This is the best kind of love

Be incisive not apprehensive be inclusive not exclusive
be brave be aware…Be alert not alarmed. Be adventurous
not tentative …Be courageous not dangerous… Be careful
not careless…Be responsible not rash…Be bold not brash..

Be independent Not codependent, be receptive & intuitive
Be ready be real be free be flexible. Be open to the heart
not shut to the love inside.Be in control NOT controlling..
Be sincere and direct,not insincere or indirect…Be spirited
and spontaneousness not static and stale...

linkwww.youtube.com/watch?v=vXAotaSebqI&feature=fvw

Be trusting and trustworthy..Be elegant but not excessive,
be grand not greedy.Be kind yet not gullible. Be valued and
value others be daring and delightful. Be divine and very
delicious be realistic yet take risks. Take opportunities
yet not an opportunist..Be creative and not procuring

Be sustainable not wasteful.Be conscious not unconscious..
Be fluid and have fun..Be a bit witty, and little wicked
on the way…Be vibrant not unreceptive… Be kind not unkind…
Be still yet not stuck..Be willing not willful...

Be dynamic not dynamite. Be meaningful not meaningless
Be effective not inept…Be helpful not patronisng.Be
powerful not overbearing. Be in control NOT controlling…

Say what one means and feels and NOT what one thinks
one should be or feel. Be bold and cut to the chase
don’t meander about….Give for the actual sake of giving…
Love for the sake of loving...

Be love not lust.Live, love now. Be kind with ones
love.. Remember ones love..Trust love and others
will trust that love.Share ones love...Be brave
and act on ones love...Live the dream of ones
love......

www.youtube.com/watch?v=CO2B4UZz0LA

Vita

SAILS OF OBLIVION "THE EARS" -CORNER HOTEL RICHMOND
SUNDAY AUGUST 16TH 2009

Many years have gone by, many gigs have been heard
tears have been shed and yet our memories remain..
We at "Vita" are thrilled to announce the courageous
inspired not to bung it on "legendary" Melbourne art-
punks ?The Ears? are back after 25 years

The "Ears' and friends ( see below) are back for one
exclusive show at the infamous music venue the wild
?Corner Hotel? in Richmond Melbourne

www.myspace.com/theears09

"THE EARS" A MUST BE AT AND BE SEEN AT EVENT

For a trip down memory lane, when wearing ones "comffie"
pajamas seemed incredibly sensible, if one was going to
be up until the wee hours...We at ?vita? are so across
this way of being, as the pajama has always been indoor
and outdoor wear?for the busy Goddess!!

www.alannahhill.com.au/

THE EARS ARE ALL HEARING LISTENING AND GROWN UP

The Ears will revalue and revisit the past for a once
and once only gig on Sunday afternoon August 16th.The
?Ears? were a legendary Melbourne phenomenon from the
late 70?s and the very early 80?s?The Ears gained
prominence as the template for Melbourne film director
Richard Lowenstein?s, cult movie ?Dogs in Space? that
was made in Richmond??..


linken.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogs_in_Space

The lead character, of ?Dogs in Space? was played by Michael
Hutchence, from INXS and was based on the divine and elusive
Angel man Sam Sejavka who was the lead singer of ?The Ears

AN EVENT NOT BE MISSED
Sun 16th Aug 2009
Corner Hotel RICHMOND
Doors: 2.00pm
$15 if booked by phone or on line at
linkwww.cornerhotel.com/

OR $20.00 at the door

THE EARS (Sam Sejavka - Reunion show),
STEVE KILBEY (The Church),
BRIAN HOOPER & BAND,
HUGO RACE & TRUE SPIRIT,
SEAN KELLY & BAND,
NICK BARKER,
DAVID BRIDIE & PHIL WALES (Not Drowning Waving,
My Friend The Chocolate Cake),
DJ OLLIE OLSEN and MC GREG FLEET.,
AND OF COURSE THE SONG "Dogs in Space?
that was lifted from The Ears play list.

Be there loved ones!!
Vita

BE OPEN TO GENUINE RECONCILIATION.

To know what people really think, pay regard to what
they do, rather than what they say.
George Santayana

GETUP AND SING FROM THE HEART

"Right now we have an historic opportunity to turn
the momentum generated by February's apology into
real reconciliation. WE can ALL help make that a
reality by joining a simple conversation, taking
place nationwide on April 29th.

Already almost 200 hosts, Indigenous and non
Indigenous, have put up their hands everywhere
from Alice Springs to Annandale to host a
'Reconciliation GetTogether'.

Click the link below now for your place in the
national conversation making cultural history:
(then the click the "get together" link)

linkwww.getup.org.au/community/

On the night, we'll also be celebrating
the launch of our new song with the fabulous
Paul Kelly, Kev gorgeous Carmody, Urthboy &
the divine Missy Higgins.....

linkwww.kevcarmody.com.au/

A song that will ignite the airwaves with our
message, and together we'll send it and that
message to number one. A song alone can't change
a nation, a grassroots movement for change can.

