The Gonzo Daily: Monday/Tuesday
Every day last week I wrote about the trials and tribulations attendant on
setting up my new computer. And every day I wrote something like "and I think it
is all sorted, so hopefully today will be the day I can start using it. And
guess what? A week after he started work on the damn thing, Graham is still
having problems with it. So I am not going to say anything at all. Just watch
this space.
Toodle-pip
YER EDITOR SEZ:
THE DIGITAL PRAYER FLAG
Regular readers will know that we recently shared the positive news about
Corinna's health with you all, and that - at least at the moment - she appears
to be cancer free. I am convinced that her condition is a direct result of the
good wishes, prayers, and positive vibes from thousands of people around the
world. A prayer flag (Lung ta) is a colourful rectangular cloth, often found
strung along mountain ridges and peaks high in the Himalayas. They are used to
bless the surrounding countryside and for other purposes.
Find out more:
I believe something similar happens with positive vibes transmitted
electronically, and - having used it to such good effect with my dear wife's
condition, I want to try it on a larger scale. I am still trying to work out the
details, so watch this space.
Blessed be.
ALL TODAY'S GONZO NEWS WOT'S FIT TO PRINT:
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Essra Mohawk - "Rainda...
TONY KLINGER WRITES
OODLES OF LEONARD COHEN NEWS
FRANK ZAPPA EN PASSANT
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
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Meanwhile I continue to pretend that I am a popstar, because now I have
sold eight whole copies of my new album Coldharbour. If I continue at this rate
I will get a silver disc sometime at the beginning of the next millenium.
Coldharbour, by the way, can be found here:
https://jondownes1.bandcamp.com/releases
I think it is really rather good, but then again I would say that wouldn't
I?
I do have good news to impart: Lars Thomas' book about the mystery land
animals of Scandinavia and the Baltic States has been uploaded, and over at
Gonzo the first volume of Kev Rowland's The Progressive Underground is also
imminent. And at Fortean Fiction, my latest novel - 'Zen and Xenophobia' -
vaguely a sequel to 2015's 'The Song of Panne' - is now available.
! would warn you that if you are of a nervous disposition, or easily
offended, you will find parts of my novel both offensive and upsetting. There is
sex, violence, drug abuse, occultism, pornography, firearms, politics, religion,
and not a little sociology. But there is also love, kindness, faith, and
redemption. And it's a cracking good yarn. Or I think so, at any rate. All I
would say on the subject before bidding you farewell is Caveat Lector. And I'm
not gonna explain what that means, because because if you don't know what that
means then you probably shouldn't be reading the book in the first place.
AND THE LATEST ISSUE OF THE GONZO MAGAZINE:
Gonzo Weekly #333/34
THE WONDERFUL WORLD ISSUE
In a groovy globetrotting issue, John takes the hippie trail to Nepal, Alan
visits Lindisfarne, Davey catches the Number 21 to Newcastle to see UFO, Jon
raves about Connie Constance, and sneers at a particularly strange book by
Lobsang Rampa, Graham brings us up to date with Hawkwind and we send Bunty and
Nikki to a completely hypothetical desert island.
Hail Eris!
And there are radio shows from Mack Maloney and Friday Night Progressive
AND Strange Fruit. AND there is a column from Kev Rowland, and one from C J
Stone, and Roy Weard, BUT Neil Nixon, Mr Biffo, and the irrepressible Corinna
are on hiatus. There is also a collection of more news, reviews, views,
interviews and rock wallabies who've blown a fuse (OK, nothing to do with the
relatively small macropods who are having electrical problems, 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:
Focus, The Specials, Les Claypool, Sean Lennon, Maverick Sabre, Connie
Constance, Olivia McCarthy, Tony Klinger, The Beatles, Be Bop Deluxe, Michael
Jackson, Stevie Nicks, Fleetwood Mac, Davey Curtis, UFO, Richard Freeman,
Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Lee
Walker, Stephen Fitzpatrick, Audun Laading, Joe Flannery, Nipsey Hussle (ne
Ermias Davidson Asghedom), Geoffrey John Harvey OAM, Simaro Massisya Lutumba
Ndomanueno, Alberto Cortez, (ne José Alberto García Gallo), Richard Robert
Elias, Kim English, Margaret Lewis Warwick, Billy Adams, James William Glaser,
Shawn Smith, Davey J. Williams, Einar "Paster'n" Iversen, Tiger Merritt, David
Farrant, Pink Fairies, Rick Wakeman, Comic Strip Presents, Iona, Essra Mohawk,
Alan Dearling, The Holy Island of Lindisfarne, John Brodie-Good, Kathmandu,
Nepal, Kev Rowland, Settke Your Scores, Shields, Skeletal Remains, The
Slyde,Spiders, Stone Deaf, Stryper, Unprocessed, Nikki and Bunty, Roy Weard, C J
Stone, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Hawkwind, Jon Downes, The Wild Colonial Boy,
Martin Springett, T. Lobsang Rampa,
Lama Mingyar Dondup
And the last few issues are:
Issue 331-32 (Scott Walker)
Issue 329-30 (Charlie X)
Issue 327-28 (Hawkwind)
Issue 325-26 (Gonzo)
Issue 323-24 (Irvine Welsh)
Issue 321-22 (Discordianism)
Issue 319-20 (Brix Smith)
Issue 317-18 (Christmas)
Issue 315-16 (Steve Miller)
Issue 313-14 (Hawkwind)
Issue 311-12 (Extinction Rebellion)
Issue 309-10 (Steve Hillage)
Issue 307-8 (Michael Moorcock)
Issue 305-6 (Maartin Allcock)
Issue 303-4 (kOZFEST)
Issue 301-2 (Ringo Starr)
Issue 299-300 (Aretha Franklin)
Issue 298 (Alan in Hungary)
Issue 297 (Shir Ordo)
Issue 295-6 (Robert Berry)
Issue 294 (Bow Wow Wow)
Issue 293 (Stonehenge)
Issue 292 (Rolling Stones)
Issue 291 (Alien Weaponry)
Issue 290 (Frank Zappa)
Issue 289 (Misty in Roots)
Issue 288 (Paula Frazer)
Issue 287 (Boss Goodman)
Issue 286 (Monty Python)
Issue 285 (ELP)
Issue 284 (Strangelove)
Issue 283 (Record Store Day)
Issue 282 (Neil Finn and Fleetwood Mac)
Issue 281 (Carl Palmer)
Issue 280 (Steve Andrews)
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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old hippy of 59 who - together with a Jack Russell called Archie, an infantile
orange cat named after a song by Frank Zappa, and two half grown kittens, one
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
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 Archie and the Cats?
What has Corinna's column of Fortean bird news got to do with cryptozoology? 
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