My copy of the Mute Duck-Imo arrived and it is stunning. If you only have one copy of Eskimo THESE - well besides the 5.1 mix on DVD - this is it. Seriously.

SMELL MY PICTURE! The presale hath begunith. And you can buy it in a package deal with the re-issues of ESKIMO and DUCK STAB, and this will be limited to 150 packages that will also get the bonus ESKIMO FISH TOWEL. Really. A towel. About 11"x18", with the retro Eskimo logo on it. Pretty cool, actually. Use it as a bar towel, golf towel, finger towel if you play violin or classical guitar, or maybe yer a surgeon and it'll come in handy. Anyhow, Residents friend, faithful and fickle, head on over to www.ralphamerica.com for the good poop.

Historical page
Ralph America.com

Now in pre sale at Ralph America.

The Residents will be part of a group show of RnR art. (The Residents are SO rock n roll after all). But then look who else is showing images:
Alan Vega, Antony, Bent van Looy (Das Pop), Bianca Casady (Cocorosie), Brian Eno, Chicks on Speed, David Byrne, Devendra Banhart, Fischerspooner, Jonsi Birgisson (Riceboy Sleeps), Kembra Pfahler, Kyle Field, Laurie Anderson, Miss Kittin, Nick Zinner (Yeah Yeah Yeah's), Patti Smith, Pete Doherty, The Kills, The Residents and Yoko Ono.

The usual suspects. No Jerry Lee Lewis in sight. Curious what The Residents and Yoko Ono have been working on.

June 19 - September 14

Paleis voor Schone Kunsten
Ravensteinstraat 23
1000 Brussel, Belgium

Info & Tickets 02 507 82 00 

This summer everyone will be groovin' to the latest left-over tracks from The Residents. Eighteen phat tracks from THE RIVER OF CRIME, TWEEDLES, and THE VOICE OF MIDNIGHT that there was no room for on the original releases, or maybe just wasn't good enough to be included. Hand selected by Big Brother for the completist in any family.

SMELL MY PICTURE
Ya nose ya want it

In this moving and wildly innovative film, director Lynn Hershman Leeson tells the terrifying story of how one man's personal tragedy turns into persecution by a paranoid and overzealous government.

Art professor Steve Kurtz's nightmare began on May 11, 2004, when he awoke to find his wife Hope dead of a heart attack. Paramedics responding to his 911 call, suspicious of petri dishes and scientific paraphenalia in his house (materials for an art project on genetically modified food) contacted the FBI, and soon his world was turned upside down. Only hours after his wife's tragic death he was suddenly a murder suspect, an accused bioterrorist, and a pariah to all but his closest friends.

Told through a unique blend of interviews, documentary footage, and reconstructed scenes starring Tilda Swinton, Thomas Jay Ryan, and Peter Coyote, Hershman's critically-acclaimed film is a sophisticated, look at how the traumatic events of 9/11 altered American society and undermined its long-held values.
Extras on the DVD include: Theatrical Trailer, Filmmaker Interviews, Outtakes and Filmmaker Biography.

Subtle ambient music score by The Residents.
Available on Amazon

Big Brother, always one to want the last word, now has a new opinion page in the Historical.
The new essay is called Scars.

Buy or Die
Order Animal Lover Instrumental here:
Ralph America

It is hardly noteworthy, but I shall note it anyway. I just made a simplistic and informationally repetitive FACEBOOK page for The Residents.
If you want to visit it, you can find a link in the list of links on the right side of this page. Prepare to be underwhelmed.

Ralph America begins pre-sale tomorrow (9th) for Animal Lover Instrumental.
Ralph AM will also offer a tee-shirt bearing the cover image.

Ralph America

Mute has released The Voice of Midnight.