The Gonzo Daily - 27th December
T'was the fifth day of Christmas, I'm sad to tell
you,
that my intern Tamara's still shaking off 'flu,
it's nearly gone now,
but don't think her pathetic
she's not coming in because I'm
diabetic
yes, sad to admit I am one of those freaks
if I
get an infection I keep it for weeks
so though she's got nothing but a deep
chesty cough
darling Tamara's taking the day off
And on Gonzo today for you to ponder on
I'm
reposting two virtual presents from Thom?
and why do I post them? Is it 'cos
I don't care?
No my dears it's 'cos it's groovy to share
And what of today? What have I got ahead
Just my
annual report for the CFZ
That I write every week at the end of the
year
and this one's a hard one and the deadline is near
And apart from that there is lots more
indeed
with letters to write and books I can read
in my armchair where I
sit and cuddle the dogs
so I had better get on with it, and write these damn
blogs
Stevie Wonder, Fleetwood Mac, Yusuf Islam (Cat
Stevens), Minstrel's Ghost, Jack the Ripper, Corky Laing, Merrell Fankhauser,
Sendelica, Jon Anderson, Rick Wakeman, Yes, Hawkwind, and Daevid Allen fans had
better look out!
The latest issue (The Christmas DOUBLE issue -
there won't be one next week) of Gonzo Weekly (#109/10) is available to read at
www.gonzoweekly.com, and to download at
http://www.gonzoweekly.com/pdf/.
It has Yusuf and Stevie Wonder on the front cover, and features gig reviews of
both artists and Fleetwood Mac, my totally subjective top ten albums of the
year, excerpts from books by Corky Laing, Merrell Fankhauser and Neil Nixon,
interviews with Minstrel's Ghost about their new meisterwork based on the life
of Jack the Ripper, and Sendelica, we send Tim Rundall to a desert island, and
there are shows from the multi-talented Neil Nixon at Strange Fruit and from M
Destiny at Friday Night Progressive, and the titular submarine dwellers are back
with another episode of Sub Reality Sandwich (except its not). There is also a
collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and anteaters wishing to
snooze (OK, nothing to do with dozy edentates, 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!!!
Read the previous few issues of Gonzo
Weekly:
All issues from #70 can be downloaded at
www.gonzoweekly.com if you prefer. If you
have problems downloading, just email me and I will add you to the Gonzo Weekly
dropbox. The first 69 issues are archived there as well. Information is power
chaps, we have to share it!
* 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/…/all-gonzo-news-wots-fit…
* 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?
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