We just got this message from Jimmy in Texas and I thought I would share it with y’all. Please feel free to respond to Jimmy in the comment section if you have something you’d like to say - I’m sure he’d appreciate it.

im not sure if u will ever get this message, but if u do….i live with many dreams but becase of fincial hold backs and mostly LOW SELF ESTEAM i need someone to help me atian my dreams. i suffer from anxity everday and if you could help me bust out of the hell im in and into life itself… YES this is a cry out for help. yes i have hope and faith …but i just need help.

This was my response:

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it’s getting busy in here!

The site is getting 30 visits a second right now. If shes running a lil slow, we apologize.

In other news: “Learn How To Play an Instrument” is #23 on the list. So far, we’re about halfway to crossing it off. Duncan is learning how to play guitar and I (Jonnie) am learning how to play the piano. Dave and Ben are still looking for their instrument of choice. Any recommendations?

what do you want to do before you die?

I decided in January that #101 on the list should be “Play in a Band.” So, I started a band. We’re called bikini and we make melodramatic pop music for teenagers and people with schoolyard crushes.

We just did a remix of Feist’s 1,2,3,4 too. Check it out HERE

The trailer from our first days on the road has just been posted on the front of YouTube.com!! We’re stoked! For all you that are new to The Buried Life, here’s the deal:

• we’re still going, harder than ever
• we drove around the states last year, in a big purple bus we call Penelope
• we’re going out again this summer and will be blogging/twittering/video making about our adventures (as always)

You can join in! Tell us what you want to do before you die on:

• Facebook
• MySpace
• The Buried Life Social Network

Cheers!

Ben, Dave, Duncan, and that other kid, I think he’s Duncan’s little brother

not actual size

I’m proud to say that I made these muffins. With a couple phone calls to mom and some tips from other pro bakers, I hit the kitchen. I started with flour, bananas, choco chips and some of those little muffin cup things, then tossed them in the cooker, waited half an hour and kazaam - I had made muffins.

It wasn’t really on my list before but it should have been. It’s a pretty basic thing to know and can win you a lot of friends. Muffins can also be used to barter: I traded my roommate six of them for a steak.

I just got a message from a girl in Toronto who says she might be able to get Jean Claude song on the radio so he can cross it off his list.

Here’s Jean Claude in case you forgot:

Wanted to give a big thanks to two guys at UNITED Airlines who really went out of their way to make sure we got home safely and on time. To James Reineck and John Kreslake in the San Francisco Airport, thanks so much for giving us a helping hand and going above and beyond the call of duty.

- Duncan

We just got a message from our good friend Shanti asking us to share this video with you guys. They have a Facebook group if you wanna help out.

Hey everybody! We just got back from a journey to the centre of the earth and boy is it ever hot down there. No, I’m kidding of course. Oh man, could you imagine? The heat? Man. I bet it would be so hot.

But seriously. We’re looking for support for a friend in need. Our good friend Meagan, who some of you may remember from her MuchMusic fame, is on a quest to raise $50,000 for this year’s Becel Heart & Stroke Ride for Heart. It’s an ambitious goal to accomplish by June 1, but you know how much we love ambition round here. If you’d like to contribute send us a shout at crew@theburiedlife.com and we can connect you with Meagan.

You can also help by not buying foods with trans fats in them. Your grandkids will thank you.