THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN HOPS UP AND DOWN

Another jolly, if rather chilly day. Everyone (well, Corinna and to a lesser extent me) has been bitten by the spring cleaning bug.  Next week our visitors start to arrive, and we shall have a steady stream of Forteans, musicians, artists, and general weirdos coming through for the next few months. When I was young 'My Family and Other Animals' was one of my favourite books (it still is), but I always aspired to be the arty and acerbic Larry with his constant stream of peculiar intellectual friends and his bitchy sense of humour rather than the young Gerald Durrell with his matchboxes full of scorpions. I am slowly getting back to normal, but a lot of my time is being spent just learning how to use my new Windows 8 computer. I have new hardware and software with which to get to grips and a selection of hard taskmasters bullying me into getting things done. Ho Hum...

 

Today's Gonzo Track of the Day is from the Atkins/May Project
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-gonzo-track-of-day-atkins-may.html

 

Once again we repair to Austin for our daily audience with Thom the World Poet
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/03/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_19.html

 

A eulogistic review of the lovely Judy Dyble
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/03/judy-dyble-review_19.html

 

An italian review of the new album by 'The Green Violinist'
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/03/italian-review-of-green-violinist.html

 

A nice article about Dan Wooding
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/03/lake-forest-authors-uk-rock-profiles-re.html

 

A great review of Zenit
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/03/someone-else-likes-zenit-as-much-as-i-do.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 (who is currently on sick leave in Staffordshire) and a not very small orange kitten (who isn't) puts it all together from a converted potato shed in a tumbledown cottage deep in rural Devon which he shares with various fish. 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 cats?