I guess it shouldn't

but this makes me giggle, albeit guiltily.

Continuation…

When we last left the Beef Wellington-off discussion:

We had set the date – June 5.
We had a show of hands – Jenny, Mattwa, John, Shari, Noodle & I.
We had one no – Jeff.
One maybe – Nicolai
and the offer of three kitchens – Jenny, Margaret & Renae.

As it stands, the only oven-offer/attendee match is Jenny, making it a little awkward if we choose a Carlingford or Zetland venue. With a little over a week to go, I figure we better get cracking on the last of the whos, the where and finally, the how.

We need Nicolai to confirm or deny us his presence and any other contestants to come forward. STAT.

(500) Days of Summer - Thriller Version

Introducing Lil Whipit and friends

If hot* girls in short skirts and fishnets and names like Bitchy'n'Scratchy, FiFi La Gore, Apollonia Thunderpussy, and Missy Biff sounds like your kind of sport, then let me introduce to you... The Sydney City Assassins Roller Derby League!



After an exhilarating introduction to this most fun and random of sports last Saturday, the Assassins gained a handful of new fans, and Renaezor Blade Batty gained a new favourite sport.

The next bout (that we will actually be in the country for) is Saturday 7th August, which gives you plenty of time to clear your calendars. It will be at the Horden, tix will need to be pre-bought (last Saturday was a complete sell-out) for about $20, and red and black will need to be worn. A reminder call will be made when it is time to buy tickets, but I now consider this to be the official SRF sport of choice (we may even mount a team!**), so you don't want to miss it!

* By hot, I basically mean wearing short skirts and fishnets.
** Extremely unlikely but hey, if the Ladies Auxiliary approves it...

Let's Paint

A bit of painting inspiration for Jenny...

http://www.youtube.com/watch#!v=uPpMWaSPt-s

cx

Eurovision

Yay! It's Eurovision time SRFers where we celebrate the cultural heritage of the Continent that gave us Shakespeare, Dumas, Molière, Mozart, Chopin, Handel, Coward, Abba, the Trannie from Israel(insert argument about Euro TV vs the physical land mass) and this small Norwegian lad who can play the fiddle on his knees while other men do the "sexy tiger" round him.


Carmel is hosting this years awesomeness so bring a Plate some Euro Booze and some sort of National Allegiance - final list of countries competing will be available on Saturday

7.00pm Sunday
5 Miller St Bondi

Hello Oslo this in Nicosia calling.....

'He had it coming'

If you're in the mood to give 'em the old razzle dazzle then brush off your fishnets and join me at Wrong Prom in August for Chicago.



Event details:
Wedneday 25 August 7.30pm
CHICAGO @ WRONG PROM

Full info here:
http://www.carriageworks.com.au/?page=Event&event=Wrong-Prom-2010

A love of music(als) and desire to boogie are pre-requisites, although knowledge of the specific steps for Chicago are not mandatory (we'll get a lesson).

If you've not been to Wrong Prom before I can heartily recommend it. Fab night out, and a good excuse to dress up and dance, and not feel silly, because everyone else is doing it too!

And to get you in the mood:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4j-YusgVc4

Who's with me?

cx

The Next One

I think everyone knows but just in case....

Shari and I should have the next SRF member here some time in mid-late November!

Congratulations Bron and Dean!!

On the birth of little Alex Malcolm Field. Born at 7am today.

Good to see he's a decent weight at 7.4 pounds and 52cm long.

Hope you're all doing well and we get to meet him soon xx

Star Wars Starring Me!

I know, I know... shut up Richard! Stop posting so much stuff on the blog Richard!

I think we can all agree that my many and varied posts are all equally awesome and frequent. This been the most awesomest and frequentest of them all!

Behold, the Andrew Family in Empire Strikes Back! Featuring a special guest star!

Happy Birthday Nicolai!

57th Sydney Film Festival -- Carmel style

Hi folks

Well now you have two of us offering our recommendations, aren't you lucky?! Happy to defer to Nick but as I spent all night last night choosing films, composing one-liners to summarise the film for you and finding trailers, I think it's still worth posting my SFF recommendations. Also seeking a date to most of these. Where the film screens twice I've put both options so you can choose which screening you would like to see. The program guide is in tomorrow's SMH and the website and iPhone app launch tomorrow too.

Wednesday 2 June
7.30pm State: South Solitary (Opening Night Gala) (FlexiPasses not valid)
Miranda and Barry Otto star in this film about a woman and her uncle who travel to a remote lighthouse to check on the people running it, and the dramas that ensue.
OR
8pm EV9: Exit Through the Gift Shop
Banksy 'mockumentary'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTlm6dU2xHk

Thursday 3 June
8.30pm DOQ: Mammuth
Belgian absurdist comedy starring Gerard Depardieu
OR
8.45pm EV9: Just like Us
Egyptian-America comedian takes a bunch of stand-up comedians on a tour of the middle east to try to break down barriers through comedy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXYOTwMqR9E
OR
9pm EV9: Near Dark
The vampire movie meets Western Gothic in this 1987 film, the directorial debut of recent Oscar-winner Kathryn Bigelow.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYo14eZHRNA
OR
9pm State: Howl
A tribute to Allen Ginsberg with a stellar cast.

