"I would argue, being a writer myself, that as a director working
with someone else's script, I'm probably more sympathetic to a
writer than maybe someone who's purely a director, because I
understand the process.

I wanted, in this case Christine Roum, in Vancouver with me
the whole time; I really wanted her on set. I like that dialogue.
I think that's often how you get the best movies, when you have
another voice in the mix."
The Invisible director David Goyer

"I hear and I forget; I see and I remember; I write and I
understand."
Chinese proverb

Vita

Friends of La Mama...

$5 tix
Wed April 25th @ 6.30pm
Thu 26th/Fri 27th /Sat 28th @ 8pm

Her Secret Face
at the Carlton Courthouse)

Written by Vanessa Chapple @
Josephine Lange

Directed by Vanessa Chapple
Performed by Josephine Lange

"She is a monster. Or so it apppars!!!You
can see the spikes underneath her blouse.
Josephine?s mother is terrifying. Or is
she terrified of her self....??

Music is Josephine's means of escape Her
hiding place "is in the belly of her piano.
When Josephine?s mother dies she expects to
feel relieved. Elated, even. But all that?s
left is a terrible void."

Can music remain a refuge? Or is Josephine's
only escape to leave everything in search of
a life truly her own?

Nominated for Best New Australian Play, 2005
Green Room Awards.

Wed April 25th ? Sat April 28th
Bookings: 9347 6142
bookings@lamama.com.au

Or see the LaMama link in Vita's quick links
for more splendid LaMama Productions

A must see do not be terrified of the self
We are all as one.....Look into the void @
find the emerald green in ones life....
Vita

Words of Wisdom
"I never had any doubts about my abilities. I knew I could write.
I just had to figure out how to eat while doing this."
Cormac McCarthy

"The freelance writer is a person who is paid per piece or per
word or perhaps."
Robert Bencheley

linkwwcormacmccarthy.com/

Let me tell you balancing a HOT salmon and neuf-chatel bagel
with a side of rocket salad is a very precarious business,..
It can get particularly stressful while contemplating the merits
@ distinct disadvantages of a VBLOG, while tinkling with ones
NEW Xentis keyboard ....

It is certainly VERY aggravating if you drop salmon between the
letters D B F and E .......Ah ya ya very messy but interesting
the food fusion plastic and salmon ........

Cucumber and Salmon Cream Dream

Ingredients:
1 to 3 cucumbers lebanesse
1 packet smoked salmon
1/2 tbs lemon juice
200 grams of Neufchatel cheese -(cream cheese)
1/2 tsp ground pepper

Instructions:
Slice the cucumbers into elegant thick pieces.
Places these sliced cucumbers onto a paper
towel to drain. (an absolute must DO......)

While the cucumbers dry. Make the salmon cream.
To do this, combine the smoked salmon, the
Neufchatel cheese, the pepper, and the lemon
juice in a food processor.

Blend until it is smooth. Finally, pipe one
teaspoon of the salmon cream on top of each of
the cucumber slices absolutely divine indeed....

A tasty, low-carb/low cash cucumber treat for the freelance
writer... MMMMmmm topped with a yummy salmon cream on a bagel...

Eat with caution near ones tool of trade
Vita

TAKING THE INITIATIVE

"The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and
realities of the universe, the less taste we shall have for
destruction."
Rachel Carson

See Vita's quick links fro more on the incredible Rachel

"Ecological restoration, allied with the creation of ecosystem-scale
wilderness reserves, represents the main hope that the organic quality
of wildness may someday be resurrected in human souls and in all
life-places on planet Earth."
Stephanie Mills - 'In Service of the Wild'

linkwww.umich.edu/~evsem/events/mills.html

Frequently one has many ideas, dreams and thoughts that can
be acted upon?. Often times we live on past disappointments
and what did not happen in the way one perceived it could
well be?

We create false expectations that drive our desires. Beliefs
that one did not believe in and act on with integrity and
conscious clear dedication and faith ??..Often one over
looks what one ought to devote ones time too. Staunch
and loving, dedication are always best practice.

One can be concerned with what one should do, as opposed to
what one is able to do and is doing. One must revalue revise
revisit reinvent @ remember what one came to the world to act
upon with, and for.

linkwww.thp.org/women/index.html

Be dedicated loyal and open to the future. Create allegiances
and assurances that build and sustain the future for the whole?
Be magnanimous gracious and committed to what one offers and
gives back to the earth/world. Be splendid dignified and decent
in all ones actions?.

linkwww.ecoplan.org/general/women.htm

Zero tolerance for unsustainable patriarchal bad behaviors

Vita

"The Way? exists but not the traveler on it."

