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M4A? That's probably because it came straight from my CD copy, which is about 5 or 6 years old, so sorry about that.
I picked up the old mandolin for about £100 a few years ago, tried to learn a few tunes then just forgot about it. Around New Year's though I started a fling with this Irish lass (only lasted about 2 or 3 months), who encouraged me to start playing properly again, which is cool I guess. As for the sax, that's the only instrument I've ever taken lessons for, which is just as well as it's much more complicated than you'd imagine listening to X-Ray Spex or whoever.
Sitar sounds uber-awesome but, yeah, they are huge. Even I'd struggle to play one of those things (I'm about 6'4/5'' myself). At least us western types can compensate by the learning the flute eh - no size probs for anyone there ;-)
And, yeah, Shane looks dead weird now. Always did really - it's why he's such a lovable drunk <3