This Is for Readers: The Wax and Wane of Charles Bobuck by Charles BobuckMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Hardy Fox as Charles "Bobuck" (think the name game), or under some other name, composed for The Residents until 2016. The Residents had all but stopped making albums after 2008 but Bobuck kept doing what he always did, so he made Charles Bobuck albums instead of Residents albums. With allusions to Residents history, this is a wispy, dream-like recollection of post-band life for Bobuck as the obscure composer for the obscure group while considering old friends, new contacts, and life as a composer. Bobuck introduces us to his husband, neighborhood contacts in an arc that flashes back to Texas and Louisiana while marking the journey from the Shadowlands trilogy (Randy, Chuck, and Bob. It is calm, mysterious, forthcoming and also reserved. It has a soundtrack. This may be the most revealing missive from inside the closed camp that is available.
Sometimes I don’t even feel like I am in The Residents anymore. I’m the ghost writer for their music, hidden away in a studio on a chicken farm that has no chickens.
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