THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN PLAYS CATCH UP

 We have issues with Corinna's computer, my e-mails, and other stuff (including having no car at the moment) so, although things are continuing apace, it will be a few days before we are completely back to speed. I would ask your indulgence during this time. One unfortunate side effect is that about 30 people who usually get the Gonzo Weekly only will be getting the Gonzo Daily as well until my e-mails are sorted. I hope that this is not too much of an inconvenience.

I have just finished reading Morrissey's autobiography (entitled Autobiography) and I must say that I was very impressed. It was almost as good as he said it was. The most impressive writing is the first third of the book, which deals with his life prior to The Smiths. Some of his prose is so good, that you find yourself re-reading passages just for the sheer pleasure of immersing yourself in such exquisite language. The section about his life within his most famous band is fairly perfunctory, and actually both the least revealing and least enjoyable writing in the book. But the last half of the book, dealing with his life after the band imploded, is much more enjoyable, though I am afraid it never quite reaches the same heights of literature as the accounts of his early days. A bloody good book, though! Oh, Morrissey; so much to answer for.

Another visit to our old friend Thom the World Poet who celebrates the life of Lou Reed.
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/10/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_27.html

Today's Track of the Day is by the Velvet Underground
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/10/gonzo-track-of-day-velvet-underground.html

THOSE WE HAVE LOST: Lou Reed
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/10/those-we-have-lost-lou-reed-1942-2013.html

Lou Reed at Rock's Backpages
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/10/lou-reed-at-rocks-backpages.html

Bev Bevan guests at Sheldon school’s 60th bash
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/10/bev-bevan-guests-at-sheldon-schools.html

The Artie Lange Show - Eric Burdon and The Animals Performs Water
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-artie-lange-show-eric-burdon-and.html

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*  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: www.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 54 who - together with his orange cat (who is currently on sick leave in Staffordshire) and two very small kittens (one of whom is also orange) - 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 cat?