The Gonzo Daily - Friday/Saturday
And so, my dears, another week has come and gone. I am not a particularly
superstitious but I will admit to being paraskevidekatriaphobic, and today is
Friday the Thirteenth and I will be the first to admit that I am on edge because
things are—as they always do—going wrong.
According to Wikipedia Triskaidekaphobia (from Greek tris meaning "three",
kai meaning "and", deka meaning "10" and phobos meaning "fear" or "morbid fear")
is fear of the number 13 and avoidance to use it; it is a superstition and
related to the specific fear of the 13th person at the Last Supper being Judas,
who betrayed Jesus Christ and ultimately hanged himself. It is also a reason for
the fear of Friday the 13th, called paraskevidekatriaphobia (from Παρασκευή
Paraskevi, Greek for Friday) or friggatriskaidekaphobia (after Frigg, the Norse
goddess after whom Friday is named in English).
My personal reasons for disliking the date reach back to my first days at
Primary School back in Hong Kong when a teacher told us (one Friday 13th) that
the belief in bad luck on this day was just a silly superstition. I had never
actually heard of this before, but as an avid believer that all I was told by
those in authority was wrong, I went on to have a particularly bad day (think
hurting myself in an accident followed by a bout of physical chastisement from
my paterfamilias) and I have disliked the day ever since.
There. I have shared one of my deepest, darkest and silliest secrets with
you.
COMING TOMORROW
Another Slice of Life at Belper venue
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
The Magic Band: Beatle boots, surf bands and the B...
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Satoko Fujii piano sol...
Gonzo Weekly #155
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Pink Fairies, Dungen, Frank Zappa, Beach Boys, Digitiser, Mr Biffo, Roy
Weard, Mack Moloney, A J Smitrovich, Dogwatch, That Legendary Wooden Lion,
Hawkwind, Jon Anderson, Mack Moloney, and Yes fans had better look out!
The latest issue of Gonzo Weekly (#155) is available to read at
www.gonzoweekly.com, and to download at http://www.gonzoweekly.com/pdf/. It
has the legendary Pink Fairies on the cover and in depth coverage of their
recent London and Wolverhampton gigs inside. Doug goes to see Dungen,Jon
critiques a fascinating new Biography of the Beach Boys, Dave McMann looks at
the new Frank Zappa Roxy movie, and Corinna sneers at some more tacky pop
memorabilia. Xtul are back in the deep woods. 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. 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:
Nelson deMille, Pink Fairies, Noel Gallagher, One Direction, Glenn Frey,
Keith Richards, Quadrophenia, Tom Jones, Barbara Dickson, The Velvet
Underground, Lou Reed, John Cale, Tom Wilson, The Byrds, Roger McGuinn, Pete
Seeger, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour,
Mihai Alexandru, Constantin Ignat, Adrian Rugena, Vlad Telea, Lauentiu Varlan,
Tommy Overstreet, Raul Rekow, Nucleus, The RAZ band, Mark Murdock, Brand X,
Alexis Korner, 13th Floor Elevators, The Pink Fairies, Tim Rundall, Jeremy
Smith, John Brodie Smith, Dungen, Frank Zappa, Dave McMann, Neil Nixon, Roy
Weard, A.J. Smitrovich, My Dad's LPs, Mr Biffo, Hawkwind, Dave Brock, Dead Fred,
Ian Abrahams, Xtul, The Beach Boys, Antoine-Joseph “Adolphe” Sax, Wham!, Sex
Pistols, Madonna, Pink Floyd, Nick Cave, Morrissey, Prince, The Beatles, Kiss,
Yes, Billy Sherwood, Tony Kaye, Chris Squire, Jon Anderson, AndersonPonty, Rick
Wakeman, Geoff
Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
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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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
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