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Tzei

sow a little tenderness

About Me

hi there. name is TZEI, and i am only everything that i am, which is and has been several things. i'm a vegetarian...not a vegan...i love cheese, and i don't believe in deprivation...unless it turns you on!! i also believe everything has life, soooo...a tomato does probably scream when you slice it! i love the power of silence and a secret. i love ART-sculpting, poetry, movies, painting, drawing, cooking, singing, composition, costuming, makeup, sex, photography, burlesk, dancing, magick, people...when i was six, one of my teachers asked me to define ART...i said, "DICE!...my brother, he is art!" i am a raks sharki dancer, photographer, singer, writer and a teacher and student of life. i've done theatre- design, performance, directing, pr and marketing for most of my life, along with some film, commercials and a one-woman show, compiled and written by me...it is like "walking down the landscape of the self, unattended, unadorned"...and I love to perform...but if you can tell me a story like Sam Cooke, feel the blues like Billie Holiday, sing with soul like Janis Joplin and make me groove like Portishead...i'm your biggest fan! anything else...just ask.two "D" batteries required...mspmb enableJavascript="false" allowScriptAccess="never" allownetworking="internal" allowScriptAccess="never" src="http://lads.myspace.com/slides/slideshow_random.swf?u=5 907204" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="426"

My Interests

the color "red", the color "black', GUEDRA~Blue People of the Taureg Berbers of the Sahara, Raks Sharki, Tunisian Women's Dance, cast iron, scissors, cala lilies, dictionaries, serial killers, midwives, harems, silver, straightjackets, bloomers, masturbation, leather, PVC, corsetry, bondage, body modification, S&M, trees in dormancy, long bridges over water, surreal, coffee, cigarettes, owls, wolves, iguanas, my pussys, fireflies, herbs, Sangre de Torro, Stoli, Jack Daniels, androgyny, glass, the cello, the Milkyway, velocity, Medusa, old school porn, sliced fruit, pomegranate, star fruit, forensic science, psychology, pathology, syndromes, drums, fire, singing, dancing, entertaining, sex, drawing, painting, photography, horror movies, video, the matrix, crying babies, open wounds, dying leaves, breast, pregnant female body, absolutely any and every type of art!!

I'd like to meet:

Countess Bathory...

Music:

Portishead, Lamb, Zap Mama, Dusty Springfield, Om Kalsoum, Saul Williams, Al Green, Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughn, Hakim, Everything but the Girl, Sweet Honey and the Rock, PJ Harvey, Kate Bush, Candan Ercetin, Chemical Bros., Nick Cave, Mama Cass, Diamanda Galas, Queen, Erykah Badu, Babyland, Kurt Weill, Janis Joplin, GoGol Bordello, Scarnella, Peaches, Alison Moyet, Jethro Tull, Marvin Gaye, Lauryn Hill, Nina Simone, Josephine Baker, Dinah Washington, Roots, Jimi Hendrix, GOODING, Angelo Badalamenti/D. Lynch, Aimee Mann, Michael Penn, Goblin, Curtis Mayfield, The Streets, On Air Library, Bran Van 3000, Sam Cooke...the lists goes on and on

Movies:

Candy, Baba Yaga, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Valley of the Dolls, Imitation of Life...original, The Secretary, Crash...(Cronenbergs), Mulholland Drive, Run Ronnie Run, The Quiet Room, Un Chien Andalou, Satin Rouge, Duets, Sideways, Land Without Bread, Female Trouble, Frida, Magnolia, Frightners, The Others, The Audition, A Simple Plan, Blue Velvet, Drowning Mona, Death to Smoochie, Donnie Darko, Triplets of Belleville, Waking Life, May, Safety of Objects, The Butterfly Effect, Zou, Zou, Princess Tam, Tam, The Bad Seed...original, The Kingdom, Lady Sings the Blues, Final Curtain, Truely, Madly, Deeply, He Loves me...He loves me not, Red Dragon, Buddy Boy, The Habit, The Ring, Ring0...it's better! Anything with blood, tears, murder and sex. Or anything David Lynch, David Cronenberg, Jon Waters, or PT Anderson.

Television:

Family Guy, Southpark, Chapelle Show, Kath and Kim, Ab-Fab, Mr Show, Strangers with Candy, Home Movies, Court TV

Books:

The Killer Inside Me, The Story of O, The most evil men and women in history, Deviant Desires, Diary of a Genius, Hollywood Babylon, Freaks: we who are not as others, Bodily Fluids, The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers, The Youngest Doll, those damn TASCHEN books, thousands of others, and a healthy appetite for earlier Stephen King, and V.C. Andrews, b.d....and on and on, and on and on...

Heroes:

Morocco... Salvador Dali...Annie Sprinkle

My Blog

Raq Sharqi success...

soooooo...i just got back from Philly, where i performed a workshop for one of my choreographies...and it went amazingly well! the ladies were wonderful and very eager to learn my technique and knowle...
Posted by Tzei on Mon, 02 Jun 2008 06:30:00 PST

Malika Zubeideh in Philadelphia for Rak Sharki Workshop

Hi Dancers. I'm excited to tell you about an opportunity to learn a beautiful dance from a goddess from NY! By popular demand, Malika Zubeideh will be coming to Philly for a 2-hour workshop to teach h...
Posted by Tzei on Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:08:00 PST

i am staying forever!!!

do i have to come back to the US? Egypt treats me so well, it's just the place to be after the year i've had thus far! allthough i am exhausted...thats what shakin' does to you! but, i am back at my p...
Posted by Tzei on Fri, 29 Jun 2007 02:50:00 PST

Cairo is healing...

...back to EGYPT...and it will be good, believe me i could use some vacation. but, then again it will be all work and a little bit of play, i'm sure! with the current state of this life, unfortunately...
Posted by Tzei on Sat, 12 May 2007 05:56:00 PST

curves are healthy?!?!...YES, proof!!

so it looks like my hips are not only great to hold onto...heh, heh, heh...but in the long run will prevent heart conditions!! apparently "hip fat contains a benefecial natural anti-inflammatory that ...
Posted by Tzei on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

my food, my thought

My structure is and always have been sowed, transplanted, budded and grafted for me. I am a woman of many things...great, small, meaningful and meaningless. If you are running in a race, sorry that I ...
Posted by Tzei on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST