After foot hopes and dreams

An interesting thing about the Night Slugs label is that it's managed to maintain "Next Big Thing" status over the past couple of years without ever really defining what it's about. The London imprint, partly known for launching bass hotshots Kingdom and Girl Unit, employs stylistically diverse artists, and there's never been a convenient tag like "purple" or "rave-house" to pin on them. Label founders L-Vis 1990 and Bok Bok even stress this in interviews. "We've always hated any genre associations with our music and I think it's pretty impossible to label it, it's just held together by a vibe," the former said a little ways back. This slipperiness has served Night Slugs well, but at a certain point you want something a little more concrete-- what is that vibe, exactly?
Neon Dreams, the solo debut from L-Vis 1990 (real name James Connolly) does not answer this question. If Night Slugs' loose guiding principle up until now has been a colorful counterweight to dubstep and grime's murk and grit, Neon Dreams spins that idea in a hundred different directions. The record is (sometimes intriguingly, often frustratingly) all over the place. The starting point, though, seems to be pop. From the album title and M83-esque cover art to the use of guest vocalists, it's clear that Connolly is interested in making songs rather than just club tracks. And sometimes he does this really well. On "Tonight", for example, he throws some 1980s radio sheen on stuttery disco-house and winds up with catchy, retro-futurist boogie.
"Play It Cool", arguably the best song here, also fits into this pop mode. Gooey synths, heavy drama, breathy female vocals-- it nails a very specific kind of dark and dreamy electro-pop. (Worth noting that it fits comfortably alongside such 2011 standouts as the aforementioned M83, Neon Indian's Era Extraña, and the Drive soundtrack.) If Connolly had extended this format (or even this vibe) throughout the album, the rest of it may have been as successful, but instead he incorporates so, so many other sounds. There's a different style on almost every track. You've got a quirky, Chromeo-style one, some brooding instrumental ones, one where a dude talks quasi-motivationally over revved up Chicago house, and so forth.
None of these tracks are particularly bad; it's simply a case of too much. Too many songs with varying themes and no overarching vision to tie them together. It feels more like taking in a label compilation where you're hopping from one artist's style to the next, and even if that were the case I'd still probably say the sequencing is off. But it's possible that this is precisely Connolly's point-- to make something boundary-less and genre-agnostic, in line with the anything-goes Night Slugs ideology. Bass music, after all, is an ever-evolving thing, generating new sub-strains as fast as you can count them, and this corrals a bunch in one place. Still, offer a bunch of diversions instead of a clear path, and folks might get lost along the way.

Dream Poems and Poetry

 The Land Of Dreams by William Blake
A Dream by William Blake
Carlovingian Dreams by Carl Sandburg
Dreams in the dusk by Carl Sandburg
The Dream by Alexander Pushkin
I Dreamed Of Forest Alleys fair by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Dream by Louise Bogan
June Dreams, In January by Sidney Lanier
The Dream of Eugene Aram by Thomas Hood
The Captive's Dream by Anne Bronte
Dreams by Anne Bronte
Pilate's Wife's Dream by Charlotte Bronte
A Day Dream by Emily Bronte
A Dream by Helen Hunt Jackson
Love's Young Dream by Thomas Moore
Unstable Dream by Sir Thomas Wyatt
The Dream by Lord Byron
I Have Dreamed of You so Much by Robert Desnos
The Dream by Amy Levy
A Morning Dream by Li Ching Chao
We dream -- it is good we are dreaming -- by Emily Dickinson
The Dream by John Donne
The Dream Called Life by Edward Fitzgerald
The dreams by Eugene Field

Dream trip

　　
　　Above: College students from throughout San Diego gather at a college campus to hold a rally for the state and federal DREAM Acts in 2010.
SAN DIEGO — California Republican Assemblyman Tim Donnelly can begin his signature drive to overturn the DREAM Act, which was signed into law earlier this month by Gov. Jerry Brown.
Donnelly, a member of the Tea Party and founder of the Minuteman Party in California, has 74 days to collect signatures to put the DREAM Act up for a vote in November 2012. Donnelly needs to collect 504,000 signatures to place the repeal on the ballot.
At the start of his petition drive, Donnelly said the DREAM Act would come at a great cost to the state, especially at a time when universities have raised fees by 12 percent across California.
"Here we are, at a time when we have just slashed the university system by $1.3 billion, and there are fewer spots for all students," said Donnelly. "But somehow we have got that money to pay for people who are in the country illegally?"
The DREAM Act is expected to cost $13 million on its first year of implementation. But Democratic Assemblyman Gil Cedillo, who wrote the bill that Brown signed, has said the DREAM Act will help California in the long run despite the cost.

