Straight Pimpin'

and no, they are NOT two naked dudes. I just thought the pic was funny.

I am such a sucker for attention, might be the Leo sun sign. But yeah, when I was a kid I liked to dance and sing on restaurant tables, no kidding.
Sooooooo, when someone likes the blog I gotta return the attention with mad props. ( notice my antiquated quasi-hip slang circa 1996?) ....hence some PIMPIN TIME.

I went through a podcast phase when I first got my Ipod. I downloaded a bunch, excited by the prospect that I could listen to people talk about ANY subject I was interested in, but pretty much gave up when I realized that a lot of podcasts were done by narcissistic ( takes one to know one), boring people who really had nothing to say. The day I emptied my Ipod of all the podcasts was the day that I was listening to a pagan blog and the guy BURPED into the microphone, then continued talking to his cat. I decided that it wasn't worth wading through the piles of crap to find the one or two GOOD podcasts out there, done by people with more than one brain cell.
    Luckily the Yip Podcast is one of the good ones. Done by two fun but intelligent happy but not annoying, and exclusive but also inclusive ( and by that I mean that they talk to each other, but also to the audience, which so many podcasters missed when they took Podcasting For Dummies) women, it covers all things bellydance. These guys are predominately Tribal, but it is a good listen for all bellydancers, and they cover things that are of interest for all who like to shake it. 
     So there, consider yourself PIMPED, Yip podcast.

Oh yeah, and guys, I love the belly-versary concept. I am totally gonna steal that.

Tummy Terrific

The lovely and talented Samra!

As you guys know I have been whining about Tummy Tuesday since way back on this post  in January, when I started getting serious about starting one here. Well, the Great and Powerful Jackie Chan must have worked his voodoo magic or something because Tummy Tuesday was Tummy Terrific! It was seriously all I could have hoped for and more, and personally speaking, other than combating my stoopid dry mouth which causes me to do weird mouth movements, and doing this, which I might have to revise my official stance on, my dance ( I felt) went off smashingly.
  There were 15 dancers total which represented a lot of different styles, we had some Fusion ( which was killer) some veil, some Arab/Spanish fusion, sword, and a hell of a lot of top notch cabaret.
     Unfortunately my camera is iffy at best ( because some chick who was a girlfriend of a friend decided it would be cute to get drunk and play with my camera, which she then dropped, and it hasn't been right since)...but I did still manage to get a few cute pics.

All hail Jackie Chan! All hail Tummy Tuesday!!

the lovely and talented Alexandria!

the lovely and talented Sylvana, Fatim, and Azada.



the lovely and talented Navani

 And check out this cake for Navani who is moving ( frowny face).....



the lovely and talented Paula, and Navani.

I wish I had gotten so many more pics but alas, the Great and Powerful Jackie Chan did not will it. So I must be content with what I got...

P.A.T.S.

So you are standing there getting ready to perform, your buddies are flitting around you chatting, some lady is asking you questions, the music of the previous act is dying down, and you are all adrenaline. What happened to all the things you told yourself you'd remember right before you went on? For some reason you can't seem to think past the second, much less remember all the mantras that you knew would set your head straight and make you ready to perform.........I've got a solution, try P.A.T.S.
    I am a big fan of acronyms. I am also a big fan of easy one two three step rhymes or ditty's to help you remember something. I once took a three day ( and several thousand dollar) seminar with a morning show coach, and know what I took away from it? That we are so bombarded as a people by images, sales, etc, from every angle, that rarely can we remember anything past 1. 2. 3. So from then on we ( the morning show people), condensed everything into threes. Jokes, points, etc. It worked. For some reason if you break something down like that and make it catchy, the brain can remember.
    So back to P.A.T.S. This happens to be my own personal thingy I do before performing, you can steal it, or make your own based on what is important to you.

P. -Presence
This helps me remember to be involved in each movement and not be thinking about anything else but what I am doing.

A.-Acceptance
I have found that accepting what you are feeling, even the nervousness, can be very cathartic. If you try to push the nervousness away then it will only come back with a vengeance. If you say, "hey, yeah, you are here, I am gonna use you for fuel", it works every time.

T. - Total Connection To The Music
It is all about the music. Be a slave to your music.

S. - Superior Posture
I had to put that in there to remember to keep my shoulders back and down. My boobs are so big I have a tendency to slump. ANNNND if you start out a dance with fabulous posture you are most likely to keep it up throughout the dance.

