THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN IS FED-UP

I can, for once, get on with writing deathless prose, answering e-mails and generally trawling the few bits of social media to which I subscribe looking for people that I want to comment on something. Add to that the fact that I now have a pair of rather nifty studio monitors in my office, and I now no longer have to keep the music low enough so I can hear the telephone.

I got an e-mail today from a regular reader of my inky-fingered scribblings, in which he told me that I shouldn't be so self-deprecating when I am writing. It would be much better if I came on more assertive. It was a very interesting e-mail and massively kindly meant, but I disagree with him, and I feel that I should explain why. The strapline 'Because some of us still believe that this stuff is important' really sets out our stall. Once upon a time the music and cultural issues about which I write each day were centre stage in Western society. Now they are not. We all have smart phones but we as a society have lost sight of the social and cultural issues some of us feel are important. This is basically what I am writing about and campaigning for with all the things that we do: musical, cultural, scientific and Fortean. I am not a big corporate dude in a commercial office; I am just what I say I am: a disabled bloke trying to change the world from a badly converted potato shed. I would like to quote Hawkwind at this point and say that culturally speaking I am an "Urban Guerilla, I make bombs in my cellar", but in the current sociopolitical climate that would be a very unwise thing to do.

Another visit to our old friend Thom the World Poet
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/10/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_30.html

Today's Track of the Day is by Van Der Graaf Generator
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-gonzo-track-of-day-van-der-graaf.html

Roy Wood: "I was in such agony I could barely stand"
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/10/roy-wood-i-was-in-such-agony-i-could_30.html

Hawkwind review
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/10/hawkwind-review_6091.html

In One of his Final Interviews, Frank Zappa Pronounces Himself “Totally Unrepentant”
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/10/in-one-of-his-final-interviews-frank.html

Barbara Dickson Joins The Pars Supporters Trust
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/10/barbara-dickson-joins-pars-supporters.html

Robert Fripp On Meeting Jimi Hendrix
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/10/robert-fripp-on-meeting-jimi-hendrix.html

*  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/2012/11/all-gonzo-news-wots-fit-to-print.html

 

* 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 54 who - together with his orange cat (who is currently on sick leave in Staffordshire) and two very small kittens (one of whom is also orange) - 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 orange cat?