The Gonzo Daily: Friday/Saturday
And so we come to the end of another week. And – as per bloody usual – it
has been a week jam-packed with jollity and… ummm not so jollity.
My dear Olivia was not very well earlier in the week, which is why I am
sitting in her amanuensis chair taking dictations on this jolly Friday morning.
Our Lady Selene is high in the sky at the moment, which means that there is not
much to choose between me and the orange cat for functional life skills, but one
does ones best to carry on.
One piece of sad, but not altogether unexpected, news is that when Graham
went to feed the birds in the top aviary yesterday, he found the cock Lady
Amherst’s pheasant, who had been living there for the past ten years, dead in
his shelter. He was very old, having bucked the trend for pheasant longevity by
several years, and had been getting more and more decrepit over the last 12
months. However, I am very glad that he died in his own house. Rather than
spending his final hours crammed into a cat basket and driven down a bumpy road
to Bradworthy, having to sit in a crowded waiting room in which the other
animals – mostly dogs and cats – would be giving off sounds and smells;
undoubtedly terrifying for him, before being taken into a room that smells of
chemicals and given a lethal injection.
He was a bad tempered bugger, especially towards visiting males of any
species. And especially in the breeding season, he would get very aggressive
towards Graham when he went in to feed him or clean the aviary out. In the end
he resorted to carrying a broom with which to fend him off. However, when it
came to the female of the human race, it was an entirely different story. Any
girl or woman of child bearing age who walked past the aviary during the
pheasant breeding season would be rewarded by an impressive display of strutting
and cooing, as the pheasant marched up and down with his chest out, obviously
doing his best to persuade the female visitor to be the mother of the chicks. He
was certainly a character amongst gallinaceous fowl, and although he lived a
long and pugnacious life without any major illnesses or injuries, he will be
very sadly missed.
Forgive me for always banging on about our webTV show, but it matters a lot
to me, and I would be grateful for as many people as possible to see it, and
spread the tidings of it far and wide:
But now, here is the news:
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Crazy World of Arthur ...
RICK WAKEMAN NEWS
LEONARD COHEN IN THE NEWS
HAWKWIND NEWS
Gonzo Weekly #258
THE ALL HALLOWS ISSUE
In a sort of Samhain issue we talk to Neil Nixon and unlock the secrets of
The Devil’s Jukebox, and Biffo launches the Trojan Arse Project. Alan
investigates John and Yoko’s conceptual country of Nutopia, and waxes lyrical
about Phaselock whereas Jon is reading Ransom Riggs and the immortal Robert
Anton Wilson and expanding his own reality tunnels.
Wooooot!
And there are radio shows from Mack Maloney, Strange Harvest and Friday
Night Progressive. We also have columns from all sorts of folk including Roy
Weard, C J Stone, Mr Biffo, Neil Nixon and the irrepressible Corinna. There is
also a collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and long nosed
potoroos who have done lots of poos (OK, nothing to do with small marsupials who
have been at the laxatives, 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:
Robert Anton Wilson, Timothy Leary, The Beatles, Paul McCartney, Marillion,
Genesis P-orridge, Morrissey, Jonny Greenwood, Ian Gillan, Strange Fruit, Friday
Night Progressive, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Larry Ray (Larry Ray
Piekutowski), Alberto Nelson Sanchez, Scott Mitchell Putesky, Martin Eric Ain
(Martin Stricker), Boris Karl Lennart Lindqvist, Eamonn Campbell, Philip Paul
Miller, Antoine "Fats" Domino Jr., Mary Hopkins, Man, Arthur Brown, Tony Ashton
and Jon Lord, Martin Springett, Third Ear Band, Benjamin Britten, Neil Nixon,
Owen Wilson, Alan Dearling, Nutopia, Kev Rowland, Monster Magnet, Quiet Riot,
Ric Sanders, Rafaelsenra, Quantum Fantay, Carol Albert, Jonathan McGowan, Mr
Biffo, Roy Weard, Bob Hedger and Pascal Vaucel, Hawkwind, Xtul, Martin
Springett, Ransom Riggs, Bob Dylan, Grateful Dead, Status Quo, Lionel Richie,
David Bowie, Roky Erickson and the Aliens
Issue 257 (Judge Smith)
Issue 255/6 (John Lennon)
Issue 254 (Mr Biffo)
Issue 253 (Dana Gillespie)
Issue 252 (Cropredy)
Issue 251 (Scott Walker)
Issue 250 (Jamms)
Issue 249 (Bill Bruford)
Issue 248 (The Selecter)
Issue 247 (Don Airey)
Issue 246 (Steve Hackett)
Issue 244-5 (Summer Special)
Issue 243 (Galahad)
Issue 242 (Steve Miller Band)
Issue 241 (Carol Hodge and Steve Ignorant)
Issue 240 (Midsummer Madness)
Issue 239 (Miss Peach)
Issue 238 (Hawkwind)
Issue 237 (Hawkwind)
Issue 236 (Manchester)
Issue 235 (Jon Anderson)
Issue 234 (Al Atkins)
Issue 233 (Richard Strange)
Issue 232 (Roy Weard)
Issue 231 (Allan Holdsworth)
Issue 230 (Curtis Womack)
Issue 229 (Larry Wallis)
Issue 228 (Space Pharoahs)
All issues from #70 can be downloaded at www.gonzoweekly.com if you prefer.
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Weekly dropbox. The first 69 issues are archived there as well. Information is
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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. He is ably
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mother-in-law, and a motley collection of social malcontents. Plus.. did we
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