Friday 4 June
4.30pm State: Lourdes
Compelling tale of a wheelchair-bound believer who visits Lourdes hoping to be healed.

6pm EV9: Three Boys Dreaming
Doco about some talented indigenous teenage boys pursuing an AFL career.
OR
6.30pm: Life During Wartime
Todd Solondz's sequel to Happiness, starring Allison Janney, etc.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBKzHhtCTMM

8.30pm EV9: Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll
Derek Jarman's biopic of Ian Dury starring Andy Serkis.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMKjx8ilLCY
OR
10.30pm EV8 Revolucion
A portmanteau film examining the reverberations of the Mexican revolution produced by Diego Luna and Gael Garcia Bernal's production company.

Saturday 5 June
10.30am AGNSW: A Woman Under the Influence
Cassavetes' classic film in a restored print. Awesome film.

2.30pm EV9: Beautiful Darling
Biopic of Candy Darling, a glittering figure in New York 60s bohemia who starred in Warhol’s films.

4.30pm EV9: Jean-Michel Basquiat
Biopic of the New York 80s artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, from his early graffiti days, through his meteoric rise to multi-millionaire status and then his untimely end.

6pm SOH: Oil City Confidential
Julien Temple’s blistering doco on cult R&B band Dr Feelgood, whose music shook up the London 70s pub sound and heralded the coming of punk.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CZMLs8Ke40

10pm SOH: Nosferatu (FlexiPasses not valid)
Classic 1922 vampire film with a live accompaniment
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMl6hUZHBqY

Sunday 6 June
2.30pm State: Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work
Fab biopic of the raucous, shocking and brutally self-aware grand dame of comedy, Joan Rivers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIJf-W9FNY0

6.15pm DOQ: The Messenger
Woody Harrelson received an Oscar nomination for his role in this deeply moving film about post-Iraq soldiers drawn together by the challenges of their job.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MEApxjYncI

9.30pm EV9: Just Like Us
Egyptian-America comedian takes a bunch of stand-up comedians on a tour of the middle east to try to break down barriers through comedy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXYOTwMqR9E

Monday 7 June
12.15pm State: A Somewhat Gentle Man
Deep from the hacking lungs of Nordic minimalism comes this post-jail gangster thriller starring Stellan Skarsgard.

6.30pm EV8: Restrepo
Sundance prize-winning doco about US soldiers in a remote outpost in Afghanistan who try to bond with the locals.

9.05pm State: Exit Through the Gift Shop
Banksy 'mockumentary'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTlm6dU2xHk

Tuesday 8 June
6.15pm EV8: Freetime Machos
Doco about the most Northern and third lousiest rugby team in the world, from Oulu, Finland.

Wednesday 9 June
4.25pm State: Mammuth
Belgian absurdist comedy starring Gerard Depardieu

Thursday 10 June
2.05pm State: The Most Dangerous Man in America
Riveting doco about Daniel Ellsberg’s transformation from US Marine and Pentagon bureaucrat who justified the Vietnam war, to anti-war campaigner after visiting the front line.

6.30pm State: Women Without Men
Debut feature from visual artist Shirin Neshat, about the struggles of four different women in 1950s Tehran.

8.30pm EV9: Oil City Confidential
Julien Temple’s blistering doco on cult R&B band Dr Feelgood, whose music shook up the London 70s pub sound and heralded the coming of punk.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CZMLs8Ke40
OR
8.45pm EV8: A Somewhat Gentle Man
Deep from the hacking lungs of Nordic minimalism comes this post-jail gangster thriller starring Stellan Skarsgard.

Friday 11 June
12.30pm DOQ: Freetime Machos
Doco about the most Northern and third lousiest rugby team in the world, from Oulu, Finland.

4pm EV8: The Temptation of St Tony
A black and white Estonian odyssey of allegory from a Bergmanesque funeral to a surreal cabaret of Lynchian proportions with Tati-esque humour thrown in.

