website, baby visit

[alonewiththemoon]

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 ;-) 

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[spitcurl.livejournal.com]

Fierce industrial folk, fierce african dancers... ;)

I'm open to pursuing whenever you are ready!

[tisana.livejournal.com]

I'd help with the naming, but see, we have four of us stuck trying to figure out if we want to rename our little troupe, and we can't even manage that with four brains.

Beledibadriya.com? I'm big on alliteration and rhyming--makes it easier for folks to remember if you don't have a business card to give them. I just registered my own domain name (without even a placeholder yet!) as Alizaringrin.com--it was a bit of art geekiness, as alizarin is the pigment in my favorite color, crimson.
Wait, you're a painter of some sort, too, aren't you? You knew that, then. Sorry.
Right. Anyway--reference to art, the color I tend to wear the most, and my slight obsession with a certain Cheshire kitty.

Hmm...I may want to ask a friend with better design skills than mine to help me out with my own site. Good idea. This is one of those areas my art skills don't lend themselves well to.

[alonewiththemoon]

ooh, you totally helped me with the alliteration direction-- Badriya al-Badi'a, Badriya the unique or amazing or unexpected. That works!

I dabble in watercolors sometimes but I know nothing about it, just that paint comes in a tube and you can make things with it :-)

The Raks Spooki web page was about the extent of my html and design abilities, and even that was a somewhat painful process. It will be worth it to me to have somebody else do it.

[(Anonymous)]

"Badriya al-Badi'a"

Ooh. That does work.
Will you put the punctuation in there, though?

[tisana.livejournal.com]

Oops. That was me. Sorry, thought I was signed in.

[alonewiththemoon]

apparently you can't put an apostrophe in a URL, but I can do something like badriya-al-badia, and use the apostrophe in my text. I should check up on how necessary the apostrophe is anyway...

[bintblue.livejournal.com]

I like Badriya al Badia!

I think latif/latifa means nice or sweet. Queen is Malika.

[alonewiththemoon]

Yay! I'm guessing at best when it comes to Arabic so it's good to have someone with more familiarity with the language check my guesswork :-) Do you know off the top of your head if the apostrophe in Badi'a is totally necessary in English? i.e. is there another word badia that might cause confusion?

Latifa--that makes sense, otherwise she'd be Queen Queen. Though she could be if she wanted to.

[bintblue.livejournal.com]

The apostrophe in there just represents the letter ein. The pronunciation of badiya (the name you are considering) would be longer on the 'iy' sound. Badiiiiiya. If the 'a' sound was long baaaadiya, it means something like beginning or the start. Both words have the same root, I believe (b-d-a3), but different meanings and spellings.

I do not think the apostrophe is necessary and I think it is a word with such a great meaning! I also think it sort of fits your dance vision and style (the virtual one I am familiar with, anyway!). :) It has a romantic connotation to it.

I'll ask my teacher later about it, as well if you want.

There is a cafe in SF called Queen Malika.