Using iTunes from another mac :)

Hello,
is there any app (for mac) which allows me (or somebody) play/pause/skip/... music played on another mac? Something like the remote.app for iPhone.
I have mac, playing some music via Airport Express. When my girlfriend doesn't like the song, she has to tell me it and I have to skip it, so I would like to have some app, which allows my girlfriend to skip music on my mac via her mac.
We have Home Sharing enabled if that helps..
Thanks
Message was edited by: jakudo

Thanks for idea Jolly, I know about screen sharing, but in my opinion, that is not so good solution for my problem. In the screen sharing solution, when I'm using computer and my girlfriend would want to change the song, she will disturb me from working. If she would use the remote app on iPhone, she will change the song and wouldn't have even notice it, which is good. So I'm looking for some similar app for mac, which will allows her to change the song without disturbing me.
Screen sharing is good, just in case I'm not working on my macbook but when I am working on it, it is not the optimal solution.

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