Some of the people in my new group at work came from the team that built the site mtvmusic.com. It’s basically a video player with a library of thousands and thousands of music videos. We had fun playing with it one night last weekend when Jeannie wanted to show our kids the original version of “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun”, the Cindy Lauper hit from the 80’s recently covered by one of those modern teenybopper acts. Once the video was over the site presented a list of related videos. This led to a sort of scavenger hunt. Jeannie and I spent hours clicking on links and touring videos from the early 1980’s. Sort of an eclectic mix, and many things not in my usual listening genres these days, but it made sense in context. David Lee Roth, Madonna, Michael Jackson, The Cars, Duran Duran, The Clash, Tom Petty, ZZ Top, Van Halen, Stevie Nicks, Wang Chung, A-Ha, and on and on. (No Prince, BTW.) By the time we were thru, I remembered why watching music videos felt alot like drugs.