i know in my last post i said i wouldn’t make the leap to making music, but i pulled out my old friend the melodica tonight after listening to “death of a party” on loop and being haunted by it’s eerie organ opening. while the melodica is not the most sensible instrument to pick out a tune on – for starters, trying to hum while finding the notes is useless – it still took about 5 minutes (it’s G-F#-C-B in case you’re wondering). reminds me of the good old days, when i used to teach myself the parts of q and not u and decemberists songs, and when i ran out of those, practice bach minuets for piano lessons on it. since i’ve already managed to refresh myself on most of these, i’m thinking of starting work on turning everybody’s favorite songs into sea shanties (remember when anna did it for ‘since u been gone’?). you may soon find me in the tube on my lunch breaks, busking for a bit of a change. and maybe one day i’ll be so lucky as to follow in my mother’s footsteps and play a wedding.