I actually pat my belly while I say this to myself. Kind of a Pavlov's dog thing.
Have fun making your own.

Happy Drunk Review: Killer Ziller

I am drinking wine at 3:30 in the afternoon. Why? My kid is sick, tomorrow is Mabon, which I am feeling most acutely, and I was up all night, so I am sleep deprived.  Wine, sleep deprivation, antsy feeling that always accompanies the turning of the Wheel for me = pissing around on the net. So in honor of the next turn of the Wheel....here is another Happy Drunk Review.
   Naima reviewed this one also, so make sure to check out her take on this DVD, but I am pretty sure we agree.....Killer Ziller is killer!

First of all as we all know in bellydance blogland, I adore Michelle Joyce. She really simplifies without over simplifying. Her DVD's are super affordable, and well produced. I have NEVER bought anything by CheekyGirls that I was not impressed with. She gives you just the right amount of information in digestible pieces, and she has done it again on this DVD.
   There is a reason that there aren't that many dancers skilled at zils. ( compared to how many bellydancers there are out there, what percentage can play zils skillfully? not many, I'd bet). Zils are hard to learn, they are an instrument for goodness sake. Not only do you have to be a good dancer,you have to be a good dancer and a good ziller. I can dance my ass off, I can zil my ass off but put the two together? Let's just say it ain't pretty. I am almost embarrassed as long as I have been dancing that my zils suck so badly, and I have nothing to blame but laziness. No, really. You gotta practice. You gotta put the suckers on and practice.
      That is where this DVD comes in.....it is broken up into three sections, fantastic for daily practice.
In the first section she has you tap out the rhythms on your belly. This is for beginners, and if you have any knowledge of zils, then skip this.
  The second section is just a pair of zils/hands playing the different rhythms. It lasts a while, and I usually stand there and just play on the crazy-ass ones that I can barely keep up with, try to at least walk around on the medium- hard ones, and then dance on the easier ones that everyone knows, like triplets. The cool thing is, she plays a LOT of rhythms....I love it. Some I am sure I will never use, but most I am glad to learn, and practice. This section gives you freedom to just sit there if all you can do is zill, or maybe do some elementary school dancing while you attempt to keep the zils going.....um, I mean, not that I'd know anything about that.
    The third section has four choreography's of escalating difficulty. I haven't gotten past the first one yet. For reals. Yes, I am that bad. But they are freakin' brilliant, and combine several different zil patterns. Maybe one day I can get to the fourth choreo.....one can hope. ( the frustrating thing about zils is that the last "hardest" choreo looks like a piece of cake, but to zil with it would be a joke. So I must face the facts and "dance where I am" like Donna was so fond of telling us.)

    MJ you rock. I mean it. You have brought hope to my zill-less  hands. Thanks again, babe.

and, if you haven't picked up that if you have any interest at all in learning to zil that this would be a good buy, then, well, if you have any interest at all in learning to zil then this would be a good buy.

Your Reaction

Bast

Our reaction to life is our reaction. From birth we are told what is acceptable, what to feel, what is appropriate is certain situations, what is the appropriate response in just about any situation. In relationships we are told what it is that we are supposed to feel, and if it doesn't go with the status quo,and make everyone happy then we are the "bad ones". In all circumstances there is what is acceptable behavior and and what are acceptable responses.
    The problem with this is that it dulls our intuition. It de-validates our responses. It says" what you feel is not acceptable". It dulls our own personal responses and like the knife that gets less and less sharp we forget what our own personal response is........... o.k, bear with me, this is not a sociology lesson, it has a point.
    The other day while dancing at home, I had the thought," this doesn't look good". Then I had a mini conversation with myself ( which I do frequently), and I answered myself. "It doesn't look good to who?". Who says it doesn't look good? It is YOUR reaction to the music, Naaga. This is your personal reaction."
Whoa. Chew on that. Dancing is our own personal reaction to the music.

