The vacation to Balboa Island was awesome. I don’t think I’ll ever be able to afford one of those houses (average of about 4 million dollars.) but it sure would be nice. I’ll post more later after I’m not working and I’ve gotten enough sleep to function properly.
Expect pictures! Plenty of pictures! 
i’m getting very excited. I’m sitting at work right now and it’s approximately 5:45am. In roughly 2 hours I will be finalizing my plans and getting underway to a trip to Balboa Island. This excites me greatly. I’ve never been to Balboa Island. Quite frankly I’ve only been to southern California twice in my life I think. Should be loads of fun though, and there will be many pictures taken i’m sure, so be prepared for those upon my return.
So far the list of attendee’s include (but are not limited to) Brian (my roommate), Cassie (Brian’s girlfriend), Maggie (Brian’s sister), Danielle (my girlfriend) and myself. I think we’re going to meet Brian’s brother and his girlfriend there, but I’m not 100% sure, so who knows.
I just know we’re going to have a fucking blast. I know we’re only going to be gone from Thursday until Sunday, but still, it’ll be a great time. I’m not sure what there is to see out there, since I’m going into all this pretty much blind. I haven’t researched anything to do, or made any plans or anything. We’ll just have to see what happens. Playing it all by ear right now.
If anything insanely exciting happens out there while we’re on the road, I can post it from my iPhone. God I can’t wait. It’s about 6am now. Only an hour to go until I’m outta here! :) Woohoo!
I was very skeptical when I first started listening to this album. I’m so glad that I did though. The first track definitely makes you think and wonder about what’s going to invade your ears for the next hour or so. I’m so glad that I did listen to the full album though, because I’m now considering The Raveonettes an essential part of my music collection. You know why? Simple, because they don’t make sense.
Allow me to explain…
I never really liked ambient music, maybe because it was way too soft of a sound for me to truly appreciate, or maybe because I just never found a point to it at all other than getting messed up on some kind of hallucinogenic drug and lying in on the floor with it playing in the background watching all the pretty fireflys do a waltz on the ceiling. I don’t know, but I never really cared for it. However I always thought that if someone somehow put in a more grunge feel to ambient, or a harder tone, or even just shitloads of distortion, then I’d really fall in love with it. Well, The Raveonettes did it. This album’s sound is like an ambient raver chick having sex with Trent Reznor (in his pre-heronie days, mind you). It’s fucking fantastic.
Of course this is merely my opinion, but this album just doesn’t get old. I’m testing this theory right now actually, listening to it for the third (3rd) time through. It just hasn’t gotten boring. I could see how this would be a very selective album though, because not everybody can appreciate an artistic movement like this. To be fair, I could also see how someone would call this album very repetitive. It’s hard to tell when there’s a different song playing sometimes, but maybe that’s due to the fact that I got lost in the music and actually just purely enjoyed it. Yes the vocals are very monotone, but they fit. They just fit.
Overall, I highly recommend giving the album a listen. A single track in particular to suggest, though, would be ‘Hallucinations’ or ‘You Want the Candy’. Both great tracks and both are different in speed so you can get a feel for what The Raveonettes are offering you on Lust Lust Lust. I would post tracks or samples on here, but I don’t want to get sued, so go on iTunes or whatever music service you have and just spend the $.99 and buy a track or two. I say it’s completely worth it.
