Official News BOG, October 2006
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 October 2006, as archived on archive.org, transcribed to this wiki by a Mysterious Spanish Lady.
Blog entries
The Residents' MoMA Retrospective
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- The Residents will screen about 270 minutes of video from the group's last 35 years at New York's Museum of Modern Art starting October 19th. Hardy Fox and Homer Flynn from The Cryptic Corporation will introduce the videos on the 19th and 20th.
- Six favored videos from the Residents/MoMA Community Art project will be screened at the 6 and 8:30 screenings on the 19th. Three before the retrospective and Three afterwards.
- Program 1 Thursday, October 19, 6:00
- Program 2 Thursday, October 19, 8:30
- Program 3 Friday, October 20, 6:00
- Repeats
- Program 1 Saturday, October 21, 2:00
- Program 2 Sunday, October 22, 6:00
- Program 3 Sunday, October 22, 4:00
Posted: Mon - October 9, 2006 at 01:25 PM
River of Crime 2/CD set
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- Cordless has announced, though with information on the skimpy side, that a "limited edition" 2/CD set will be released on November 4th.
- Disc one will contain the 5 episodes.
- Disc two will contain a 50 minute instrumental of the music from River of Crime.
Posted: Wed - October 11, 2006 at 07:29 AM
Wall Street Journal and the MoMA show
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- These are still shots from two of the (often eerie) videos selected as finalists for a Museum of Modern Art exhibit
- Check out the WSJ coverage of the upcoming MoMA Residents screenings.
Posted: Fri - October 13, 2006 at 06:55 AM
Tweedles coming in two product versions
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- Are you Hard?
- Or are you Jeweled?
- Looks like Tweedles is coming out of Mute in two varieties, the Jewel Box and the Hard Bound book (like the other releases).
- Squeezed information has told me that the CD number for Tweedles is ----LCDSTUMM282---- where the "L" stand for "Limited." That means it is HARD BOUND. No L and it is a JEWEL BOX. But this is a European product number so I don't know about the USA or other territories. Still digging for info.
- Rumor is that only Hard Bound versions are coming to the USA.
- As we discovered in The Godfather, there are offers one cannot refuse.
- In the fall of 2005 The Residents got such an offer.
- A young gentleman in Romania had built himself a state of the art recording studio and had the wild dream of asking his favorite band, The Residents to try it out. As it happened, The Residents' own studio was undergoing a process known as seismic upgrade. In other words, strengthening the building to withstand a major earthquake. The group could not use the facility for a year.
- Fate had again stepped in and The Residents saw no reason not to have a look at the studio. The group boarded a jet for Bucharest in early 2006 with the idea of recording a couple of tracks while taking a nice vacation in a country they had never visited. Since no ideas had been formed in advance as to what would be recorded, they felt it was appropriate to record everything during the trip, including the jet's take off.
- However, once on the plane and bored, ideas started coming and soon The Residents were roughing out an idea for a whole album.
- The group understood that their ultimate destination was not Bucharest, but a town 400 kilometers away, Hunedoara. Hunedoara was in the area of Romania known as Transylvania, historically the home of Count Vlad III, fictionalized by Bram Stoker as the vampire Dracula. Count Vlad III had even been imprisoned in Hunedoara for seven years. By the time they landed in Bucharest, they had outlined an album about a "vampire" of sorts. Not a Bela Lugosi vampire, but one that feasted on broken hearts; a man who devoured the romantic emotions of others as a source of power. A man who took the stance that anyone who would stoop so low as to love him was not worth loving in return.
- As it turned out, the group fell in love with Hunedoara and as they produced their story of sexual compulsion, their impromptu recordings of street musicians, church bells and a small traveling circus soon made it into their electronic pieces. The circus had especially captured their attention with its strong Felliniesque presence. Additionally, The Residents product manager at Mute happened to be Romanian and he had connections with classical musicians in Bucharest. As a result, The Film Orchestra of Bucharest interpreted some of the group's electronic compositions and these recordings were also integrated into the new work.
- These compositions tended to focus less on harmonics and melody than their previous effort, Animal Lover, and could only be described as a patchwork of new and often exotic textures. For the group, this patchwork was the reflection of an often chaotic, but uniquely immersive experience.
- Very very new from The Residents, TWEEDLES.
- Recorded: 2005-06 Set for Release: Halloween by MUTE
- Song Listing:
- 1. DREAMS 3:50
- 2. ALMOST PERFECT 4:04
- 3. MARK OF THE MALE 2:14
- 4. LIFE 3:35
- 5. ISOLATION 4:17
- 6. STOP SIGNS 6:04
- 7. ELEVATION 4:51
- 8. FORGIVENESS 1:29
- 9. INSINCERE 2:06
- 10. THE PERFECT LOVER 3:30
- 11. BROWN COW 5:18
- 12. SOMETIMES 3:07
- 13. UGLY (AT THE END) 3:19
- 14. KEEP TALKIN’ 3:47
- 15. SHAME ON ME 6:45
- 16. SUSIE SMILES 2:36
- THE RESIDENTS
- with guests:
- CARLA FABRIZIO
- NOLAN COOK
- GERRI LAWLOR
- FILM ORCHESTRA OF BUCHAREST
Posted: Mon - October 16, 2006 at 08:10 AM
Music Week (UK) offers first review of TWEEDLES
- "... another journey through the wonderful and frightening world of The Residents..."
