The Impending Ampton of South, and Other Such Social Jiggery
Finally, here comes the skinny on my upcoming relocation: I'll be moving out of Portsmouth, permanently, on April 15th.
The temporary address I'll be living at is 44 Cromwell Road, a residence I'll only be staying in until June 31st; I'll be slowly moving my stuff in over the course of the first two weeks of April, as the previous tenant will be gone by April 1st and will have paid up for that fortnight. I'll be living in a house with a few randomers who seem pretty okay, nice and all, but don't appear to be very much like myself.
On July 1st, I'll be moving to a flat at 88B Wilton Avenue, alongside three people I've met with whom I think I'll be glad to live as they're total film and music nuts like myself. The rent's pretty good, at a rent and bills total of £336pppm which ought to be very manageable on a 16-hour-minimum working week.
Steve's moving back home until he goes to Sussex University (which is fantastic, as he can finally stop worrying about money and, with any luck, work less and play more), and Phil's already found a new place to move in to once we abandon this mousetrap of a house.
Sej will be spending more time at home, during which her brother's presence is likely to give her a bit more than just a slight push towards finally stepping into the realm of 'properly moving out'; she's finally got a fair amount of experience and a decent portfolio, so she's about to begin doing the inevitable "bug prospective employers like crazy" thing until she's hired for paid freelance or editorial work. It'll happen, but we're just a bit worried about exactly where it'll require her to be. Anyway, we'll cross that bridge when we come to it.
Uni's almost over, anyway: I've finished filming on our 16mm production, and am just waiting on our film to be developed and sent back so we can edit and complete it; classes have ended for Spectators & Audiences, so I've now got the task of constructing a 3,000-word research project, which I'm likely to base around the fall of British censorship in the late 1960s; and, finally, I have only one more screening and seminar for World Cinema on Monday before I'm free to begin work on an altogether non-specific 2,000-word essay, for which I've not decided upon a topic just yet, but am considering the obvious choice of 'popular East Asian cinema as a realm of cultural and national identity'.
I'm looking to carry on working at Game once I've moved, although I'm currently in a position of dead man's shoes while I wait for a transfer to Southampton; as such, I'm going to commute to Portsmouth for (full day) shifts at Commercial Road until someone quits at West Quay. I hope the staff there are as decent as those in my present workplace, too.
Escape Story shall continue once I've moved, meaning we'll be arranging paid practices at the Old Blacksmiths on a weekly basis if all goes to plan. We're just putting finishing touches on our new EP, Blind & Silent, and just might have a release show for it once things have settled down. A detail to bare in mind, however, is that I'm renouncing my place as 'manager' following the move, so I'll be ceasing to arrange practices or new recordings or gigs from then on, leaving my bandmates to fill my shoes as I concentrate on more local matters (namely, uni and work, as well as establishing the Southampton social life I've missed out on whilst living in Portsmouth).
And I'll definitely be arranging something huge before I go. Get your votes in now for a (very) cramped house party, a Saturday night out until Chaos or a Monday night out until Route!
The temporary address I'll be living at is 44 Cromwell Road, a residence I'll only be staying in until June 31st; I'll be slowly moving my stuff in over the course of the first two weeks of April, as the previous tenant will be gone by April 1st and will have paid up for that fortnight. I'll be living in a house with a few randomers who seem pretty okay, nice and all, but don't appear to be very much like myself.
On July 1st, I'll be moving to a flat at 88B Wilton Avenue, alongside three people I've met with whom I think I'll be glad to live as they're total film and music nuts like myself. The rent's pretty good, at a rent and bills total of £336pppm which ought to be very manageable on a 16-hour-minimum working week.
Steve's moving back home until he goes to Sussex University (which is fantastic, as he can finally stop worrying about money and, with any luck, work less and play more), and Phil's already found a new place to move in to once we abandon this mousetrap of a house.
Sej will be spending more time at home, during which her brother's presence is likely to give her a bit more than just a slight push towards finally stepping into the realm of 'properly moving out'; she's finally got a fair amount of experience and a decent portfolio, so she's about to begin doing the inevitable "bug prospective employers like crazy" thing until she's hired for paid freelance or editorial work. It'll happen, but we're just a bit worried about exactly where it'll require her to be. Anyway, we'll cross that bridge when we come to it.
Uni's almost over, anyway: I've finished filming on our 16mm production, and am just waiting on our film to be developed and sent back so we can edit and complete it; classes have ended for Spectators & Audiences, so I've now got the task of constructing a 3,000-word research project, which I'm likely to base around the fall of British censorship in the late 1960s; and, finally, I have only one more screening and seminar for World Cinema on Monday before I'm free to begin work on an altogether non-specific 2,000-word essay, for which I've not decided upon a topic just yet, but am considering the obvious choice of 'popular East Asian cinema as a realm of cultural and national identity'.
I'm looking to carry on working at Game once I've moved, although I'm currently in a position of dead man's shoes while I wait for a transfer to Southampton; as such, I'm going to commute to Portsmouth for (full day) shifts at Commercial Road until someone quits at West Quay. I hope the staff there are as decent as those in my present workplace, too.
Escape Story shall continue once I've moved, meaning we'll be arranging paid practices at the Old Blacksmiths on a weekly basis if all goes to plan. We're just putting finishing touches on our new EP, Blind & Silent, and just might have a release show for it once things have settled down. A detail to bare in mind, however, is that I'm renouncing my place as 'manager' following the move, so I'll be ceasing to arrange practices or new recordings or gigs from then on, leaving my bandmates to fill my shoes as I concentrate on more local matters (namely, uni and work, as well as establishing the Southampton social life I've missed out on whilst living in Portsmouth).
And I'll definitely be arranging something huge before I go. Get your votes in now for a (very) cramped house party, a Saturday night out until Chaos or a Monday night out until Route!