#Indy Pop Con

[catbatart]

YOOOO Indy folks! Gonna be at Pop Con this coming weekend and I Got the Goods:tm: Doing local conventions is good for the soul

[fizzeepop]

We do be boppin around the Midwest this year, lads! 💕

[cozylittleartblog]

here comes the boy ~ hello boy ✨

cleaned up a couple of the vash doodles i did while learning to draw him :)

[fuckyeahelijahwoodfan]

Some favorite photos of Elijah Wood and Andy Serkis from indy pop con Indianapolis

[reckonslepoisson]

Super 8 (1994), Pop (1996), Una semana en el motor de un autobús (1998), Unidad de desplazamiento (2000), Encuentros con Entidades (2002), Los Planetas contra la ley de la gravedad (2004), La leyenda del espacio (2007), Los Planetas

Los Planetas’ arc, from noisy power poppers to south European alt-rock music titans, seemed to take barely any time at all. But that graceful ascendance, especially in hindsight, was deceptive: their prowess and staturetook time and was really very methodical. Steadily releasing an album every other year or so, first two Super 8 and Pop employed big hooks and bigger ambitions with a lo-fi, ultra-thin shoegaze sound; if these were sheets of sound, they were tin foil, ruffled, brittle, sharp. Una semana en el motor de un autobús [A Week in the Engine of a Bus] broke through – popularly, critically – with its delicate and tender noise pop, followed by consolidation with the steadily swollen pop tunes of Unidad de desplazamiento [Displacement Unit] and Encuentros con Entidades [Meetings With Entities]. Those were the peak years of power pop prowess, before the folkier diversion of Los Planetas contra la ley de la gravedad [Los Planetas against the law of gravity] and noisy encore La leyenda del espacio [The Legend of Space]. Los Planetas has released albums since, but they haven’t been a patch on these – but, then again, can any twenty-first century rock band compete with this run? I can think of very, very few with a seven-album blaze quite so prolific and substantial.

Pick(s): ‘Si Esta Bien’, ‘DB’, ‘Desaparecer’, ‘Un buen día’, ‘Mil millones de veces’, ‘Tendrá Que Haber un Camino’

[orions-beltloops]

one of these is not like the other

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After having this copy since early April, I think I can finally talk about the EXCLUSIVE limited edition Pink Lemonade hardcover that’ll be available at the Oni Press booth at San Diego Comic Con next week - I’ll have signings for this and other stuff daily! I don’t know how many, cost, or if you can get them anywhere besides SDCC.

[wild-loving-curious]

[musicandotherdelights]

Daily Listening, Day #123 - May 2nd, 2020

Album: The Con (Vapor, 2007)

Artist: Tegan & Sara

Genre: Indie Pop

Track Listing: 

"I Was Married"

"Relief Next To Me"

"The Con"

"Knife Going In"

"Are You Ten Years Ago"

"Back In Your Head"

"Hop A Plane"

"Soil, Soil"

"Burn Your Life Down"

"Nineteen"

"Floorplan"

"Like O, Like H"

"Dark Come Soon"

"Call It Off"

Favorite Song: "Relief Next To Me"

[zerounotvadri]

Benjamín Walker

Presenta

Su quinto disco en Ciudad de México

(Chile)

El concierto de Benjamín Walker navegará por canciones de corte indie pop y otras que se sumergerán en el intimismo de su voz y guitarra, momento que tocará la fibra más profunda de la audiencia.Al concierto llega con nuevas canciones su más reciente disco con una banda que lo acompañará en gran parte del espectáculo. Adicionalmente, se contará con la participación de artistas invitados que se irán develando en el transcurso de las próximas semanas.

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La cita es el

Jueves 9 de noviembre, a las 20:00 h

en el

Teatro de la Ciudad

Esperanza Iris

(Donceles 36, col. Centro Histórico, cerca del Metro Allende

[catbatart]

hello! i was at popcon and bought one of your works and i absolutely adore it! you're creative and incredibly talented and as a young artist going to art school this year, i look up to you a lot! keep doing what you do :]

Thank you SO SO much!

Going to art school is going to be tough and expensive, but you are gonna meet so many creative and cool people, I'm sure! With any luck, it's gonna be amazing and help you thrive and evolve in your work in ways you'd never expect!

Good luck and thank you again SO much for your sweet words!!!

[poprocklyrics]

Remember when I was sweet and unexplainable? Nothing like this person, unlovable.

Back in Your Head, Tegan and Sara

[jamiemarsters]

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[fuckyeahelijahwoodfan]

Some cute photos of Elijah at indy pop con Indianapolis 💕 😍

[hollowtones]

my month-late PAX West post (& a catalogue of some things I saw and did and bought in September / late August)

PAX West was very fun this year. It was my first ever PAX and it was my first convention at all in maybe a decade. Any excuse to see friends is a good one & I love hanging out with the RTVS crew whenever I have the time and money to travel. ^_^ I even got to see some friends I've never seen in person before!!! (Thank you to Jill and Evan for the "Petal Crash" pin & thank you to Taxi for stealing my name tag by accident.)

