I'M YER GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN

I was feeling somewhat less than sane yesterday, which may have coloured what I was watching on TV to a greater or lesser extent. However, I watched episode two of 'Blandings', which I thought was nowhere near as good as the first episode. Evelyn Waugh once wrote that to criticise Wodehouse was like "taking a spade to a souffle'. I would say much the same about tinkering with his plots. Treat the man with some respect for God's sake! The originals are exquisite, the TV series (despite early promise) doesn't live up to them, or at least last night's episode didn't. Later in the evening after Mother had gone to bed I sat down and watched '24 Hour Party People', which was much bleaker than I remember when I watched it with Richard ten years ago. This morning I feel like a cross between Tony Wilson and Lord Emsworth (with Prudence as the empress). David came over yesterday to discuss e-books, and progress is being made. Richard went home yesterday but will be back on Thursday. Graham is setting up interviews with Alan Davey and Michael Butterworth, and the orange cat has an infection, but according to Shosh it is nothing to worry about. Life is complicated today, and I still feel mad as a bagful of cheese.

Today's Gonzo Track of the Day is from the late Hugh Hopper
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-gonzo-track-of-day-hugh-hopper-1976.html

Another of our daily visits to the incomparable Thom the World Poet
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/01/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_21.html

Alan Davey is celebrating the 40th anniversary of Hawkwind's groundbreaking 'Space Ritual' album. This we have to see!
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/01/link-alan-davey-is-celebrating-space.html

From the archives a great review of Galahad a couple of years back
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/01/archive-galahad-live-review.html

A great piece of rock journalism about Jefferson Airplane
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/01/how-jefferson-airplane-defined-summer.html

The final section of our three-part interview with Don Falcone of 'Spirits Burning'
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/01/exclusive-don-falcone-of-spirits_21.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 same team also do a weekly newsletter called - imaginatively - The Gonzo Weekly. Find out about it at this link: http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/11/all-gonzo-news-wots-fit-to-print.html

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*  Jon Downes, the editor of all these ventures 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, which he shares with various fish and batrachians. He is ably assisted by his lovely wife Corinna, his bulldog/boxer Prudence, his mother-in-law, and a motley collection of social malcontents. Plus... did we mention the orange cat?