Official News BOG, November 2006

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 November 2006, as archived on archive.org, transcribed to this wiki by a Mysterious Spanish Lady.
== Blog entries ==
=== Let's see.... ===
:[broken image: rocinstrumentalweb.jpg]
:[broken link]
Posted: Wed - November 1, 2006 at 12:35 PM
=== Timmy and the Jar of Peanuts (Vid16) ===
:[broken image: timmy%2d6.jpg]
Posted: Wed - November 8, 2006 at 07:14 AM
=== YouTube staff loves Timmy! ===
:[broken image: logo_tagline_sm.gif]
:[broken link]
Posted: Wed - November 8, 2006 at 08:44 AM
=== Curiosity of the week - Marlboro Residents puzzle ===
:[broken image: puzzle%2dmarlboroweb.jpg]
:[broken link]
Posted: Sat - November 11, 2006 at 09:40 AM
=== Tweedles jewel box version ===
:
:Jewel Case version conforms to bland jewel box aesthetics
:As predicted, Tweedles is coming out of Mute in two varieties, the Jewel Box and the Hard Bound book (like the other releases). This is particularly confusing if you are ordering it on-line. For example Amazon sells Tweedle for $16.97 and for $37.49 and neither "version" mentions whether it has a jewel case or is hard bound. I recommend staying away from the jewel case, it is obviously a cheap knockoff. Ordering from Ralph America guarantees hard bound as it is all they are selling.
:The CD number for HARD BOUND Tweedles is ----LCDSTUMM282---- where the "L" stand for "Limited."
:No L and it is a JEWEL BOX.
:TWEEDLES
:As we discovered in The Godfather, there are offers one cannot refuse.
:In the fall of 2005 The Residents got such an offer.
:A young gentleman in Romania had built himself a state of the art recording studio and had the wild dream of asking his favorite band, The Residents to try it out. As it happened, The Residents' own studio was undergoing a process known as seismic upgrade. In other words, strengthening the building to withstand a major earthquake. The group could not use the facility for a year.
:Fate had again stepped in and The Residents saw no reason not to have a look at the studio. The group boarded a jet for Bucharest in early 2006 with the idea of recording a couple of tracks while taking a nice vacation in a country they had never visited.  Since no ideas had been formed in advance as to what would be recorded, they felt it was appropriate to record everything during the trip, including the jet's take off.
:However, once on the plane and bored, ideas started coming and soon The Residents were roughing out an idea for a whole album.
:The group understood that their ultimate destination was not Bucharest, but a town 400 kilometers away, Hunedoara.  Hunedoara was in the area of Romania known as Transylvania, historically the home of Count Vlad III, fictionalized by Bram Stoker as the vampire Dracula.  Count Vlad III had even been imprisoned in Hunedoara for seven years. By the time they landed in Bucharest, they had outlined an album about a "vampire" of sorts.  Not a Bela Lugosi vampire, but one that feasted on broken hearts; a man who devoured the romantic emotions of others as a source of power. A man who took the stance that anyone who would stoop so low as to love him was not worth loving in return.
:As it turned out, the group fell in love with Hunedoara and as they produced their story of sexual compulsion, their impromptu recordings of street musicians, church bells and a small traveling circus soon made it into their electronic pieces. The circus had especially captured their attention with its strong Felliniesque presence. Additionally, The Residents product manager at Mute happened to be Romanian and he had connections with classical musicians in Bucharest. As a result, The Film Orchestra of Bucharest interpreted some of the group's electronic compositions and these recordings were also integrated into the new work.
:These compositions tended to focus less on harmonics and melody than their previous effort, Animal Lover, and could only be described as a patchwork of new and often exotic textures. For the group, this patchwork was the reflection of an often chaotic, but uniquely immersive experience.
:Very very new from The Residents, TWEEDLES.