At 7pm on April 29th, thousands of Australians,
Indigenous and non-Indigenous, will be sitting
down together to build a bridge of understanding.

It's not the sort of conversation we'll have everyday,
However THIS is a conversation that WE simply must
HAVE. TRUE and genuine dialogue is the ONLY way for
this to occur..Reconciliation will take an inclusive
approach by the entire nation.

RSVP now to spend an evening creating a brighter future,
or sign up to host an event if there's none in ones own
community. It is a night you will surely remember:

This year the ground has shifted on Indigenous issues
and the nation has started to move. A grassroots
movement driving reconciliation forward is essential..
So make a commitment to this conversation Join us on
April 29th to be a part of this national
initiative."

Thanks for being a part of the conversation,
The GetUp team

Vita

One must always be expanding the worth and
sense of what is desirable in ALL our most
important relationships and of course our
world.

When we do, we find that all possibilities
are enhanced and able to grow fully. Never
count the cost of love, always assess the
investment of ones love.

It is well worth taking risks and being
open to the heart and these possibilities.
Be in every moment and act from courage.

Make right what has seemed elusive and
appears seemingly untouchable in ones
heart?Have the courage to love. Dare
to live fully. Allow ones brave heart
to shine!

Have self- confidence and ones courageous
spirit will be uncompromising when offering
genuine love. Be patient and compassionate,
self-disciplined and strong. One will
inevitably reap great rewards from this
courage.

Live the dream and revalue discernment
courage and quality. All must DO's in our
daily practice!!

www.mountain-goats.com/

Vita

Best practice is to make conscious choices with ones love.
It allows one to be in charge of the steps along ones path.
It opens US to love and live a full life. Being one with
love filled purpose is the only one we need to be! Be
very aware that devil is lived spelt backwards.. So live
and love with conscious love.. Do not abandon nor deny
oneself, nor the other the conscious love. one has found
on ones journey...

Then one is truly living with Bliss/VITA/Shakti..

?Shakti meaning sacred force, power or energy is the Hindu
concept or personification of the divine feminine aspect?

www.remembershakti.com/

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

"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

Life is often filled with superficial reasoning. pretense ongoing self
deception and false hope. Mind adventure and desire will always offer
great temptation that demands our consideration. Often resulting with
conflict between ones head and ones heart...

One can often be lost in assumption, second guessing and attached to
false belief that more data will change the outcome?? Be aware of ones
karmic choices?..Be aware of ones intentions because they will indeed
create the result one manifested.

Never finish the movie before you have developed the characters and
edited fully?Create the lyrics one chooser?s to sing? Say the words
that resonate genuine truth respect for yourself and offer love to
the other.

Keep ones feet planted in reality do not drift from the initial
commitment one has made. Be aware of days to come. Explore ones
creative frontiers be the adventure and be conscious of ones
choices.

Two things stand solid in ones life human kindness in another?s
troubles??courage in ones own?????

link en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Des'ree

Vita

Consider thinking different, bigger, better more
beautiful than EVER before and with less fear and
MORE acceptance!....

As has been mentioned us/we is so much better than me!!!
(VIP) Very Important Person is Soooooo...... 20 century.......
So not now and COMPLETELY unnecessary... As REM said
consider changing "ones religion" ..... think and be in
the WE....... NOT you versus ME so tedious, so NOT NOW
loved ones.....

linkwww.remq.com/flash/index.html

The lovely Les Dyer has found/ framed and focussed a
fabulous new acronym for US all to LIVE BY.........

WIP

"(Works In Progress as we all are!!). A WIP knows that
they are always special. They understand that every
act they undertake is important."

"A true Work In Progress" loves the other as we
would have ourself loved. Love us/WE are in every
moment with out JUDGEMENT and outdated expectations.....
Accept the other as you would want for oneself

Wow them and "welcome to the WIP Lounge"..... Hug
someone you LOVE today, ones self and/or the other.
Very naughty BUT very NICE and NOW!! Make room for
the present and live the WIP.......


LIVING LIFE/VITA

VITA

There are always new ways in which one can connect
with what's most important in ones life???..

Little Johnnie has suggested we don?t over extend ourselves.
Well he would be the expert on that ???..Being a man of the
past NOT the future and certainly NOT really living a true
present. One wonders when he will scale down his aspirations.
Leave his Plasma/smoke screen behind and move off shore ASAP
(Nauru perhaps)?????

Which in fact is a choice he could make.....IT did wonders
for Malcolm's (Fraser) integrity. It appeared almost
seamless when Malcolm moved to compassion and integrity
for the OTHER!!! After living for so LONG in the BIG end
of TOWN......Very brave indeed.....

linkwww.careaustralia.org.au

John and Janettes NEXT MOVE

I can see it NOW Foreign Corespondent ABC (OUR
ABC) ???....Or that other commercial station, (that does)
?Where are they NOW?, Asking exactly that....

