DUPOBS make an appearance in a short story by Maurizio Brancaleoni, in the Italian anthology I mondi del fantasy.  The scene in which DUPOBS appear has been translated into English, as follows:

Leçon Un – Keeping It Clean
Don’t cuss. It make you look dum-dum. Heaubrfkjabsdsheuxlag, instead. Or fuk fuk fuk (3x). Ar ar I don’t want to alienate family people. Don’t forget the families.

Leçon Deux – One Sound Word Group
They come from a new world and like earth things like coins and shows and hues and sex and food. They think boys and girls have much to give the world but for now hurt their friends and their world. They think it is sad and hope to help change things.

Thoughts? add your own leçons in the comments section.

Lazy Crapification

On the twentieth anniversary of their founding in 1988, DUPOBS release

Win Some Lose Some, their fourth album since reuniting in 2002. This is make it or break it time for DUPOBS, a group that has gained critical recognition from the likes of Scotland’s Momus and Japan’s DeliciouSweets, but has yet to deliver a top-40 hit. Hot on the heels of 2007’s industrial-tinged Le Sex L’Ove, DUPOBS return to their rock roots, with a tip of the hat to Foreigner, Loverboy, and John Cougar Mellencrap. Containing more than a few super-catchy pop-rock tunes, Win Some Lose Some could be the breakthrough DUPOBS has been waiting for. And it’s not just the music. This time, DUPOBS pulls out all the stops, with innovative album packaging – made by a groundbreaking new technique called “lazy crapification” – and a fan-donated video for “Our Friendship Is Going To Grow”:

Other tracks with hit potential include “Run Down Home Town (Doin’ Good By His Hometown)”, and “We’re Just A Bunch Of Fun Guys Until We Kick Your Head In, Fat”. Keep your eyes and ears open in the weeks and months to come, as DUPOBS release Win Some Lose Some song by song on Last FM. Spread the word and help DUPOBS make history by giving regressive music the profile it deserves.

DeliciouSweets have made a really interesting musical friend in Canada. His name is Sampler.

I heard from him a while back in an email, in which he wrote, in Japanese, “I heard DeliciouSweets on a CD and have really taken a liking to it! Please check out our CD!” Since then we’ve been talking and sending greetings by email.

Sampler’s Japanese is really good, and at first I thought he might be a Japanese living in Canada. It really surprised me that he was Canadian! His Japanese is probably better than mine. He seems to really like Japan, and is studying Japanese.

Well! He put our Coquette Gaho [picture book and CD release] in a Canadian store, and it sold out! I was really happy!

Sampler’s mischievous and strange Japanophile band, DUPOBS, has just put out a new album! The CD arrived just last month, and is titled Le Sex l’Ove.

The headline on the press-release is “art without intelligence for idiots without art” — written in perfect Japanese! It continues: “As of late, DUPOBS is the band most ignored by music reviewers around the world.” Ha! But what, really, is this unheard-of, revoltingly good music? What.

Just as the last DUPOBS album, Le Sex l’Ove also contains music of oppressive non-feeling. However, although it may be oppressive, let’s just say this is an album of abnormal ballads floating in the atmosphere of life’s sadness. Layered with the timbre of accordion, sutra-like chanting, and broken guitar, the expression is unique, and I can’t grasp a guiding principal behind it. I truly respect this! They have achieved a really great sound, using instruments ‘borrowed’ from a band on a studio break. (Or so the press-release states.)

And there’s also a kabuki-influenced track on this album. If you hear it, someone’s really got kabuki’s… soul! Kabuki seen from abroad is just the same! This is really funny!

If you’re interested, you can download the tracks from iTunes, or check out the DUPOBS website.

Chaamar

33 Dec 2007 28:50

Hey hun,

sorry about that I must have given you the wrong bum bum. That’s funny because I tried that one a while ago too, the one I gave you, and it made me all mad because they boomed real bad, and they didn’t pacify my unending banality too good either they offered like sweepstakes and stuff instead of cash mo mon. But anyways, the right site is

wwm.tops12.cop.beater.master

it’s the one I am making $6 a week with putting in about 23 hours a week, sometimes up to like 30 hours if I’m daydreaming about you, you hoo hun, you two and too, blun.

After you get your retarded membership make sure you sign up with the big big companies on page seventy-one in the members section manual closed off only to VIPs ya because they are the ones that pay you the most, I got $7 for one that took me 25 minutes today. You’ll see what I’m talking about when you get in there and pay your life savings away to crooks-haw. Jackie started taking these amazing drugs too and she’s making $8000 a week, it’s making me so sick because I’m all out of holes that I can plug – the one that showed her which one to sign up with now she’s making more than me. thanme than me. thanme than me. thanmeAlright well me and Ewen are getting ready to leave nnnn-now, just give me a call or I’ll catch you on here and let me know if you have any problems with your membership. TTYS hun and LOLLIMONSTERS bun &. @. ^