Oh, the irony!

One year ago today I wrote my first House of Jules post. I wanted to kick things off in a fitting way, so I thought about it for a few minutes before deciding to give a little nod in the direction of MTV and the first of their music video transmissions with help from The Buggles, Video Killed the Radio Star:


Remember when MTV played music videos? Well, that's where my first post title came from.

Music videos on MTV are a thing of the past, which is a tired complaint and one I won't add to because if those pesky videos hadn't eventually gotten out of the way, I would not have gotten sucked into Laguna Beach a few years ago, which led me to the even juicier show, The Hills.

Of course people have their equally tired complaints about The Hills, saying that it's not a REAL reality show (which isn't a valid complaint! If you want "all-reality all the time", you wouldn't be turning on your TV). These are the same adults who probably think that music videos should be live performances, which I figured out was NOT the case 55 seconds into this truly horrible video (during the first week of MTV's initial reign). I have a vivid memory of thinking, "Heyyyyyy, this isn't live! There's no way to hear her singing over that chugging engine." You have to cut me some slack about this because: 1) I was 8 years old, and 2) it was the dawn of music videos, these things weren't so embedded in our culture in 1981.

Anyway, back to my blog-iversary. The irony of a music video channel no longer playing music videos, which is now known for airing reality shows that aren't REAL, falls right in line with the irony that the traditional gift for a first anniversary is PAPER, and if there is something I haven't needed since I started writing in this public forum, paper would be it.



Did the "M"-shaped mystery meat freak anyone else out when these promos first aired or was it just the 8-year old me?


Seriously though, thanks for continuing to come back to the H.o.J., I'm happy you're here!