Word: dreamers
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...lucre on cash-strapped creative-writing programs across the land. "We need to support the soul as well as the mind," he croons from a two-man consulting firm in Menlo Park, Calif. What Desai actually delivers, however, is a parable about the perils of falling for a dotcom dreamer...
...says Alan Yavasis, vice president of marketing in Asia for Sony, her label since 1995. "She's more focused on what she wants and what she wants to accomplish." One project will combine rhythm and blues with Chinese-influenced vocals and instruments. "At first people said, 'You're a dreamer, there's no way you could become an international singer,'" CoCo says. "Or, 'There's no way you could release an English album.' Or, 'There's no way you could sing R. and B. and soul.' I've proven them all wrong. I want to tell my fans: as long...
...Canyon; British Columbia) and one small child finally to arrive at my destination. I was not disappointed. The San Francisco Bay Area was more than a breathtakingly beautiful place; it was a state of mind--the edge of the culture as well as the continent--that embraced the misfit, dreamer, bohemian, gay, artist, hippie, rabble-rouser types who had been flocking there in successive waves since the Gold Rush and in whose company I counted myself. My first digs were in a feminist communal household on Potrero Hill, where we shared meals, child care and feelings for a grand total...
...Unlike dream comics, which have always struck me as little more than curiosities, full of symbols meaningful only to the dreamer, the "Frank" stories have a meditative, hallucinatory feel. (The book is dedicated to Sri Ramakrishna, a 19th-century guru/mystic.) They tap into a universal unconsciousness of archetypes. But ultimately "Frank" tells one story, everyone's story, the same story as life: "How Laughably Absurd...
...these days in the locker room or on Conan. Dominant extroverts include The Politician (who is "manipulative" with a "propensity for cheating") and the Performer; submissive introverts include the brooding Mastermind and the rather pathetic Helper Who Finds Lost Children Over the Internet. A personal favorite is the Dreamer (submissive introverted abstract feeler): "reserved and imaginative, most everyone thinks you're a loser." Advice for the future? "Talk to yourself less, other people more, little shaver...