Update!

Good news! I've made my first tangible bit of progress towards something on my list. That something is learning the intro to 'To Build a Home' by The Cinematic Orchestra, which falls under item #40: learn to play piano. I intend to actually learn the rest fairly soon. But it's a start!

Here's a video of Patrick Watson singing and playing it better than I can. Hit it Pat:



Definitely not TCO's best song - for a start it doesn't have any input from Luke Flowers' amazing drumming. For that, you could do worse than check out All Things To All Men, which has the added kudos of featuring Roots Manuva. Or, indeed, any of the songs from the albums 'Motion' and 'Every Day'.

In other news, my friend Mary Beth has started a blog like mine! Except she's had her list for ages, so she's been able to make it and already tick things off. The cheek. She refers to my posts here as 'musings', which is a very apt description...and probably one I've already used about myself. Here's a picture of me musing:



Can you tell I've decided to make my blog more interesting by putting more multimedia on it? It'll get less forced, I promise. Or possibly more forced. I quite like the random pictures, like the killer iPods below. Google images is indeed a weird and wonderful treasure-trove.