Official News BOG, June 2004
The Residents' Official News BOG was a news blog maintained by Big Brother of The Cryptic Corporation beginning in August 2003 (originally titled The Residents' Official News Blog and Website Wrapper), following the company's purchase of the residents.com domain name from fan site RZWeb (now defunct).
Around March 2004, this blog became known as the Official News BOG. In this form, the blog became The Cryptics' (and thus, The Residents') main outlet for communication with their fans until the website's redesign in 2008.
This page collects posts made to this news blog in June 2004, as archived on archive.org, transcribed to this wiki by a Mysterious Spanish Lady.
Blog entries
Memories of Brumaila now available
Posted: Thu - June 10, 2004 at 10:52 AM
Mute Hype starts to roll
- THE RESIDENTS
- COMMERCIAL ALBUM DVD RELEASE - OCT 2004
- COMMERCIAL ALBUM RE-RELEASE - OCT 2004
- THE RESIDENTS ARE WITHOUT
- features, futures, pasts or presence
- THE RESIDENTS ARE WITHIN
- us all
- THE RESIDENTS ARE ABOUT
- music, culture, creativity and chaos
- THE RESIDENTS ARE NOT IN
- and never will be
- Mute is proud to release The Residents’ Commercial Album DVD along with a re-release of the landmark 1980 album on Compact Disc. Both products will be in stores around Hallowe'en of this year.
- In 1980 The Residents created four short films based on Commercial Album songs. Long considered as ground breaking music videos, these films are now part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Commercial Album, the DVD will both compliment and complete the project with an amazing collection of 56 one-minute films based on the original 40 Commercial Album songs. In order to produce this large number of films, in addition to themselves, The Residents have assembled an outstanding group of 42 visual artists from around the world. Working in various forms ranging from animation, live action, and puppetry to drawing, photography and sculpture, the disc is a virtual film festival in miniature. In addition The DVD has an innovative game-like interface that allows viewers to explore a maze in the process of viewing the videos. This complex of rooms contains a unpredictable series of interactive features as it reveals the 56 videos created by The Residents and their all star cast of visual collaborators.
- For those unfamiliar with The Residents, the group is now entering its fourth decade as faceless anti-stars, existing in the dim outskirts of mainstream awareness.
- During that entire time, they've consciously kept their origins and personal lives shrouded in mystery. The creation of this obviously contrived "mystery" was one of the first decisions they reached after realising that they had become a group - something they define as an organism with a mind, will and direction of its own. The essence of this decision was to aggressively create a separation between their personal and professional lives. Anonymity was, and is, their only rule. They live by it to this day.
- Since, in 1980, the nature of their music prohibited access to pop radio, The Residents originally envisioned The Commercial Album, as a reinvention of the Top Forty format. With this concept the group attempted to revolutionise the way popular music was heard. The concept behind the material is explained in these 5 points:
- Point one: Pop music is mostly a repetition of two types of musical
- and lyrical phrases, the verse and the chorus.
- Point two: These elements usually repeat three times in a three minute
- pop song
- Point three: Eliminate the excess and a pop song is only one minute long.
- Point four: One minute is also the length of most commercials, and
- therefore their corresponding jingles.
- Point five: Jingles are the folk music of America.
- Conclusion: THE RESIDENTS' COMMERCIAL ALBUM
- As well as the Commercial DVD and Album, Mute Records and The Residents plan to re-release several refurbished back catalogue items featuring occasional bonus discs, a new album in 2005, and a future filled with featureless products.
Posted: Fri - June 11, 2004 at 07:57 AM
News from Euro Ralph
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- "Brumalia Rocks" --- says Dean Brisco's 9 year old daughter, Emma.
- Euro Ralph is expecting a shipment of The 12 Days of Brumalia as soon as the cover dispute is resolved so the Euro crowd can get the CD faster (and easier) through ER. Also, I hear that the vinyl King & Eye:RMX and the WB:RMX are down to just a few copies if anyone has been putting off adding them to their collection.
- While speaking with ER, I also took the opportunity to ask about their Freak Show DVD project which was scheduled for release this fall. As you know, lead artist Jim Ludtke died a couple of months back leaving the project in disarray. Apparently the DVD was immediately shelved. The work was still too incomplete to be able to piece anything coherent together. So if you have been hoping (as I was) to see the FS DVD, it now looks like it won't happen at all.
Posted: Tue - June 15, 2004 at 08:34 AM
Brumalia attacked by CD manufacturer
- An artist's imagined re-creation of the trashing of The 12 Days Brumalia CD cover
- The forces of "put-the-X-back-in-Brumalia" rogues are at it again, attacking the joyous true meaning of December 25th. The entire run of covers for the new release were apparently trashed by the irate manufacturer in an attempt to destroy the pleasures of the ancient holiday.
- Ralph America, not to be deterred, will be sending out a limited number of copies with this disgraceful cover to the folks who ordered early so that their "Brumalia in Summer" celebrations (June 21st) will not be disrupted.
- Arrangements will be made to get them the correct and serious cover as soon as the evil manufacturer gets them redone. Others will get the new covers as well, including the shipment to Euro Ralph.
Posted: Tue - June 15, 2004 at 11:01 AM
Big Brother guilty of exaggeration
- [broken image: 12-days-coverwrongweb.jpg]
Posted: ca. June 25, 2004 (edit to prior post)
See also
External links and references
- The Residents' Official News BOG, archived June 13th 2004 by archive.org
- The Residents' Official News BOG, archived June 18th 2004 by archive.org
- The Residents' Official News BOG, archived June 25th 2004 by archive.org