I literally stopped what I was doing and said that aloud to myself several times. My reaction. MY reaction. Not anyone else's. Even the word Reaction has power. The idea of reacting is so personal, so soul connected. When you react you just DO. It comes from the most realized place inside of you, the place not connected with your brain, or your perceptions or what those around you want from you.  They say to always trust your first instinct, your first reaction. Before conditioning comes in and all the "supposed to's" that we are taught, before we question ourselves, before all of that happens the connection with who we really are is played out in our reactions. Trust them. Trust yourself.
       Dancing is one of the hardest things that I know of. I have gotten up in front of eight thousand people before.....I have spoken to celebrities. I have been so nervous that I thought I might die on the spot. Trust me, in any type of show business ( even bottom of the gutter show business that is radio), putting your self out there is for lack of a better word, terrifying. But I could choose who I wanted to display. I could hide behind the mike. I could become someone else for a moment that the on-air light was on. If someone rejected me and my reaction to life, it was easy to take because it wasn't entirely real. I was putting on a show.  


   But dancing is personal. Not only is it your body that you are putting on display, but you, your reaction to the music.Since music is a real time-in the second thing, you have that second to react, to respond. ( maybe this is why I have never liked choreography, I think it takes you away from the moment). 
While I was dancing unscripted, completely spontaneous-ly at a recent dance event, a new-to-bellydance girl asked me, "So you just dance?" Like she had cracked some elusive bellydance code. Like she was saying" Is it really that simple?"   I said  "Yes, well kinda. You learn the moves, you drill them, you immerse yourself in it till it just.....comes out. There is a point when you just let go and ...react". 
   Dancers/Humans feed off of others responses, which even though they might be entirely organic to the person judging, cannot be used as a reflection of who we are/our skills, or a plumb line for our own reactions. Like the color of our hair, your reaction is beyond judgement. It is sacred. It is.
   I often say that dancing is a metaphor for life, I really believe this. In dancing ,just as in life don't wait for someone to validate your feelings, your reactions. If your reaction is not acceptable to someone else, but you know it is coming from your sacred place, you MUST believe in yourself. You must trust yourself. If you never learn to do this, in dancing, or in life, you will be like a tiny boat tossed on whatever wave that might come along. Good placid weather will have you feeling great, but the second a storm comes along,you will break again.
   I believe reactions are a gift. They are the kindergarten for learning how to trust yourself ( which is a personal journey I have been on for a while). A good place to start with this, if you are new to this kind of journey, is just watch. Watch yourself, watch how you react,and how others react to your reactions, and how that causes you to change what you do.
You might just find that you have been living someone elses life.
 

Tony, Oh Tony

So what did I do to celebrate Tony's 100th episode that I TVo'ed and just got around to watching? Well, it was filmed in Paris and besides grabbing some triscuits and string cheese to go with my Oak Leaf Merlot ( that, incidentally, costs friggin $2.97 at Walmart)...I smoked hookah.
  First let's get back to the triscuits and string cheese. It's all I had. Its all I can find here unless I make my own bread and "fancy stuff", which I do occasionally. But when I see my much beloved Tony eating for-real French breads, cheeses, and more- than- three- dollar wine, I have to share the experience somehow. All I could find was some -almost- -but -not-too-stale reduced fat triscuits,and some string cheese that I bought for my daughters lunchboxes. Add the cheap wine, and I can pretend I am in Gay Paree eating amazing food and not in BFE eating processed crap. Throw in the Hookah and some coconut shisha and I am a somewhat happy camper........or I will keep drinking the wine until bread or triscuits or hostess Twinkies...doesn't really make a difference what it is.
    For those of you who read this for the bellydance stuff, this is a post about Hookah. Just letting you know. For those of you purists who have never smoked a cigarette ( or anything else), or who eat only organic this or that and who would never poison their bodies with tobacco then just X out of this post. I like a drink, I like a smoke, I like some Hookah occasionally.This post is about kickin' back with some fruity tobacco and a significant other, sipping cheap wine, wanting to be in Paris with Tony.
   Yeah, I write a non-bellydance related post every once in a while, just let me get it out of my system.
    So lets clarify. A Hookah is a water pipe in which you smoke Shisha which is a fruity tobacco blend that only has .5% tobacco. It is very common in the Middle East. So, as a reformed smoker ( quit in '02) I can smoke this stuff occasionally and it doesn't make me want to go buy a pack of menthol's the next day.
  The idea hit me to buy a hookah several years ago when I wanted to have a hookah party. I went online and researched hookahs, shisha, and everything that goes along with it. I carefully selected one and got a "sampler" of shisha flavors....apple, orange, rose, cinnamon, banana, coconut, licorice, and candy. I went to website after website until I finally found the proper way to light the thing. ( you'd be amazed at the massive "hookah culture" out there).