Mmmm here is a sneak preview... A keen film crew catching
up with OUR John & Janette, on a dangerous leaky boat.
Having recently aquired, (with some trepidation)
in exchange for their frequent flyer points.
This extra ordinary exchange being with some rather
nice Indonesian fisherman, they met on tour of an US
run prison in what could be Broome or the other place
"W......a".

Looking foward NOT back..... Bravely on their way to
find compassion??Mmmmmm the wind in their hair NOT a
care in the world, heading north to a deserted island
to see how the other half is living??.

A world exclusive ?? ?John and Janette?s compassionate
adventure?

Nice opening shot of John, falling/ being pushed over
board??? After fighting with Janette for the last lick
of the banana skin ??.. (Which we suspect) was stolen
from Coffs Harbour, hidden in their luggage. Later to be
justified as an export product if border control catch up
with them first. Or to be used as an item of exchange with
pirates on the high seas......

A moving 2 part series where J and J, make true connection
and extending themselves well beyond anybodies expectations
or knowledge of them....

The bets are on for who will get this exclusive if NOT
remarkable and extraordinarily UNLIKELY scenario?...
It would be fabulous television, could be hailed up there,
with ?Billies efforts? in Beaconsfield??.

Final scenario could be Eddie?s people making an offer
and buying Nauru. Solving their economic whoa?s,
reinventing commercial TV as a philanthropic entity??
Not to mention reinstating Australia as a compassionate
country comming to the AID of those in NEED.........

Mmmmm absolutely perfect?. Nice work OUR ABC?..

We can BUT hope that good KARMA will catch up with them
in this life time??..As it appears to me if it doesn?t,
they may well find themselves in a precarious positon in
their NEXT life. Living in a growth corridor in a house
they can ill afford. With an anologue TV, 3 children with
ADD, weight issues (due to poor diet,)..... and NO
knowledge of five star hotels.... NOR what a Qantas
Frequent Flyer Buffet would possibly offer??

Is John one of the great Pretenders or a genuine and
supportive friend of the people? Will he truly ?Stand
by you/one? in those tricky times? When there are NO
banana smoothies, one still can NOT afford the electric
car let alone the call out fee for the TV repair man and
Foxtel is a thing of the past......

AND one has taken onboard that really darling that
latte every 3rd Thursday, on the High st really is a
LUXURY that could be LET GO OF.

linkwww.pretendersband.com/

Valuing genuine LOVE/connection the luxury and splendid
multi cultural versatility of RICE........

VITA

Everyone is different, but no one is alone.... Love is
always present when you are loving with courage and
conviction......


Love can be silent. Love can be loud. Love can be at a
distance.....True love never leaves. True love is with
one all the time....Love can be thrilling. Love strenghens
ones soul....

linkwww.80'slyrics.com/artists/divinyls.htm

Love is freedom, Love is independence.... Love is not
at the expense of one or the other....Love is a joint effort.
Love can be earthy senusous full of laughter, passionate
and thrilling..........Love is the mountain worth climbing.


Love to the Goddess Girls in San Jose who have just
BlogHer/ heard into the 2nd successful year........
Bring on Blogher 2007 Manhatten......

And it is MIFF time of year in Melbourne -Melbourne
Film Festival ) click on the "Com" below

Take along your popcorn your torch and
some savories and maybe your favorite mink throw
rug.......and enjoy celluiod on a winters day in
Melbourne.......

linkwww.melbournefilmfestival.com.au/

Vita

"Maybe others want Godd/ess to be black& white, a figure
of neat divisions and clear-cut Law, but I want Godd/ess
to be in flagrant swirling Technicolor."
Molly Wolf in Angels & Dragons

To Practice This Thought: Ask yourself, what is my image
of Godd/ess? And how has it changed over the years?

linkwww.pattismith.net/wegottofly.html

Come fly with.......
Vita

"I have on my office door these words from
an accomplished Indian yogi: "Before
speaking, consider whether it is an
improvement upon silence."
Philip Simmons in Learning to Fall

linkwww.learningtofall.com/

"To Practice This Thought: Remember this
advice as you go through your day."

Stayed tuned on Vita for MUFF highlights

linkwww.cmgworldwide.com/music/holiday/

Vita

Discernment is the ability to see a reason for it all and
the part one plays in it's creation.... A liberation from
oppressor or victim. An ability to trust ones self and
carry out the divine within one. Discernment it's real
& worthy, it's worth considering.

Focus on the foundation of how and what one values in
relationship. Consider what one says and whether it
resonates the truth of the matter?? Do ones words come
from love and crafting a healthier life??? Or are they
based in judgement and fear of the past present and
future??

What role does one want to play in the world??Is it a
walk on role or a main part?? Does one dance the dance
& love the steps.. ?? Skip to the beat of the songs in
ones heart. Fit well into the spaces one is in?? Or do
others RULE ones walking/ or control the way things work
for one???

