hate Ann Psycho Hose Beast Coulter anymore, I come across this on You Tube....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_lChZ_FEHs&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ebust%2Ecom%2Fblog%2F2009%2F06%2F24%2Fcoultier%2Ddisrespects%2Ddrtillers%2Dright%2Dto%2Dlife%2Ehtml&feature=player_embedded

If you can stomach it, I recommend watching her interview with Satan's other favourite spawn, Bill O'Reilly.

They're discussing the tragic murder of Doctor George Tiller in May this year. Here are some of Ann's most horrifying quotes:

"Liberals are generally on the pro-death side."

"[Liberals are] for infanticide....They're finally against someone dying, a man responsible for killing 60,000 babies."

"I don't really like to think of it as a murder. It was terminating Tiller in the 203rd trimester."

And dude, it just goes on.

I'm so mad I can barely type. This is a typical twisting of left ideology and fuckery of the highest order: it's absolutely mind boggling that someone can compare the brutal murder of man with an abortion (even Coulter).

In Which I Catch Up On Movies I Should Have Watched Long Ago...And Some Television Too

So I watched a few movies this weekend. It was cold and rainy and weather like that is just made for watching movies, drinking red and canoodling with the girlfriend. (Not necessarily in that order).

So, I watched Juno, Foxfire,Vicky Cristina Barcelona and Office Space. (And I started Thankyou For Smoking but 'fell asleep' before it ended. I'll go back to it, cause what I saw of it was Pure. Awesomeness.)

Juno. I was pleasantly surprised by this, even though I had high hopes because Diablo Cody, who wrote it, is totally one of my crushes. I've just reread her memoir Candy Girl, and highly recommend it. So anyway, Juno. Def worth seeing. Excellent dialogue, a kick arse soundtrack and no nasty last minute family values moral at the end, which would have totally sucked balls and runied the film. I should have had more faith in Diablo. Here she is, cause she's so cute and I love her pin up girl tat:



So, on to Foxfire. Sadly, this isn't a patch on the Joyce Carol Oates book on which it was based (seriously, read the book). The time period of the film was inexplicably changed to the 80s (the book is set in the 50s)which really reduced the 'shock factor' of a group of high school girls forming a gang to take revenge of men who fuck over women (there's more to it than that, at least in the book, but that's the gist). Character back ground stories were non existent, character development ditto, and there was no narrative thread. At all. Very bloody disappointing, and not even a young Angelina Jolie with short lesbo hair, showing her rack could save this film. The soundtrack was quite good though.



Finally, Vicky Cristina Barcelona. Wow, is this film worth watching. It's almost a return to the Woody Allen genius of Manhattan, Love and Death, Radio Days, Husbands and Wives and Hannah and Her Sisters (and these are just a few, obviously, of his great films - I could go on and on). I love Woody Allen and can even forgive him for The Curse of the Jade Scorpion and other sub par movies, because even the worst of them have moments of dialogue related brilliance. Vicky Cristina Barcelona, on the other hand, pretty much has it all. Witty dialogue? Check. Gorgeous locations? Check. Engaging and well developed characters (particularly the women)? Check. Excellent ensemble cast? Check. Gorgeous women? Erm...check. Three times over.

Speaking of which. The thing I was surprised about was Penelope Cruz. I've never been a fan. But she was really excellent in this film - it was like she'd found and moved into Crazy, and was very comfortable there, thankyou very much. But seriously - watch this film. The only thing I missed was seeing Allen himself. But you can't have everything. This hotness kind of makes up for it though....



I also rewatched Office Space because girlfriend had never seen it. I won't rave on here about it's magnificence cause I'm sure you've all seen it...However, I'm just going to go ahead and say if you haven't seen it....watch it.

I'm off to see the new Star Trek movie tonight, too. I'm a bit precious when it comes to fucking with the Star Trek timeline (the reason I hate Enterprise with a burning passion)and I don't think it's ever a good idea to go back. And, Leonard Nimoy will always be the only Spock I love. Having said that though, the reviews have been excellent and even Star Trek nerds have good things to say...so I am going to go in with an open mind, and hopefully I'll be pleasantly suprised. It cannot be worse than that last piece of shit movie Nemesis anyway....