Sorry for the crappy pic...

    The hookah party was a huge success.....we did a sassy drum solo choreographed by my teacher at the time, Donna...several people did solos ( including a veil dance to Tool by moi), and it was a lot of fun. But then, after the smoke cleared ( duh-dum), and I cleaned up, I was out two hundred and now I had this hookah, and shisha of every flavor.
I am pretty sure I shelved the thing for a while until hubby and I wanted something special but weren't sure what it was. One night while watching Lady Chatterley's Lover ( or something like that), I suggested the hookah,and the rest,they say was history.
So if you have any interest at all in this treat, lemme try to sell ya on it. Since we have gotten rid of all the people that are sticks in the mud, here are some reasons to buy and have a Hookah of your very own....

Have Yourself a Hookah

1. Shisha is made up of fruit, molasses, and a teeny bit of tobacco. It smells good. It tastes good. It doesn't make you cough your brains out, the smoke is really mellow.
( I do NOT recommend tainting your hookah with anything other than shisha.....I think that is all I need to say on that.)
2. If you have a tendency to go completely overboard on everything like I do, owning a hookah goes with the Middle- Eastern-I'm -a- bellydancer -thing really well.
3.It is a nice surprise for friends. It is something interesting to bring out when you have people over.
4. The initial investment can be a bit pricey, but then you won't have to spend any more money until you run out of shisha. ( and a little goes a long way)
5. Shisha comes in so many varieties and flavors! It is so fun to pick out and try different kinds. Places like the Hookah Company have great sampler packs. There are kinds that are pricey like Starbuzz Shisha and kinds that are more standard, like Al Fakher. The flavors are so much fun! Some of the more odd ones I have come across: Cola, Mojito, Mocha latte, Bubble Gum, Pumpkin Pie, spearmint....I could go on forever. ( my personal favorites are the standards, Rose and Apple).

So if you want to buy one of these bad boys here is what you need.

1. Obviously, a Hookah. if you plan on entertaining, get one with two or more hoses. If you don't want your mother in law seeing it, then get a smaller one. Either way I recommend getting a decent mid-line Hookah.I have heard that the cheaper ones have a tendency to break easily, and we want this to be a one time investment, right? The Hookah Company is where we bought ours, and I have heard that it is the best,most reputable place to get your hookah.
2. Charcoals. Get these off of EBay, or some other cheap place. The Hookah websites charge too much for these and you can get them for MUCH cheaper elsewhere. Also, get a decent amount. One little bowl pack of shisha will take two to three charcoals, so you have a tendency to go through these pretty quickly.
  As an aside I learned how to use these charcoals when I was a young Witch in Germany many years ago. They will burn the hell out of you if you are not careful. Get a good pair of tongs, and remember, even when they look grayish, or just plain black they are still hot enough to take off a layer of flesh or two.
3. Aluminum foil, and a needle. You can get one of those fancy metal screens to put the charcoals on, but I like aluminum foil with holes poked in it much better. ( I know, I am slightly ghetto like that).
4. SHISHA! This is the fun part! Pick out flavors that sound fun, but make sure to get at least the standard apple. There is a reason that plain old apple is popular. Once again, The Hookah Company is a good place for this.
 Note: There ARE herbal blends that contain no tobacco, but I have heard they are gross.
Get some plastic bags to place each pack of shisha in, it can be messy.
5.Something to place the Hookah on. Goddess forbid that a charcoal would fall on the floor. It would be all over, my friend. I use a bit of cardboard, but in the past I have used a plastic crate, a bit of wood, basically whatever I could find to keep my Hookah from being knocked over, and if it did, so that I wouldn't ruin the carpet. That'd be hard to live down.
                  
Here are some extra sites that will help if you want to buy one of these bad boys....

Hookah Forum - warning. These people ain't kiddin'.

Smoking Hookah.com- pretty much everything you need to know.

and again.....The Hookah Company - I was really impressed with the quality of the items, the packaging, all of it. As much as I recommend them, I should get some free shisha or something...

And last but not least....this charcoal looks fine, right? Looks like it is not lit? Remember that this thing was hotter than Hades when I took this pic.

Just covering my ass, warning you.

