{"id":24891,"date":"2023-03-20T05:30:50","date_gmt":"2023-03-20T09:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=24891"},"modified":"2023-02-08T09:07:16","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T14:07:16","slug":"interview-roundup-the-residents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/20\/interview-roundup-the-residents\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview Roundup: The Residents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-21702\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/residents_eskimo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/residents_eskimo.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/residents_eskimo-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/residents_eskimo-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>People sometimes like to joke about The Residents. &#8220;Play their records to get your overstaying guests to leave&#8221; and such. They\u2019re willfully weird, tauntingly transgressive, aggressively amelodic. Or so goes the conventional wisdom. They may indeed be some or all of those things at times, but they\u2019re also exemplars of the outr\u00e9, avant garde approach to multimedia, pioneers in combining visuals and music in the quest to create something truly original.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re famously anonymous and inscrutable. Yet I\u2019ve interviewed them (or, perhaps I should say, their spokesmen) no less than four times. I\u2019m a fan.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2010\/06\/01\/interview-the-residents-sort-of\/\">The Residents (Hardy Fox) 2006<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/04\/permanent-residents-sfs-notorious-avant-garde-collective-looks-to-the-future\/\">The Residents (Homer Flynn) 2021 #1<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/05\/a-conversation-with-the-residents-spokesman-homer-flynn-part-1-of-2\/\">The Residents (Homer Flynn) 2021<\/a> #2<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/02\/the-residents-the-eyes-have-it-part-one\/\">The Residents (Homer Flynn) 2022<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>oh, and <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/tag\/residents\/\">lots of reviews here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People sometimes like to joke about The Residents. &#8220;Play their records to get your overstaying guests to leave&#8221; and such. They\u2019re willfully weird, tauntingly transgressive, aggressively amelodic. Or so goes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21690,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[1823,4651],"class_list":["post-24891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interview","tag-residents","tag-the-residents","cat-41-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24891"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24892,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24891\/revisions\/24892"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}