if only he had made it past age 52 tho, eh
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Friday, 3 December 2010 19:53 (thirteen years ago) link
kids stay away from robin williams and youll lead a long healthy life
― ice cr?m, Friday, 3 December 2010 20:00 (thirteen years ago) link
at least it's easier now to stay away from Lennon.
C or D: tracing a musician's downfall thru going from being John's pal to Ringo's.
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Friday, 3 December 2010 20:02 (thirteen years ago) link
lol
― ice cr?m, Friday, 3 December 2010 20:04 (thirteen years ago) link
I did like the part of the doc where Harry describes writing "One" around a phone's busy signal.
― Darin, Friday, 3 December 2010 22:13 (thirteen years ago) link
someone seriously needs to release decent copies of those BBC specials.
― by another name (amateurist), Friday, 3 December 2010 23:32 (thirteen years ago) link
the clips on youtube are amazing.
― by another name (amateurist), Friday, 3 December 2010 23:33 (thirteen years ago) link
think i'm gonna watch this doc tonight since it seems to have shown up on netflix streaming.
― tylerw, Friday, 3 December 2010 23:33 (thirteen years ago) link
wd've liked more Popeye music and less about the drug party on Malta
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 4 December 2010 01:03 (thirteen years ago) link
I want to see "Son of Drac"! Wtf was that? EVeryone in the docu was saying how bad it was but the footage of Harry in a vampire suit just chilling and singing Harry songs suggested it is fucking awesome.
― Stop Non-Erotic Cabaret (Abbbottt), Sunday, 5 December 2010 20:02 (thirteen years ago) link
lol at the cover Netflix has for "The Point"
http://cdn-8.nflximg.com/en_US/boxshots/gsd/60036028.jpg
― Stop Non-Erotic Cabaret (Abbbottt), Sunday, 5 December 2010 20:03 (thirteen years ago) link
ha!i'm about halfway through the doc -- interesting stuff w/ some great footage, even if it's not the greatest filmmaking of all time. bbc stuff looks rad. you can grab it (audio/video) here: http://fortheloveofharry.blogspot.com/2007/12/bbc.htmlfor a guy who didn't play live, looks like he was perfectly capable of being a great performer.
― tylerw, Sunday, 5 December 2010 20:07 (thirteen years ago) link
and, if you must, from the same blog: http://fortheloveofharry.blogspot.com/2006/12/son-of-dracula-movie-1974.html
― tylerw, Sunday, 5 December 2010 20:10 (thirteen years ago) link
― Stop Non-Erotic Cabaret (Abbbottt), Sunday, December 5, 2010 3:02 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
^
― ice cr?m, Sunday, 5 December 2010 20:11 (thirteen years ago) link
everybody otm
― jaxon, Sunday, 5 December 2010 20:23 (thirteen years ago) link
Everybody's OTMin'
― look at it, pwn3d, made u look at my peen/vadge (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 5 December 2010 23:09 (thirteen years ago) link
lol the point is a teen-made realist drama from an impoverished mtl neighbourhood
― shirley summistake (s1ocki), Sunday, 5 December 2010 23:17 (thirteen years ago) link
So The Point on Netflix is the original film right? It just has the wrong picture? I was worried that it was some weird remake, but now I'm going to try renting it.
― Moodles, Monday, 6 December 2010 02:18 (thirteen years ago) link
Adam Bruneau OTM re LOTTERY SONG upthread, outstanding song
OOOO LOO LOO LOO LOO LOO; OOO LOO LOO LOO LOO LOO
― yuoowemeone, Wednesday, 29 December 2010 12:02 (thirteen years ago) link
I found VDP and Jimmy Webb's stuff very affecting. And I admired how negatively the guy was portrayed for so much of it. But yes, it did sort of beg for a slightly more in depth discussion of his music.
Re. the decline years...the footage of him recording in '75 or so with the full bar and deli buffet in the studio, catching cigarettes thrown into his mouth and so forth, made me sad I never got around to writing a proposed piece for Stylus on his post-Pussycats records. Nobody declined like Harry Nilsson.
― Naive Teen Idol, Friday, 31 December 2010 15:10 (thirteen years ago) link
When rainbow beard told his funeral story, and said George Harrison told him his favorite Nilsson song was "Fuck you," I think that was actually Harrison just saying "fuck you" to rainbow beard. I mean, you know, not really, but in the best world, that's what happened.
― Stop Non-Erotic Cabaret (Abbbottt), Monday, 3 January 2011 02:32 (thirteen years ago) link
I didn't know who rainbow beard was and was frustrated throughout the movie. Then I saw him on the VH1 or whatever reality show about Rock Camp.