Basically the Same Regurgitated Post

Hey, I never said this was quality entertainment. I am aware that I keep saying the same thing over and over. 
Recently on a blog I like to read, Bellydance Paladin she started talking about the emotive, creative, soul aspect of being a dancer, and then she said something about Suhalia's training involving "intense emotional exercises" and I was like, Wha? Hold the phone! *whining* but I wanna do intense emotional exercises, and journaling, and all that creative shit that doesn't involve learning an old crusty choreography that I don't like anyway. whaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
 So of course I started thinking once again about FEELING the dance and not just robotic movement re-barfing. ( I am a classy broad, I'll tell ya). Then ( and this one time when I was at band camp...) Synchronicity stepped in. Know what synchronicity is?  Here, I'll let Wiki define it...

"Synchronicity is the experience of two or more events that are apparently causally unrelated occurring together in a meaningful manner. To count as synchronicity, the events should be unlikely to occur together by chance. The concept of synchronicity was first described by Swiss psychologist Carl Gustav Jung in the 1920s."

Yeah, you know when you start thinking about Elvis, and all of the sudden he pops up everywhere, your cheap aunt gives you an Elvis clock, or the person next to you in line is humming "Hound dog", etc.
  To me it usually means that I am on the right path. That I am "tuned-in".
     SOOOOOO ( and this one time, when I was at band camp), really powerful references to the exact thing I was trying to put into words suddenly came flying at me. I am reading a Tarot book and there was a line that said " care about the art, not the outcome". Whoa. I am a serious outcome girl. I think about what I am going to do next while I am doing anything. I'm a multitasking MASTER. This quote put the whole thing so simply into words. I wrote it in big letters and put it on my fridge. I say it out loud to myself if I find that I am getting frantic. Must dance for one hour, then practice zils for 30 minutes then at exactly 2 :25  I will switch to veil.....That quote is like a stun gun to snap me out of super OCD mode.
   Flash to the next day at my MIL's, killing time. I grabbed her Woman's Day magazine neatly stacked on top of her Bible, and began to read. I opened to a story about a woman who wrote novels and tried to get published for 20 years! At this point I started sweating and feeling ill ( I am in the process of trying to get published). She went through this problem, and that crisis, yadda yadda yadda, until one day she sort of gave up, and enjoyed the process of writing. She decided not to care about the outcome but to just enjoy the process. I was so blown away that I might have said aloud something to the effect of " O.k. Universe, I get it". ( my in-laws are as weird as I am so they didn't mind).

THEN, ( and this one time at band...o.k. I know it is not funny anymore), I am looking at the feed on Facebook from The Bellydance Dictionary, and there is a comment that was made by a bellydancer named Barbara " Its all about the joy. When I quit worrying about where I was I started dancing instead of doing the moves". damn.

So THEN, ( this is my last "then" I promise) the Bellydance Dictionary made the quote into a post on Facebook and started this whole discussion where I got this quote by someone who says their teacher used to say to them " I am seeing you dance , but I am not seeing YOU dance". Double damn.

Moral of the story....
1.pay attention if the Universe is telling you something,
2.only post crack fueled-sounding posts every once and a while.

The End.

Happy Drunk Review: Fantasy Bellydance:Magic

Geez. Does it take a person two weeks to finally get to her new DVD's? I use the excuse that I am taking my time with them, yeah, that's it.

    So I finally got down to viewing Fantasy Bellydance: Magic by the World Dance New York set. These guys seem to be the go-to folks for the fantasy/off the wall-but-still-bellydance stuff.
Basically there are three DVD's in this Fantasy series, each with three "themed" choreographies on them, Mystery, Desire, and the one I am reviewing now, Magic.

Lemme just say that these are not new. They came out in 2008. As for as wish list urgency they were pretty low on the totem pole, because I wasn't sure what I would be getting, and even though they are super inexpensive ($16 something new, used as little as $7), I wasn't sure about paying for three choreographies, two of which I wasn't sure I'd use.
Honestly I bought this bad boy for the Sword dance, called "Warrior Princess", by Isidora Bushkovski. Isidora is the bee's knees. I once saw a cane dance she did ( think it might have been on the IAMED Bellydance-o-rama series), that would make you soil yourself. She is the Queen of Props.

