Closer to Seeing the Dream Come True.

Just found out via a watched comments section on the For the Love of Harry blog that at long last, the Harry Nilsson documentary Who is Harry Nilsson and Why is Everybody Talking About Him? is set to be released on DVD on October 26 of this year, according to Amazon.com! Now, release dates and schedules working the way they do, this may be changed, but at least we Nilsson fans who have been waiting to see this for years now can see a light at the end of the tunnel.

In keeping with this blog post title, "Don't tell me that isn't what you wanted to do"...

Happy Birthday Harry.

Today would have been the 69th birthday of HARRY NILSSON, so here's a posthumous BSBdG.

Favorite album? Hard to pick just one. If pressed, I'd cite 1972's career-killer Son of Schmilsson, and I also have a great deal of fondness for 1974's Pussy Cats with John Lennon.

Underrated? I'd say 1976's Sandman, but others may disagree.

At any rate, he left us far too early (he was only three years older than I am now when he passed in 1994!), and I wish the people in charge would get the documentary, as well as the album he was working on when he died, out in my lifetime.

More Nilsson stuff has popped up over the last couple of days- first, For The Love of Harry provides scans of a new feature article in MOJO magazine, a recap of his frustrating and heartbreaking career. They've also put up a ton of HN-related Rolling Stone articles as well...and of course, there's that invaluable service they provide which shall go unnamed here but will be immediately obvious if you look around the site for any length of time.

MOJO, one of the best music mags I've ever read (and one which I would still subscribe to if the damned thing didn't cost a fortune), also helpfully collects a bunch of HN video on this page, interesting viewing, and finally, here's an oddity: a MySpace page for Count Downe, Harry's vampiric alter ego in the 1974 film he made with Ringo, Son of Dracula.