Official News BOG, March 2007

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 March 2007, as archived on archive.org, transcribed to this wiki by a Mysterious Spanish Lady.
== Blog entries ==
=== Hurley clothing line introduces Residents tribute t-shirt ===
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Posted: Mon - March 5, 2007 at 11:43 AM
=== Best Left Unspoken 3 now in pre sale ===
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:The third (and final) edition of Best Left Unspoken is available for pre-sale by Ralph America. This volume contains the long out of print For Elsie and many other rare pieces (see track listing below).
:Buy Best Left Unspoken Vol. 3 $16.50
:Ralph America is also running a special on the buying all 3 volumes. . . $45.
:Buy Best Left Unspoken ALL THREE VOLUMES $45
:Track Listing (62:50)
:1. FOR ELSIE (1987)
::1. PART 1  1:04
::2. PART 2  1:19
::3. PART 3  2:31
::4. PART 4  2:08
::5. PART 5  5:05
::6. PART 6  2:13
::7. PART 7  4:20
::8. PART 8  4:06
::9. PART 9  5:43
:10. NOBER (1998)  6:44 (previously unreleased)
:11. LOTS OF KNOTS (2005)  14:45
:12. ANGLE (1996)  2:44 (previously unreleased)
:13. ANIMAL LOVER SEVEN (2005)  4:10 (previously unreleased)
:14. THE FEAST OF EPIPHANY (2004)  5:39
:Information on the previous volumes can be found here:
:BEST LEFT UNSPOKEN...
:The Residents Obscure Instrumentals Volume 1
:Pollex Christi and other selections
:http://residents.com/bh/BESTLEFTVOL1.htm
:BEST LEFT UNSPOKEN...
:The Residents Obscure Instrumentals Volume 2
:High Horses and other selections
:http://residents.com/bh/bestleftvol2.htm
Posted: Sat - March 17, 2007 at 07:52 AM
=== Impakt Festival in Holland to screen videos ===
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:The Impackt Festival will screen 80 minutes of Residents videos:
:Friday 30 March, 12.00 a.m Aula Centraal Museum (Utrecht, The Netherlands)
:Saturday 31 March, 20.00 p.m Aula Centraal Museum (Utrecht, The Netherlands)
:Impakt Festival
:P.O. Box 735
:3500 AS Utrecht
:The Netherlands
Posted: Wed - March 21, 2007 at 07:58 AM
=== Gingerbread Man next in line? ===
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:Apparently the next back catalog deluxe hard bound treatment coming from Mute will 1994's The Gingerbread Man. While no one has confirmed this for me, I was told this info by a graphic artist who had been working on the new package design.
:Mute Records in London is in the process of moving their offices (their old building is being demolished) so it is impossible to get any information about this at this time. I'll let you know as I learn more.
:Historical link
Posted: Fri - March 23, 2007 at 07:56 AM
=== BOG killing readers with boredom ===
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:If you are a news blog (like me), and there is no news, what does a poor soul do. Why.... fluff pieces just to fill space, of course. So here is a bit of fluff for you.
:The best thing I can report is that no news is good news. The Residents who were blocked from their studio for a year while it underwent seismic upgrades, are happily back home. Actually they got back into the studio in the fall of '06 and have been busily writing and recording for a new album, hopefully due later this year from Mute.
:So to do my fluff piece I had to go to my auxiliary sources. Mute is usually a good place to start, but they are in the process of moving their London offices so communication links are broken or spotty. Once they get settled I'll get back to them. I did hear that Gingerbread Man is being prepared by Mute for release but I lack info on when that might happen.
:I spoke with Dren at Ralph America and they expect to have Best Left Unspoken 3 in stock any day. But you knew that already. I asked about what was scheduled next and was told that Ralph would be issuing another release probably in the summer. Dren refused to discuss it further but said that it was not going to be a compilation this time. He said he didn't want to ruin the surprise, but he was plenty excited about it. Again, not really a news item but did get my curiosity.
:Of course I called Cryptic Corp to tell them that I was killing readers with boredom hoping they would take pity on me and give me something to report. They said that The R are recording a new album (which I knew) that it was another story driven project (which I didn't know) that it is predicted to be out in September (which I didn't know) and that they were getting a flurry of offers for live performance though no decisions had been made about going live and would not be made until this album is completed (which I really didn't know). I have pretty much assumed that Demons Dance Alone was the final tour and so I was surprised that Cryptic so casually mentioned that performance was under discussion.
:So anyway, that is all I've got. No news. But at least you know that there is going to be news in the future. There seems to be plenty of stuff in the pipeline. Hang in there.
Posted: Fri - March 23, 2007 at 08:43 AM
=== Historical adds new photo archive ===
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:Recently the Cryptics opened their archive doors and we have already seen the results with the Best Left Unspoken series. An unexpected benefit was that photo and graphic files also became available. I wasn't certain what to do with this wealth of info at first, preparing it for the internet is time consuming. I finally decided to do a dedicated photo program and link to it. That will be easier to maintain and update as I have time.
:I am off to a good start. You can find the new archive here .
Posted: Wed - March 28, 2007 at 07:32 AM
== See also ==
* BOG
== External links and references ==
*The Residents' Official News BOG, archived March 8th 2007 by archive.org
*The Residents' Official News BOG, archived March 24th 2007 by archive.org
*The Residents' Official News BOG, archived April 5th 2007 by archive.org
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