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[evile]

Jul. 5, 2005

 

 

evile: Hi there! How was jousting?
SkyeDS: very educational experience, professionals as opposed to sca
evile: cool.
SkyeDS: we're going to join the fourwinds family, a good time was had
by all, we all got too much sun, some of us in places God never meant
to get too much sun, etc
evile: oopsie. Oh well. As long as you had fun.
SkyeDS: how was your weekend?
evile: excellent.
evile: wrote about it in LJ
SkyeDS: just got here, so still tackling half a dozen tasks at once
evile: I'm really stoked for next month's Desert Passion. There will
be live music by a guy named Oliver Rajamani, who is apparently one
of the world's premier Romany musicians.
SkyeDS: when is Desert Passion?
evile: first Friday of the month
evile: On the 'yuck' side, looks like some of the Typsy Gypsy troupe
will be guest perfomers, but they are not being billed as such, so
perhaps as individuals htey'll actually behave and not talk and
laugh through everyone else's performances.
SkyeDS: they can be avoided
SkyeDS: and I won't be there in garb, freezing, with my headscarf
wrapped around my face looking like a burqqa
evile: I dont' really know how you can 'avoid' watching them dance,
without being very rude to your fellow audience members, but you can
certainly avoid socializing
SkyeDS: that's what I meant
evile: *nod*
SkyeDS: would be easy enough to avoid seeing them dance too, could
just shut my eyes
SkyeDS: nobody would notice unless they were watching me instead of
the dancer
evile: *nod*
evile: It should be fun. I'm excited about it. [Cousin B] is a newly
converted fan.
SkyeDS: :)
evile: Leila was one of the guest dancers--the blonde goddess PhD
candidate who used to dance with Z Helene at Cafe Mundi.
SkyeDS: yum
SkyeDS: does Z not do shows in Austin anymore?
evile: Apparently she dances at Pyramids on Saturdays,a nd during hte
school year, she dances with Mirage (I believe at the Carousel
Lounge). So I will need to go check that out.
evile: Z helene does maybe 2-4 shows a year now, and htey're indoors
at Austin Yoga (?) on S. Lamar. Dreadful acoustics. Not a good space,
IMHO.
SkyeDS: cafe mundi was such a nice venue, wonder what happened
evile: the children wouldn't stop tearing up the plants.
evile: so Cafe Mundi stopped allowing them to have dances there.
SkyeDS: her children, patrons' children or both?
evile: Mostly her daughter & the two little bellydance students, but
when other kids would come, they'd follow the lead of the other kids
and the parents didn't do a damn thing to stop them, just let them
run unsupervised
evile: Yay for irresponsible breeders ruining yet another nice thing.
SkyeDS: too bad she doesn't have better business sense, which would
have spurred her parental responsibility
evile: *shrug* A lot of artists seem to have lacks in other areas of
their lives.
evile: great musicians are bad with money, great writers are
immoderate in their alcohol consumption, etc. etc. It's practically
textbook.
evile: It looks to me like Z. Helene is focusing more on teaching
these days. And apparently her website says she's going to some kind
of workshop or competition in August. So, I guess she's just changed
gears a bit
SkyeDS: common sense would say, you hire someone/get a volunteer who
has the skills you don't
evile: *shrug* a lot of artistic personalities dont' have common
sense, either.
SkyeDS: the problem with cafe mundi being symptomatic and not causal
SkyeDS: ie gear shift or not, she'll keep creating the same problem
for herself over and over again
SkyeDS: don't learn from history you're doomed to repeat it, etc
evile: New performance space is Indoors, nothing but floor and
chairs, there's not much damage a kid can do. Plus parents seem to be
better about supervising kids indoors.
evile: she makes a point of saying her shows are kid friendly...being
that I'm not, I have found more suitable venues for my interest in
watching adults bellydancing.
SkyeDS: I don't perceive you as being unkidfriendly
SkyeDS: I perceive you as being unruly-kid-unfriendly
SkyeDS: you enjoy the well behaved children of your friends
evile: *nod*
evile: I even tolerated being drooled and puked by the baby on
Saturday.
SkyeDS: I don't remember having ever been drooled or puked on, so I'm
impressed. Can't say that I know how I would react to that.
evile: The baby is so durned cute, I just really didn't mind. amazing.
SkyeDS: drooling and puking, while aesthetically less than pleasing,
are natural, and not the byproducts of bad parenting either
evile: yup
evile: Looks like I may have to make TableRock a priority.
SkyeDS: why?
evile: Met up with some folks I hadn't seen in forever at the
bellydance show, they were talking about it, and then found out
Saturday that rengeek is bartending there. So..yeah, gotta go.
SkyeDS: ah.
evile: It's such a dinky little faire...there's nothing to it as far
as shows or booths, but if I know I will meet up with a bunch of
friends, that makes it worth my while to go.
SkyeDS: I have a couple of things I want to implement for 4winds faire
SkyeDS: that I might try out at Raven's Loft and Tablerock first,
maybe
evile: *nod*
SkyeDS: all of these faires have jousters
SkyeDS: but none of them have mounted archery (a specialty of the
Arabian battlemare)
SkyeDS: nor ballet du cheval - a precursor of dressage
SkyeDS: which the Egyptians had a form of, called "dancing horses"
evile: *nod*
evile: time for me to make the rounds & get gone. *hugs*