website, baby visit

I made a pretty lame placeholder for a dance website for myself.  spitcurl , I haven't forgotten our design conversations and still want to pursue that!  I'm trying to figure out a snappy domain name for myself.  Right now I'm leaning towards badriyasharqi.com, since it incorporates a little of raqs sharqi and I am in fact on the East Coast so "Badriya of the East" even makes sense, though I'm not sure if that's the name I want to use to differentiate myself from the other dancers named Badriya out there.  Plain old badriya.com is of course not available.  If anybody has any clever ideas, I'm all ears.  I was thinking about some way to work the Arabic word for queen in there, given my real name, but that word is Latifa, and Queen Latifa has made that so hers it would just be ridiculous attached to me.

I visited with Seyyide and her little baby last night--he really is such a sweetie.  He's five weeks old now but he's already showing some personality.  Supposedly babies at that age don't smile in response to anything, just randomly, but he was definitely responding to both of us, no doubt about it.  He stared and stared at my hair, I'm sure I looked like a very interesting white blob with two orange lines on either side, and he liked hearing my voice :-)  She's doing pretty well, tired as you would expect but such a happy loving mom.

She had a DVD that played heart and breathing sounds as heard from the inside (i.e. as they would be from the womb) that is used to put babies to sleep.  It totally worked for that purpose, but what struck me was how much it sounded like any number of industrial songs--just add a bass line and some growly vocals, and there'd be rivetheads stomping along to it in the clubs!  I guess all those fierce industrial folk are just trying to get back to the womb ;-) 

I think I've got it!

ooh, I might have it--Badriya Al-Badi'a, Badriya the Unique (or unexpected, amazing, etc).  Good meaning, and a nod to Badi'a Massabni as well.  There is a troupe out there called Badi'a Fusion, but I don't think there'd be any confusion since they're tribal and out in California, and another tribal troupe called R'asa Badi'a Tribal Fusion, but they're in Missouri.  Thanks to tisana  for getting me thinking about alliteration and checking name lists!

Cool Six Degrees Program

Six Degrees has a radio program at Live365--the current one is Middle Eastern trance stuff.  Yummy!  The radio station is here, and the play list is here.  Unfortunately you come into the broadcast at a random point, not the beginning, but eventually you can figure out where you are.