I’m back
So I’ve decided to put the site back up and start writing again. I disappeared from doing internet stuff for a while after I turned 18 – it must have been all the drinking, gambling and tattoos that I was getting now I was officially an adult. Rock on.
Not much to report about in the months I’ve been away. I got a speeding ticket, was front row centre at a Nas gig, fourth row (out of 10,000 people) for a Game and Snoop Dogg gig. I’m going to see Game in July again, because he’s the dogs bollocks. I’ll put some of the pictures and videos up from those gigs later, because they rocked. I’m sure there’s plenty of other stuff but it’s not been the most exciting couple of months in the history of me.
I have decided where I’m going to be spending the next three years of my life after I finish college. I’ll be glad to see the back of this shitty, rural village and an even more unpopulated college course. I’ll miss the people I’ve got to know in my time here but I’ll only be a train/car journey away, and I’m sure I’ll be back once or twice every few months. So I’ll be ditching the rural village to live bang in the middle of Sunderland. I took a look at Thames Valley in London (too expensive), Teeside (buildings were stained with smog), Chester (I’ve seen more life in Terry Schiavo – worst university ever!) and Salford (full of jews who looked like pilgrims? Scary stuff). Sunderland was just superb. I had a great feeling as soon as I got there. It’s not the industrial shit hole that everybody makes it out to be.
Sunderland is in a great location – a bus journey from Newcastle (which boasts great night life, more shops and is just generally one of the country’s biggest cities) and a bus journey from Middlesbrough (where I have family). Sunderland itself was great, the inner city was one of the most attractive I’ve seen anywhere in the UK, there were nice parks, nice shops, no dead buildings and it just looked very modern. The university is bang in the middle of town, as is the accommodation, both 5 minutes away from Sunderland’s football team/stadium, shops, a beach? Cinemas and everything you would want in a city centre. I loved it. I’m not a Sunderland University salesman, honest.
Ok, so other than going for location and how good the city looks, I’ll be studying a 3 year degree in TV & Radio. At the moment I’m doing an awful course in Media Audio (Radio Journalism basically) which has struggled to hold 5 people in the group and is just the dullest, most lifeless and depressing course I’ve ever been on. It’s not challenging, motivating or inspiring at all. At Sunderland they said they expect to fill the 90 person allocated course and the work they do there looks highly challenging - Documentaries, working for a proper broadcasted radio station, TV work, etc. It just looks like what I wanted this college course to be (hands on work that actually goes somewhere). At the same time I also want to work for the Student magazine and newspaper – so that I can also do print based stuff after I leave University. The facilities were very impressive too, I can’t see myself going anywhere else. Just got to get my D M M (distinction, merit, merit) now to get in.
That’s all that’s happened in me news. Interesting updates to follow – I promise. Photos from those Game & Snoop / Nas gigs to follow, some album reviews, maybe some interesting stories if I’m blessed with any…
