The song “Brandy Alexander” by Feist? It’s about a well-known bout of drunken mischief produced by the writer of this album, Harry Nilsson and John Lennon in which they were forcibly removed from the Troubador bar and night club for harassing a band. Why were they harassing them? Don't know. The drink they were drinking? Brandy Alexanders. What does this have to do with the album? Nothing. Nothing at all, it's just real, man.
You may know Nilsson from the song "Everybody's Talkin'” from a 1995 episode of “Seinfeld” and as the theme from “Midnight Cowboy.”
The Point is an album, with an excellent hand-woven album cover by his then wife, a musical, and an animated movie about a character named Oblio, who is banished from the Land of Point for having no point on his head. He is sent into the Pointless Forest by the evil count, who had become upset because Oblio had just beaten his son in a game of triangle toss. The point of the game is to catch triangles on the point of your head. Oblio did this by resting his dog and loyal companion Arrow, who did have a point, upon his shoulders. The story starts after introductions with the game and Oblio and Arrow being consequently banished to the Pointless Forest from which no one had ever returned. The story consists of Oblio and Arrow's adventures in the Pointless Forest wherein they realize everything has points pointing in every direction at once. And, of course, having a point in every direction at once is what? Well, it's like having no point at all! So goes their very Campbell-esque journey into the realms of societal constructs and their underlying realities, and is very much about forgiveness and positive outlook.
-Mike Ersing
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