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February 26, 2007
Cool Music
Since O-Hum got famous a few years ago, Iranian "rock" music has become better and better. I already am a fan of Kiosk, who I think are one of the best bands in general, and have made many people buy their CD.
Now, while I am busy with my dissertation prospectus, I have looked around the 'net for newer Iranian music (as I find the current pop music scene in the US and Europe quite uninteresting and keep on listening to my old Queen and REM and Pink Floyd CDs!). Among these have been two bands/performers. One is called Abjeez, a funny duo of sisters with a Spanish/Swedish backing band who sing in Persian. The other is Laleh, an Iranian girl raised in Belarus, Germany, and Sweden who sings mostly in Swedish and English, and I have become quite obssessed with some of her songs. From Abjeez, check out "Eddeaa" and its video on their video sectiol. From Laleh, my favourites are "Storebror" (big brother) and Live Tomorrow, again, both in her Video section...
Posted by Khodadad at 12:28 AM | Comments (3)
February 16, 2007
Tortoise
Not just for answering back, but also because of a genuine desire to open a healthy conversation about the Arab invasion of Sasanian Iran, I wrote two articles for the Iranian.com (this and this). I was really excited and very frankly happy that the person who wrote the original works had bothered to enquire about this issue. I personally believe that the Arab invasion of Iran is at the root of the inferiority complex from which most Iranians suffer. In any case, although I find the views expressed by the original author to be out-dated and potentially even more damaging to the aforementioned Iranian psyche, I was quite honest about my praise for his efforts.
Sadly, he has taken it all wrong, and worse yet, instead of choosing the same forum in which we had both written our essays to continue the debate, he has prefered to sit around and gossip about me and say unpleasant things. He has even taken it upon himself to make a slightly unpleasant remark about me and a very good friend of mine in another place where he publishes his many and frequent works. He called me a "young scientist-y" for which I am unduly flattered, seldom offended. Being young, methinks, should not be taken as a reason for dismissing what I say since if that was the case, the tortoise and the crow would have known better than all of us indeed!
Anyway, forget about the unpleasantries and read this farce about the Charlemagne that I wrote!
Posted by Khodadad at 10:43 PM | Comments (2)