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I'm too old to do things by
half.
Lou Reed
Today is a very exciting one for us at the
CFZ. The Tasmania expedition will have all met up on the island, and the
expedition in search of the CFZ Totem Animal, the mystery animal most likely to
exist, will be underway. This is the start of a long-term study by CFZ Australia
and our thoughts and prayers are with them. I am sure that you will join me in
wishing them Godspeed and a successful investigation. There will be updates over
the next few weeks - watch this space.
Last night I watched the BBC Imagine film
on Jimi Hendrix, which will be - I believe - available up there for another
40-something days. It didn't reveal anything much that I didn't already know,
but there were some really good bits of unseen performance video, and some
interesting snippets of Jimi's home movies. The thing that I found particularly
interesting, however, was how shocking his image is, even now. In quite
a lot of rock documentaries I have watched recently the protagonists look very
staid by modern standards: in the DVD about Paul McCartney and the
counterculture from Chrome Dreams that I reviewed recently, for example,
McCartney looks like a trendy estate agent rather than a bastion of the
permissive society. But Hendrix's image is still shocking: an anarchic but oddly
dignified wildman, with an impish grin, who channelled some ancient Eleusinian
ceremonial, or the celebrant of a Bacchanalian orgy. It is still shocking; in
1967 it must have been mindblowingly devastating.
Another visit to our old friend Thom the World Poet
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/10/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_31.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/10/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_31.html
Today's Track of the Day is by David Bedford
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-gonzo-track-of-day-david-bedford.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-gonzo-track-of-day-david-bedford.html
John Lodge and Patrick Moraz on Good Morning
Britain
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/10/john-lodge-and-patrick-moraz-on-good.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/10/john-lodge-and-patrick-moraz-on-good.html
Gonzo Weekly #50 is out this weekend. There has
never been a better time to subscribe
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/11/our-50th-issue-is-out-this-weekend.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/11/our-50th-issue-is-out-this-weekend.html
Michael Des Barres Band - Hot N Sticky Live
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/10/michael-des-barres-band-hot-n-sticky.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/10/michael-des-barres-band-hot-n-sticky.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: 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?
* 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?
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