6.30pm State: The Killer Inside Me
Michael Winterbottom’s latest film about a cop (Casey Affleck) who’s also a cold-blooded murderer. Violent but brilliant.
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/4003225/the_killer_inside_me_trailer/

9pm State: I Am Love
Tilda Swinton stars in this sumptuous Italian tale of a crumbling family empire, intrigue, love, food and affairs. Oh, and gorgeous upholstery.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUXEAhJb_O0

Saturday 12 June
10am State: The Killer Inside Me
Michael Winterbottom’s latest film about a cop (Casey Affleck) who’s also a cold-blooded murderer. Violent but brilliant.
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/4003225/the_killer_inside_me_trailer/

6.45pm EV9: Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work
Fab biopic of the raucous, shocking and brutally self-aware grand dame of comedy, Joan Rivers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIJf-W9FNY0

9.30pm State: Cyrus
Flawlessly uncomfortable comedy with John C Reilly as a 40-something divorcee whose blossoming relationship with Marisa Tomei is thwarted by her slyly manipulative son Cyrus.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbdNSCQ-qHI

Sunday 13 June
12.05pm State: Senso
Gorgeous new print of Visconti’s classic lush sweeping melodrama.

4pm DOQ: I Am Love
Tilda Swinton stars in this sumptuous Italian tale of a crumbling family empire, intrigue, love, food and affairs. Oh, and gorgeous upholstery.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUXEAhJb_O0

6.45pm DOQ: Hesher
Hesher (Joseph Gordon Levitt) is a heavy-metal loner who gatecrashes the stagnating suburban life of 13-year-old TJ. The film avoids sentimentality in favour of anarchic transformation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSr3gRGtIow

9.30pm State: The Ghost Writer
Ewan McGregor is a writer hired to ‘ghost write’ the memoirs of ex-British PM Pierce Brosnan, but then a sinister web of intrigue unravels in this Polanski thriller.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_AerBW0EcI

Monday 14 June (Public holiday)
12.30pm EV8: The Most Dangerous Man in America
Riveting doco about Daniel Ellsberg’s transformation from US Marine and Pentagon bureaucrat who justified the Vietnam war, to anti-war campaigner after visiting the front line.
OR
2pm DOQ: Hesher
Hesher (Joseph Gordon Levitt) is a heavy-metal loner who gatecrashes the stagnating suburban life of 13-year-old TJ. The film avoids sentimentality in favour of anarchic transformation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSr3gRGtIow

7.30pm The Kids Are Alright (FlexiPasses not valid)
Julianne Moore and Annette Benning are married, with two kids who decide to seek out their sperm donor ‘father’ when they reach their teens. Mark Ruffalo is said donor, an irresponsible motorbike-riding organic gardener with a limited concept of responsibility.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdDSqgZ87fM

cx

57th Sydney Film Festival - Nick Style

So here are my first round ticket offers. I am looking for a date to each of these films. I'm generally well behaved but do warn you by second weekend i tend to fall asleep if it doesn't grab me. there will probably be some random drinks and dinners if your in the right slot.

Thursday 3rd June
Lebanon 4.30pm State
Heartbeats 6.30pm State - Jenny
Howl 9.00pm State - Carmel

Friday 4th June
Rainbow Warriors 2.30pm State
Three Boys Dreaming 6.00pm George St - SMF
Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll 8.30pm George St - SMF

Saturday 5th
Life During Wartime 10.00am State
The Illusionist 12.00pm State

Sunday 6th June
Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work 2.30pm State - Carmel
Boy 4.15pm State - SMF
The Messenger 6.15pm DOQ - SMF

Monday 7th
A Somewhat Gentle Man 12.15pm State - Carmel
Lola 6.30pm State - SMF
Exit Through the Gift Shop 9.05pm State - SMF

Tuesday 8th June
I Killed My Mother 4.30pm DOQ
If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle 6.45pm State

Wednesday 9th
Brotherhood 6.00pm George St - SMF
The Runaways 9.00pm State - SMF

Thursday 10th
The Most Dangerous Man in America 2.15pm State
Teenage Paparazzo 6.30pm George St - Kate
Oil City Confidential 8.30pm George St

Friday 11th
Freetime Machos 12.30pm DOQ - Carmel
I am Love 9.00pm State - Jenny

Saturday 12th
Winter’s Bone 12.00pm DOQ
Gasland 2.00pm DOQ MPS
White Materials 4.30pm State
Four Lions 7.00pm State MPS and Jenny
Cyrus 9.30pm State MPS, Jenny and Carmel

Sunday 13th
Home By Christmas 4.35pm State
Wasted on the Young 7.00pm State

Monday 14th June
Mugabe and the White African 12.00 DOQ
Hesher 2.00pm DOQ
Closing Night Film - The Kids are Alright 7.00pm State - You have to put a frock on for this one. SMF


The Messenger (Woody got his Oscar nod for this)


Exit Through the Gift Shop



Oil City Confidential


I am Love - Tilda Swinton doing Italian


Cyrus


Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work

Results are in

I hereby declare that by popular demand, the SRF Beef Wellington-off shall be held on Saturday June 5.

Since the poll was anonymous, let us know in the comments section if you are able to make it. (Except Jeff.)