Let go of the illussion of seperation love and value
the things that matter let go of OLD RULES & restrictions.
Speak out where you have previously been silent. Cease
old judgements of self and the other. Let go of self
imposed judgements ( ones own or others), that simply
create illusions of seperation.

Allow oneself to love fully and see those one loves
from a new perspective . Be inspired by the knowledge
one can succeed and move forward. Be daring delicious
and yet realistic.....Valuing oneself should be based
on what one is doing, not on what one has not done.......

linkwww.sheilachandra.com/

The usefulness by using "AUM" or OM in daily life
One can easily hear their own heart.
A person can modify the pace of their heart.
A group of people can synchronize their heartbeats

Take the next step and be a life divine
Vita

Happy birthday to my favourite rare woods man and may
all brothers keep singing from the heart and love fully.
May the rareness of your wood be seen from here to Tibet.
May your voice be always be heard. May your tennis elbow
never cause you grief..... And as the Buddha said

"We are shaped by our thoughts; we become
what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows
like a shadow that never leaves.

linkwww.finnbros.com/"

Bless you beautiful TCK
Vita

Happiness is an essential ingredient of life. Virtue,
honesty and being and feeling valued is the foundation
of ones happiness. ?Utility is the test of virtue?.

If the wise are to be happy ?as the sages say, they
must be virtuous too.? For without virtue honesty and
value, happiness cannot be.

Interesting lifes are essential to ensuring / bringing
about happiness. Indeed, the whole art of being happy
consists in the art of valuing ones self and how one
is valued and values the other in the world. A mind
that is always active and engaged is always happy.

"This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity".
Thomas Jefferson

linkwww.acousticseries.com.au/MarkSeymour.htm

Valuing life/love and the engaged mind
Vita

As we got to know John and June, what we needed them
to understand was that the people they were now was not
the people they were then. There was the challenge of
combining the grand wisdom and spirituality of these
elder legends backwards into the young people they were,
as they were learning those lessons.

To tell how they got to be here, we had to go to those
darker places, and not temper it."
James Mangold, on bringing Johnny and June Carter Cash's
to the screen in Walk the Line

linkwww.johnnycash.com/
Vita

Love is about risk taking. Love takes courage. Love is
trusting ones self to act from the heart. Love is not
controlling nor push nor shoving. Love does not panic
nor make demands. Love lives in the space in between,
when there is no room too breath....Love is a shelter.

Love steps up to the line. Love is honesty to act
from the heart not the mind.Love has integrity and
the courage to act. Love does not leave one wanting.
Love is sharing. Love is not lonely. Love is
letting go of fear...Love is not a burden.....nor a
sacrifice....

Love honours the other as one would be honoured. Love
is giving and receiving. Love is a gift not a commodity
or a product to be thrown out.

Love can be intense. Love does not pretend.Love is not
based in right and wrong. Love is a not a secret to be
hidden. Love is open and transparent.

Love is praise worthy.Love shows respect for ones self &
others. Love is trustworthy. Love is admirable. Love is
honesty to speak the truth...Love is worth the risk.
Genuine love is an act of honourable behaviour. Love is
offering friendship and caring with another......

linkww.jamesblunt.com
Love truly is the answer.......
Vita

Value every step you take to experience love. Value the
moments you are given to be offered love. Value your ability
to try again Value your need to experience pleasure. Value
others generosity of spirit. Value the courage that you have
inside to share generosity with others.

Value the visions that have been so long hidden from yourself
and others. Take the exquiste risk of revaluing your hearts
desires. Value the opportunity to live with exquisite risks.

linkwww.fourgates.com/musicbuddhistchants.asp

VitaXXXXXX

A divine musical BAT comes to Melbourne for two shows only.
Below is a press release for the shows from Hit and Run
at

THE NATIONAL THEATRE
ST KILDA

HIT RUN PRODUCTIONS is proud to present

BAT (Malcolm Battersby)

The National Theatre, St Kilda - Feb 18th and 19th

These exclusive Melbourne shows will be the Australian
debut for BAT and a national tour that he will embark on
later in the year.


Originaly based in the UK "BAT"now calls Australia home
""BAT" (Malcolm Battersby) "is a master of sublime and divine
instrumental compositions that blend a powerful and expressive,
Pink Floyd influence."

"Free form guitar with a melodic Eric Clapton groove but
With his own unique flare, imbued with finessed percussion
and ambient sounds inspired by nature."

?I prefer not to let lyrics get in the way with my
music and instead let the audience interpret the music
for themselves.?

In the chaos and clutter of modern life BAT provides
an escape from the whirl of city life. "BAT" delivers
an inspiring live performance that creates a total
immersion in sound and imagery yearning back to 1973
and psychedelic days gone by . Days when a fake velvet
couch and a turn table were not retro but necesseary.

Through his music and imagery "BAT" links us to both beauty
and tranquility often only perceived in nature.

This is ?Music for your imagination?.

He has let go of his country of origin in North East
England and taken in a remarkable life and musical
journey. His travels have included the ?gangster lands
of Japan and the opulence of Brunei,?

Malcolm has found the perfect place to put further pieces
together for his new live show, in the idyllic setting of
Murdunna. A remote South East coast corner of Tasmania.
Overlooking the waters of ?King George Sound?. Murdunna
is an Aboriginal word meaning ?Place of the Stars?.

"Malcolm has found a new meaning however for the term
?Rock Art?, and audiences are in for an amazing," and
quite possibly moving ?spiritual? experience.

The technology and expertise that will be used for ?Sound
Around? is world-class standard. The audience will be treated
to a musical experience that will resonate in the heart and
leave one breathless for days gone by.

BAT's live show, includes a full band on stage combined
with moving images, using a nature-based theme. A divine
synchronized light show engulfing the audience.
Not to be missed!

link www.malbat.com

The National Theatre in St Kilda
February 18th and 19th,
Cnr of Barkly St and Carlisle St

The show will include music from his recent released
second album ?Deeper Shades? BAT will be supported
by locally acclaimed solo Harpist, Mary Duomany.

?Shades of Alan Parsons and Floyd, deep and gorgeous? ?
Trevor Jackson, ABC Radio

?Original and beautiful? ? Mari Heron, Tasman FM

BAT is one of a growing line of high quality international
artists bringing music back to St Kilda?s legendary National
Theatre.

The National Theatre is again being recognized as one
of Melbourne?s premier music venues for its stylish design
and outstanding acoustics.

Tickets for BAT are $20 at the door.
Bookings can be made directly through the National Theatre
box office by calling 9525 4611.
Doors open 7.15pm.
Show starts 7.30pm

$1 from each ticket goes to Greenpeace

VitaXXXXX

Casey Donovan has been crowned this year's Australian
Idol for 2004.

Ah yes, while I and many Community Music Victoria devotees
were singing from the heart in Brunswick at the Retreat Hotel
last night, Casey Donavan, was singing her marathon to
its delightful new beginning.

Casey was certainly not being idle in her desire to live
the dream and sing her marathon through to its fullest
potential. She was indeed becoming the new darling of pop.
The new IDOL of Australian music. I did however arrive home
?spent? from ten hours of ?extreme singing? at the Retreat.
capturing her frantic final dash to the finish line.

The announcement was made at the final IDOL concert at the
Sydney Opera House. Truly a singing Goddess is Casey, she is
the new and divine look of pop. "Changed paradigms and changing
minds" of what a naughties IDOL can be. A blessing a gift from
the heavens is she. Casey is 16-years-old and lives in Bankstown
in NSW.

It would appear many thought Anthony Callea could pip her
at the post. Yet not I Vita not being a devotee of the show
I saw enough to know she would win. It is Casey?s day in
the sun. Interestingly the voting public thought so to.
Casy sang her way over the line, to surpass the gorgeous
and rather charming voice of Anthony Callea.

At last there is movement at the jukebox. The country has
seen the light and realized that an IDOL can be many things
to many people. Frankly my dears it is about time if only
they had thought that on federal election- day 2004!

Casey spoke graciously about ?(Anthony) is a great guy and
I can't thank everybody enough?. ?As Australian Idol winner,
Casey secures a recording contract with label Sony BMG.
She will have only nine days to record her debut album before
embarking on an intensive promotional tour. Her first
single off the album will be the emotive ballad:

"Listen with Your Heart."penned by US songwriter
Diane Warren. The single was released on the Internet
immediately after the announcement and will be in stores
later this week.?

Back to my day in the sun with ?CMV? and those who sung
along yesterday at the Retreat Hotel. ?Peach Crumble?
was divine and must be thanked for her lovely ?Banquet
songs? In particular her salad song that gives a whole
new meaning to ?singing for your supper?.

Other highlights included the lovely Annemarie Sharry who
gently cajoled us into the harmonies of East Africa Along
with Phil Heuzenroeder who took us through our paces in the
Gospel hour. Reminding me of my days in Mombassa. Mmmmm???

The fabulous Richard Lawton and Christop Maubach kept the
heart beating and the soul a life through till 8.00pm. With
a final fling at heart felt songs from the cashmere voice of
Rebecca Spalding. I left knowing Kavisha Mazzella and Faye White
would leave the crowd begging for more ?and knowing it is time
to ?Listen with your heart?

linkwww.negrospirituals.com

Always listening and singing from the heart
VitaXXXXX

SINGING MARATHON TO SUPPORT COMMUNITY MUSIC VICTORIA
Below is a press release from Community Music Victoria
regarding their fundrasier

This Sunday Community Music Victoria is holding a 10
hour marathon sing to raise funds for its general well-
being and ongoingness. Lots of interesting people will
be facilitating a whole lot of singing.

So if you're up for a sing then come on down!

