THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN GETS OVERWHELMED

The Gonzo Daily - Wednesday

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For those of you living in the UK there are some rather nifty Pink Floyd documentaries on BBC iPlayer for the next few days. I sat down with Mama and Frunobulax and watched two of them last night. The one with the most substance is, of course, the 'making of' documentary about Wish you were here. The other programme we watched was a collection of odds and sods including such jolly snippets as the 'Point me at the Sky' promo video that I had only ever seen as a bootleg. The main thing about this show, however, was that it reminded me why I have always liked 'The Final Cut' so much, and found 'Momentary Lapse of Reason' so lacklustre. I had not seen the videos from either album for some twenty five years, and it was a welcome shock to see how good the video for Roger's apocalyptic post-war dream song was.

 

Yesterday when talking about my diabetes test I forgot one enormous thing. Eventually I will be given a medicine that I have to inject each day. But - wait for this - it is made from an enzyme extracted from Gila Monster venom. How Carlos Castaneda is tHAT?

 

Another visit to our old friend Thom the World Poet
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/11/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_6.html

 

Today's Track of the Day is by Mick Farren
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-gonzo-track-of-day-mick-farren.html

 

A Dutch review of the lovely Crystal Grenade
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/11/dutch-crystal-grenade-review.html

 

A review of our Captain Beefheart book
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/11/captain-beefheart-book-review.html

 

Three ex-King Crimson members on tour
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/11/crimson-projekct-brings-three-king.html

 

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young regroup for Bridge School Benefit
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/11/crosby-stills-nash-young-regroup-for.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

 

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*  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?