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About Me

Up-coming Raqs Sayyal perfomances! Come see us in action!
Sunday, May 25: Colorado Dark Arts Festival
-at the Church in Denver, CO
Friday, June 6: Shimmy for the Cure Hafla
-at the Mercury Cafe in Downtown Denver, CO
Saturday, June 28th: Hafla with Phoenix and Yallah!
-at the D-Note in Arvada, CO
Message me for more details!
I'm a dancer, a dreamer, a creator... I love to knit, sew, rip clothing apart and recreate it - isn't that life in a nutshell, tearing down and rebuilding? - I'm married to a wonderful artist and I love my beagle like a small hairy child that walks on all fours and can't speak - things like really great songs or watching other dancers move me to tears - I don't watch much TV or many movies, but I still HAVE to have my cartoons. I have a hard time taking anything, especially myself, seriously.
I am Alice.
My Space or Yours? Myspace Layouts and more at myspaceoryours.net!

My Interests

Bellydance, tribal dance, cabaret bellydance, knitting, crocheting, WoW, video games, playing in snow, beagles, poetry, creative writing, ice cream

I adopted a cute lil' ninja fetus from Fetusmart! Hooray fetus!

I'd like to meet:

Robert Muraine and get him to teach me how to do this:

Joel Hodgson. I bet that would be one helluva crazy conversation. "She's wierd, which results in creativity."

Music:

Pretty much anything but country, including, but not limited to:
MAN MAN!!
Tori Amos,

Almost Rosey Lyrics ..

Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Dresden Dolls, Flogging Molly, Modest Mouse, Fall Out Boy, 311, The Killers, Nightmare of You, Fiona Apple, Zero 7, Thievery Corporation, Morcheeba, Mono, Mandalay, Snow Patrol, Beck, Dave Matthews Band, Hossam Ramzy, Cheb Mami, DJ Cheb I Sabbah...
The list goes on and on, really...

Television:

Don't watch a lot of it, except maybe the weather channel, news, football games, Deadliest Catch / Dirty Jobs, and the occasional Nip/Tuck or Rescue Me episode.

Books:

Too many to count. Mostly poetry and creative fiction and non-fiction. However, I have been known to pick up the odd psych book or something filled with random theories.
Currently reading:

Heroes:

Ryan, my sis and my baby bro, Rafi'ah, Rajaa, Danielle, Olivia Kissel and Zafira!, Rachel Brice, Sharon Kihara, Petite Jamilla, Tori Amos, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Sharon Olds

My Blog

I am ready.

Several people have asked me why I got the tattoo of the scarab on my back about a month ago, and it's hard to explain the reason if you don't know me very well. Maybe this verbose disquisition&n...
Posted by Naia on Sun, 20 Apr 2008 11:09:00 PST

My super-fantastic fabulous return to the state of my birth..

erm... if only for a few days. So I’m headin’ down to Ala the first weekend in April for Sheryl’s wedding! Can’t believe it’s been almost 2 years since I’ve been ho...
Posted by Naia on Wed, 19 Mar 2008 05:45:00 PST

I have a crush.

And his name is Hrithik Roshan. Check the Bollywood hotness. Yum! Thanks to Katt for bringing this guy to my attention - not only is the man hot, but holy crap can he dance. This makes me even more ex...
Posted by Naia on Sun, 16 Dec 2007 11:07:00 PST

Announcement...

Announcing the birth of Raqs Sayyal, 'yall!! :P Too excited to sit still. Check back for more. *grin* glitter-graphics.com...
Posted by Naia on Fri, 14 Dec 2007 06:17:00 PST

Nomen (poem)

Nomen1. Plain Jean is here, kiss- craving, mascara- smeared mad woman.She resigns to be the misfit, ill- fitting names on either side, preceded by Prussian ancestry and marriage trailing behind.Plain ...
Posted by Naia on Wed, 28 Nov 2007 07:48:00 PST

Oh My F***in Gawd... A Blog Entry...

So I danced again last Saturday, and it went really well. Of course I don't have pictures, cuz in my rush to get out the door and make sure my make-up was on and my costume wasn't falling apart, ...
Posted by Naia on Fri, 17 Aug 2007 06:17:00 PST

hack cough wheeze

So I've quit smoking. Let's take some time for that to sink in. *pause* Ok. So like I said, I've quit smoking. After almost eight years. EIGHT! That's kindof a long time. This may sound funny, but I r...
Posted by Naia on Thu, 14 Dec 2006 08:03:00 PST

New toy!!

Finally! I have my very first silk veil!! It's beautiful too - a jumble of dark jewel tones, golds and greens and fuchsias and blues and oranges! But it's not tie-dyed or anything, there aren't any pa...
Posted by Naia on Tue, 21 Nov 2006 08:33:00 PST

2.

I am beneath a surface; the mountains must be some reef. From the bed, steam powers up through the vents and lifts me slightly. All around me, wildlife teems and pulses - the street beasts, the w...
Posted by Naia on Fri, 27 Oct 2006 06:56:00 PST

1.

We dove under some kind of moon, a pale perennial; after the tide turned we swam through blue and silence. On the wreck, the colors beamed in our flashlight's gaze - pinks, reds, yellow...
Posted by Naia on Tue, 24 Oct 2006 06:25:00 PST