Community Music Victoria
MARATHON 10-HOUR NON-STOP SINGING SESSION

linkcmv.customer.netsapce.net.au

Come along and sing from the heart either, for some
of the time or all of the time! Pass-outs will be
available)

SUNDAY NOV 21, 12noon ? 10pm

At THE RETREAT HOTEL, 280 SYDNEY ROAD,
BRUNSWICK
$10 ($5 conc), CHILDREN UNDER 16 FREE

Drop in and sing along with

KAVISHA MAZZELLA, FAY WHITE, RICHARD LAWTON,
BRONWYN CALCUTT, JENNIE SWAIN, THE MELBOURNE UKELELE
KOLLECTIVE, JANE COKER, CHRISTOPH MAUBACH, ANNEMARIE
SHARRY, PHIL HEUZENROEDER, REBECCA SPALDING,
SUE KIRKPATRICK, ANTHONY DILLON

. easy songs . . chorus songs . . beautiful harmonies .

GARDEN, BAR, FOOD, COFFEE, PRIZES, BBQ

Children?s Singing Session led by the gorgeous and glamorous

Peach Crumble (aka Santha Press) and friends 1pm-2pm

All funds raised go to help Community Music Victoria?s work of
supporting Victoria?s community music makers

RUNNING ORDER AT 28/10/04 (subject to change)

12 noon Annemarie Sharry
1pm Children?s hour with Santha Press
(aka Peach Crumble) and friends
2pm Sue Kirkpatrick
3pm Bronwyn Calcutt
4pm Anthony Dillon
5pm Phil Heuzenroeder
5.30pm Jennie Swain
6pm The Melbourne Ukelele Kollective
7pm Richard Lawton
7.30pm Christoph Maubach
8pm Rebecca Spalding
9pm Fay White

Plus
Kavisha Mazzella and Jane Coker at times yet to be scheduled.
Always ready to sing from the heart
VitaXXXXXX

One can leave ones best work til later or do what one can
do now. One can leave ones best love til last or consider
what makes love linger and live on.

One can leave ones best ideas on the shelf or allow the ideas
to grow and expand. One can leave ones best memories behind
or carry them with us always. One can leave the one we love
but we will never forget that love.

One can live with one?s fear of the unknown or be fearless
and find out. One can live with a sense of contentment or
one can find out what makes one content.

One can be accommodating those around one or ignore ones
own needs. One can appear self-sacrificing, while offering
unconditional support Or one can be comfortable with setting
boundaries that incorporate the needs of the whole. One can
have expectations that will never be met. Or state ones needs
and always feel at ease. One can define ones terms to another
but rarely examine what those terms mean to another.

One can live with a sense of uncertainty or accept that life
is continually changing. One can re-examine ones past and re-
invent a better future. One can let go of ones perceived bad
memories and recreate better memories. One can live in the
"garden of ones delight? and watch it flourish into a paradise
of a future yet to arrive.

link www.indigoflow.co.uk

VitaXXXXXX

The lovely delightful and talented Nicolas Lyons has
released a divine and love filled new CD "AS ONE". With beautiful
pieces inspired by great love "love song to Julie", and you show
me the beauty" 14 tracks in all leaving you wanting more of
Nic's loved filled music.

Nicolas is prolific and versatile in his craft as a musician.
He plays a range of instruments that include the "Violin,
viola, cello, double and electric bass, koto, sitar, harp,
cheng, kalimba, and piano." He also has "extensive experience
on electronic synthesisers and computer instrumentation and
composition."

His divine violin playing will take you away to Summer in
the South of France. Spring in Tuscany winter nights in
Melbourne or Vienna and the fall in Connecticut. This CD will
uplift and remind you to love fully and always remember your
love.

It is "must have music". It is music to cook by and has inspired
me to create many a delicious dish from my Melbourne kitchen.
It is music that inspires freedom and a want a to create wonderous
and beautiful things. As has the talented Nicolas done through
the gift of this new CD "AS ONE".

To find out, more on Nicolas read the article below
or contact him by email at nzeppo@yahoo.com.au
With a love and inspiration for music to love by
VitaXXXXXxxxxx

Below is am impressive picture of the extensive work of Nicolas
Lyons.Nic can be contacted on nzeppo@yahoo.com.au.

"Nicolas was born in Flixton, Lancashire, 10 March 1948 in the UK.
He began playing music at the age of five, and received a scholarship
to study violin with Robert Morley at the Royal collage of
Music in Manchester.

He moved to Australia in 1961 and received a scholarship to study
violin and viola with Georgina McLean, and double bass with Walter
Sutcliffe at the Sydney Conservatorium. He has been a professional
musician since the age of eighteen. He worked with Peter
Sculthorpe for ABC Radio playing Koto.

He has worked with such artists as David Ahearn, Tristrum
Carrey, Marian Henderson, Judy Bailey, Margaret Roadnight,
Robyn Archer, Jeanne Lewis, Robin Hable and Nigel Butterley.

Nicolas has worked throughout Australia with many groups such as
The Ashes of Sydney, The Sunningdale Baroque Ensemble, The Cavers
and now Gypsy Fire.

