I counted 120 lens flares hoops in the latest Star Trek trailer. I think JJ Abrams went a little overboard . . .
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The Shark’s Own Private Reunion
Rumors abound that seminal Indie band, Sunny Day Real Estate, has reformed with original members and is currently practicing somewhere in Seattle, preparing for a potential tour.
To me, it sounded too good to be true. Afterall, when my other beloved band, The Smashing Pumpkins reformed 2 years ago, I figured it was a lucky fluke. (Maybe not so lucky given Billy’s bitter tirades against fans and now Jimmy Chamberlein’s recent departure)
But this rumor started from a random Twitter sounded more and more plausible once put in the light of more recent comments made by Jeremy about a reunion. Sunny Day (in various forms) has broken up and reformed twice now once as SDRE, and a second time with all but Dan as The Fire Theft. Add to it the Foo Fighters indefinite hiatus . . . and a perfect storm of timing is brewing . . . and then add to it this rumor from the only respectable radio jockey in history, 107.7′s former in-crowd-dude Marco Collins.
So I checked in with a very reliable source who is very close to Jeremy. The result?
A ‘no comment *wink wink*’ response. In other words, another confirmation that Sunny Day is, indeed, back.
Hopefully we will hear official word soon.
EDIT:
More confirmation
The SDRE reunion rumors are growing . . .
The Big Picture has baby Monkies today. Best (only?) Photojournalism blog there is. Period.
Past-forward.
My grandfather’s prescient note on the increasing commercialization of Accounting, leading the way to enmeshed relationships with corporations . . . which of course paved the way for things like Enron and created a firm platform of poor accounting ethics for the current housing loan & bank crisis.
“It seems that the effects of the phenomenal growth in the profession and competitive pressures have created in some CPAs attitudes that are intensely commercial and nearly devoid of the high-principled conduct that we have come to expect of a true professional. It is sad that we seem to have become a breed of highly skilled technicians and businessmen, but have subordinated courtesy, mutual respect, self-restraint, and fairness for a quest for firm growth and a preoccupation with the bottom line.”
Taken from a speech in 1980 as the outgoing Board Chairman of the American Institute of CPAs a year before his death from cancer.
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Variegating
1. Having streaks, marks, or patches of a different color or colors; varicolored; mottled; dappled
2. Distinguished or characterized by variety; diversified.
Drew Pickard is a graphic designer employed at Pop in Seattle WA. He is an amateur photographer, a collector of Galactic Heroes, big-picture obsessor and has a lot of opinions about stuff.
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