Havehome

An "above and below" view of Havehome in a backdrop from The Mole Show

**Havehome** was a fictional series of desert tunnels and caverns within a vast area of inhospitable desert (colloquially referred to as **"the Pit"**), and the ancient home of the cloaked, tunnel-dwelling Mohelmot (colloquially known as the Moles, or "hole-workers"), within the mythos of The Residents' Mole Trilogy saga, produced from 1981 to 1985.

Prior to the events of the trilogy, Havehome remained unexplored by the planet's predominant, coast-dwelling species the Chubs, until its discovery (and that of its inhabitants) by the Chub explorer Innisfree, whose eventual disappearance led to many legends among the Chubs as to his eventual fate (presumed to be at the hands of the mysterious hole-workers).

The 1981 album *Mark of the Mole* (and the 1982-1983 live tour The Mole Show) depict the Moles being driven from Havehome by a natural disaster, whereupon they are forced to march across the desert towards the sea, ultimately seeing refuge in Chubville, a coastal city occupied by largely vapid, exploitative Chubs, and commencing the generations-long conflict depicted in The Mole Trilogy.

Following the Moles' escape in "Migration" (from *Mark of the Mole*), Havehome was not again directly featured in the completed instalments of the trilogy, however the Moles' ancient culture and religious hymns were captured in the second album in the series, *The Tunes of Two Cities*, in 1982, and Havehome itself was visually depicted in backdrop and set designs seen during the first act of the Mole Show.

The name "Havehome" is phonetically similar to the title of the bastardized Mohelmot hymn "Happy Home", from Act II of the Chub musical *Innisfree*, about the fictional explorer of the same name.

## See also

* Mohelmot
* Chubville
* Elmwurst
* *Mark of the Mole*
* *Mark of the Mole* (novel)
* "Happy Home"
* The Mole Show
* The Evil Disposer
* Innisfree

## External links and references

* The Mole Trilogy at The Residents Historical
* The Mole Trilogy at RZWeb (archived via archive.org)

1. ↑ Ima Buddy, *Ima Buddy's Totally Impartial Companion to Uncle Willie's Highly Opinionated BIG MAMAS*, 1992

**Side A:** **Hole-Workers at the Mercy of Nature**
"Voices of the Air" · "The Ultimate Disaster" · "Migration"
**Side B:** **Hole-Workers vs. Man and Machine**
"Another Land" · "The New Machine" · "Final Confrontation"
**Personnel**
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The Mole Trilogy (*The Tunes of Two Cities* · Part Three · *The Big Bubble*) · The Mole Show (*Live At The Roxy* · *Mole Show* VHS · *Live In Holland* · *Mole Bag*) · *Intermission* · *Mark of the Mole* video game (Greg Easter) · *Assorted Secrets* (Res Dance '82) · *Mark of the Mole* novel (T.D. Wade) · "Mole Suite" · *Mole Box*
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**Cast of Characters**
Mohelmot · Chubs (Innisfree · The Scientist) · The ObserverDarkness · The Evil DisposerCross (Zinkenites · Kula Bocca · The Big Bubble · Frankie DuVall)
**Part One: *Mark of the Mole* (1981)**
(video game · novel)
**Side A: Hole-Workers at the Mercy of Nature**
"Voices of the Air" · "The Ultimate Disaster" · "Migration"
**Side B: Hole-Workers vs. Man and Machine**
"Another Land" · "The New Machine" · "Final Confrontation"
**Part Two: *The Tunes of Two Cities* (1982)**
(*The Comix of Two Cities*)
**Side A:** "Serenade For Missy" · "A Maze Of Jigsaws" · "Mousetrap" · "God Of Darkness" · "Smack Your Lips (Clap Your Teeth)" · "Praise For The Curse"
**Side B:** "The Secret Seed" · "Smokebeams" · "Mourning The Undead" · "Song Of The Wild" · "The Evil Disposer" · "Happy Home (Excerpt From Act II of "Innisfree")"
***Intermission: Extraneous Music From The Residents' Mole Show* (1982)**
**Side A:** "Lights Out (Prelude)" · "Shorty's Lament (Intermission)"
**Side B:** "The Moles Are Coming (Intermission)" · "Would We Be Alive? (Intermission)" · "The New Hymn (Recessional)"
**The Mole Show (1982-1983)**(*Mole Dance 82* · *Live At The Roxy* · *La Edad de Oro* · Uncle Sam Mole Show · VHS · *Live In Holland* · DVD bag set)
**Part Three: ???**
"Now It Is Too Late" · "Going Nowhere" · "Tired Old Man" · "Marching To The We" · *Mole Suite*
**Part Four: *The Big Bubble* (1985)**(fictional band · Black Shroud Records)
**Side A:** "Sorry" · "Hop A Little" · "Go Where Ya Wanna Go" · "Gotta Gotta Get" · "Cry For The Fire"
**Side B:** "Die-Stay-Go" · "Vinegar" · "Firefly" · "The Big Bubble" · "Fear for the Future" · "Kula Bocca Says So"
**Part Five: ???**
**Part Six: ???**
**Related works**
"Open Up" · "Anvil Forest" · The 10th Anniversary Show (*Assorted Secrets*) · *PAL TV LP* · The 13th Anniversary Show · *Mole Box: The Complete Mole Trilogy pREServed* ("From MOM1" · "Untitled" · "Jingle Bell" · "Another Another Land")
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