Official News Blog and Website Wrapper, December 2003

The Residents' Official News Blog and Website Wrapper was a news blog maintained by Big Brother of The Cryptic Corporation which began August 15th 2003, following the company's purchase of the residents.com domain name from fan site RZWeb (now defunct).
The blog later developed into the BOG, a dedicated news blog which was 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 2003, as archived on archive.org, transcribed to this wiki by a Mysterious Spanish Lady.
== Blog entries ==
=== Disfigured Night DVD presale ===
:
:The 1997 German performance/TV piece is finally getting some respect.
:Ralph America has announced that there are definite plans for a DVD release of Disfigured Night coming later in the fall. The disc will include the original broadcast version which was shot by VIVA (German music TV) in celebration for the Residents 25th Anniversary. Also on the disc will be a unique video remix. This was created by taking feeds directly from the cameras before the graphics were inserted to replace the green screen. Therefore the green screen could be removed by The Residents and enhanced with new backgrounds.
:This new 2003 full length (31 minutes) rethinking of the story of Silly Billy is accompanied by both a 5.1 Dolby Digital Surround mix and a PCM Stereo mix for those without surround systems. NTSC, 4:3 ratio picture.
:At this time, no release date has been announced as the packaging is still being designed. Watch these pages for a release date announcement.
Posted: Fri - August 29, 2003 at 04:40 PM
=== Euro Ralph to sign distribution deal in the USA ===
:Indie distributor, Forced Exposure, will carry European Residents releases in 2004.
:Euro Ralph and Forced Exposure have reached agreement for FE to become the USA distributor for their releases.
:Residents titles have disappeared from the shops since The Cryptic Corporation and the ESD agreement ended last year. Euro Ralph hopes to get CD's back in stores starting, perhaps, as early as January 2004 as a result of this new arrangement.
:The first Forced Exposure releases from Euro Ralph will be:
:- Have a Bad Day (CD)
:- Roadworms (CD/Vinyl)
:- George & James (CD)
:- Snakefinger (CD)
:- Duck Stab & Buster Glen (2/mini CD)
:- Commercial Album (CD)
:FE will also distribute the new Classic Vinyl Series release of "Meet The Residents."
Posted: Mon - December 8, 2003 at 07:06 AM
=== Study The Residents and earn college credit ===
:Indiana University School of Music in Bloomington to offer class
:The relevant course (presumably after studying the history of Rock music from inception through to the British Invasion and beyond) is this:
:Z320-Beach Boys, Beefheart and The Residents
:This course follows the Beach Boys from their humble surf beginnings to their mid-60's pinnacle of studio creativity, Pet Sounds. Next, Captain Beefheart whose Dada blend of Delta Blues, free jazz, rock 'n' roll, art and poetry has caused many critics to exhaust their thesaurus. And finally, the Residents have been performing and releasing music for 30 years. Their story will be told through their music and films.
:3 credits. Faculty: Andy Hollinden
:http://www.music.indiana.edu/som/generalstudies/courses.html
Posted: Thu - December 18, 2003 at 06:35 AM
=== Santa Dog in the comics ===
:Bizarro cartoon by Dan Piraro
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:Thanks to Marc Holden for sending this in.
Posted: Sun - December 21, 2003 at 11:31 AM
=== Presence for the future ===
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Posted: Sun - December 21, 2003 at 07:37 PM
=== The 1st Day of Brumalia ===
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:Partridge Pairing
:MP3
:I think I love you
:So what am I so afraid of?
:I'm afraid that I'm not sure of
:A love there is no cure for
:I think I love you
:-The Partridge Family
Posted: Wed - December 24, 2003 at 08:51 PMDecember 24th post, from a privately held website archive supplied to The Mysterious Spanish Ladies by a fan
=== The 2nd Day of Brumalia ===
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:Turtle Dove
:MP3
:“I couldn’t afford to learn it,” said the Mock Turtle with a sigh. “I only took the regular course.”
:“What was that?” inquired Alice.
:“Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with,” the Mock Turtle replied;
:“And then the different branches of Arithmetic—Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision.”
:“I never heard of ‘Uglification,’” Alice ventured to say.
:-Lewis Carroll
Posted: Thu - December 25, 2003 at 09:05 PM
=== The 3rd Day of Brumalia ===
:
:Chicken of the Oui
:MP3
:A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
:-Samuel Butler
Posted: Fri - December 26, 2003 at 07:27 PM
=== The 4th Day of Brumalia ===
:
:Calling Bird
:MP3
:ET phone home!
:-ET
Posted: Sat - December 27, 2003 at 07:56 PM
=== Problem playing the MP3? ===
:Try this while we repair the future.
:Yea, a few people have not been able to play them, and we are starting to figure it out. Here are the direct links which should work.
:01 Brumalia
:02 Brumalia
:03 Brumalia
:04 Brumalia
Posted: Sun - December 28, 2003 at 08:15 AM
=== The 5th Day of Brumalia ===
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:Golden Ring
:MP3
:Ring around the collar....
:-Whisk commercial
:Can't play the MP3? click this. 05 Brumalia
Posted: Sun - December 28, 2003 at 10:27 AMDecember 28th post, from a privately held website archive supplied to The Mysterious Spanish Ladies by a fan
=== The 6th Day of Brumalia ===
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:Lying Goose
:MP3
:Butter fat goosegirls, bounced in a gambo bed,
:Their breasts full of honey, under their gander king
:Trounced by his wings in the hissing shippen, long dead
:And gone that barley dark where their clogs danced in the spring....
:-Dylan Thomas
:MP3 problem? click here 06 Brumalia
Posted: Mon - December 29, 2003 at 06:44 PM
=== The 7th Day of Brumalia ===
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:Swami Swan
:MP3
:I will play the swan,
:And die in music.
:-William Shakespeare
Posted: Tue - December 30, 2003 at 09:25 PMDecember 30th post, from a privately held website archive supplied to The Mysterious Spanish Ladies by a fan
=== The 8th Day of Brumalia (Happy New Year, by the way) ===
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:Maid being Milked
:MP3
:I want mother’s milk,
:that good sour soup.
:I want breasts singing like eggplants,
:and a mouth above making kisses.
:I want nipples like shy strawberries
:for I need to suck the sky.
:-Anne Sexton
:MP3 giving you problems? click here 08 Brumalia
Posted: Wed - December 31, 2003 at 10:01 AM
== See also ==
* BOG
* The 12 Days of Brumalia
==Resources==
* December 24th post (PDF file, 138 KB)
* December 28th post (PDF file, 143 KB)
* December 30th post (PDF file, 140 KB)
== External links and references ==
* The Residents Official News Blog and Website Wrapper, archived December 16th 2003 by archive.org
* The Residents Official News Blog and Website Wrapper, archived December 22nd 2003 by archive.org
* The Residents Official News Blog and Website Wrapper, archived December 27th 2003 by archive.org
* The Residents Official News Blog and Website Wrapper, archived January 2nd 2004 by archive.org
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