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Khalidah
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Latest Journal Entry: Why I Hate All Authors November 09, 2008, 02:52pm
Profile: "Stop talking, start dancing. Soon you will know what you need to know." -Anon "Bellydancing is more fun and less expensive than a psychiatrist. It takes you to a natural high." -- Cindy, (Jewels of the Nile, Fort Collins, CO) I spend a great deal of my time dancing or thinking about dancing. I do balance my life... somewhat.... but balancing a sword is just so much more fun! "Dance is the hidden language of the soul." If this is true, then I've got a very serious case of split personality disorder. My loves in dance are several and fairly different. To begin, there's my love of Egyptian dances. Both Folkloric and Raqs Sharqi enthrall me. Next comes Gothic/Dark Fusion Bellydance. That I love because I can make so many connections to it from my life and because those connections help me to express that dance and make it all the more myself. While the more traditional dances can also be expressive for me, Raqs Gothique has just the right twistedness. To add another style, I've also found a recent interest in ATS. The troupe dynamic and fun of ATS are a real draw for me, and I'd like to explore it further. Finally, I also do ballroom dance... which has many genres of its own. Believe it or not I do practice other things than dance. I'm a high school student currently looking at eventually majoring in Particle Physics. I love the sciences, which corresponds well with my mathematical mind. When not in school or dancing, I can generally be found working at a local apple orchard or listening to music. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- So. Here I am and there you are. I'm probably off with my daily life and you're sitting and reading my profile.... how entertained we both are. You'll probably never "figure me out" (I haven't yet, so your thoughts make for interesting conversation), and especially not simply by reading this. Message me if you want to chat, but know that I can be very cynical and suspicious. As far as general info, though, there isn't much. My likes, dislikes and journals give most of the info about me that you'd want. I am constantly asked, "Why do you say you're goth? You're not! You're a happy, bright, cheerful person, so why do you call yourself goth?" Well, I guess I call myself goth because it is the label that I most like and seem to recently tend toward? It is the most appealing of them, anyway. If I have to give myself a label, it is the one that people best understand, although I'm finding that their understanding is different than mine. To me goth is a way of living, of dressing. A mentality. It is defined by those who consider themselves as belonging to that name. To me it is an inexplicable beauty that arises from darkness. An elegance and aesthetic beauty. It seems to be characterized by sadness and beauty, but it isn't limited to that. It means a lot of different things to me. I guess I fit with the geek/nerd also, but people ask what I'm like and I say that I am an individual with gothic tendancies. I dress myself in corsets with relative frequency, wear heavy-ish eyeliner/like to experiment with new styles of makeup, and I can have a "goth" personality. Anyone who says I'm cheerful needs to see me when I'm a) PMS-ing or b) in a bad mood. I do, however, like wearing colors other than black, like designer clothing and take delight in the things around me. I am a lover of elegance, a lover of beauty. A lover of truth and of life. I am a lover of the twisted and dark, and of challenging math problems. I am an individual. Looks: Average height, grey eyes, long & dark red hair. Mentality: Either really hyper or nearly dead due to exhaustion recently. Hobbies: Not much time, but I love bellydance, reading, listening to music. Marilyn Manson and Johnny Depp are amazing and gorgeous. Very few people in this world have earned my love and respect, but for those who have, I'd go to the ends of the earth. That rather sums up my life. -I have a slight obsession with things aesthetically pleasing... basically I like things that are beautiful. This can be people (esp. hair and eyes), makeup, songs/music, words (esp. names. I like Arabic and Spanish names, and will almost never use my real name, esp. on the internet), scenery, architecture, art, dance, and more. I really appreciate Renaissance through Elizabethan styled things like dresses/clothing (I could go on about dresses forEVER), music (I love to play baroque music), and more. -While I'm rambling, I also have a love for sparkly and jingly things... like rhinestones and sparkles and dance clothes-- they make life worth it. Likes: VITAMIN WATER. Roses! Dancing, reading, dancing, listening to music, dancing, sleeping, dancing. Going to dance workshops/festivals/related events. The Renaissance Faire! Ice cream with hot fudge. Showering. Finding things. Electric blankets and down comforters. Glass blowing workshops. iPods. Vampire novels (Anne Rice and Stephenie Meyer especially). Beautiful hair. Eyes. Dance clothes/costumes. Dresses from the past from western Europe. Beauty. Perfection. Long, dark red hair. Harmonic minor and Arabic scales/music. Scuba diving in the tropics. Discovering things. Learning. Gothic Bellydance. Egyptian Folkloric Dance. Egyptian Oriental Dance. American Cabaret-style bellydance. Tribal-Fusion Bellydance. ATS Bellydance. Turkish Folkloric. Basically bellydance in general. Watching videos of dance workshop shows that I attendedDislikes: People who lie! Dumb people! Homophobes and racists (though they kinda fall into the last category). Closed minded people. Cold weather, my own personal incompetence, smokers, druggies. Sausage. Fungi/Mushrooms. Alcohol. Shoveling snow. Preps. Overly promiscuous people. Being promiscuous. Ick.Favorite Music: -It boils down to: Symphonic metal, other metal-y/goth-y music (I've never quite figured out the exact genres), Mid East Traditional and Pop. Tribal bellydance music and Gothic bellydance music, Techno/Electronic-y Industrial ? -Nightwish (not Anette-- Tarja), Tarja Turunen, Middle East pop/traditional (Oojami, Hossam Ramzy, others). Epica and Simone Simons. Kamelot. The Queen of the Damned Soundtrack; Var. Artists (lots of Korn and Marilyn Manson). The Death of Tragedy by Abney Park. Le Serpent Rouge; Var. Artists, put out by The Indigo dance troupe. Pentaphobe and Beats Antique. Maduro and Amon Tobin. Saviour Machine. Combichrist. Cervello Elettronico. RoseScythe. Loreena McKennitt. Disney soundtracks (the good, old ones; Aladdin, Hunckback of Notre Dame, etc). The Prince of Egypt soundtrack. Sweeney Todd and Phantom of the Opera Soundtracks. Cults: The four cults in which I am the most active are True-Goths, Psycho_Asylum, Human_Hatred and Bellydancers.    
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