St Asaph Street is one of the streets of the southern central city running parallel Moorhouse Avenue to Hagley Park. The buildings of the street suffered severe damages during the earthquake therefore the picture we get driving along it is very mixed. It consists of survived and ruined old buildings, empty spaces and quickly emerging temporary and light modern structures. In one of these simple, cubicle buildings is where RDU is located now. I was interviewed today by James in his breakfast show on this alternative radio station. During the live talk I invited him to participate in Me+Christchurch. James was happy, so I asked him about his feelings about his studio and also snapped a few photos there and then. James thought a second then pulled the microphone a bit closer. “On the one hand we have all the grim, grey kind of nothingness of central Christchurch. But in this particular chair and in this studio, this is a good place, because this new studio that we have here in RDU that we have been in for about still under a year is a kind of bright spot and it feels like we are going forward and upwards. It’s a little bit grey but also kind of optimistic and looking forward.” We got to talk about Christchurch as well later on, and James confided that not all his feelings are positive about the city as a whole. “I am critical about a lot of things, and yes, I am angry. I wrote this book with three other people, this is basically a collection of critical essays about the city-building in Christchurch.” – James handed me a copy of his book that’s titled Once in a Lifetime.