I am very shy, and I have very severe social anxiety that causes me a lot of problems in my day-to-day life, so I almost didn't go to the RTVS meetup. People there were very sweet, though, so I'm glad I did. It feels very heartening to have people come up to you and tell you what the things you've made have meant to them. It was very hard to not cry. LOL

If you stopped by to say hi, thank you very much. I've been thinking about it through all of September and smiling a lot about it. ^_^

The rest of this post is largely pics of things Puzz and I picked up for ourselves. (And a little bit of talking about some other things we did.) I thought it would be fun to catalogue them. I tend to be a little thrifty, so I got to splurge on my wife. LOL

These were mostly things we got for Puzz because I didn't want to worry about lugging things home in a suitcase. But she keeps telling me they're our things, which makes me smile every time I think about it. Some of the pins are for me. I'd like to put them on my backpack... Hopefully they don't fall off. Jackie and Dodogama are friends.

The "Chicory" bag is a bit of a funny story. Puzz and I saw the "Beastieball" booth in the corner of the indie section. Very fun demo. Very cute booth. They have cool merch! I thought I saw Lena Raine working the booth, and I got really shy & nervous about making a poor impression, so I just kind of hid behind my partner. (I wish I had said hi, in retrospect... but we live and we learn...) So we just kind of shuffle off to the merch desk and talk to a very nice man there while we pick up some things. I work up the guts to say that I really like these games and that they mean a lot to me!! The guy says, well thank you, that means a lot to me and the team. Wow! Real swell guy, I'm thinking to myself. A day or two later Puzz and I are out to lunch with some friends and I just suddenly go eyes wide & mouth agape because I put two and two together in my head and realize Oh holy shit that was Greg Lobanov wasn't it. LOL

Puzz found a cheap copy of "999: 9 Hours, 9 Persons, 9 Doors" for the DS at a retro game store's pop-up. They also had "A Bug's Life" for Game Boy Colour and a strategy guide for "Gex 3", both of which I wish I had picked up.

Mr. Basculin was a gift from Jake. Good news! Mr. Basculin is still alive.

This is all stuff that was given to me as gifts. (Aside from the con badges. They make you pay for those.) You've probably already seen the Bibi that Jake made me. "Chicken Run" was also from him. "Zapper" was from Puzz and the Gumby game (& the Bad Boe sticker) was from Scorpy. These games fuckin suck asshole!!!!!!!!! I'm obsessed with them & I'll cherish them forever. I also got a little rock and a human dog keychain.

I think Scorpy said a fan gave this to him at PAX East to pass to me eventually. I'm having a hard time reading the @ on it, but on the off-chance you see this: thank you so much. Every time I think about it I get a little teary-eyed. I want to get myself a little picture frame for it. (This is the first time someone's given me fanart like this before, and it made me very emotional. LOL)

Puzz and I only got 2-day passes for PAX, so we spent the rest of our time in Seattle hanging out with friends and seeing the sights. I don't feel like digging all the photos out right now, but we went to a really fucking nice jazz club (Dimitriou's Jazz Alley - great ambience, really good food, we saw Keiko Matsui live which was life-changing), we visited MoPOP (I hadn't been in years! It was alright! Puzz had some capital-t Thoughts about the whole place which was fun to listen to!), we rode the trains, I got a big bag of Dicks, we walked around downtown. There was this really nice coffee shop that I keep having dreams about, so I hope I can go back to Seattle soon. (Or at least eventually, next year.) Then we went to Portland for a day to say hi to a friend because the state was nearby.

Then we went back to Puzz's place in California. Then there was a major heatwave & a bunch of wildfires nearby... So we didn't have the chance to get out much in September. But that's okay. We've both been tired lately & I think we both badly needed some dedicated Not Doing Things time. It's just a shame that it was enforced by Dangerous Weather Conditions.

We got to visit some local friends and I got to try out more Bog-Standard Mediocre American Food. (Dunkin Donuts is just Tim Hortons. Olive Garden is kind of scary but the salad was really good and the breadsticks were fine. I had a middling hamburger from Jack In The Box tonight. Their milkshake was very good. I'm sure I'm forgetting others.) I went to a Macy's for the first time and the layout of the store made me have a panic attack. We went for nice walks and saw lots of nice critters and plants. I got to swim! I watched a mediocre PlayStation presentation! I turned 30 years old! Puzz took me to a very fancy and really nice Italian place for my birthday, in case you were worried that I was only eating garbage here. LOL

We got a lot of books.

Maybe too many. Also a Miles Davis vinyl for myself & some Gunpla as an early birthday gift for Puzz. And also the cookbook was a gift from family. But I'm very excited to tuck into more of these, hopefully soon. Some were for me and some were for Puzz but knowing us we're going to go "hey, I liked this one, you check it out" or "hey, I didn't like this one, but maybe you will" for a lot of them. I'm gonna start with "Annihilation" and the game essays book. ("House of Leaves" is a second copy for us, because my copy was originally Puzz's and I wanted them to be able to read it too.) I don't have room in my bags for much more than what I came here with, so we're gonna ship some of the books to each other when we're done reading.

It's been a very nice month... I feel very thankful to have a life full of love like this. I don't think I have anything else to add to this post! Thanks for reading.