― dan selzer, Monday, 3 January 2011 03:55 (thirteen years ago) link
rainbow beard is p unsettling
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 22:05 (thirteen years ago) link
Who the hell *is* rainbow beard, Mr. Selzer? others amy also answer.Not only was his beard/clashing purple velvet suit combo appalling, he just generally seemed like an unpleasant guy.
― Stop Non-Erotic Cabaret (Abbbottt), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 23:32 (thirteen years ago) link
when i watched this i thought: that guy must get beat up every day of his life.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 23:36 (thirteen years ago) link
I think about this docu all the time, tho, just for the Nilsson facts. The story about him robbing a liquor store as a kid!
― Stop Non-Erotic Cabaret (Abbbottt), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 23:37 (thirteen years ago) link
Personally, I am fond of the clip showing Harry catching a cigarette in his mouth and him lighting it without missing a beat during the Duit on Mon Dei sessions.
― Naive Teen Idol, Thursday, 6 January 2011 03:12 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, that was nuts. one of the most impressive things for me was just how awesomely slobby looking the guy was. i mean, the album covers of schmilsson and the others give you some idea, but wow, for a star he just looked like a mess. in a good way.
― tylerw, Thursday, 6 January 2011 03:19 (thirteen years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Hudson_(musician)
― dan selzer, Thursday, 6 January 2011 04:27 (thirteen years ago) link
working with a broad variety of artists including Ringo Starr, Aerosmith, Ozzy Osbourne, Hanson, Harry Nilsson, and the Baha Men.
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 6 January 2011 04:35 (thirteen years ago) link
who let rainbow beard out who who
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 6 January 2011 04:36 (thirteen years ago) link
tread is now #1 result for fuck you rainbow beard
― Stop Non-Erotic Cabaret (Abbbottt), Thursday, 6 January 2011 04:37 (thirteen years ago) link
Ooga Booga!http://img.poptower.com/pic-34398/mark-hudson.jpg?d=600
― Moodles, Thursday, 6 January 2011 20:21 (thirteen years ago) link
GAH!
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 6 January 2011 20:23 (thirteen years ago) link
ick. thought that a big hole in the doc was the absence of a ringo interview. i'm sure the filmmakers tried to get him, but i guess ringo is kind of a cranky dude these days.
― tylerw, Thursday, 6 January 2011 20:28 (thirteen years ago) link
maybe he refused to be in it if rainbow beard was and the producers were all well theres no way were giving up rainbow beard i mean its RAINBOW BEARD
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 6 January 2011 20:34 (thirteen years ago) link
HIS BEARD IS A RAINBOW
― tylerw, Thursday, 6 January 2011 20:35 (thirteen years ago) link
i asked the director about ringo at a screening in new york, and he said ringo is unwilling to talk about those days on camera. or at least that's what ringo's people told him. it was definitely a hole.
ringo and mark rainbow beard hudson have worked together for years.
― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 6 January 2011 20:36 (thirteen years ago) link
ringo apparently is unfamiliar w/the old 'oh nilsson lol crazy times *scratch chin look around nervously*' dodge
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 6 January 2011 20:38 (thirteen years ago) link
Was that at the 92nd st Y screening? I was at the premiere and was about to say I remember them discussing Ringo.
If you read the wiki on Hudson, he and Ringo have had a falling out.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 6 January 2011 20:40 (thirteen years ago) link
this was at cinema village, where it played for a week or two.
― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 6 January 2011 20:43 (thirteen years ago) link
wiki on hudson sounds like it should be the name of a new high-tech village in upstate new york.
― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 6 January 2011 20:44 (thirteen years ago) link
It just clicked that this guy was one of the Hudson Brothers (of the Hudson Brothers Razzle Dazzle Show). Ugh.
― city worker, Thursday, 6 January 2011 20:44 (thirteen years ago) link
kate hudson's uncle
― tylerw, Thursday, 6 January 2011 20:48 (thirteen years ago) link
on the opposite spectrum of interviewees, van dyke parks is great in this -- super insightful, sincere, dignified.
― tylerw, Thursday, 6 January 2011 20:51 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah hes cool 4 sure
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 6 January 2011 20:52 (thirteen years ago) link
I wish Van Dyke Parks was my uncle.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 6 January 2011 20:54 (thirteen years ago) link
is there a van dyke parks doc cause if not calling all aspiring filmmakers
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 6 January 2011 20:56 (thirteen years ago) link
Every cult music figure has a documentarian who loves them
― da croupier, Thursday, 6 January 2011 21:34 (thirteen years ago) link
I was marginally fascinated by how personally devastated VDP and Jimmy Webb appeared to be about Nilsson wasting his talent. Not dying young but wasting his talent. Webb says something like, "The day I learned Harry ruined his voice was the worst day of my life." And at the end, Parks almost cries discussing how Harry had the gall to give up music because he wanted to fight gun violence.
― Naive Teen Idol, Thursday, 6 January 2011 22:29 (thirteen years ago) link