official archived news 2005

JUNE/JULY 2005 fork news

hello forks - here is your june/july news...

2 NEW RELEASES (info in the 'for sale' section): SPOONBENDER 1.1.1 live in SF (ultra-limited hand-packaged cd-r), and the HYPNOTIC TRANCE PAMPHLET card set. don't snooze- these are very, very limited!

NEW SONG and VIDEO UP NOW! ever/never seen I AM SPOONBENDER LIVE? take in 'THE DRUG COMPANIES DID A GOOD JOB', taken from the forthcoming 'HIDDEN PERSUADERS' CD. in the 'moving pictures' section.

IN THE TOP 10. the may issue of AP magazine has a large story on the history of synthesizers in rock music, and lAS' SENDER/RECEIVER is named as one of the 'top 10 most influential synth-rock records ever released'. recordings by DAVID BOWIE, GARY NUMAN, NINE INCH NAILS and DEVO are also in this list. DUSTIN is interviewed in the article. thanks to all who voted!

DUSTIN's 'coincidence' of the month: woke up late, with BLUE OYSTER CULT's "flaming telepaths" in my head for some reason. gotta get to the studio. scrambling. humming "flaming", and trying to get a second to throw it on the stereo... no time. call a cab. humming "flaming". grab the 'secret treaties' album. as i'm putting it on, the phone rings- it's the robot at the cab company saying "your cab will arrive in . .. ONE . .. minute '. forget the song, grab my notebook, head out the door. sitting on the porch, waiting. the cab is late, somehow. a car pulls up across the street with a single man inside, windows down. suddenly, "flaming telepaths" comes blasting out! i hear the whole song. it is the only song he plays. the cab arrives, and i go to SEISMIC SEANCE.


MARCH 2005 fork news

hello forks - here is your march news...

NEW MERCHANDISE: don't miss the just-released, very limited, 1st-in-a-series-of-3 HYPNOTIC TRANCE PAMPHLET card sets. info and photos in the 'for sale' section. do not snooze on this! YOU HAVE BEEN SUGGESTED.

see CUP's new comic strip 'foxy loxy' in the current issue of CHUNKLET magazine (#19).

did you like our video for 'REPLACED BY TOYS'? if so, check out THE RESIDENTS new 'commercial' dvd, which contains a video by director ERIC NORDHAUSER. intense stuff.

a message from DUSTIN: one of my favorite movie soundtracks is from roman polanski's THE TENANT. so much so, that i've been looking for the soundtrack album (at the end of the film, it says there is one) since 1991. i've never found it until now. big deal right? well, let's say i love it so much that at one point around 1993 i TAPED the soundtrack off the movie itself (on vhs only, at the time) onto a 90 minute cassette. now i know all the dialog, too. anyway, around the time that i was on tour with SKINNY PUPPY (who, not coincidentally, are also big fans of THE TENANT) i was so obsessed and tired of asking for it in every store i visited while on that summer tour, that i tracked down the phone number for Varese Sarabande, the legendary soundtrack label, who were listed as the release company for this fantastic, moody work. i was told: " never heard of it. it was probably never made. in the 70's, soundtrack records sold pretty well, and so often they would plan for an album release of the soundtrack, but if the movie didn't do so well, it'd just never come out. i have no catalog number for it." fast forward to fall of 2003 when the dvd FINALLY came out. watched it 3 times that week, loud. told people about it again. wondered about the soundtrack album. today, march 1st 2005, CUP walked into the living room with a used, japanese-issued cd of the soundtrack to THE TENANT, released late last year: "aren't you looking for this?" right now, i can only think of good things to say about japan. right now, i'm listening to THE TENANT on cd.