HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!

“Love is a state of Being.

Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form. In the stillness of your Presence, you can feel your own formless and timeless reality as the unmanifested life that animates your physical form. You can then feel the same life deep within every other human and every other creature. You look beyond the veil of form and separation. This is the realization of oneness.

This is love.”

~ Eckhart Tolle ♥

All You Need is Love

Love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love.

There's nothing you can do that can't be done.

Nothing you can sing that can't be sung.

Nothing you can say but you can learn how to play the game - It's easy.

There's nothing you can make that can't be made.

No one you can save that can't be saved.

Nothing you can do but you can learn how to be in time - It's easy.

All you need is love, all you need is love, all you need is love, love, love is all you need.

Love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love.

All you need is love, all you need is love, all you need is love, love, love is all you need.

There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Nothing you can see that isn't shown.

Nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be - It's easy.

All you need is love, all you need is love, all you need is love, love, love is all you need.

All you need is love (all together now)

All you need is love (everybody)

All you need is love, love, love is all you need.

~ The Beatles ♥

“This is love:

to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment.

First, to let go of life.

In the end, to take a step without feet; to regard this world as invisible, and to disregard what appears to be the self.

Heart, I said, what a gift it has been to enter this circle of lovers, to see beyond seeing itself, to reach and feel within the breast.”

~ Rumi ♥

♥ Happy Valentines’ Day, One & All!

♥ THANK YOU for Being the Love that you are ♥

♥ LOVE ♥ LOVE ♥ LOVE ♥

xo P.

What's That Floating In The Water - Part 1

Nick Drake - Pink Moon

I hear this song and think of Winter in Whistler... xo P.

Surfer Girls...

This afternoon as I stayed inside - forced by the rain... (Apparently it only rains 70" of rain a year here in the North Shore of Kauai but it feels like we have had at least half of that this month alone!) I turned on TV to see if there were any movies to listen to while I made pizza dough (a rainy day tradition held over from Vancity) and lowen behold Blue Crush was on the USA Channel.

I hadn't seen this film since I was on a cross country road trip with my family... We were heading to Ontario in my Dad's Motorhome for my Grandmother's 90th birthday and I purchased this DVD at some truck stop in the Midwest.

If you haven't seen it... The tagline is, "Take The Risk, Feel The Rush".

It's about a North Shore (Oahu) local girl named Ann Marie (Kate Bosworth, who now that I know the local deal - needed a voice coach - there was not one word of pidgin spoken in the whole movie), who is a hotel housekeeper at a luxury hotel and while training for a Surfing Competition falls for a football playing hotel guest and questions her commitment due in part to her fear of a previous near drowning incident.

IMDB's Plot line reads:

Nothing gets between Anne Marie and her board. Living in a beach shack with three roommates including her rebellious younger sister, she is up before dawn every morning to conquer the waves and count the days until the Pipe Masters Surf Competition. Having transplanted herself to Hawaii with no one's blessing but her own, Anne Marie finds all she needs in the adrenaline-charged surf scene ... until pro quarterback Matt Tollman comes along. Like it or not, Anne Marie starts losing her balance - and finding it - as she falls for Matt. Written by Schleppy

All I can say is - I enjoyed it... it's light and fun. The Girl Power message is worthy plus the filming of the surfing scenes is awesome - on and under the water... If it's been a while since you have been tossed around the big blue sea - this is the next best thing!

If you are interested in really learning the ropes and you are land-locked at the moment, I suggest reading, "Surfer Girl; A Guide to the Surfing Life" by Sanoe Lake. Sanoe (which means "Mist of the Mountains") was the only gal in this film (she played Lena) who was and is indeed a surfer! Bonus she is from Kauai! She was taught by her mother: Laola Lake. The book is great and better than a lot of the fluff out there! Enjoy the ride... Aloha. P.

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Movie Quote of the Month...

"You know what your problem is, it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are answered in the movies."

Steve Martin spoken as Davis in Lawrence Kasdan's 1991 film Grand Canyon.

Actor's Studio - Kevin Spacey and friends...

Across the Universe!

Okay... If you haven't seen this film - DO! It is magical... really, truly! Have no fear - it's NO Hairspray!

"Across the Universe sweeps you up on a wave of terrific Beatles Songs." Peter Travers, Rolling Stone.

"It's the kind of movie you watch again, like listening to a favorite album." Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun Times.