So onto the choreographies.
The first is by Autumn Ward, and it is called "Enchantress". It is definately a little odd, but very very beautiful. She performs the piece first, wearing a green gauzy, leafy getup that makes her look like she just crawled out of the forest. The costume definately sets the tone of the piece. She also uses zils in this choreo, and it adds to the allure ( for me). The Enchantress choreography is wild, and fluid. Will I learn it? Yeah, probably eventually.


As an aside, none of these are for beginners, or even newish intermediates. These are all advanced intermediate choreographies.
 
The second one is the Sword dance "Warrior Princess'.Of course it is great, and Isidora is dressed in tribally looking gear that she seems to favor when she does sword dances. It is a good, somewhat agressive choreo, with a lot of stabbing moves. The only thing is, I would have liked to see some floorwork with this piece. But all in all I am glad I bought it, and can't wait to get to work on it.

The third is "Kali" by Ariellah ( for some reason her link wouldn't work). It is a Fusion piece, and while I like to watch Fusion, I do not dance it. Still, I hear Ariellah is the chickey-doo when it comes to fusion, so if that is your thang,you might be interested in this DVD.

So essentially I paid $11 for two nice choreographies. I think that is a pretty good deal.
If that sounds like a deal to you, then buy it.

Happy Drunk Review: Improvisational Toolkit Vol:2 Structure

Ya'll ready for another Happy Drunk Review?  I bought about nine different dance DVD's two weeks ago and they sat, lonely, on a shelf out of the reach of my little ones until "Freedom day" AKA the first day of school which was last week. After throwing a drunken party for myself and sitting around all day in my bunny slippers and bathrobe, eating frozen Snickers bars for the first few days of freedom, I figured it was time to get down to work.
So I broke out Nadira Jamal's Improvisational Toolkit Volume 2: Structure. I had really anticipated this one since I LOVED her first one Improvisational Toolkit Volume 1: Movement Recall.

     I can break this review down into two categories: "Stuff that Matters", and "Petty Shit".

Stuff That Matters: ( about this DVD):

The thing that I like about her DVD's is that it isn't stuff that you see regularly. It isn't stuff that you are even really taught, it is stuff that you have to find out the hard way, through trial and error, or through your teacher saying after a show" not enough repetition, you looked like a tasmanian devil out there!" ( which I am entirely making up, what kind of evil teacher says stuff like that to a student after a show?)...but you get the point.
This DVD was about structure, repetition, and form in your dance performances. The whole thrust of this series is to help you learn to improvise, which yes, is something that can be learned. She very slowly takes you through the idea of repetition, then how to do it naturally. Frankly I already knew all this stuff, but it doesn't mean that it is not very very helpful to a dancer. Even if I think I already know something I will watch it several times anyway to see what I can get out of it.
    This DVD is for the beginner intermediate or intermediate, a beginner might find the information helpful, but they also might find it overwhelming dependant on where they are personally. This is wonderful material for teachers to pass on( with her permission, of course), and the methods she uses to teach remind me of  broken down classroom exercises. "Watch me, here's how you do it, o.k. do it with me, now it is your turn." To someone learning to develop structure this is a comforting, right brained way to learn. You WILL learn structure with this DVD, so in my Happy-Drunk-Not-So-Humble-Opinion, this DVD is worth the money. I will do it every now and then to reinforce what I know. ( advanced students,you might get something out of it, too).

Now for the Petty Shit:

We all know that these are low budget DVD's. I normally wouldn't care. Normally. Like I said before, if Suhalia was teaching us how to fly around the room on Isis Wings but the DVD was shot in her bathroom I would still watch it. Let me amend that statement. I would still watch it if the quality wasn't a major distraction. Unfortunately the quality was terrible in this one.
    Problem one was the volume. Whoever did the sound on this, well....Miss Nadira needs to get her money back. I had to majorly adjust the sound on the talking segments ( I had the volume up to 17 at one point!), only to have to quickly turn it down on the music and dance segments, so my eardrums wouldn't get blasted out. That sucked just a little bit. Also, the first DVD had her with good lighting, just sitting there talking. I guess she was going for a more "professional " look, so this time it was dark lighting, and wierd "look here, now look here" camera angles. In the middle of a sentence she'd change camera's, and it was just plain wierd. and noticibly distracting.

Good petty shit....the girl is just plain pretty, smart and charming. and she's got some meat on her bones...... a real bellydancers body. I like that.

So a snotty thumbs up on this one, if you can get past the volume thing.