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Posted: Mon - October 16, 2006 at 04:30 PM
WHOOPY SNORP: The Residents Hour Oct. 16 & 21
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- WHOOPY SNORP: The Residents Hour
- October 9th & 14th, 16 & 21
- www.krvs.org
- FALL FUNDRAISER 2006
- Then join us on the 16th and the 21st as Public Radio KRVS asks for your support in our Fall Fundraiser. Please consider supporting the station that helps spread the gospel of The Residents twice weekly to the World!!!
- WHOOPY SNORP is aired twice weekly on KRVS:
- Mondays: Midnight (East Coast), 11pm (Central Standard), 9pm (West Coast)
- Saturdays: 4am (East Coast), 3am (Central Standard), 1am (West Coast)
Posted: Tue - October 17, 2006 at 07:00 AM
Curiosity of the week -Atari game cart
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- It is easy to assume that The Residents first entry into interactive media was the CDRom of Freak Show, but it is not even close to true. Here is a rare, if not one of a kind, game cart for the Atari 2600 for a Mark of the Mole video game. The game was never completed but this playable chip set lets one control Moles as they dig out musical notes from their underground lair. And yes, you don't have a lot of time as the storm clouds are building overhead.
Posted: Tue - October 17, 2006 at 07:30 AM
Timmy and the Frozen Burrito (Vid13)
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- Yes, folks Timmy is back with an all new vid series. Catch it weekly on YouTube. It's from The Residents and it's FREE.
Posted: Tue - October 17, 2006 at 04:00 PM
ROC 2/CD actual copy
- Cordless was selling copies of the limited edition 2/CD set of River of Crime at MoMA over the weekend. Here is a photo of a real one.
- As expected....
- Disc one contains the 5 episodes.
- Disc two contains a 50 minute instrumental version of the music from River of Crime.
- The instrumental disc is restricted to this release and will otherwise only be available s a download on iTunes, etc.
- Release is set for Nov 4th.
Posted: Mon - October 23, 2006 at 07:33 AM
TWEEDLES tunes on MySpace
- A couple of tracks are now on MySpace.
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Posted: Mon - October 23, 2006 at 10:46 AM
Improve the taste of food just as you improve the taste of music
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- WITH RESIDENTS
- At least you could if these salt and pepper babies were not custom made.
- Thanks to Washo for the photo.
Posted: Mon - October 23, 2006 at 03:08 PM
Curiosity of the week -miniature "Miniatures"
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- One of the areas that I just can't get into for the HISTORICAL because of the vast amount of work for little importance, is the area of the "contribution." This is when The Residents have one track on a compilation of songs by many different people. A discography like the very excellent BACH IS DEAD will give you more insight into this world.
- http://www.theresidents.co.uk/discography/disccomp.html
- But one project does stand out. Miniatures was a 1979 idea to have people record short songs. The Residents were working on The Commercial Album which already was a collection of short songs, so they decided to do a medley in one minute instead of a song in one minute. The song mashed The Ramones "We're a Happy Family" with "Bali Hi" from the Broadway show, South Pacific.
- The project came out as an LP as you would expect, but it also came out in a limited edition of 100 of a micro-cassette with slides of the cover and art. Here is a promo of the micro that I found in the Cryptic archives.
Posted: Sat - October 28, 2006 at 07:30 AM
Tweedles arrives in (some) stores
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- The Residents Present Tweedles!, MUTE
- Reviewed by Andy Gill
- Published: 27 October 2006 - THE INDEPENDENT (London)
- Recorded at the invitation of a rich Romanian fan in his new studio, Tweedles! is The Residents' idea of a vampire story: not the bloodsucking kind, but a ruthless lover who preys on innocent souls - a sexual predator who also happens to be a clown called Tweedles. But of course. The result is a psychodrama of sexual compulsion that doesn't baulk at the psychopathic connotations of Tweedles's lack of empathy (he fantasises about being a serial killer; lest we forget, John Wayne Gacy worked as a children's clown entertainer), although its unflinching darkness may render it even tougher to engage with than previous Residents albums. The warped, otherworldly tone of their music, with its peculiar dialectical conflicts of comedy, tragedy and horror, is perfectly in keeping with such material; it's augmented here by locally recorded Romanian street musicians, church bells and even a travelling circus, and there are bleakly hysterical interjections by the Film Orchestra of Bucharest. Uneasy listening - and that's without even considering the risqué sleeve design...
Posted: Mon - October 30, 2006 at 09:45 AM
Evil clowns
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Posted: Tue - October 31, 2006 at 07:32 AM
See also
External links and references
- The Residents' Official News BOG, archived October 18th 2006 by archive.org
- The Residents' Official News BOG, archived October 25th 2006 by archive.org
- The Residents' Official News BOG, archived November 10th 2006 by archive.org
