Cinematic Arias » The Raveonettes http://ariasfilms.com/blog Hollywood native goes "Hollywood" Tue, 27 Dec 2011 18:11:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Friday Fun: Monsters http://ariasfilms.com/blog/2009/10/30/friday-fun-monsters/ http://ariasfilms.com/blog/2009/10/30/friday-fun-monsters/#comments Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:49:07 +0000 Tony http://ariasfilms.com/blog/?p=1631 Okay, so last week’s Friday Fun wasn’t as fun once you downloaded the whole album. Who knew The Raveonettes had songs about alcoholism, suicide and rape? Not me!

So, Friday Fun take two. This week: monsters!

First, some very gentle monsters I’ve already reviewed. Meet the Monsters of Folk .

And for an added Halloween bonus, Japanese kids fight a zombie.

How very 1.0 of the zombie to send a letter.

BTW, am I the only person waiting for those kids to grow up and go on a semi-automatic subway shooting spree? Oh come on, you know that one kid is gonna run around Tokyo suffocating girls with plastic wrap.

…on that note:

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

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I’ve seen The Ravonettes live twice at SXSW and while I like them, I’m not wild about their live show. What gets me juiced is listening to them while driving. This first happened after driving home from seeing Chrissy, a PhD candidate from UC Riverside that has since broken my heart twice. I hit the road around 3 AM, no one was on the freeway and my iPod was set to play my latest eMusic downloads. That’s when I first heard “Lust Lust Lust” by The Ravonettes and that terrible drive was transformed into a lone wolf’s nocturnal swagger across asphalt highways.

Now I haven’t heard the new album in its entirety but if this one song not only got me to post this but also institute a whole new subcategory of post, you’d think it’s gotta be worth it, no? FYI, thanks to Stereogum for the free MP3.

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