2007 Golden Globe Nominee for BEST PICTURE.

2007 Academy Award Nominee COSTUME DESIGN.

I loved, Loved, LOVED this film!!! I saw it twice in the theatre - the first time I was overwhelmed with it's brilliance. The second time (a Special Christmas Eve Matinee - thanks for being "open" Mr. T.) was the best! A sold out show - with more than 1/2 of the audience having seen it before... We laughed at the jokes before the punch lines... We hummed, sang and by the end wiggled in our seats - it was a Community Event - sharing the roller coaster ride of emotions induced by the ART that is this film.

Would you expect anything less from Julie Taymor the Director of the Award Winning & Oscar Nominated Frida (2002).

PLOT:

A love story set against the backdrop of the 1960s amid the turbulent years of anti-war protest, mind exploration and rock 'n roll, the film moves from the dockyards of Liverpool to the creative psychedelia of Greenwich Village, from the riot-torn streets of Detroit to the killing fields of Vietnam. The star-crossed lovers, Jude (Jim Sturgess) and Lucy (Evan Rachel Wood), along with a small group of friends and musicians, are swept up into the emerging anti-war and counterculture movements, with "Dr. Robert" (Bono) and "Mr. Kite" (Eddie Izzard) as their guides. Tumultuous forces outside their control ultimately tear the young lovers apart, forcing Jude and Lucy – against all odds – to find their own way back to each other. Sony Website.

The first person I called to share my excitement was my Dad - the man who inspired my love of film! I so... wanted him to go see it and tell me what he thought. He said, he had a hard time finding it, when I realized that it was actually released on the mainland in September! (Kauai didn't get it till December... That said, it turned out that according to IMDB that it was only released on 30 screens! How shocking... I figure there was a political conspiracy behind this due to it's anti-war message.) I awaited nervously to hear my Dad's critique, hoping upon hope that the generational gap that I've started to notice since he turned 60 was in fact just a gap and not a canyon... He called and he LOVED it too!!! I was so happy... we relived it on the phone for about an hour! He compared it to Tommy for the music and Moulon Rouge for imaginative Art Direction. 

It was a Very Merry Christmas indeed! I was given the Soundtrack and spent the week between the holidays listening to it over and over again - I felt like I was back in high school obsessing about an Album - too FUN!

Last week the DVD came out - Complete with hours of Special Features. Don't walk - RUN out and get this - if you've ever trusted me before, do it once again! And remember ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE!  Xo P.

P.S. For more information log onto Sony's Official Across the Universe.

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Imogen Heap - Hide & Seak

From Christopher - my DJ. xo P.

I choose... STEVE MARTIN!

YUP I do... and I stand by my choice! You know that game that us mere mortals play (made famous on Friends) "If you could be with any celebrity who would you choose?" I choose Steve.

My crush started when I was 11 sneaking down to our basement on a Saturday night to sit 6 inches away from the TV (so as not to wake my parents) to watch Saturday Night Live... It was 1976 and they had hit their stride in their 2nd season with that immortal cast of characters made famous by the likes of... Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, Chevy Chase, Jane Curtin, Bill Murray, Laraine Newman & who could forget Gilda Radner. They were all great, but it was the guest host named Steve Martin who I absolutely LOVED! I even went out on Halloween as King Tut.

When I was 13 I was at a pajama party where a girlfriend's older brother had Steve's live comedy album named "Let's Get Small"! I remember staying up to the wee hours making my friends so... sick saying, "Excuuuussseee ME!"

The year I turned 15 'The Jerk" came out - an instant classic! My father (my movie partner) never got Steve's adolescent humour - maybe because they are the same age - and while he was living a life of responsibilities, Steve was having the time of his life making a living being as my father would say, "a bum"!

I've always been attracted to clever, witty, silly, musical, comical men who tend to entertain on the surface but beneath the "fun guy" seemingly shallow exterior - lies a deeper, thoughtful, sensitive and artistic soul. He fits the bill and I think he is lovely. Well as you can see this infatuation has lasted decades and one day I hope to have a full circle moment and meet this man that has entertained me and millions for years.

I could list his countless movies - but the last decade I have followed his passion for Art Collecting (Art History was one of my favourite subjects in College) and his successful writing career. Between his archived New Yorker Articles and his books: Pure Drivel, Shop Girl (which is a quirky character driven little gem of a film - if you are into that kind of thing - I am ;P, The Pleasure of My Company and now my new favorite:

Born Standing Up.

This was an entertaining read... Part biography, part show business history and part how to story on becoming a successful rule breaking comedian in the 70's Comedy Scene.

So there you have it - my secret crush is out...

Anyone out there with six degrees of separation to the man, feel free to forward my interest ;P.