Death and dancing

Heads-up on the next Aladdin Café gig: It's going to be the first Thursday after the end of Ramadan, so October 26. Our usual musicians have a gig that night, so we'll be dancing to taped music for a change. It'll be a nice break, and a good opportunity for the new girls to dance to actual songs.

mesniu, I'm toying with the idea of dancing to one of your songs that night, but I'd like to know what the lyrics are before I dance to it in front of people who know Arabic (I've heard too many horror stories about dancers performing to music that was inappropriate for dancing). Unfortunately I left the CD at home, so I don't remember the name of the song. It's the second middle-easterny sounding song on the CD, though. I think it's the only one with non-English lyrics on the whole CD.

In other, less happy-but-kinda-related news, Tahseen Alkoudsi died this weekend. I doubt anyone other than the dancers on my list knew him, but I wanted to note his passing. I hadn't spent much time with him or his wife, Kathe, recently. At the burial yesterday (nothing like a surprise funeral to mark a rainy Monday afternoon), I looked around at the other bellydancers gathered and I was ashamed. Kathe is a wonderful, precious woman who deserves a good network of friends. I wish I had helped provide that for her before. I shall make an attempt to be a better friend to her in the future.

Thank you, roya_spirit for the private in-car zaghareet on the ride back home. It's a pity it wasn't appropriate for the mixed (non-bellydancer) company at the burial. But it did sound pretty damn awesome in the close confines of the CRX.