I'M YER GONZO BLOG DOO DAH MAN

It has been one of those nights, as I believe that The Eagles once said. However, although I can't remember the lyrics of the song, I am sure it wasn't about staying up all night to finish a typesetting certain book which shall remain nameless, only to find that - just as the protagonist of the song had finished - his computer crashed and mangled everything he had done in the previous five hours, so he had to start again. Maybe I should write a song in which that happened. I could call it 'Dr Shuker's Mystery Cat Book Blues'. Whoops I have let the (full colour) cat out of the bag!

 

Never mind. I am so wired now, I am not going to go to bed until later, so I shall probably work right on through...

 

Magick is the idiot bastard son of art and science; a discipline resulting in an esoteric brew of ritual, theory, practice and belief. If a ‘magician’ is someone who does ‘magick’, then – although I would never deign to call myself a magician – I know, and have known, quite a few people who are.  A magician whom I have never met, but who, ever since I was given a bootleg tape of 1987 What the Fuck is Going On? in the year it was released has been, if not an influence on my life, most certainly a mirror into which I peered, is Bill Drummond.  For Bill Drummond is most certainly a magician.
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/09/a-century-of-magickal-drummond.html

 

Our regular daily visit to the singular universe of Thom the World Poet...
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/09/rob-ayling-writes-thom-world-poet-is.html

 

After having had three days of sparkling conversation with the lovely Annie Haslam, I was well chuffed to find a copy of the cover of the new album that we have been hearing about all week...
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-new-renaissance-album-cover.html

 

A link to an interesting and amusing article giving five reasons why EVERYBODY should love Captain Beefheart...
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/09/link-5-reasons-i-love-captain-beefheart.html

 

Michael Des Barres continues his series of calls to arms in the Rock and Roll revolution. Most people would be being cynical if they were to write a sentance like that in these degenerate days, but I mean every word of it.
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/09/communique-michael-des-barres-following.html

 

My old mate Paul Whitrow has a single out, and I am the editor so I am gonna damn well plug it relentlessly. It also happens to be rather good...
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/09/an-old-friend-of-us-all.html

 

The Gonzo Daily is a two way process. If you have any news or want to write for us, please contact me at jon@eclipse.co.uk. If you are an artist and want to showcase your work, or even just say hello please write to me at gonzo@cfz.org.uk. Please copy, paste and spread the word about this magazine as widely as possible. We need people to read us in order to grow, and as soon as it is viable we shall be invading more traditional magaziney areas. Join in the fun, spread the word, and maybe if we all chant loud enough we CAN stop it raining. See you tomorrow...

The Gonzo Daily is - as the name implies - a daily online magazine (mostly) about artists connected to the Gonzo Multimedia group of companies. But it also has other stuff as and when the editor feels like it. The Editor is an old hippy of 53 who - together with his orange cat - puts it all together from a converted potato shed in a tumbledown cottage deep in rural Devon. He is ably assisted by his lovely wife Corinna, his bulldog/boxer Prudence, and a motley collection of social malcontents. Plus.. did we mention the orange cat?