Apologies for the unexpected gap in blogging transmission, partly due to the usual Faliraki-style bacchalanian excess but also partly due to a pretty serious case of the squits (and if that's what one day at the Reading Rock Festival does to me, at least it establishes once and for all that I literally no longer have the stomach to do Glasto ever again). You'll be relieved to know that the latrines at HQ have been thoroughly hosed and defumigated and updates here at Parallax View are set to recommence with pretty much immediate effect.
In the meantime, best wishes to Nush Nowak (whose mischievous wit graced Big Brother 4) for a speedy recovery from horrific injuries sustained in a late-night mugging. Also, belated birthday wishes to Robyn who turned 28 at the weekend.
Other news in brief...Billie Piper set to bare bum on British TV (well, if she wants to...)...Courtney Love has done a nude lesbian photoshoot with model Ekaterina Hlebanova for Dutch magazine (there's a joke in there about tulips but I'll leave you to finish that one off yourself)...The Strokes reveal new album title: Room On Fire (is that it?)...The Observer interviews Douglas Coupland...and finally, The Venice Film Festival gets saucy at 60.
Ah, the end of the August Bank Holiday signals for many the end of the British summer, and although the good weather could yet hold for another month or so, the nights will start to close in pretty sharpish from now on. Still, there should be some good reading due for the Autumn, as these Bookmunch reviews of new books by Chuck Palahniuk and Douglas Coupland would seem to attest. Both books are set to hit the shelves next week.
Also, as some of you will be aware, The Hammers sacked boss Glenn Roeder during my blogging absence. The sad but inevitable conclusion to a decent man being promoted beyond his ability, I'm afraid, but I wish him well for the future, as long as it never again involves mismanaging my beloved football club.
My choice for successor ('cos I know you're dying to ask) would be either Reading's Alan Pardew or former Arsenal boss George Graham, but it's looking increasingly likely the choice will be Oldham's Iain Dowie who is currently working out of contract (and therefore won't require compensation payments for him to be released). Whoever it is, I wish them luck - they'll bloody well need it, make no mistake.
Back atcha soon with my Reading Festival recollections!
In the meantime, best wishes to Nush Nowak (whose mischievous wit graced Big Brother 4) for a speedy recovery from horrific injuries sustained in a late-night mugging. Also, belated birthday wishes to Robyn who turned 28 at the weekend.
Other news in brief...Billie Piper set to bare bum on British TV (well, if she wants to...)...Courtney Love has done a nude lesbian photoshoot with model Ekaterina Hlebanova for Dutch magazine (there's a joke in there about tulips but I'll leave you to finish that one off yourself)...The Strokes reveal new album title: Room On Fire (is that it?)...The Observer interviews Douglas Coupland...and finally, The Venice Film Festival gets saucy at 60.
Ah, the end of the August Bank Holiday signals for many the end of the British summer, and although the good weather could yet hold for another month or so, the nights will start to close in pretty sharpish from now on. Still, there should be some good reading due for the Autumn, as these Bookmunch reviews of new books by Chuck Palahniuk and Douglas Coupland would seem to attest. Both books are set to hit the shelves next week.
Also, as some of you will be aware, The Hammers sacked boss Glenn Roeder during my blogging absence. The sad but inevitable conclusion to a decent man being promoted beyond his ability, I'm afraid, but I wish him well for the future, as long as it never again involves mismanaging my beloved football club.
My choice for successor ('cos I know you're dying to ask) would be either Reading's Alan Pardew or former Arsenal boss George Graham, but it's looking increasingly likely the choice will be Oldham's Iain Dowie who is currently working out of contract (and therefore won't require compensation payments for him to be released). Whoever it is, I wish them luck - they'll bloody well need it, make no mistake.
Back atcha soon with my Reading Festival recollections!
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