The day started with a major annoyance and I was very gutted. However by the end of the evening I was smiling to myself singing along to yet another new song I had just downloaded. Let me take you on this journey. I recognised the face but the singer looked different, very different. It was only when the details flashed up on the screen did it click. This was Jesse McCartney. My youngest sister, Julie is quite the fan, however I am unsure if she will like his new hair. The long blonde hair has gone and been cut very short and dyed dark brown. There is also a dramatic shift in music style from radio friendly pop come soft rock to urban RnB. You can find out more over at this fan site. I played the mp3 continuously but was keen to get hold of the video. Even though it is in the musical genre that Solly4Life it was not on his site yet, although he is doing a lot of repacking into Xvid. I went to my second source for music videos. He is known only by his username Darkfib3r. His commitment is to provide us torrent users with the best quality music videos on the web. So far he has lived up to this expectation. In one case, his (I’m assuming he is a guy) version of the Freemasons remix of Work by Kelly Rowland replaced the copy I had downloaded weeks earlier from Solly. The video for Leavin’ is very simple but it is a big departure for the artist. I have not been a follower to his work before now, but from what I have read (a quick skim on Wikipedia and a few other sites) I am looking forward to what else is in the pipeline. He co-wrote Bleeding Love (yes the number one smash by Leona Lewis) and has even performed his own version which you can watch over on You Tube. (Well you could a while back before “a copyright claim by Hollywood Records / Disney Co”. The song is very catchy and Jesse’s vocal delivery is almost perfect, not too over the top. I never thought I would be writing this about him but it is very early days. I watched Next last night on Sky Premiere at 8pm after watching Doctor Who. It was a movie that had appealed to me (it was actually released exactly a year today) but I had not got the chance to watch it at the cinema. For a while I thought I had missed a big blockbuster but the reality was it was much better watching in my lounge on a lazy Saturday evening. I enjoyed the movie throughout and in places it reminded me of Groundhog Day. However, the ending was just so cruel. There was no real explanation of where Cage got his ability from. It was a real shame, because up to that point the movie had been very good, with a little suspense in place and some fantastic action set pieces. However the villains were just not good enough (or should that be evil enough). Not too sure about Jessica Biel as the love interest but Julian Moore was adequate as the FBI Agent on the trail of Cage. I think I need to see Deja Vu which has a similar plot device but this movie was a big disappointment. As much as I admire Cage as an actor (not seen many of his critical best pieces) he sleepwalked most of this part. However, I look forward to his return in the next installment of Ghost Rider! Talking of super hero movies, Iron Man is released on Friday and I am really looking forward to my customary trip to the pictures with Pav on Friday. Believe it or not it has been over two months since I last heard Asteroid (Pearl & Dean theme). Not quite up to the same level of Doctor Emmett Brown in Twin Pine Mall parking lot back in October 1985. However, my next experiment will be to listen to a whole mp3 CD through without skipping any of the tracks. I will be allowed to switch over to listen to the radio for traffic alerts but apart from that I have to drive from Wycombe to Birmingham NEC without changing the song being played. This will be hard work for anyone that knows me, I am a complete control freak and once listened to the same song for a two hour journey from Bedford back home to Wycombe in the autumn of 2002. A little bit of live blogging for a change. I just got back from dropping my Dad off in Maidenhead. I had taken out the CD from my head unit and left my case back in my room. I had no choice but to listen to the radio. As I hopped around my presets I landed onto Time 106.6 as I was driving out of the town. A song came on, I liked it, I put the volume up. However at the end, the DJ, a Phil James opted to tell me about his first barbeque of the summer rather than the name of the artist or title. Never mind, it was something I could easily lookup when I got home. Jumping on the laptop while in the lounge, I was pleased to find a play list. There it was listed number sixteen in play list A. I had a feeling it was Janet Jackson, as it had those signature high pitch melodies over the chorus. A really great up lifting pop record. I have to be honest, I have never been a fan of Janet Jackson always prefer her elder brother(s) musically. Maybe, just maybe the release of this single from her album Discipline is the moment for me to change my ways, sit up and listen.