Dream life

　　
　　Created by Maria Bergström Shoulda Woulda Coulda Clock is an intersting combination of clock and organizer. It comes with color coded leather-covered magnets that can be added or removed from the clock face. Each magnet represents separate task. Completed tasks means removing a magnet, whilst incomplete tasks are automatically pushed forward into a new time segment by the single clock hand. "You can easily see what things you postpone, but at the same time it can help to create structur

I have dreamy

　　This article is about the speech by Martin Luther King, Jr.. For other uses, see I Have a Dream (disambiguation).

　　Martin Luther King, Jr. delivering "I Have a Dream" at the 1963 Washington D.C. Civil Rights March.
"I Have a Dream" is a 17-minute public speech by Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered on August 28, 1963, in which he called for racial equality and an end to discrimination. The speech, from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, was a defining moment of the American Civil Rights Movement. Delivered to over 200,000 civil rights supporters,[1] the speech was ranked the top American speech of the 20th century by a 1999 poll of scholars of public address.[2] According to U.S. Representative John Lewis, who also spoke that day as the President of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, "Dr. King had the power, the ability, and the capacity to transform those steps on the Lincoln Memorial into a monumental area that will forever be recognized. By speaking the way he did, he educated, he inspired, he informed not just the people there, but people throughout America and unborn generations."[3]
At the end of the speech, King departed from his prepared text for a partly improvised peroration on the theme of "I have a dream", possibly prompted by Mahalia Jackson's cry, "Tell them about the dream, Martin!"[4] He had first delivered a speech incorporating some of the same sections in Detroit in June 1963, when he marched on Woodward Avenue with Walter Reuther and the Reverend C. L. Franklin, and had rehearsed other parts.[5]

2010 – 2011 Show Announcements about pipedreamy

Adding Machine is an unusual, dark, and thought-provoking piece composed by Joshua Schmidt, with libretto by Joshua Schmidt and Jason Loewith. The musical is based on the 1923 play “The Adding Machine” by Elmer Rice, about an “unlikely anti-hero for the working man.” After 25 years of service to his company, Mr. Zero is unceremoniously fired and replaced with a machine. Angry, Zero kills his boss, is executed, and travels to the Elysian Fields, where he gets one more chance at love with his secretary Daisy. Ultimately, Mr. Zero must determine if his destiny is as a man, or merely a cog in the machine. Adding Machine was first produced in 2007, and made its off-Broadway debut in 2008. It was a critical success, winning several awards including the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Musical. Pipedream’s production will be the Canadian premiere of the work, with April Green directing. We are actively searching for other production team members to join us in this exciting production. Adding Machine will be presented at the Waterfront Theatre in July of 2011. Elegies: A Song Cycle is William Finn’s work about the loss of family and friends. It was written in response to the 9/11 attacks in New York, and many songs were composed in memory of Finn’s friends. This beautiful and haunting show will be directed by Mike Mackenzie and will run in September of 2011, ten years after those unforgettable events. Pipedream is very excited to be presenting William Finn’s work again after a successful run of A New Brain in 2009, and will continue to plan this production with our newest board members. We are hoping that this production can be a part of the 2011 Vancouver International Fringe Festival, and will work on making that happen when applications are available.

