Note to self....
...Do not drink anything while watching Mac/PC ad parodies. That used to be my only real issue with Apple, really, aside from the price. My problems with their corporate behaviour didn't start until recently, when they started acting like Micro$oft. ...oh wait, look who their major shareholder is :-P
Okay okay okay I'll can the compupolitics for now *snicker*
I'm playing with audio editors, since some of my bellydance songs require some serious editing to make them presentable. I take Mrad Said's "One Thousand and One Nights" off the shelf and open it to find a cd labelled "gay porn." *blinkblink* <.< ........*pops it in the optical drive*
ehem.
...wonder where my bellydance cd went to. actually I think it's out in the car.
Anyhow, day two of last week's Tito workshop was just as gruelling as the first day, but I didn't feel quite so out of my league. The first part was Saidi dance (pronounced Sah-EE-dee), which typically has a 4/4 beat and is often danced with a cane. The cane dance is called Raqs al-Assaya (lit. 'cane dance', go figure) and is a descendant of a men's dance, Tahtib, which in turn evolved from quarterstaff weapons training. Having learned some stick fighting (jo, cane and shillelagh), I could recognise which of the dance moves were descended from fighting moves -- I'll tell yah, a long stick-punch and withdraw looks very dramatic as a dance move ^.~ So does the move that, if done with a heavier stick like a jo, hanbo or shillelagh, would be "boxing your opponent's ears with a stick at breakneck speed" =B However, with a foil-wrapped bamboo cane, it just looks cute XD
I'd never done Saidi before, in fact bought my cane the week of the workshop. Never touched one before. Guess what? -- I appear to have a talent for it. I was picking up the dance quite quickly and with this mad energy, almost Suzy-energy. I'm not that energetic of a dancer, my energy tends to come out in elegant flow rather than bounce... apparently the secret to high-energy bounce in a Selkie is to put a cane in my hands o.O
This got me Noticed. During one of the breaks, Tito came up to me and said "The stick, your habibi." Habibi means beloved, so, 'you really love the stick.' He seemed very surprised when I told him I'd never danced with one before, and asked who my teacher was. He was unsurprised by my answer to that, though *chuckle.*
The second half of the day was a Melaya dance. A melaya is an Arabic shawl/wrap (sounded akin to an earasaid, to me, though obviously not worn the same way.) We used veils instead of melayas. It's a very cutesy dance, very flirty (exaggeratedly so), with a lot of veil flipping. Quite fun.
Teacher was very, very proud of us after the workshop. She got praised by Tito both as a dancer and as a teacher, the latter was of incredible value to her. Needless to say, we were all lapping up the praise like kittens lapping milk *LOL!*
I couldn't move on Monday and had to take the day off *LOL* My little icon up there? Yeahhhhhhhh XD
Okay okay okay I'll can the compupolitics for now *snicker*
I'm playing with audio editors, since some of my bellydance songs require some serious editing to make them presentable. I take Mrad Said's "One Thousand and One Nights" off the shelf and open it to find a cd labelled "gay porn." *blinkblink* <.< ........*pops it in the optical drive*
ehem.
...wonder where my bellydance cd went to. actually I think it's out in the car.
Anyhow, day two of last week's Tito workshop was just as gruelling as the first day, but I didn't feel quite so out of my league. The first part was Saidi dance (pronounced Sah-EE-dee), which typically has a 4/4 beat and is often danced with a cane. The cane dance is called Raqs al-Assaya (lit. 'cane dance', go figure) and is a descendant of a men's dance, Tahtib, which in turn evolved from quarterstaff weapons training. Having learned some stick fighting (jo, cane and shillelagh), I could recognise which of the dance moves were descended from fighting moves -- I'll tell yah, a long stick-punch and withdraw looks very dramatic as a dance move ^.~ So does the move that, if done with a heavier stick like a jo, hanbo or shillelagh, would be "boxing your opponent's ears with a stick at breakneck speed" =B However, with a foil-wrapped bamboo cane, it just looks cute XD
I'd never done Saidi before, in fact bought my cane the week of the workshop. Never touched one before. Guess what? -- I appear to have a talent for it. I was picking up the dance quite quickly and with this mad energy, almost Suzy-energy. I'm not that energetic of a dancer, my energy tends to come out in elegant flow rather than bounce... apparently the secret to high-energy bounce in a Selkie is to put a cane in my hands o.O
This got me Noticed. During one of the breaks, Tito came up to me and said "The stick, your habibi." Habibi means beloved, so, 'you really love the stick.' He seemed very surprised when I told him I'd never danced with one before, and asked who my teacher was. He was unsurprised by my answer to that, though *chuckle.*
The second half of the day was a Melaya dance. A melaya is an Arabic shawl/wrap (sounded akin to an earasaid, to me, though obviously not worn the same way.) We used veils instead of melayas. It's a very cutesy dance, very flirty (exaggeratedly so), with a lot of veil flipping. Quite fun.
Teacher was very, very proud of us after the workshop. She got praised by Tito both as a dancer and as a teacher, the latter was of incredible value to her. Needless to say, we were all lapping up the praise like kittens lapping milk *LOL!*
I couldn't move on Monday and had to take the day off *LOL* My little icon up there? Yeahhhhhhhh XD