February 10, 2004
On Blogs and More...
A few (mostly) new blogs I'm adding to my list:
Shahrzad Sepanlou has a new blog. A talented artist from a well-known literary family who is building her own following by trying to appeal to a crowd that is not really into the LA-Style pop music must have a blog indeed. I congratulate her in making the move. Here's her latest single; Azadi (Freedom). Blog link via Hoder.
Lady Sun is back and writing in her English blog again! As she explains: "I got married, I got my English Literature masters with a high score, and I changed my job." So it's explicable that she went away for a while, but she was certainly missed and I look forward to reading her regular posts again. Particularly if she actually makes it and comes to these parts of the world too.
Saeed Madarshahi is an engineer and MBA student, attending Carlton University while in Qeshm Island in Persian Gulf. He maintains a bilingual blog and I'm sure if more of us visited his site, he'll try to post more stuff in English. Link via Haleh.
UPDATE - A late addition: Satia is a newcomer too. Let's check it out!
While I'm at it, Shadi Sadr, an Iranian activist, writer, lawyer, blogger and this year's winner of Ida B. Wells Award for Bravery in Journalism reports in her Persian blog that she has been summoned to a court in the city of Qazvin. There are no details as to what she may have been accused of or charged with, but she speculates that it is because of her speech at a gathering in a university in the city of Qazvin over 3 months ago. She spoke in support of Iran joining UN's Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). I am sure all of us will be watching this closely.
Posted by Pedram at February 10, 2004 11:59 PMThank you dear Pedram :)
Posted by: Lady Sun at February 11, 2004 07:47 AMCome on Pedram... what do you mean by "a talented artist?" Shahrzad Sepanlou is as "below-avarage" as any pop singer in Los Angeles. She is beautiful -ok, I understand that- but talented?
Actually the whole family are like her: pretending to be deep and intellectual, but always staying on the surface. Their poetry is comletely empty.
I think that Shahrzad is way better than any other LA singer. She could be as famous as googoosh. I have heard She has some jealous people in LA like Ms. Mandana .... who say bad things behind her back. But we won't give her full name away yet. There are a lot of jealous people around. :)
Posted by: Sheila at February 14, 2004 09:28 AMMan asheghe Shahrzad va Album Jadidash hastam. vaghan ke ishoon dar khanandegane zan yek estesnaa hast.
Posted by: Hamid F. at February 16, 2004 07:47 AMI love Shahrzad.
Posted by: Hamid at February 16, 2004 07:48 AMHey, "The other".
(DELETED - Rude comments and personal attacks are not welcomed on this blog. Pedram)
Posted by: Mosen Samii at February 16, 2004 07:53 AMTo the Other: I will try to answer you politely, although I don't believe that you have been polite in your post.
You obviously don't understand much about poetry or you would not describe Mr. Sepanlou's poetry as below the surface.
Jealousy exists for all artists out there, but
the audience and listeners are entitled to their
opinion. I agree that Shahrzad Sepanlou is
"below-average" and she is nothing close to
being as famous as googoosh.
No way, man, Shahrzad rulezzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. I love her.
Posted by: fred at March 30, 2004 10:01 PMShahrzad is just average and that's that.
Posted by: Mahmood at April 3, 2004 09:14 PMShahrzad may not be as famous as googoosh, but she surely has the potential to be. In the 20 years I have lived outside of Iran, I have not encountered such a wonderful and talented and unique artist as her. She is really a great singer and I LOVE her songs. And her blog too! (which I discovered here by the way, thanks ;)
I hope our other female singers follow in her footsteps and not sell themselves short!