Belly Dance, Dance.
Music,
Photography
Traveling
Friends
morning Coffee and afternoon Tea (I pour a mean one)-(trying to perfect that minty Tunisian taste, smudged shot glass and all), evening wine, birds, scents, and senses, velvet, silk, dreams, and daydreaming, bikerides,performing for the lulu bird, knitting (in the winter), hot baths, Turkish Baths, Monastery baths, dates at A&W then making out in the car at the park.
I'd like to meet:
Bellydancers, Dancers, Photographers, Musicians (especially ones who play Oud, Darbuka etc.), Artists of all kinds, Non-artists of all kinds, New friends (fellow mamas/dancers/artists) in Houston or Austin or San Antonio or anywhere in East Texas, All of my beautiful old lost friends.
Music:
I'm listening to Iranian Radio on Itunes this moment.....Zachary James, Nina Simone, Jeff Buckley, Natacha Atlas, DJ Cheb I Sabbah, Alabina, Massive Attack, Portishead, Tricky, Over the Rhine, Middle-Eastern (classical and pop), North African + Rai, Bossa Nova and Brazilian Hip-Hop, Jimmy Dale Gilmore, Flamenco, Tori Amos, Bjork, The Smiths, The Cure, Sade, Aretha Franklin, Tom Waits, Billie Holliday, Ella Fitzgerald, Rebirth Brass Band, Nusrat Fatah Ali Khan, The Killers, Bright Eyes, John Prine, Lyle Lovett, The old Black Eyed Peas, The Roots, Jay Preite (do you see where I'm going with this??? .....I like it all) but mostly Zachary James.
Movies:
The Pillow Book, Gadjo Dilo, Latcho Drom, Harold & Maude, anything by Tim Burton or David Lynch, Monsoon Wedding, Paper moon (thanks for reminding me Franklin), Dracula, House of Flying Daggers, horror movies (old to older ones), Eddie Izzard, Kama Sutra, Muriel's Wedding, Amelie, City of the Lost Children, Ma Vie en Rose, Chocolat, Winged Migration (a nerd for birds)...and so many more that I can't remember right now.
Books:
The Fountainhead, Herman Hesse, Arabian Nights, Spiritual Midwifery, Sexing the Cherry, Anais Nin, "Remain" by Jennifer Murphy, Le Petit Prince, Le Parfum (for my twisted side), Unbearable Lightness of Being & Identity, Michael Ondaatje's English Patient, The Mists of Avalon, Woman an Intimate Geography, Jan Saudek, Edward Weston, The Agony and the Ecstacy
Heroes:
All of my friends(past/present/future) and family BIEN SUR, Josephine Baker, Nina Simone, Edward Weston, Julia great grandma Corbit (for introducing me to photography), Doc Holliday(again, its all in the family), Dalia Carella and all of my fellow bellydancers including Rasheika, Xuan, Shoshanna, & Maya, Jan Saudek, Alzina Simone for having such strength and fire before even coming into this world.
