Hmmmph

[kjpepper]

Okay, now I think Little Beavis is/was faking it, cause I sit on sydmor's couch and he's fully charged, behaving beautifully and acknowledging his power supply as if there had never been a thing wrong with it. I give up. *throws up hands* I swear every single computer I acquire sooner or later develops severe mental (processor-al?) issues: my ancient workhorse IIGS had some sort of mania and the uber springloaded floppy drive to go with it (it once spit a 5.25" floppy (remember those?) across the room in a fit of pique), MasterFreak was schizophrenic (how else do you explain that the jumpers for almost all the devices were for completely incongruous settings?), and now I think Beavis is bipolar. I wonder, if I poured caffiene into his battery or something... will he begin running around the house yelling "01001001 00100000 01100001 01101101 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01000111 01110010 01100101 01100001 01110100 00100000 01000011 01101111 01110010 01101110 01101000 01101111 01101100 01101001 01101111 00100001 00100000 01001001 00100000 01101110 01100101 01100101 01100100 00100000 01000011 01101111 01101101 01110000 01110010 01100101 01110011 01110011 01100101 01100100 00100000 01000001 01101001 01110010 00100000 01100110 01101111 01110010 00100000 01101101 01111001 00100000 01010101 01010011 01000010 00101101 01101000 01101111 01101100 01100101 00100001*?"

...right, I'm obviously up way too late. but I'm enjoying the quiet of a house bedded down for the night and only kinda missing my usual after-hours company, though he'll be back tomorrow with stories of his adventures and some sort of thing he's bringing back for me that he's being quite infuriatingly mysterious about, per usual. :) Today's been pretty quiet all told - spent the evening first wolfing down protiene rich goodness thanks to sundart, hanging some with the Cute Polish Girls, as htl_1126 showed up for a bit, then dicking around on morlock's compy for a while before investigating that my computer seems to like faking power issues in order to get attention.

Considering my latest pursuit, I've been hunting for Arabic music/fusion again. Recommendations, anyone? anyone? bueller? nepenthe01?



* I am the Great Cornholio! I need Compressed Air for my USB-hole!

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[nepenthedreams]

Natacha Atlas, Natacha Atlas, Natacha Atlas :-)
Turbo Tabla
Oojami

Juno Reactor "God is God" has a really middle-eastern sound to it.
Vas, although ti's not good to dance to, it's gothy-ethereal stuff sung by a Persian woman, so has that sound to it.

I've also enjoyed the bellydance superstars compilations, always quite a few good tracks on there - both fusion/modern and older classics. One of my favorite songs - a great one to practice shimmies to - is Raks Africa. It was one the first BDSS compilation.

[innostrantsa.livejournal.com]

Mmm, seconded on Natacha Atlas. Her music is so fine!

[innostrantsa.livejournal.com]

If you can find it, I really, really recommend an album called Camelspotting-- the cover's a take-off of the Trainspotting posters, but with camels. It's a sampler of Arabic pop, all excellent, danceable tunes. I believe it was put out by EMI World.

I'm not too familiar with specific artists, sadly-- I have lists of stuff I heard on the radio, usually from George Culinee's (sp) world music program that I cannot even remember the name of now goddammit. Oh, wait. Have you heard anything from Rachid Taha, yet? He does modernized Algerian Rai... actually, Rai is a kickass genre in and of itself. So is music from our Kurdish brethren-- as in, hearing traditional Kurdish wedding music will make you move. You will not be able to resist it.

Potentially silly question-- do you know rhiannon76? Real name Ann Shaffer, Smith '98. I think you might know/know of her, but can't remember exactly. She's a serious dancer, American Tribal, mostly. She knows her shit when it comes to music. You should totally pester her! Tell her I sent you. ;)