Dance Free!
25 June, 2008 | 10 comments | Category: I.dentity, book snip, musiqa
Dancing is pure freedom! It is…completely releasing all inhibitions in an act that seizes the moment. In a
moment …you set free all nagging thoughts and nuances to sway, step, slide, twist …to pulsate! A pulse navigating out of the speakers to fuse in sync with your beat, your inner rhythm.
I love to dance… Could probably literally dance the night away, most days!
…So I thought I’ll drop 3 things on dancing into the senduQ:
~Minyeshu
Minyeshu is an Ethiopian traditional music vocalist residing in the Netherlands. I stumbled upon her when I found a flickr picture of hers looking like the lady on the senduQ header. 
She just released an album ‘Dire Dawa’ this past April and has a previous album ‘Meba’ released 2002.
I love the ^ fashion, and stage energy… She exudes joy when on stage, in dancing; a free-spiritedness that doesn’t need an entourage. Simply put: Tishekeshikewalech on stage. I like how her fashion seems deliberate. The yellow dress does not come across as stereotypical, but does a great fusion of many styles from different cultures while keeping the flare of a traditional touch.
More than the music, which to me isn’t incredibly, incredibly original. Though her music uses notable full-on acoustics and makes a great and enjoyable attempt at fusion (of sounds from within and beyond Ethiopia) just like her attire…I like that she expresses a different take on the diversity that is Ethiopia …and that she pays homage to the best treasure jewel in the harur valley – Dire. (more…)
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I dare you to…
20 June, 2008 | 2 comments | Category: madness!
this is a message from the ibdoch who sponsored the banner below on the red line underground metro in DC. please and thank you.
Go do something youseful today. Sprinkle some maddness in this mad world!
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Hand-tied: pulse of the horn
13 June, 2008 | 7 comments | Category: peace & conflict, thinking...
* A ridiculous inflation in Ethiopia (at 87% by some accounts) that’s got the price of food costing above most people’s wages: skyrocketing escalation of insane standards of living* Another green drought in Ethiopia with 4.5mil people needing emergency aid + hunger due to food prices in the towns (I’ve heard of govn’t job holders eating Qolo and water)! + blackouts in the cities
* Scattered explosions in Addis Ababa * Djibouti and Eritrea about to start a war, Djibouti backed by France * Ethiopian soldiers burning towns and villages in the Somali region * Continued fighting in Somalia, Ethiopian soliders occupying the country
and the list goes on…
I feel completely hand-tied sometimes! Like that time there was this group activity thingie where everyone had their eyes blinded or hands tied to test drive a disability.
Sometimes I feel rage, this bubbling anger at the brutality people allow for their luxurious, ridiculous pleasures. I want to screammm, yell at them! Harass them into submission! Something!
Sometimes the corners of my eyes sparkle with unshed tears, my heart so freaking heavy and jaws clenched that it hurts below my ears… some other time I just can’t help it and I chuckle at the heartbreaking predictability and absurdness of the events in the horn!
The horn of Africa is in flames (ha!…who knew keratin could be so flammable? hu?! lol) the Horn is an incomprehensible, unfathomable mess beyond all limits I knew! It is such a hot, smoking mess that it mad sitting and contemplating it, especially chatting along with others about ‘ohhh this freaking government!!’ or some other forsaken issue we try to solve…! (more…)
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On History, Theatre & other bollocks
2 June, 2008 | 1 comment | Category: nostalgia.personal, peace & conflict, thinking...
I watched the play ‘the history boys‘ recently. This is what I kept thinking:
“theatre, history…tarik, teret…art, historic records.. history, literature…facts, stories”
hmmm….you hear the sound of the beats, the clashes? contradictions? cymbals? or trombones sounding in the history books?:)
Ah Well…Let me go off on a tangent!
Indeed there are…clashes between the vagaries within theater houses in addis ababa & the district of columbia! Though, one Thursday night these two geographic dimensions merged in my head as history echoed in the dupont theater halls resounding truth about Ethiopia. The remnant echoes: “history is always according to somebody’s perspective.”
…but wouldn’t that mean: history is based on some perspective and context, making fact arguable according to other perspectives and contexts …and History, Bollocks? (according to Posner in the play: History could be explained AWAY!) (more…)
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