The Gonzo Daily – Tuesday
Many years ago my friend and mentor Tony ‘Doc’ Shiels told me that the best
way to combat psychic backlash, and such like, was by using humour. “The Devil
hates the sound of laughter”, he said. And I know that most people don’t believe
me, but that was the main reason that I made my massively stupid Owlman movie 16
years ago. even my wife doesn’t believe me; the fact that it contains gratuitous
nudity and violence, most notable Richard Freeman being kicked in the face by a
naked female kick boxer (a scene which he insisted on rehearsing many times)
makes her, and everybody else, believe that I have ulterior motives, but I truly
didn’t.
Now, Anonymous is doing much the same thing, with a day of ‘trolling’ the
terrorist group Isis. “They thrive off of fear...they hope that by their actions
they can silence all of us and get us to just lay low and hide in fear. But what
many forget, and even they do, is that there are many more people in the world
against them than for them,” the group wrote online. The collective added that
“on December 11th we will show them that we are not afraid, we will not just
hide in our fear, we are the majority and with our strength in numbers we can
make a real difference. We will mock them for the idiots they are.” Supporters
of the group have posted recommendations for taking part online. Those
suggestions include “openly call[ing] them Daesh” – an acronym for the group's
Arabic name, Dawlat al-Islamiyah f'al-Iraq w Belaad al-Sham. The militant group
hates the name so much they have reportedly threatened to cut off the tongue of
anyone who uses it.
The world’s media seem less then impressed, but – not for the first time –
I am at odds with them. I think it’s a splendid idea.
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Gonzo Weekly #159
www.gonzoweekly.com
Jon Anderson, Mack Moloney, Counting Crows, Tommy James, Adele, Änglagård,
David Bowie, Digitiser, Mr Biffo, Jaki Windmill, Tim Rundall, Roy Weard, Mack
Moloney, A J Smitrovich, Dogwatch, That Legendary Wooden Lion, Hawkwind, and Yes
fans had better look out!
The latest issue of Gonzo Weekly (#159) is available to read at
www.gonzoweekly.com, and to download at http://www.gonzoweekly.com/pdf/. It
has Jon Anderson and Matt Malley on the cover and interviews with them both
inside. Jon muses on David Bowie, we interview Tommy James, Doug talks about
Änglagård and Corinna sneers at some more tacky pop memorabilia. John talks
about Adele and Stereaming, Neil unearths a hidden gem, Thom waxes all poetical
like, whilst the legendary Roy Weard continues his regular column, C J Stone
does his, A J Smitrovich continues thumbing through his Dad's LPs, and Mr Biffo
has more of his regular slices of insanity from the world of Digitiser 2000, and
there is a radio show from Strange Fruit, one from Friday Night Progressive and
another from Mack Moloney, and Tim and Jaki are back with a new show. There is
also a collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and antechinuses
wanting poos (OK, nothing to do with small marsupials who are slightly
constipated, 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!!!
This issue features:
David Bowie, Sinead O'Connor, Tom Jones, Keith Richards, Stevie Wonder,
Steve Lamacq, Joy Division, Morrissey, Paul McCartney, Mary McCartney, Stella
McCartney, Keith Levene, Ringo Starr, Steve Ignorant, Strange Harvest, Friday
Night Progressive, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Jaki Windmill, Tim Rundall,
Scott Richard Weiland, Wayne Bickerman, Alex Cooley, Carols Jesus "Buddy"
Moreno, Ronald David "Ronnie" Bright, Anthony Valentine, Johnny Winter, 13th
Floor Elevators, Spirits Burning, The Pirates, Michael Jackson, Dee Palmer,
Freddie King, The Selecter, Ducks De Luxe, Alexis Corner, James Brown, John Lee
Hooker, Anglagard, Tommy James, John Brodie-Good, Adele, Roy Weard, A.J.
Smitrovich, My Dad's LPs, Mr. Biffo, Hawkwind, The Beatles, Crosby, Stills, Nash
& Young, Elvis Presley, Led Zeppelin, Keith Richards, Mick Jagger, The
Monkees, The Bee Gees, Yes, Chris Squire, Jon Anderson, Alice Cooper, Rick
Wakeman, Matt Malley, Neil Nixon, Black Sweden, Gwydion
Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
Issue 158 (Billy Sherwood)
Issue 157 (Drones for Daevid)
Issue 156 (Rick and Emmie)
Issue 155 (Pink Fairies)
Issue 154 (Steve Ignorant)
Issue 153 (Martin Barre)
Issue 152 (4th Eden)
Issue 151 (Corky Laing)
Issue 150 (Roger Dean)
Issue 149 (Tony Palmer in Space)
Issue 148 (Wally Hope)
Issue 147 (Thom the World Poet cover)
Issue 146 (Bee and Flower cover)
Issue 145 (Dave Brock cover)
Issue 144 (Percy Jones cover)
Issue 143 (Billy Sherwood cover)
Issue 142 (Daevid Allen and Spirits Burning cover)
Issue 141 (Rick Wakeman cover)
Issue 140 (Jaki Windmill cover)
Issue 139 (Raz cover)
Issue 138 (Galahad cover)
Issue 137 (Chris Squire cover)
Issue 136 (Neil Nixon cover)
Issue 135 (FNP cover)
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!
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it also has other stuff as and when the editor feels like it. The same team also
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* 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 56 who - together with an infantile orange cat named after a song
by Frank Zappa, and a small kitten totally coincidentally named after one of the
Manson Family, purely because she squeaks, 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 young lady called Jessica. 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, and the adventurous kitten?
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