Dreamy Idealists are very cautious

　　Dreamy Idealists are very cautious and therefore often appear shy and reserved to others. They share their rich emotional life and their passionate convictions with very few people. But one would be very much mistaken to judge them to be cool and reserved. They have a pronounced inner system of values and clear, honourable principles for which they are willing to sacrifice a great deal. Joan of Arc or Sir Galahad would have been good examples of this personality type. Dreamy Idealists are always at great pains to improve the world. They can be very considerate towards others and do a lot to support them and stand up for them. They are interested in their fellow beings, attentive and generous towards them. Once their enthusiasm for an issue or person is aroused, they can become tireless fighters.
For Dreamy Idealists, practical things are not really so important. They only busy themselves with mundane everyday demands when absolutely necessary. They tend to live according to the motto “the genius controls the chaos” - which is normally the case so that they often have a very successful academic career. They are less interested in details; they prefer to look at something as a whole. This means that they still have a good overview even when things start to become hectic. However, as a result, it can occasionally happen that Dreamy Idealists overlook something important. As they are very peace-loving, they tend not to openly show their dissatisfaction or annoyance but to bottle it up. Assertiveness is not one of their strong points; they hate conflicts and competition. Dreamy Idealists prefer to motivate others with their amicable and enthusiastic nature. Whoever has them as superior will never have to complain about not being given enough praise.
As a Dreamy Idealist you are one of the introverted personality types. Therefore you prefer a quiet work environment where you can intensively deal with your responsibilities and are not disturbed by too many people and repeated distractions. You need a lot of time to dwell on your thoughts, to put them into words, and let your ideas take shape.
You are grateful for a certain measure of order and structure because they secure the time to achieve this so you can deal with one task after the other and not have to juggle a number of responsibilities at once - you don’t like that because it is important to you to deal with things thoroughly. Your capability to concentrate is unusually great and very often you become engrossed in something and forget everything around you - even to eat and drink.
Nevertheless, because you are very adaptable, congenial and interested in harmony and cooperation, you enjoy working together with others. A neighborhood that requires the ability to assert yourself and where direct confrontations are the order of the day is not your optimal environment. In order to permit you to fully develop your ability you need an environment that is as stress free as possible. If you can’t get that you soon suffer, because you take critique and negative feedback very personally.
You enjoy the opportunity for exchanges with other people you value and whose capabilities you respect but in this case remember the motto: Better less than more; better a few “hand picked” colleagues who truly move on your wavelength. It is best when you share the same high ideals and important objectives and together can fight for the same good cause because then you are truly in your element. If that is not the case, you do better by largely working by yourself because you belong to the personality types who can do that very well and don’t necessarily have to depend on others in order to come up with good results.
These special aptitudes predestine you for all working environments where the issue is conceptualizing, problem solving and developing new ideas. You are very creative and well able to go beyond the paradigm and choose original and unusual ways that no one before you even dreamt about. Even in complex situations, and facing difficult tasks, you confidently keep track because you are good at intuitively understanding the entire picture and extrapolating improved opportunities and development potential. Your sense for detail and the practical is less developed which occasionally leads to somehow chaotic operating methods and pretty lax contact with what you see as “bean counting.”

Dream beautiful faery

　
In the past few weeks, we've seen Lana Del Rey perform "Video Games" live on Later With Jools Holland and we've heard Jamie Woon's remix of the track. And now, we're getting another double dose of her buzzing single in just one post. First, we're taking a second to highlight her live performance in New York City this weekend. During her set, she was joined onstage by Woodkid as she was singing "Video Games." You might recognize Woodkid by his given name, Yoann Lemoine, as he's directed videos for pop stars Katy Perry and Taylor Swift. Watch the performance below.

　　As for the latest remix of Del Rey's music, the folks at Disco Naivete shared a remix of "Video Games" by young Philadelphia producer Alec Koone, aka Balam Acab. As is his wont, Koone thrusts the track into the clouds with strong elements of dreamy laptop electronics. It's got a sizeable low-end now, too, though it's difficult to focus on the booming bass when the percussion and glitches come in. Stream the remix below.