For the traveler the road is home. Reaching ones
destination will always be within?.Definitive acts
of freedom are essential to create ultimate and life
- changing commitments.

These are the actions that make ones life really,
superb and encompass the magic and defines the divine.
One can make it even better with ones creative gestures,
and genuine love. Leave ones doubts behind and act
on that love?..Ride the wave of the good energy and
commitment to loving ones life fully.

The one who sets out toward ultimate things is a true
warrior / goddess In this also lies the polarities of
watcher and the participant of life. The watcher
travels as far, sometimes with immense zeal and courage,
gathering up memories and adventures. Always a wondrous
tale to tell @ then returns the same person as the one
who departed.

There is often unexpressed sad clutter of belongings the
watcher unpacks back at home. The true traveler is very
different. The traveler resolves that when they return
one will not be the same person as the one who set out.

So be the special place and live the significant journey
of ones life? ?Pilgrimage is a passage for the wild reckless
and subtle. One must be prepared to shed the holder of ones
personality @ even the body like a worn out skin.

Prepared for ultimate things

linkwww.nyc.gov/portal/site/nycgov/

Vita

Kurt has left his Manhattan Mountain top for ever!!
and as he often eluded to --Time stops for NO ONE
with false elevation and unfounded pride......He
was a risk taker and said it how he saw it was. He
rarely spoke with hesitation or fear of genuine
truth.... ( Take note John and George)

NO NOT the Beatles my dears...!!)See Kurt's view
below on the Beatles...

"I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without
going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of
things you can't see from the center."

"I say in speeches that a plausible mission of artists is
to make people appreciate being alive at least a little
bit.I am then asked if I know of any artists who pulled that
off. I reply, 'The Beatles did'.

linkwww.vonnegutweb.com/archives/arc_americans.html

Then we at VITA are inclined to think the Jazz Madonna/ Ella has shown US this TOO...

linkwww.ellafitzgerald.com/

"It isn't where you came from, its where you're going that counts."
Ella Fitzgerald

"I would like to go to heaven to ask somebody in charge
up there, 'Hey, what was the good news and what was the
bad news?'
Kurt Vonnegut

And this from Kurt's Auntie......
He remembered an aunt once telling him, "'All Vonnegut men
are scared to death of women.' "

So don't be this is "so last century' so "passe" so
patriarchal (fear of the other).. VERY unnecessary......
as we say here at VITA.

After all women BIRTH the world....See more on VITA on
women's voices in the 21st century coming to this .com
VERY VERY SOON......

linkwww.vonegut.com/

A POEM BY KURT TOWARD TO THE END.......

When the last living thing
has died on account of us,
how poetical it would be
if Earth could say,
in a voice floating up
perhaps
from the floor
of the Grand Canyon,
"It is done."
People did not like it here.

Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007)
This poem is very sad really... one can LOVE and like
"here or there" .... LOVE NOT WAR!!

Always plausible @ ready to go the edge
to peer into the unknown... BE ready to give ones life
a Goddess worthy good TIME ...and a giggle with LOTS of
gorgeousness and fabulous moments to come..

In memory of Kurt

AND remember to be really naughty if not plain about
the mouth as our Minnie would say

Always willing too seek out a man's G spot
of course I am speaking Shiatsu and ones giggle
spot.... of course!!
Vita

Begin and be the new adventure in ones life journey? It's
the time to have optimism and excitement ?. Allow ones?
feelings to be expressed and acted on? Be the new
beginnings in ones life!!! Take the risk and love it
with ALL the pleasure and delight one TRULY deserves?

Be stimulated and enthused to step on to the Mountain
of love?.that awaits one? Feel the thrill @ exhilaration
of the next stimulating part of ones love filled journey..
Take the luxury of dancing with Jupiter/ transformation....
One can peak on the mountain top with our wildest and
fabulous dream.....Live the reality of that dream.....

Do what one wants to do despite being afraid
(Arianna Huffington)
See Arianna? link in Vita?s quick links

linkwww.navypier.com/intro_animation.html


This from is Holiness the Dalai Lama

"Self-confidence is knowing that one has the ability to do
something properly and being determined not to give up.
Ordinary beings are prepared to make a good deal of
effort for relatively insignificant ends.

We have promised to work for the immensely more
important goal of liberating all beings, so we
should cultivate great self-confidence @ thinking.
Even if I am the only one to do so, I will benefit
all beings."

from : A Flash of Lightning in the Dark of Night

Vita

Transform and build on ones self worth, to an image of strength
tenacity greatness and goddess/ness?Do not wait to experience
the magic of ones incredible life ????

As my darling and courageous Goddess friend, ?Scout? would say,
?take life by the horns and make it BEG for more more more??
Life is short and delicious and well worth consuming...

