The Gonzo Daily - Sunday
To highlight my ignorance I will admit with
sorrow
that I'm not sure if the Solstice is today or tomorrow
But Andy the
druid is arriving here soon
to plant some trees and do a Yuletide blessing
later this afternoon
And so I must go and see my wife and ask if she
needs help
because the animals are over excited and Archie's begun to
yelp
and there lots of stuff I need to do (mostly involving dogs)
so
forgive me if I rush on now, and thus curtail my blogs
Stevie Wonder, Fleetwood Mac, Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens), Minstrel's Ghost,
Jack the Ripper, Corky Laing, Merrell Fankhauser, Sendelica, Jon Anderson, Rick
Wakeman, Yes, Hawkwind, and Daevid Allen fans had better look out!
The latest issue (The Christmas DOUBLE issue - there won't be one next
week) of Gonzo Weekly (#109/10) will soon be available to read at
www.gonzoweekly.com, and to download at
http://www.gonzoweekly.com/pdf/. It
has Yusuf and Stevie Wonder on the front cover, and features gig reviews of
both artists and Fleetwood Mac, my totally subjective top ten albums of the
year, excerpts from books by Corky Laing, Merrell Fankhauser and Neil Nixon,
interviews with Minstrel's Ghost about their new meisterwork based on the life
of Jack the Ripper, and Sendelica, we send Tim Rundall to a desert island, and
there are shows from the multi-talented Neil Nixon at Strange Fruit and from M
Destiny at Friday Night Progressive, and the titular submarine dwellers are back
with another episode of Sub Reality Sandwich (except its not). There is also a
collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and anteaters wishing to
snooze (OK, nothing to do with dozy edentates, 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!!!
Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
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!
* 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 55 who - together with an infantile orange cat named
after a song by Frank Zappa 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 infantile orange
cat?
This unusual creature has left residents baffled puzzled after being washed up on California beach. The brownish leather-skinned beast with sharp teeth and claws was found in Santa Barbara following a storm. Nobody has been able to identify what species of animal it is after it was discovered near a washout drain near the ocean.Although to many, it just looks like a decomposed seal, some have speculated it could have been roaming the Earth 65million years ago.