I also have a lot of TV watching to do. I'm a compulsive reader of blogs (obvs) and keep reading about all these awesome shows.

At the moment,I am watching:

Arrested Development
30 Rock
Battlestar Galactica (the shame! Not to have finished yet....)
Weeds
Pushing Daisies

What I have to watch but haven't started yet:

Chuck (yay, Season One has just arrived on DVD)
Dollhouse
Parks and Recreation
Better off Ted
Mad Men
The United States of Tara (written by aforementioned crush, Diablo)

I don't know how I find the time to hold down a job, really....

What are you guys watching at the moment? Have I missed any cool shows?

Another Countdown

Check out the tracks from The Goddess Amos in the side menu.

Ah, Tori. I can't wait. A new album is always exciting, even if you do become a little more self indulgent with each record...

I love only Janis Joplin more than you....

Both Sad and Happy News

You know how something good happens, and then something bad happens almost at the same time? I don't know what this is about, but it must be something to do with balancing the universe out or something....No, not really, I suspect that the universe actually specialises in randomosity.

Anyway....I've forgotten the point of this blog now...

Oh yes. Happy and sad.

First the happiness.

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/entertainment/811484/watchdog-slams-newman-mannequin-stunt

That dirty, unfunny fuck Sam Newman has been officially censured by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA)because of the sexist fuckery seen on the Footy Show (remember the stunt where Newman groped a mannequin dressed in lingerie with a picture of a female journalist stapled to its head?)

"The broadcast was likely, in all the circumstances, to have provoked severe ridicule against the journalist on the grounds of gender," ACMA said in a statement on Friday.

"Nine breached the Commercial Television Industry Code of Practice by broadcasting a program which was likely to provoke severe ridicule, as well as failure to provide a substantive written response to the complainants."

Now apparently Channel Nine took action at the time, even sending Newman to counselling. However, I'm pleased that the ACMA's report has brought attention back to sexism displayed on this show. I'd be more pleased if Newman had been sacked, but I guess you can't have everything.

Moving to the sad news now - Marilyn French has passed away.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/05/07/BAG017F5UG.DTL

French was one of the foremost feminist writers of the seventies, and her book The Women's Room is a modern feminist classic. I still remember reading it when I was twelve. It changed my life and I've been proudly identifying as a feminist ever since. I've loved a number of her other books too, and her women's histories and The War Against Women are must reads as well.

Rest in peace Marilyn, your legacy will live on.

FFIT....Funny or Not? And...The Feminist President.

Hmmm....I'm not quite sure how to react to this, so I am going for cautiously hopeful, but of course remaining healthily prepared for dissappointment.

Yes, apparently HBO are creating a series based on a former feminist it girl (you know, a FFIT) who is now a college professor.

http://www.thefrisky.com/post/246-hbo-developing-tv-show-about-womens-studies-professor/

I suspect that a great deal of the 'humour' in this show might be based on the supposed dilemmas faced by a now aging, formerly hot, woman, who is likely to be suffering, having had her limelight removed. This, I hope, will not be the case. Really, it's too easy, it's not very funny and it's patronising. Speaking of patronising -did you notice this in the article linked to above:

Watching a crazy, washed-up feminist trying to feel important in Vermont sounds right up our alley.

Interesting that they go straight to 'crazy' and 'washed up', no? Sigh, groan, sigh.

What does give me some hope is the fact that Daily Show/Colbert Report executive producer Ben Karlin is on board. Both shows are witty, left wing and funny. Also, apparently Julie White is down to star in the show, which I think is a good thing.

So what do you think? It is going to be awful, cliched and poke fun at 'humourless feminists'and aging it girls? Or will it be something new and progressive, a la my total fave, 30 Rock?



In other news - have people seen this piece of awesomeness? Apparently there's been some pissed off feminists who think that this pic is in bad taste, that is suggests that feminism needs a super man to step in and do some rescuing....Me? I really like it and I don't think it's in bad taste at all. Rather, I think the fact that Obama is willing to embrace feminism (and even adverstise it on a t shirt) is gold, Jerry, gold. And yes, there's no doubt it's smart politics as well, an obvious bow to the women who wanted to vote for Hillary amongst other liberal voters, but smart politics doesn't belittle the importance of this message.