:Recorded: 2005-06 Set for Release: Halloween by MUTE
: Song Listing:
:1. DREAMS 3:50
:2. ALMOST PERFECT 4:04
:3. MARK OF THE MALE 2:14
:4. LIFE 3:35
:5. ISOLATION 4:17
:6. STOP SIGNS 6:04
:7. ELEVATION 4:51
:8. FORGIVENESS 1:29
:9. INSINCERE 2:06
:10. THE PERFECT LOVER 3:30
:11. BROWN COW 5:18
:12. SOMETIMES 3:07
:13. UGLY (AT THE END) 3:19
:14. KEEP TALKIN’ 3:47
:15. SHAME ON ME 6:45
:16. SUSIE SMILES 2:36
:THE RESIDENTS
:with guests:
:CARLA FABRIZIO
:NOLAN COOK
:GERRI LAWLOR
:FILM ORCHESTRA OF BUCHAREST
Posted: Sun - November 19, 2006 at 08:10 AM
=== WHOOPY SNORP: The Residents Hour - November 20 & 25 ===
:[broken image: JAPANESE%2dTWEEDLESWEB.jpg]
:Hounen Penis Fertility Festival, Komaki, Japan
:[broken link]
Posted: Mon - November 20, 2006 at 12:02 PM
=== Timmy and the Church Camp (Vid18) ===
:
Posted: Wed - November 22, 2006 at 07:14 AM
=== WHOOPY SNORP: The Residents Hour - Nov 27 & Dec 2 ===
:[broken image: residentswordweb.jpg]
:[broken link]
Posted: Mon - November 27, 2006 at 07:08 AM
=== Timmy and the Uterus Guy (Vid19) ===
:[broken image: timmy%2d2.jpg]
Posted: Wed - November 29, 2006 at 07:00 AM
=== MySpace.com/theresidents has over 10,000 "friends" ===
:
:In the last six months, MySpace.com/theresidents has gathered 10,000 friends, almost 75,000 profile views, and over 106,000 song plays.
:Also worth mentioning... the TIMMY video series on YouTube.com has attracted some 77,000 video views.
:Now if we could just get 'em to send money!!
Posted: Thu - November 30, 2006 at 07:41 AM
=== Look at me, I'm TWEEDLES (Ralph America contest) ===
:
:I just got this from Ralph America:
:===========================
:Hey Kids,
:Tweedles Contest begins! - OKAY, for all of you who ordered the TWEEDLES
:PACKAGE DEAL, you remember that it came with a red foam nose (just like
:Mr. Tweedles has). Now is yer opportunity to show us what you can do with
:yer red foam nose...uh, yeah...anyhow, we'll have two categories: 1) Still
:photo and 2) video.
:The guidelines are simple and open ended. Use the red foam nose...and
:represent Tweedles in a very creative manner. You could put the foam nose
:on your own nose, and add some makeup, and take a quick photo, for
:instance. I have a feeling we'll see a lot of those. Or make a little
:video starring you as Tweedles. Or maybe your dog as Tweedles. Will he
:keep the foam nose on his face? Who knows...comedy ensues. It's up to you.
:And you have until Dec. 31st to get your entries in. We'll have a winner
:for each category (still photo and video).
:For photos, send them to contest at ralphamerica dot com, only spell that
:like an email address. For videos, we opened a YouTube channel
:(tweedlescontest), so go to
:http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=tweedlescontest to suggest your video
:to us, once you've uploaded your video to your own channel (please don't
:ask for tech support, we won't be much help. In fact, if you have advice
:for us on the technical side, fire away.)
:PRIZES? We will add to this list, to be sure, but right now the winning
:photo and video will be featured on residents.com as an ad for Tweedles.
:But you can be sure that some sort of rare item will show up as extra
:incentive for your hard work. Have FUN!
:We will be updating http://www.ralphamerica.com with details on the
:contest, and the YouTube channel will always be available to see entries
:once they are approved. AND STAY TUNED, as we will soon be announcing the
:presale for the next volume of Best Left Unspoken!
:the RalphGang
:http://www.ralphamerica.com
Posted: Thu - November 30, 2006 at 10:03 AM
== See also ==
* BOG
* BOGcast
== External links and references ==
*The Residents' Official News BOG, archived November 10th 2006 by archive.org
*The Residents' Official News BOG, archived November 26th 2006 by archive.org
*The Residents' Official News BOG, archived December 2nd 2006 by archive.org
Category:BOG
Category:Blogs
Category:Reference texts
Category:Residents.com