Official News BOG, December 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 December 2004, as archived on archive.org, transcribed to this wiki by a Mysterious Spanish Lady.
Blog entries
Mute to release new Residents album
- Animal Lover set for February release
- THE RESIDENTS
- BRAND NEW ALBUM RELEASE
- ANIMAL LOVER - OUT 14th FEBRUARY 2005
- "Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate in their object-relations." - Sigmund Freud
- The Residents have announced details of a brand new album, their first for Mute, to be released on Valentine's Day 2005. "Animal Lover" follows the 25th Anniversary re-release of the Commercial Album in the Autumn of 2004.
- When Charles Darwin first proposed in the late 1800's that homo sapiens had evolved from and were in fact a species of animal, many humans were horrified. Humans had an unusual need to feel superior, something their fellow animal associates had never quite understood. When Sigmund Freud, a few years later, destroyed the accepted opposition between sanity and madness by locating "normality" on a sliding scale, the poor humans were even more shocked. Taking a step beyond Darwin, Freud believed that the human was an animal in conflict, and informing the human of that very simple concept seemed to only increase the conflict.
- In The Residents' "Animal Lover", the creatures who don't really mind if they are animals take an existential look at the upright animal whose normality is sliding toward the wrong end of the spectrum. The human beasts live in a world of primal darkness, their heads forever stuck in the ground like frightened ostriches living in a constant murky dream state.
- In creating this picture book of animal tales, The Residents wanted to include a soundtrack that related directly to "animal love." The result is an imaginative CD whose rhythm tracks are based entirely on animal noise mating patterns generated primarily by cicadas and frogs. Also the actual sounds of mating whales and humans were used for longer tonal passages. They weren't mating with each other, by the way.
- So the world is filled with tubular entities. Food goes in one end and shit comes out the other. Sperm goes in and babies come out. It's all we've got. That and love.
- Animal Lover is released on Mute on 14th February 2005.
Posted: Mon - December 6, 2004 at 06:23 AM
KRVS December 11 and 13
- WHOOPY SNORP: The Residents Hour - December 11 & 13
- Featured will be "The Replacement", a four-part piece originally issued on the 1979 Ralph Records compilation, SUBTERRANEAN MODERN. Also: music recorded for the intros, breaks and closings for The Mole Show collected on the album known as INTERMISSION.
- KRVS is slowly getting back to a sense of normalcy in the aftermath of the lightning strike.
- The webstream is back to full strength. However, a humming coming from the production board left producers with the inability to make a new program for last monday.
- Because of this and the fact that the show will be pre-empted on Saturday morning, the 25th (for some Jesus reason), new episodes will be aired on the Saturday mornings for the next couple of weeks only. This will allow Europe and all points East to hear a broadcast of our Holiday program in advance of said Holiday.
- WHOOPY SNORP:
- The Residents Hour
- Every Monday in the USA
- Internet Radio: www.krvs.org
- Monday
- Midnight- East Coast
- 11pm/23- CST
- 9pm/21- West Coast
- and
- Tuesday
- 4 pm /16 - Sydney
Posted: Tue - December 7, 2004 at 04:59 PM
Commercial DVD screening in Huntington NY
- THE RESIDENTS COMMERCIAL DVD
- Date: Wednesday, February 9
- Time: 7:15pm
- Place: Cinema Arts Centre
- 423 Park Avenue
- Huntington, NY 11743
- [redacted]
Posted: Tue - December 7, 2004 at 05:12 PM
December 25
- MR. Bee's Bumble (sample)
Posted: Sun - December 26, 2004 at 02:57 PM[1]
December 26
- "The zoo had closed several hours earlier and the tiger was sleeping when she heard an odd noise - a scratching, scrambling sound, accompanied by grunts and groans. Curious, she rose from her bedding and gravitated towards the noise, somewhere near the front of the cage"
- On the Way (to Oklahoma) (sample)
Posted: Sun - December 26, 2004 at 03:00 PM [2]
December 27
- "The little animal wondered what kind of treat she would get today. Most humans think mice like cheese, but the young woman knew better."
- Inner Space (sample)
Posted: Sun - December 26, 2004 at 08:27 PM[3]
December 28
- "The street was alive with tension ...tension he should be avoiding, but still, it grabbed and pulled him, compelling the dog right to the edge of a nasty and jeering mob."
- Olive and Gray (sample)
Posted: Mon - December 27, 2004 at 10:11 PM[4]
December 29
- "The small flying mammal found one group of humans to be especially fascinating. They were always out late, always absorbed in a world of unknown behavior and always lit by the largest flames."
- The Whispering Boys (sample)
Posted: Tue - December 28, 2004 at 08:16 PM[5]
December 30
- "Here he comes again. He’s coming, he’s coming ...no he walked on past. He was pacing, grumbling, sighing, staring at the sky ...and looking at the pigeon ...a lot."
- My Window (sample)
Posted: Wed - December 29, 2004 at 07:11 PM[6]
December 31 - New Years Eve
- "But beyond the lawn and its surrounding flower beds, the ant knew nothing of the human’s existence. The small creature had no idea what went on inside the big house, or how the man earned his income, or what he ate for dinner, but the tiny animal easily recognized the acrid odor of change, and the odor was in the air."
- Two Lips (sample)
Posted: Thu - December 30, 2004 at 10:21 PM[7]
January 1 New Years Day
- "The owl had no use for the inedible chunks of refuse the humans referred to as food, but the mice loved it. And the owl loved mice."
- Dead Men (sample)
- Well, folks... that is the end of our sneak look at 8 of the 15 tunes on this difficult to categorize project. You'll just have to wait until next month to see the 52 page book and CD that The Residents call ANIMAL LOVER.
- Happy 2005 from BOG
- PS: Thanks to Mute and The Cryptic Corporation
Posted: Fri - December 31, 2004 at 05:32 PM[8]
See also
Resources
- December 26th post (1) (PDF file, 61 KB)
- December 26th post (2) (PDF file, 77 KB)
- December 26th post (3) (PDF file, 76 KB)
- December 27th post (PDF file, 75 KB)
- December 28th post (PDF file, 76 KB)
- December 29th post (PDF file, 76 KB)
- December 30th post (PDF file, 89 KB)
- December 31st post (PDF file, 88 KB)
External links and references
- ↑ "December 25" post, from a privately held website archive supplied to The Mysterious Spanish Ladies by a fan
- ↑ December 26th post, from a privately held website archive supplied to The Mysterious Spanish Ladies by a fan
- ↑ "December 27" post, from a privately held website archive supplied to The Mysterious Spanish Ladies by a fan
- ↑ December 27th post, from a privately held website archive supplied to The Mysterious Spanish Ladies by a fan
- ↑ December 28th post, from a privately held website archive supplied to The Mysterious Spanish Ladies by a fan
- ↑ December 29th post, from a privately held website archive supplied to The Mysterious Spanish Ladies by a fan
- ↑ December 30th post, from a privately held website archive supplied to The Mysterious Spanish Ladies by a fan
- ↑ December 31st post, from a privately held website archive supplied to The Mysterious Spanish Ladies by a fan
