{"id":163,"date":"2007-05-31T18:25:58","date_gmt":"2007-05-31T22:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/?p=163"},"modified":"2007-06-01T13:30:44","modified_gmt":"2007-06-01T17:30:44","slug":"pressing-buttons-every-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/31\/pressing-buttons-every-day\/","title":{"rendered":"pressing buttons every day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You may be wondering, how was the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nycpopfest.com\" target=\"_blank\">popfest<\/a>?  It was great!  I wish I&#8217;d been able to make it to more than 2 shows, but honestly just going to those wiped me out.  A huge incredible amount of work went into pulling the whole thing off, the organizers are amazing superpeople!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d only heard Bunnygrunt and Pipas before going to the shows, so it was fun to catch some new (to me) bands.  The Saturday show was HOT but fantastic: indiepop + Astroland + hot dogs + vaguely confused people walking by = fun.  Yay Scary Monster!  And seeing Bunnygrunt at Coney Island was utterly perfect.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday night&#8217;s show was also great, if a little more tiring.  <i>Seven<\/i> bands, who knew I could stay up that late?  Of course Pipas were swoon-worthy, totally worth the late night.<\/p>\n<p>But my biggest surprise of the popfest was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/bestfwends\" target=\"_blank\">Best Fwends<\/a> &#8212; where have I been all their lives?!  When you say their name out loud it kind of makes you want to punch them.  They&#8217;re 2 spazzy kids from Texas who plugged in their electropunkpop ipod and instantly had everyone bouncing around, flirting with heatstroke.  They also attracted the most random passersby of any band, including a semi-toothless grandpa-age guy dancing and throwing the devil horns.  It was AWESOME.<\/p>\n<p>Gus liked them too!  I think he was spellbound by the realization that actual grown-ups can dance crazily and sing loudly in public.  Imagine when he grasps that <i>sometimes<\/i> those grown-ups can even make money that way!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may be wondering, how was the popfest? It was great! I wish I&#8217;d been able to make it to more than 2 shows, but honestly just going to those wiped me out. A huge incredible amount of work went into pulling the whole thing off, the organizers are amazing superpeople! I&#8217;d only heard Bunnygrunt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}