Films, literature, music. They've all taught you that it's okay to be lost at this point in your life.

• Beginners
• Lucky Jim
• Helplessness Blues

But this is it. This is your adult life.

• Find a job
• Find some friends
• Find a flat
• Find a girl
• Find peace

It looks alright written out like that. Although - there's something about that last one that feels like it sound have been written like this:

• Find peace (in your movement away from contacts and towards frames)

Can a man find peace in his choice of eye...

• A Paul McCartney work ethic
  • A planner
  • Cleanliness
• Books about restaurants, nature and loss
• Pinching out a candle's flame

"Every gamble pays off ... and yet he hasn't gambled enough."

• More mornings - you're becoming a cliche

It was about this time four years ago that I first decided to dedicate myself to albums. Before then it had just been singles, or individual songs that stole my notice - but all this was to change. I wanted to be the guy that listened to every song, that confidently told you that the second half lost it's way. I kept it up. This lead me to place four particular albums on pedestals.

• Grizzly Bear's Veckatimest
• LCD Soundsystem's This Is Happening
• Diego Garcia's Laura
• Godspeed You! Black Emperor's 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!

Despite still being in the youthful gallop of February, this year appears to have altered this purposeful trend in my listening. No albums have grabbed me, It's dull. Something has got to change. Singles?

• Capable of holding a gaze
• A willing vegetarian
• Less intelligent than you, disposed to ask questions

"The numbers blink on a digital clock. Morse code for trouble."

• An accent-free voice
• Neutral colours
• Clawing at a higher culture

"Let the seasons begin -"

• A smaller football team
• More European than English
• Drawing badly on purpose