He has worked in many fields of music, creating electronic
realisations, early Renaissance music, Jazz, Classical, Folk,
Rock and Ethnic music, written for Theatre, Ballet, film, TV
and radio as well as recordings. He was the Music Master at the
Yellow House in Sydney, with Martin Sharp and Brett Whitely, etc

Original Compositions

He has created many original compositions that include Forty-nine villages for full orchestra and four part choral work. Transformation for full orchestra. Rags to Riches
for full orchestra. AS One record. Resistance choral four part work.
Images Tape.

Film>

His Film Scores include: Woman's Vision series, BannerFilm for
Adelaide Festival. Documentary work for SA Film Corp Animation
with Bruce Tolly. Tea and Sugar Train Film Aust. Tree Ian Stocks.
Play Hooky in the Snow Children's series. For Tasmanian Film Co.
In Search of Anna, Esben Storm Film. Stranded, Dolphin Touch for
Golden Dolphin Productions, Bob Loader. Bird Man of Killimanjaro
Dick Dennison. Tracks of the Rainbow George Gittos.

A Piece of Cake Mitch Matthews. Pins and Needles Jenny Baterham.
Letter to a Friend. Sonja Hoffman. They must be Heroes Jack
Thompson. All That Glitter Film Aust. Jindalee Lady, Brianne
earney. Resistance Macau Light Co. Third Person SBS. He also
worked on The Year of Living Dangerously with Maurice
Jarre and Peter Weir.

Radio Programs.

Poetry and Music with Peter Sculthorpe for the ABC.Program of
original compositions for ABC FM.

Concerts

Sydney Festival with Robyn Archer and Mark Ferno. Montsalvat
Concert with Steve Dunstan. Paris Theatre, Sydney concert with
Andrew Wilson and John Proud. Central Street Gallery, a series
of concerts for the Sydney Festival. Opera House Recording Hall,
The Full Moon Piece Solo. Hiroshima Day 1982 Fox Ground Solo.
Unicorn Concert Paddington Town Hall Sydney.Solo. Abercrombie
Caves Concert 1988.

Residencies.

South Australia Six months in Bordertown, and the whole of the
Tatiara, for the Australia Council, and the South Australian Arts
Council. N.S.W. Composer in the Shoalhaven for twelve months in
1993.

L.P Record Production.

"Turn it all around," Dust on the Violin for artists in the Shoalhaven. Nicolas has worked in many fields of music and worked closely
with many visual artists, sculptures, poets and writers.

THEATRE WORK.

South Australian Theatre Company Musician for Measure for
Measure, The Three Cuckolds, All of us or none, Brecht.
The Saturday Company.

Composition of music for young trainee actors. Theatre 62.
Composer for Noh Plays by Yukio Mishima with director Utaka
Wadda. Writing for Koto Flute and Percussion.Composed and
performed music on sitar, tabla and flute for the Indian Folk
Story.The Magical City >of Naowbad. A Day in the life of
the Great Scholar Wu, childrens productions.

The New Opera company.

Lute player for the Madrigal Show directed by Myre Fredman.
Nimrod Theatre. Composer and performer for Metamorphosis by
Steven Berkhoff. Henry the IV, Romeo and Juliet with John Bell.

Sydney Theatre Company.
Composer for Hamlet. Director William Gaskell.
Dunsinane Enterprises: musician and actor for Boys own MacBeth
Graham Bond.

Performed in Sydney. Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth, Newcastle and
Los Angeles. Sydney Festival. Composer performer and actor in
Treasure Island for the Nimrod. Street show with Mark Ferno and
Robyn Archer.

Q. Theatre.
Musical director for True Patriots All written by Ann
Harvey, director Doreen Warburton.Seymour Centre.
Musician for The Gambler by Mel Smith, Directed by Paul
Hains and Mel Smith. Elston Hocking and Wood.

Composer and performer for Romeo and Juliet,and The
Taming of the Shrew in the botanical gardens Melbourne,
Sydney and Adelaide. Director for new play See You in
Heaven. >Mietters. Miss Julia August Strindberg.

ARTS FESTIVALS.

Composer and performer For New York choreographer Marilyn
Wood in Adelaide city environment pieces. Australian Dance
Theatre. Composer and performer for the original ballets,
Primitive Cry, and Opal. The One Extra Dance Company.
Composer for KhanTai Chan choreography of Vanishing Species
You Came Too and Family Portrait.Composer and musical director
for The Three Legends of Kra by Robin Archer, Directed by Nigel
Triffit in Brisbane and Adelaide.

Nicolas has also conducted musical instrument workshops for children
in N.S.W. The Northern Territory, Arnhem Land Manengreeda and South Australia. Adelaide Festival Centre concert with Margaret Roadnight
Judy Bailey. Worked with Lindsay Kemp on Mr Punch and Ronaldo Mime Princess.

