BPAL of the day

Today I am wearing Suspiro, "A Latin work that means to sigh or draw a deep breath, that also suggests longing, desire, yearning and a passionate wish.  Ylang ylang with white plum, white orchid, jasmine, calla lily and lily of the valley."  Mostly I am longing and desiring not to smell like this--all these light fruity floral notes are so completely not me.  It's not that it's a bad perfume--well, it does kind of remind me of Aqua Net, actually.  I didn't order this one, it was thrown into an order as a freebie.  If you are a lily and jasmine sort of person and don't have strong Aqua Net associations, you'd probably like it, but I am not you.

I think my opinion on this whole Mooninite thing is that everybody involved in any way should have known better.  Even some simple commonsense decisions along the way  would have made a world of difference to how things went down.  The artists/constructors should have put some identifying label on their pieces.  Their employers should have known better than to ask people to do illegal things.  T employees and the police should have noticed these things when they first went up.  Kudos to the police officer who recognized the character, though.

Also, call me a prude but I don't think it's cool to have little cartoon characters giving people the finger planted around the city.  It can be funny in the context of the show, but otherwise it's as juvenile as the pissing Calvins and frankly makes me not want to watch a show that I do actually find entertaining.

I think this perfume is making me cranky.

myspace musings

So, having had a MySpace profile for a week or so, I am starting to get adds from random bands and musicians around the world, which is interesting.  Some I've liked and added, some have been wretched and rejected.  But it's making me wonder how it is that bands know to look for people.  For example, I assume Castus Rabensang requested an add because I had already added Qntal and the Medaeival Baebes and some other similar bands.  But how did he/his people find me?  Does MySpace have a sort of subscription service for bands whereby they notify a band when a user adds a similar band?  Or do they do all this work by hand, regularly checking the friends of the bands that are similar to them?  Are there nifty little software applications people use?

a classical girl in a pop world

Trying to figure out a set for Sunday's show, so I can maybe run through it a couple of times between now and then... I keep hearing all this great grand Egyptian stuff and putting together these great classical sets, then listening to them and remembering that those sets never really work that well in a restaurant setting.  It's not that I don't like the pop songs, I genuinely have fun dancing to them, but it's just not as fulfilling.  I need to find myself a stage show.  Maybe the next NBDA thing...  Well, if nothing else I can sneak some good saidi in Sunday's set!

Thought a lot about trying to go to Texas for the Fifi Abdo workshop, but ultimately decided not to, for basically two reasons (besides money, of course).  One is that she has never taught before.  She could be brilliant, but she also could be not brilliant, and also I have no idea what her English might be like, though I assume there'd be a translator to help.  The second is that it will be a mob scene and I'm afraid it would just end up being frustrating.  So I'm going to read the reviews and if it was amazing I will kick myself and make sure I get myself there the next time she comes anywhere in this hemisphere.  And buy the DVD.

am I insane?

Bellydance With K has these very cheap--and decidedly garish--costumes with a design that looks like circuit print...  it needs more decoration...  I have a gazillion computer bits lying around...  this is really pretty tempting...

really...