THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN TRYS HARD

Yesterday was a strange, frustrating, and ultimately relaxing day. The day before (Tuesday) I had laboured quite hard finishing the first proof of Volume One of our mammoth reissue of George Eberhart's 'Mysterious Creatures'. I also interviewed the ever lovely Judy Dyble (whom I tease about being a diva, but she is actually nothing of the sort), and in preparation for a feature in this weekend's 'Gonzo Weekly', I once again listened to her forthcoming album...twice. It really is magnificent, and I cannot wait for the rest of the world to hear it.

 

But I digress, back to yesterday. I got up early and in a bright mood, skipping downstairs full of the joys of spring in order to commence my day's activities. I did my emails, and wrote a short piece about the aforementioned Ms D, and then the Internet died on me. BT announced that it would take some hours to fix, and then I noticed that somehow I had picked up one of those ultimately harmless, but annoying browser hijack thingys that aren't a virus, but behave like one. It turned out that I had actually picked up two separate ones, so I took the day off, and turned the computer over to Graham. I spent the day reading 'The Aurelian's Fireside Companion', and listening to the new Mr Averell CD. In the evening, Dave and Jess came around, and afterwards Mother and I watched the first part of Patrick Barkham's excellent new British Butterflies DVD (which I would recommend to anyone). So all in all, a pleasant day even if I didn't actually achieve ow't.

 

The Gonzo Track of the Day is by Walter Egan
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/05/gonzo-track-of-day-walter-egan-magnet.html

 

Another visit to our old friend Thom the World Poet
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/05/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_15.html

 

A charity gig for Gordon Giltrap
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/05/gordons-gig-for-charity.html

 

A great interview with Jon Anderson
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/05/link-beginning-of-amazing-musical.html

 

'Days Between Stations' featuring Peter Banks, Rick Wakeman et al. Who is this bloke Al?
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/05/days-between-stations-peter-banks-colin.html

 

Annie Haslam feature
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/05/renaissance-woman.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, and sometimes a small Indian frog. 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?