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What happens when you mix what is - arguably - the world's most interesting record company, with an anarchist manic-depressive rock music historian polymath, and a method of dissemination which means that a daily rock-music magazine can be almost instantaneous?
Most of this blog is related in some way to the music, books and films produced by Gonzo Multimedia, but the editor has a grasshopper mind and so also writes about all sorts of cultural issues which interest him, and which he hopes will interest you as well.
Monday, 24 December 2012
COUNTDOWN TO CHRISTMAS: Thom the World Poet
The Gonzo Daily Countdown to Christmas begins today. Christmas music can lift your heart, move you to tears and be a genuinely spiritual experience. On the other hand it can make you want to throw up!
We have asked a whole slew of Gonzofolk for their top five favourite Christmas songs (secular, sacred or both), and will be printing a list, and showing a video every day until after Christmas. Today we talk to Thom the World Poet:
1.MERRY
XMAS(War Is Over) (John Lennon/Yoko Ono)
2.CHRISTMAS
IS COMING (the geese are getting fat)
3.GLOUCESTERSHIRE
WASSAIL
4.SOLSTICE
CHANT (Thom)
5.Where
The Dickens Is Christmas? (Thom)
WHERE THE DICKENS IS CHRISTMAS?
In these HARD TIMES, it seems best
to
have GREAT EXPECTATIONS!
to
let joy ring!to sing A CHRISTMAS CAROL
rather
than carry a BLEAK HOUSE
like
an empty heart's HOUSE TO LET
Happiness
is OUR MUTUAL FRIEND
(that
is GEORGE SILVERMAN's EXPLANATION)
Live
like DOMBEY AND SON-
cheerful
as OLIVER TWIST or DAVID COPPERFIELD!
Even LITTLE DORRIT
or MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT knew this-
MASTER
HUMPHREY's CLOCK/CHIMES for all of us
There
is NO THOROUGHFARE in the BATTLE OF LIFE!
You
may balance the HAUNTED MAN and the GHOST's BARGAIN
but
in a TALE OF TWO CITIES,it is no HOLIDAY ROMANCE!
If
you lost your PICKWICK PAPERS or your AMERICAN NOTES
in
an OLD CURIOSITY SHOP,NICHOLAS NICKLEBY would say
it
is just like the MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD-or a
LAZY
TALE OF TWO APPRENTICES.BARNABY RUDGE knew that!
So
chirp and chirrup like A CRICKET ON THE HEARTH!
Who, why or what is Gonzo? Why are they blogging? and why should you care?
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WE, THE BLOGGERS are a bunch of disaffected music journalists from beyond the lost horizon. And, like it says at the top of the page, we are still crazy enough to think that music is more than a disposable commodity useful to marketing departments across the world.
Do we think that if we chant loud enough we can stop it raining? Quite possibly.
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