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How better to cure boredom than with a DVD player, a stereo, and a good book? And how better to address a Boredoms fix than with a DVD, CD, and book documenting those crazies in action? Today must be your lucky day, because-- by sheer coincidence-- just such a Boredoms CD/DVD/book combo happens to be arriving in Japan on November 26.

77BoaDrum captures last year's titular landmark Boredoms performance across two discs. While it's not entirely clearly yet which disc is which, the CD and DVD will apparently bear the titles "Sevener" and "Sunload", according to the website of the band's Ryuichi Sakamoto-run label-not-label Commmons.

The film, directed by Jun Kawaguchi, spans some 89 minutes, which translates to 77 minutes and 777 seconds if you're a wacky occult numerologist type (we sure are-- just check this posting's date/time). The book, according to a rep at Boredoms' U.S. home, Thrill Jockey, looks to contain approximately 30 pages-- just two more than four times seven! Spooky!!

However, it appears that the DVD won't contain the entire 77BoaDrum film. But if you want to see it in its entirety, the film portion of 77BoaDrum will screen at New York - Tokyo's NYTFGP Film Festival on Monday, October 13. Director Kawaguchi will be present for a Q&A at the first of two screenings scheduled that night, and will introduce the second.

Details on the 77BoaDrum CD/DVD/book package are otherwise scant at the moment, though the Commmons press release-- with respect to Babel Fish-- promises such delights as "the actual condition of the astonishment," "natural sound only of the field meeting place," and "cheer to blend with the conversation of the audience." In other words, it's gonna rule.