As my wee Goddess son always says ?Let?s skip the light fantastic?
and always smell the gardenia?"

Living the dream is to BE self -determining. Offer only ones true self
and trust in a self-sustaining life?Ignore others NEGATIVE @ diminishing
projections? Live ones own truth, attract what one wishes to become?

Love it in every shape color and form? Take on the mystery of the day...
Let go of the Ego?s need to control the open heart inside and outside
one self? Be willing to explore the open heart and love for all one is
worth?Live all outfits in ones hidden closet of the heart??????.

Be the heart soul and passion of ones self and remember to share ones
heart and passion with the other...Be ones essential self, be fearless
consistent current @ impeccable??..

Be the boldest and divine impression one can be??..AND? always
love who one is and LOVE what one can become?Our days in the sun
will always then come?LOVE what one has not what one does NOT....
Open the closet, live, and love fully? Let go of perceived ideas of perfection
and others misgdied projections ...Be the fabulous kind and divine person one
is deeply proud to be.

linkwww.bottomlessclosetnyc.org/

Don't have/love everything you want; want everything you have/love.


Vita

"Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are
not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation
of" humankind.
Henry Thoreau

Always carry hope and optimism in your heart and mind. Ask ones self
'everyday what is the gift of myself? What is it one wants to manifest
and create? What is the gift one wishes to give back to the world?

Always use ones knowledge and experience with compassion @
kindness. Always be present never look back to what one may have
done wrong. One can always correct and realign ones karma and act @
behave with integrity and good intent...Always REMEMBER that ALL
our ...

"petty fears @ petty pleasures are but the shadow of reality."
(Henry Thoreau)

Always love every moment one has because that is ALL we have.....
Always speak out and correct an injustice that one sees being
done or has been done....Always live your courage and strength.
Always be ones own power..

Always share the love and power of ones self, Always be aware
of ones effect on the other..Always be aware and act from a
place of love for ones self and the other.

When one makes a wish, Always ensure one truly believes
enough to manifest and last several life TIMES.

Be absolute in ones love and conviction. Always contribute ones
love and create a better world that takes into account the
conditions for the "whole"...

Never, share ones dream with a skeptic nor blame others for ones
grieve?Never live without courage. Always be staunch and clear
about ones sense of self and ones freedom to live and LOVE
fully in that self/ body/place ???Be free to be ones true self
AND be at peace with that choice...

Be here today and look forward to what tomorrow will BECOME......
As Henry Thoreau said "our truest life is when we are in our
dreams awake"

AND THIS FROM HENRY
However mean your life appears, meet it and live it; do not shun
it and call it hard names."

linkthoreau.eserver.org/civil.html

Wide awake and full of the day

Vita

"Life is not a support system for art. It's the other way around."
Stephen King

To tell and speak ones truth in ALL situations is always is an
art form. Fantasy and others fears result in temporary
pleasure @ complete dis/satisfaction.

Truth genuine love honesty and integrity must always be paramount.
To do this is to create a whole experience @ essential to a far
reaching fulfilling LIFE/VIITA....?One must be mindful of BEST
practice at all TIMES????

When dealing with other beings, one must NOT misrepresent or be
false in anything one says or offers? Being totally mindful and
aware of just what ones says and making it as transparent honest
and kind to oneself?. and the other is best practice?..

It will then be a reflection of the truth, as one can perceive
it this is true mindfulness. Be aware?.BE very aware not to
create deceit and pain for ones self or the other....

When one practices the art of truthfulness within one self
one, cannot, betray oneself or the other? One is then not
trying to look at things other than as they really are.
Seeing things mindfully, with full consciousness and
awareness; this allows the whole and entire Practice of
Buddha being??..

When one becomes very honest and truly living with love,
instinctively the wisdom of consideration and good karma
arises. One then is loving in a natural way because one is
no longer trying to get or be something other than what is ?????

Love and respect the other as one would be have ones
self love and respected........


linkwww.dianakrall.com/

Vita

Act on your intuition, do not waste energy worrying about the judgment
of others or worse ones own .....Ones integrity will speak for itself ?.
Ones human needs and desires can be honored. Self denial of LOVE is
darkness not light. Do not be haunted by ones past disappointments...
When we are true to our LOVE, love will always speak from our hearts.
So believe in ones own Magic and act on it? Be staunch courageous
loyal and unfaltering with ones love? Never wait to love ???..
Be current and live right NOW??Take the journey of love with ones
love.......

Tony Anthony put it well in 2003 on Beneath Buddha?s Eyes when he
said ? The only way I know to break the bond with what haunts me, is
by dealing with it. I need to set my pack down on the ground open it
up and look inside."