Dream is beautiful really cruel reality

　　
　　While Kamala Nair tries to make a fairy tale out of a family drama, her characters suffer from an acute identity crisis. They often seem unsure about where to belong — in the fantasy or in the reality. They grope their way back and forth, and end up existing somewhere in between. Nair might have done better with a proper fairy tale.
Rakhee Singh, for example, is initially reluctant to leave her home in Minnesota during her summer holidays to visit her ancestral estate in an Indian village with her mother. But as soon as she learns about a garden that is said to have a “Rakshasi” in it, she is irrevocably drawn to the fantasy. Much like Alice chasing the White Rabbit and tumbling into Wonderland, she chases a curiosity and lands up in an enclosed Eden-like garden where she finds an imprisoned girl, Tulasi, instead of a monster. She is fascinated by Tulasi’s unreal, solitary existence — spending all her life in the garden with a white peacock called Puck for company and with the knowledge that Shakespeare wrote only one play, The Midsummer Night’s Dream. So Rakhee decides to find out more about this “imprisoned princess”. Her investigations lead her out of the fairy tale and into a harsh reality.
But even as she discovers a long-buried secret that has the potential to ruin her family, Rakhee never really comes out of the fairy tale. She hides the secret deep inside her, almost as if she wants to preserve it, for years. If that secret were to be let out into the open, dissected, examined and logically inferred from, the image of the “yekshi” jumping into the well would become the suicide of a cousin, and the “Teacher” a maniacal woman who destroyed many lives just to cling on to the ‘family’s honour’. Only after Rakhee is engaged to be married does she feel the need to ‘confess’. “Keeping secrets had become second nature, an inheritance passed down from mother to daughter like an heirloom,” she writes in her confession.
Rakhee’s mother, Chitra, is caught in a different kind of fantasy — that of an unrequited, adolescent romance that culminated in disaster. Her thirst for this idyllic relationship takes away all her reality. But when she gets the chance to be close to her loved one at last, she shies away from the relationship and retreats into a shell. It seems in the end that she prefers the dream to the reality, and, perhaps, memories to the present moment.
Chitra’s elder sister, Sadhana, apparently a hardened and wise woman, is actually the most unreal — and unrealistic — of them all. She not only hides a newborn child behind stone walls to ‘protect’ her family from social stigma, but also brings up this child in a state of ‘purity’, secluded from all earthly influences. She grows attached to the child in an inexplicable way, so much so that when the secret is discovered and the child taken away, Sadhana gradually turns listless and deranged. The biggest lie she lives is the excuse of preserving her family’s reputation which she cooks up in order to keep the child just to herself.
Among all these fervently dreamy women, the only level-headed creatures in the story are perhaps the men. Interestingly, the men are the weakest parts of the plot. This is a story told by a woman and driven by women. In the beginning, it is the woman who is the victim. Yet, in the end it is the woman who is the ‘culprit’, waiting for years to be forgiven and accepted by society. The men are there to love the women, hate them, abandon them, give them shelter, judge them, but never to share their fates.
The characters are mostly stereotypes, although some have a unique edge. The good-bad divide is starkly apparent. Ironically, it is the arch villain, Dev, who is the most interesting character. “D-d-d-do not underestimate the v-v-villain, molay,” he tells Rakhee, “It is only for the s-s-s-sake of the story that he loses in the end. If it were r-r-r-real life, he would get what he wants. The villain always h-h-has the bad reputation, but in t-t-t-truth, he is the most misunderstood c-c-character of all.” This rare moment of clarity gives the reader a different perspective about the interplay of good and bad, real and unreal, in the novel. But the moment is too short. The endless flurry of fantasy and drama drowns it.

In the dream we are very close

　　

