Official News BOG, January 2005

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 January 2005, as archived on archive.org, transcribed to this wiki by a Mysterious Spanish Lady.
==Blog entries==
=== 2004 ===
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:The Annual Hindsight Report
:At this time last year all of you were still dancing to the Brumalia hits that appeared everyday and continued through the sixth of January. Certainly a good way to get a running start on a year that, perhaps, produced more releases than any previous year in the group's 32 year history. Although no new Residents album came out, I count five CD releases and two DVD's. And of the CD's all but one, The Commercial Album, was either unreleased or remixed music. Wow.
:The biggest surprise had to be WB:RMX which appeared without warning last January. And that even spun off the 12" remix of the remix of Baby Skeletons and Dogs (and Bijou). And then came RMX # 2, the remix of The King and Eye by Paralyzer. Somewhere in there, the long delayed Disfigured Night DVD finally made an appearance.
:The Residents signed with Mute Records who agreed to release the Commercial Album CD with a special 25th Anniversary package and an imaginative DVD to go with it, The Commercial DVD.
:But all did not go smoothly for DVD's. Long time friend and collaborator, Jim Ludtke died in March while working on the planned Freak Show DVD.
:The fall of 2004 was primarily focused on the release of the Commercial Album CD and DVD, though another nicely packaged CD also slipped out, I Murdered Mommy.
:And in December it became obvious that The Residents had been in the studio for much of 2004 recoding an ambitious new album, Animal Lover. As Brumalia rolled around again, your own BB obtained permission from Mute and The Cryptic Corp to show off some graphics and some musical bits.
:And that got us to here.
:BUT WHAT ABOUT TOMORROW....
:The easy ones: Animal Lover will be released in February. The Residents will play a few festivals in Australia in March. Mute will release a few more back catalog titles during the year.
:The hard questions have no answers. The Residents are very closed mouth about what they plan to do after Australia. They have turned down a European tour for spring. That certain means that they have other plans, but what??? When asked, they just smile mischievously.
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Posted: Sat - January 1, 2005 at 09:10 AMJanuary 1st post, from a privately held website archive supplied to The Mysterious Spanish Ladies by a fan
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Posted: Sat - January 15, 2005 at 11:02 AM
===Mute filling record vacuum===
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:Mute has started work creating the vinyl versions of The Commercial Album and Animal Lover. Apparently the vinyl will be contained in a cardboard "sleeve" approximately 12" square. No details available yet.
Posted: Mon - January 17, 2005 at 09:43 AM
=== San Francisco Independent Film Festival ===
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:'Talk of Creatures' by Bulk Foodveyor and 'Margaret Freeman' by Niffer Desmond
:7th Annual San Francisco Independent Film Festival
:February 7 @ 9:30
:Roxie Cinema
:February 12 @ 2:30
:Oakland
:February 13 @ 9:30
:Women's Building
:[redacted]
:'Margaret Freeman' by Niffer Desmond and 'Talk of Creatures' by Bulk Foodveyor will be appearing in a program of shorts at the 7th annual San Francisco Independent Film Festival in a program of shorts (which will show 3 times) entitled 'Munch on This.' More info here:
:http://www.sfindie.com/indiefest05/films/munch_on_this.htm
Posted: Tue - January 25, 2005 at 04:44 PM
==See also==
*BOG
==Resources==
* January 1st post (PDF file, 104 KB)
==External links and references==
*The Residents' Official News BOG, archived February 9th 2005 by archive.org
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