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And now Curtana fires away. I guess I'd better come up with some questions for her, too. Here we go again!
1. What is the most embarassing thing that has ever happened to you during a dance performance?
I guess the most embarassing thing would be the time I was dancing in a pub/restaurant for a man's 65th birthday party. He looked about 105. He was also about as deaf as Helen Keller, and about half as blind, too. I was decked out in full cabaret gear, and the folks couldn't get my sound system to work, so I walked right in front of him to get it going. He didn't even notice me until about two minutes into my dance, and I was right in front of him, the entire time.
When he finally did notice, he shouted, "Yeehaw! Take it all off!"
Hoorah.
I pretended he hadn't just said that, and continued dancing. Although I'd been hired to dance for him, I put more attention on the other people. They looked like they were really enjoying my performance, as opposed to the birthday boy who was just plain ogling me.
I'm just glad this sort of thing happens only sporadically.
2. If your financial situation became much more dire, would you consider becoming a stripper?
I have considered it, quite a few times. I might even do it, if the money situation was bad enough, but only if I could do it in a strange city and in disguise, where people wouldn't know about my identity as a classical Middle Eastern dancer. Too many people have the strange impression that raqs sharqi dancers and strippers are essentially the same thing. I don't want to cloud the distinction any further.
But if I didn't have to worry about such a thing, yes, I wouldn't mind. However, I wouldn't want to do private or lap dances, even though that's where the real money is. It would be just stage, cage, and pole dancing for me!
3. How do you find so many weird and wonderful links to put on your site?
My readers are well-trained.
Well, that's part of it, at least. Every day, people send me a vast array of interesting links to peruse. The ones I particularly like, I add to my site (giving credit to the hunter who bagged the URL for me).
Other than that, I go trolling for them in a few places. Either I put strange search combinations in Google, or I go looking at various interesting sites like Portal of Evil (I'm a long-standing contributer there), Cruel Site of the Day, Miss W. Tod's Tales of Gore & Gloom, Die Puny Humans, etc. I have my sources....
4. What important life lessons did you learn from growing up around many animals?
Shit and blood wash off.
The meek will inherit sweet fuck-all. You have to fight for the stuff you want.
Homosexuality is completely natural.
Life is not fair.
If you get fucked by a dog, expect to have puppies.
Ok, so I just threw that last one in there....
5. If you were offered one free plastic surgery of your choice, would you take it? What would you have changed about yourself?
I'd probably ask for a rain check. I don't think I need plastic surgery, but if I ever have to go in for a mastectomy or something radical, it would be nice to be able to opt to even things out.
I'm pretty happy about my physical shape and appearance. I wouldn't mind getting rid of that last little bit of tum pudge, or erasing a couple of wrinkles and zits, but other than that, I think I'm super fly!
1. What is the most embarassing thing that has ever happened to you during a dance performance?
I guess the most embarassing thing would be the time I was dancing in a pub/restaurant for a man's 65th birthday party. He looked about 105. He was also about as deaf as Helen Keller, and about half as blind, too. I was decked out in full cabaret gear, and the folks couldn't get my sound system to work, so I walked right in front of him to get it going. He didn't even notice me until about two minutes into my dance, and I was right in front of him, the entire time.
When he finally did notice, he shouted, "Yeehaw! Take it all off!"
Hoorah.
I pretended he hadn't just said that, and continued dancing. Although I'd been hired to dance for him, I put more attention on the other people. They looked like they were really enjoying my performance, as opposed to the birthday boy who was just plain ogling me.
I'm just glad this sort of thing happens only sporadically.
2. If your financial situation became much more dire, would you consider becoming a stripper?
I have considered it, quite a few times. I might even do it, if the money situation was bad enough, but only if I could do it in a strange city and in disguise, where people wouldn't know about my identity as a classical Middle Eastern dancer. Too many people have the strange impression that raqs sharqi dancers and strippers are essentially the same thing. I don't want to cloud the distinction any further.
But if I didn't have to worry about such a thing, yes, I wouldn't mind. However, I wouldn't want to do private or lap dances, even though that's where the real money is. It would be just stage, cage, and pole dancing for me!
3. How do you find so many weird and wonderful links to put on your site?
My readers are well-trained.
Well, that's part of it, at least. Every day, people send me a vast array of interesting links to peruse. The ones I particularly like, I add to my site (giving credit to the hunter who bagged the URL for me).
Other than that, I go trolling for them in a few places. Either I put strange search combinations in Google, or I go looking at various interesting sites like Portal of Evil (I'm a long-standing contributer there), Cruel Site of the Day, Miss W. Tod's Tales of Gore & Gloom, Die Puny Humans, etc. I have my sources....
4. What important life lessons did you learn from growing up around many animals?
Shit and blood wash off.
The meek will inherit sweet fuck-all. You have to fight for the stuff you want.
Homosexuality is completely natural.
Life is not fair.
If you get fucked by a dog, expect to have puppies.
Ok, so I just threw that last one in there....
5. If you were offered one free plastic surgery of your choice, would you take it? What would you have changed about yourself?
I'd probably ask for a rain check. I don't think I need plastic surgery, but if I ever have to go in for a mastectomy or something radical, it would be nice to be able to opt to even things out.
I'm pretty happy about my physical shape and appearance. I wouldn't mind getting rid of that last little bit of tum pudge, or erasing a couple of wrinkles and zits, but other than that, I think I'm super fly!
