Official News Blog, August 2007

The Residents' Official News Blog was a news blog maintained by Big Brother of The Cryptic Corporation beginning in August 2003, previously known as the Official News BOG (or simply BOG) until April 2007. 
The BOG 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 August 2007, as archived on archive.org, transcribed to this wiki by a Mysterious Spanish Lady.
== Blog entries ==
=== Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art show to include Residents video ===
:Rock video is old enough now to qualify as art.  
: The Third Reich 'N' Roll video is still controversial even after thirty years.  Exactly "why" has never been particularly clear to me, but that fact has help lift it into the select group of bona fide video art pieces.
:The Chicago Museum of Contemporatry Art exhibit is called Sympathy for the Devil and opens September 29th and runs to January 6th, 2008.  Then it moves to Miami.
Posted: Friday - August 10, 2007 at 05:45 PM
=== San Francisco Video Retrospective Delayed to December ===
:Screening to highlight newly finished video
:The Residents want to show a new video but it won't be finished until November so the screening has gotten bumped into December.  At least that is what Cryptic is saying.  Exact days have not yet been set, they will be posted here as soon the info is released. 
:The Residents launched their 35th anniversary last October with a video retrospective at MoMA in NY, and now they will be finishing the anniversary with one in San Francisco.
Posted: Saturday - August 11, 2007 at 11:29 AM
=== Compact Disc celebrates 25th Anniversary ===
:Today in 1982, first CD introduced
:Doesn't have anything to do with The Residents... God in 3 Person, their first CD, came out in 1988 when The Residents signed with RYKO Disc.  But when you consider that up until that time music came from discs by dragging a needle in a groove on a piece of plastic, you can figure it was really like ... well ... like using an iPod today when you used to have to play CD's.
:The point being that it was a revolution.  And if you think that is not true just look at that 5" disc not only playing music but advancing on to DVD and high def DVD, Video game distribution, actually software distribution in general.  That sucker is everywhere now.  Every computer burns CD's.
:The Residents were transformed by digital media and they appreciate that little round piece of plastic everyday.
Posted: Thursday - August 16, 2007 at 08:10 AM
=== Big Brother disappearing ===
:No new video planned for a week
:[broken link]
Posted: Wednesday - August 29, 2007 at 12:25 PM
== See also ==
* BOG
== External links and references==
*The Residents' Official News Blog, archived August 17th 2007 by archive.org
*The Residents' Official News Blog, archived August 31st 2007 by archive.org
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