"Then I need to take whatever is in it, out. When the sunlight shines
on my past" (sorrows defeats) "suddenly it begins to shrivel and
disappear. Mushrooms grow bigger in the dark but dry up in the light
of the sun????"

For the amazing Edie Beale who died alone in Florida 5 years ago ?
Edie waited until she was 60 to have her voice heard....
and this from "Big Edie" Edie's mother

"I am not ashamed of anything. Where my body is a very precious
place."

Be you a mother or a daughter be always a friend

linken.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Bouvier_Beale

always listening to women's voices @ very aware of the
"precious places"
Vita

Friends of La Mama...

$5 Easter treats!!!
Thu April 5, Fri April 6,
Sat April 7,
Sun April 8 only:

B File
Written by Deborah Levy
Directed by Paulo Castro
Performed by Jo Stone, Paulo Castro, Karen Lawrence,
Paulo Dos Santos, Silvia Coelho Pinto @ Madeleine Lawrence

Wed/Sun @ 6.30pm; Thu/Fri/Sat @ 8pm
At the Carlton Courthouse:
349 Drummond St. Carlton

The First Step On a Tram Is Hell
As part of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2007:

linkwww.comedyfestival.com.au/season/2007/

Written, directed and performed by the lovely @ local
Sue Ingleton

Wed/Fri/Sun @ 6.30pm; Thu/Sat @ 8.30pm

At La Mama: 205 Faraday St. Carlton

See the LaMama site in Vita's quick links

Vita

Grecian Spinach in Autumn
This spinach dish with Greek finesse is a simple and elegant
vegetable dish that can be eaten on its own with fresh PITA..
and a serve of marinated roasted capsicum and a side of Greek
olives.......Taken as a delightful dish on a Autumn picnic..
Or as a special dinner partner at Easter ?.. Served with lamb,
chicken or fish.

INGREDIENTS

1 Tbsp coconut oil
1/2 small red onion, thin sliced into rings
2 fresh baby spinach, washed and stemmed
1/2 tsp grated lemon peel
1/4 cup feta cheese, crumbled
1/2 tsp sea salt
3-4 grinds freshly ground black pepper

1. Heat a large pan with a lid over medium high heat.
Add oil and sliced red onion. Saut? until onion starts to
wilt.
2. Add spinach and quickly saut? for 2-3 minutes. Add lemon
peel, salt and pepper. Cook for a few seconds more to release
all the flavors.
3. Add crumbled feta cheese and stir to incorporate. Transfer
to serving dish and serve immediately.

Serves 4 Preparation time: 10 minutes

Variations on a theme
Increase feta cheese to 1/2 cup; Decrease oil to 1 Tbsp.
Decrease spinach to 1 and. Add 1-1/2 cups of another other
dark leafy greens such as chard or beet greens.
Increase lemon peel to 1 tsp. For cheese, use 1 Tbsp feta
mixed with 1 Tbsp non-fat cottage cheese.

POMEGRANATE PASTE BISON OR BUFFALO BURGERS

AH YA YA this is very extreme eating..... One can find a diverse
range of "game/meats in the beautiful Yarra Valley just an arrows
shot from Marvellous Melbourne!! See the site below....

Bison or buffalo meat tastes surprisingly like beef and is lower
in calories and fat. (ONE can supplement this with kangaroo beef
turkey or tofu if you wish....

1KG Ground bison or buffalo meat / Kangaroo etc...
Pomegranate Paste go by feel and blend sufficient
to give flavor to the meat..smell and you will KNOW....
2 tsp garlic
1 beaten egg
A hand full of sesame seeds
1/2 tsp of fresh herbs
Tsp garlic
A Dash of Baharat mix
3-4 grinds fresh black pepper

1. Combine ground bison and remaining ingredients. Form into
patties.
2. Broil in the oven or over a grill, or fry in hot, cast
iron skillet over medium high, 3-4 minutes on a side until
brown. DO NOT overcook. Serve immediately. with Grecian Salad
and mashed potato ..... Very NOW veey comforting in Autumn

KEBASA spices( gulf baharat)

1 tbsp red pepper
1 1/2 tsp cumin
1 1/2 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp cloves
1 tsp black pepper
1 tsp ground cardamom
1 tsp nutmeg
1 tsp ground coriander
1 tsp ground noomi basra (dried lemon or lime)

Serves 4 Preparation time: 10 minutes

Other alternatives
Serve with the minted mashed potatoes, roasted asparagus or roasted
beetroot marinated in grapefruit juice. Completely delightful with a
green been salad or Lima bean salad.

See Vita soon for tasty salads for the Autumn months / Spring in the
North..... Eat ones way to heaven....Meals to love by......

linkwww.gamemeats.com.au/

Vita