Saturday, November 30, 2013

THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN IS AFFLICTED

The Gonzo Daily - Saturday
Yesterday was the most unpleasant day in the Capitalist Year. Yes, boys and girls, it was Black Friday. Even though the British don't celebrate Thanksgiving, we have started to celebrate the day after, when unbridled Consumerism hits the streets. As Loren Coleman so rightly says on his blog: "...in recent years, it has become capitalism's version of "Devil's Night," chiefly associated with the serious vandalism and arson seen in Detroit, Michigan from the 1970s to the 1990s. Violence has been frequent news byproduct of reports on Black Fridays, since 2006, and the media appears to be enjoying detailing every fight, shooting, or near riots on Black Fridays". Horribly, yesterday I had emails from members of the public wanting to know whether I was going to be doing massive savings on purchases of the Journal of Cryptozoology for Black Friday. My reply was in the negative.
I am not a renunciate - I like to have money in my pocket, but none of the things I do are motivated by money, and I find a culture where (as Dave McMann said, commenting on Loren's post that people "must shop for tat they don't need or can't afford as they have been brainwashed by he media to do so" totally abhorrent. There is nothing wrong with making money, but there is everything wrong with harrassing, bullying or manipulating people so that one can do so.
The new issue of Gonzo Weekly is out, and boy is it a corker. We have an interview with the lovely Judy Dyble about her recent appearance on an EP by Thee Faction, who make the claim that they are bringing down the government one song at a time which sounds good to me, especially as I have been doing something similar. We also have an interview with John Higgs about chaos, magick, and the band who burned a million quid. Listen to it and enter the surrealchemical world of the KLF. We also have Steve Ignorant's Slice of Life's recent London show in pictures, Doug Harr reviewing the new Jethro Rull biography, Jefferson Starship, Clearlight and tons more. Add to this news, reviews, interviews, idiosyncratic opinion pieces and that little bit of politics...and its all ABSOLUTELY FREE.
Check out this issue
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Another visit to our old friend Thom the World Poet
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/11/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_30.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?
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