The Gonzo Daily - Tuesday
I went to my six monthly Diabetic Review yesterday
fully expecting my Insulin Resistance to have got worse to the degree I would
have to start injections forthwith. After all entropy only works in one
direction. However, I have apparently lost well over a stone in weight and my
HBA1C sugar levels have gone down four points. I am not quite sure how, but what
I am doing seems to work. My diabetic nurse asked me what I do to deal with my
regular monthly psychotic episodes which usually coincide with the full moon. I
explained that I usually take half a bottle of brandy and some diabetic
chocolate to bed with some sleeping pills. She looked a bit askance at this, and
asked how my body coped with it, but I said: "My dear girl, I am an old rock and
roller; I have been mixing alcohol and drugs together since you were in
nappies". We both laughed, but I am not sure whether she thought I was joking or
not. I wasn't.
It has Jon Anderson on the cover, and features an
interview with Matt Malley about his collaboration with Jon Anserson on a
charity single released today. But there's more! Doug Harr rewrites the
screenplay for the controversial new Genesis documentary, we send the editor to
a Desert Island, Davey Curtis was at Hawkeaster and was just about sober enough
to write some of it down (but took loads of pics), and Jon asks whether music
has to be age appropriate. We also learn about Tommy James and the Mafia. There
are also new shows from the multi-talented Neil Nixon at Strange Fruit and from
M Destiny at Friday Night Progressive, and the massively talented Jaki and Tim
are back with their submarine and Maisie the cow. There is also a collection of
more news, reviews, views, interviews and doves making coos (OK, no musical
members of the Columbinidae, but I got carried away with things that rhymed with
OOOOS) than you can shake a stick at. And the best part is IT's ABSOLUTELY
FREE!!! And yes, Happy Birthday to us!
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chaps, we have to share it!
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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 55 who - together with an infantile orange cat named
after a song by Frank Zappa 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 infantile orange
cat?