(Reuters) - Chanel's Karl Lagerfeld dreamt up a deep-sea fantasy world for his spring-summer collection this week, parading models between giant coral reefs and huge alabaster fish for a lighthearted show that winked at the brand's younger clientele.
In signature big-budget style, Lagerfeld created an imaginary landscape worthy of a Hollywood production under the glass roof of Paris' Grand Palais showroom, filling out the vast floor space with ash-white sand, giant twisting fish and looming plants cut from styrofoam.
The ready-to-wear presentation, a day before the end of Paris fashion week, was an homage to the uplifting power of light: whites, shimmering pinks and pale greens all conjured up the image of cocktail parties by the beach.
"It was utterly extravagant to the extreme -- lovely," U.S. actress Uma Thurman, dressed in a Chanel tweed dress and Byzantine-inspired coat, told reporters.
Angled for a younger crowd, the show mixed classical fare with trendy-looking short-cut jackets with some models revealing tattoos on their necks -- a rarity at typically laced-up Chanel.
Most commented upon in the audience were a series of bright white, uber-simple skirt suits made from a comfortable-looking, quilted material whose only decorative aspect was a few interlocking black rectangles.
"I have to get away from the house codes on purpose in order to make my way back to them, it's part of the game," Lagerfeld, dressed in dark jeans and a black jacket, told journalists after the show. "This is a departure, a diversification and an illumination all at once."
A series of see-through anoraks worn with swimwear caught the eye, while pearls -- dotted along the spine, encrusted into jacket sleeves, or in a single-string belt slung low about the waist with a skirt suit -- featured heavily.
"It's just a very fine black line, and the chain around the waist is a pearl necklace, which has moved down slightly," he said. "Those anoraks, they are good for the beach."
In the audience, celebrities fawned over the operatic aspect of Lagerfeld's show -- which typically combine an element of the stage and the concert hall with the usual catwalk fare.
"There is no one who is quite as much as a polymath as (Lagerfeld) is," said Thurman. "The show was utterly extravagant to the extreme."
Lagerfeld had invited British singer Florence Welch to provide a live musical accompaniment to the show, giving fans of her band "Florence and the Machine" a welcome surprise when halfway through the show she appeared and began to sing, accompanied by a harp-playing sea god.
"She is my favourite singer," he said. "I have just done the cover of her album. I love her voice."

Have a dream will have hope

　　With the existence of technology experts like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Tim Berners-Lee, Michael Dell and Mark Zuckerburg, children nowadays are blessed with professional devices that will never cause them to bored to death like during my childhood. However, in exchange, they will never experience what is called, A Touch of Nature, since these city kids are surrounded by high-tech accessories and gadgets that only required them to lock themselves in their lonely rooms and communicate with these cold and robotic items. Me, in my 8035th day of my life, although I have been through a roller coaster ride to get to my current status, however, I still reserve many wonderful pieces of childhood lullaby.
On this very day, my sweet dreamy valentine has squeezed his brain to the limit to create another mind-blowing piece of memory to fill up my never ending puzzle board.

　　Thanks to this year's Father's Day that fell on the same day as my birthday, I do not have the opportunity to celebrate my birthday with him on the actual day itself. In exchange, he promised to spend 2 days with me, along with a special surprise~ sweet

Life is a dreamy heaven

　　To the country of famous beautiful and sexy girl bands and handsome and cool boy bands, I will be going in a 24 hours time~ How much money had I saved just to go to this country to throw myself away from the hustle and bustle of the city, the noises from next door and the stress from work~ I feel good!
When was the very last time I blew the dust from this blog? I wonder... As there were no suitable topics available for me to write, I decide to shut myself away from this paradise, until something special floats over in my mind. Here, one of the most common golden topic I was interested in delighting my blog readers with, yours and my childhood romance.

　　I wonder how many of us actually remembers our childhood? The food we ate; the toys we played; the activities we did in order for us to pass through this once in a life time moments. As for me, I had quite a few memorable moments of my childhood life. Never was I a quiet and cute girl when I was young. I liked being a copycat and liked the taste of being praised of many kindergarten friends when I scored full marks in memorizing Chinese poems, grammar, spelling bees and other kindergarten level education. I liked being surrounded by a swam of fellow friends, being admired by a bunch of monkey boys, liked the feeling of being treated like a real Princess even though these bling bling moments only maintained till I ended my kindergarten life and entered the cruel primary life. Still, luckily I could start enjoying my primary life when my talkative character came in handy.
I love being young, who doesn't? I love being embraced by adults around me gently, who doesn't? It is just that these feelings can just be kept in the time capsule and be discovered when I grow older and older.
Below are some of the sweet items which accompanied me throughout my life~