>Recent Awards: APRA - Johnny Dennis Award, 2001 - 1st Prize Best Classical
>Piece $5000.00 APRA - Johnny Dennis Award, 2001 - 1st Prize Best Film Music 5000.00
And yet there will always be more more more....
For Nic love VitaXXXX

I Will Remember You (by Sarah McLachlan, Seamus Egan, and Dave Merenda)
I will remember you
Will you remember me?
Don't let your life pass you by
Weep not for the memories

Remember the good times that we had?
I let them slip away from us when things got bad
How clearly I first saw you smilin' in the sun
Wanna feel your warmth upon me, I wanna be the one

I will remember you
Will you remember me?
Don't let your life pass you by
Weep not for the memories

I'm so tired but I can't sleep
Standin' on the edge of something much too deep
It's funny how we feel so much but we cannot say a word
We are screaming inside, but we can't be heard

But I will remember you
Will you remember me?
Don't let your life pass you by
Weep not for the memories

I'm so afraid to love you, but more afraid to loose
Clinging to a past that doesn't let me choose
Once there was a darkness, deep and endless night
You gave me everything you had, oh you gave me light

And I will remember you
Will you remember me?
Don't let your life pass you by
Weep not for the memories

And I will remember you
Will you remember me?
Don't let your life pass you by
Weep not for the memories
Weep not for the memories
VitaXXXXxxx

"Santha's working life in the performing arts spans fifteen years
of eclectic experience - from cabaret, street theatre, opera, musicals,
funk bands, theatre, feature film and television roles, to singing jazz
on street corners and a capella amongst white goods. She has performed
at festivals and venuesacross Australia with groups/companies such as
the Victoria State Opera, The Church Theatre, VerandahJam, Hot Dog
Cool Jazz, The Dangerous Divas and The Eligible Bachelors."

link home .mira.net/~santha/

Santha a Melbourne based performer,is trully a girl who understands the importance of speaking from the heart with the voice of an angel. Checkout her site and be listening to 3CR during the week begining 9th of June to be in the running to win her fabulous CD "RUN". Particularly during 12.00pm and 1.00pm Sunday 15th of june. Listen to Scout's show "Playing like a Girl"
Vita singing from her autumn bath and living in the garden of delights.
VitaXXXXXxxx

"Bulgarians are born and die with music. Special songs
are sung when a child is born;" at weddings- a number of special
songs are sung for different moments of the ceremony. These can last
for several days; and when a person dies - they weep over them
with special funeral laments till the 40th day of the persons death.

In the field, at harvest time, women use to sing wondrous songs,
connected with hard labour. Beautiful rich ornamented melody floats
over the field which delighted the harvesters.

Men prove themselves,singing epic, historic, novels songs, accompanied by rebec. Such a song sometimes lasts for 3 or 4 hours like Omyr?s "Iliad" or
"Odyssey". Dance-songs and instrumental music are particularly rich in asymmetric measures. Melodies accompanying dances are full with dynamics and strength. Bulgarians play dances at every time - they start dancing
in the afternoon and continue till midnight or sometimes even till
next morning.

Every region in Bulgaria has its own folk music. These are the folk music regions :-Thrace, Pirin, Shopluk, Rhodopies and North Bulgaria.

Bulgarian music site.
link bulgarianspace.com
Singing til dawn
VitaXXXXxxx

The Australasian Performing Right Association Limited (APRA)

"The Australasian Performing Right Association Limited (APRA)
The first copyright collecting society set up in Australia, APRA
represents 30,000 music writer and publisher members.

As part of a world-wide network of similar organisations,
APRA also provides local representation for more than 1,000,000
international composers. By arrangement, APRA also administers
the rights of AMCOS."

"The Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society (AMCOS)
represents virtually all music publishers in Australia and New Zealand
and, by way of reciprocal arrangements, the vast majority of the world's
composers, writers and music publishers."

link apra.com.au
May your love and royalities shine through
VitaXXXXxxxx

Sarah McLachlan was born on the 28 January 1968, in Bedford, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Sarah McLachlan is a remarkable "singer- songwriter who has featured on the Canadian folk scene since she was a 20-year-old. Through a series of well-received albums and tours has blossomed into a well-rounded folk-rock artist and a confident live performer. Her third album, 1994's Fumbling Towards Ecstasy, was produced by Daniel Lanois'. and "Pierre Marchand." This album "was inspired partly by a disturbing trip the singer undertook with the World Vision charity to Cambodia and Thailand."

"In 1997, McLachlan inaugurated the Lilith Fair touring festival, a hugely successful showcase for female artists. "Adia", taken from her US number 2 album Surfacing, proved to be an enduring radio hit, eventually climbing to number 3 on the singles chart in August 1998. In October 2000 she had success with "Silence". A four year old collaboration with electronica duo Delerium. As on all her releases her earthy voice is the perfect vehicle for songs about the deeper, darker aspects of the human condition."

See her website for more on her songs and fabulous lyrics
link sarah mclachlan
With my memory of an angel. I will remember
VitaXXXXxxx