I'M YER GONZO BLOG DOODAH MAN

There are times that I feel truly humble. Yesterday I posted about the problems we have been having with computers, and - in particular - about how the data retrieval from my two knackered drives is going to cost £399. I did it to explain why some of the work I am doing will be heinously overdue, and also to vent off steam. I certainly wasn't asking for help. But two friends of the CFZ, Steve Jones and Terry Colvin were kind enough to send me totally unsolicited donations, which together have pretty well paid for the repairs. Thank you - both of you - from the bottom of my heart. Last night  Dave B-P and Jess came round to see us, and a little wine was drunk. After they left, Corinna went into the office and found a parcel which the postman had delivered and that I had singularly failed to spot. I opened it, and it is a beautifully inscribed book of poetry by and from the lovely Karen Gensheimer, another long time friend of the CFZ. It even has a poem about me with it. I was totally touched. There are times that the modern world in which we live feels isolating, implacable and horrid, but there are other times - like now - when I am just overwhelmed by the level of love and kindness that I encounter, sometimes from people that I have not even met face to face. Thank you my friends.

 

In other news, the Internet connection is still practically non existent most of the time, hence me being so late with today's postings and with everything else that I have to do. Dave B-P is coming around tomorrow to do some rewiring and fit some gadgets that we hope will rectify this. We shall overcome some day.

 

An interesting interview with Paul Kantner
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/02/link-conversation-with-jefferson.html

 

Exciting news for Eric Burdon fans
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/02/link-eric-burdon-added-as-featured.html

 

Michael Des Barres has a new siungle out...and its a corker!
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/02/michael-des-barres-new-single.html

 

The late, great Huw Lloyd-Langton interviewed by Jeff Swick on Radio Free Saskatoon, early 2000's.
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-late-great-huw-lloyd-langton.html

 

The Gonzo Track of the Day is from No Man
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-gonzo-track-of-day-no-man-truenorth.html

 

And finally, our daily visit to Thom the World Poet
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/02/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_8.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

 

* We should probably mention here, that some of our posts are links to things we have found on the internet that we think are of interest. We are not responsible for spelling or factual errors in other people's websites. Honest guv!

*  Jon Downes, the Editor of all these ventures (and several others) 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 elderly mother-in-law, and a motley collection of social malcontents. Plus.. did we mention the orange cat?