Above - just before shooting the flat profile in the previous post. The garage had been converted into a bachelor pad of sorts, tv/playstation/stereo in one corner, gym in another, bed at the back wall, sitting beside it was a costume rack.
Here is the interview, as told to Sebastian Boyle:
The best part about this flat is the love.
There's a lot of love to share. We're made up of Canterbury students and Lincoln students - it's charity work on the part of the Canterbury students. We're doing a lot for inter-varsity unity.
We moved in on February 12th. We got the flat one day out from O-Week; we'd just run out of options. It was a bigtime lack of organisation on our part. We've only just sorted out our flat roster tonight, and our internet still doesn't have a password. We are quite possibly the laughing stock of Ilam. I'm sure Facebook doesn't take ten gig in one night; I'm sure the neighbors downloading Iron Man 2 does. We've got someone doing a computer skills paper at Lincoln so he can figure it out.
Cooking hasn't been too bad. There's always grass, you can always eat grass. This is what the Lincoln students are trying to bring to the Canterbury society; there are more things to eat than just off the plate: grass, plants... times are tough.
We had a big flat warming called "Livzapalooza". The name has nothing to do with the flat, but we made it on the premise that the person who shouted the keg was called Liv, so it was good for both parties, really. We had a DJ on the roof, which was just a complete OSH hazard waiting to happen. The whole roof was moving there were so many people on it. It could indeed be said that our flat has a roof fetish, yet the only thing in our tenancy agreement about parties was just "Don't run on the roof, the tiles won't hold you". We've now found two spots where it leaks.
We did a trip down to Lake Wanaka in late March, and succeeded in stealing the logo from Shooters Wanaka. That was our proudest moment as a flat. What were we doing in Shooters? Let's not go there.
We're in the middle of our first red card at the moment. It comes with a free day off work; free day off uni. Police hopefully won't be involved. In the morning, there'll probably be a bucket half full of spew, nobody waking up in their beds...
By the end of the year, hopefully we'll get a reality TV show out of it: Ilam Shore. It'd be great if we got a celebrity appearance for that; a celebrity visit to the flat. Preferably Nicole from Home and Away. Or Leigh Hart. Jason Gunn. The door's always open, because it's never locked! And if the door's locked, then try a fucking window.
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