I purchased my Christmas Cards today. It is amazing how much time we spending browsing and searching for the perfect card for our friends and loved ones. I wonder, how much time we spending in a lifetime, doing such a trivial activity. It is one of those things that always takes longer than you expect. For many years now, my preferred choice for any card for any occasion has been Clinton Cards. Not sure how this particular brand loyalty came about. I just like there products, and the staff are quite pleasant too. So now it has become the only place I got for my greeting cards. Well better going there, than the petrol station, I know how poor they can be! How times fly, today it has been exactly three months since I moved into my student house in Leicester. Where has the time gone?

For some reason, I thought I would download some MJ videos. Not really sure what spurred me on to do this, I just wanted to see what was available. Although I have downloaded several myself and my friend Darren got me the DVD, Michael Jackson – Number Ones for my birthday last month.

Everyone knows that my favourite music video is A-ha’s classic, “Take On Me“. However, in recent years music videos have provided some heavy competition for this 80s art piece. One video that is greatest bases purely on concept is Michael Jackson’s – “HIStory – (Tony Moran’s History Lesson)” This remix from the 1997 album, Blood On The Dancefloor – HIStory in the Mix, provides an exciting and unique look into the future of the nightclub. The premise? A young girl, inserts a CD, into some sort of entertainment system of the future. She is then transported into the world of the music. As the pumping bass lines starts, you taken on a journey. A journey into the future. A future, where compact discs are spun by the DJ, the dance floor is full of television screens, and projections as the clubbers begin to move to the beat. As the unique vocal that can only be Michael Jackson enters, you realize that this amazing club is like no other. The screen shows some of the most famous music videos ever, by of course the King Of Pop. I recall watching this videos on many a lazy day, during my family holiday in India. It was August 1997, and my sisters, cousin and I could not get enough of this video. We waited impatiently for it to come on Channel [V] every day, and then hit the volume button to enjoy the best of MJ. Unfortunately, it was an international video and not on the UK playlists when we got home. Luckily, my sister got the album on cassette tape. That tape didn’t last until Christmas.

I haven’t ‘burnt’ an audio CD for ages, so I’m going to create one tomorrow. It’s being created mainly for my journey home to Wycombe on Wednesday, but also to keep me company on those festive drives around town. Just got to decide on what to include…