Posted tagged ‘Harry Nilsson’

“Do you know who I am?”

March 12, 2009

“Yeah – you’re some asshole with a Kotex on his head” 35 years ago tonight, John Lennon’s  “Lost Weekend” (his separation from Yoko/18-month long bender with Harry Nilsson) achieved immortality.  If you take equal parts booze, the Smothers Brothers, Peter Lawford, Troubadour bossman Doug Weston, and a sanitary napkin and mix them all together, what [...]

Weird Scenes Inside The Gold Mine

February 24, 2009

Apparently, one of the highlights at this year’s Sundance Film Festival was Tom DiCillo’s Doors doc When You’re Strange, which features a treasure trove of previously unreleased footage and hopfully no consecutive usage of the words “lizard” and “king”.  Ray Manzarek says this will right Oliver Stone’s wrongs, though didn’t Ray consult on The Doors?  Regardless, a happy [...]


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