{"id":237,"date":"2007-03-23T14:32:46","date_gmt":"2007-03-23T18:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/23\/85-vh1s-nocturnal-state-etc\/"},"modified":"2011-04-16T00:30:49","modified_gmt":"2011-04-16T04:30:49","slug":"85-vh1s-nocturnal-state-etc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2007\/85-vh1s-nocturnal-state-etc\/","title":{"rendered":"8.5 VH1&#8217;s Nocturnal State, etc."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, I guess I&#8217;m officially getting old, to be interested in a show on the &#8220;more mature&#8221; music video channel.  Or am I just incurably immature for watching music videos at all?  Age is so confusing these days.  Is 40 the new 30?  And 30 the new 20?  Or do we all just remain children in today&#8217;s consumer-oriented society?<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I recorded the show on the MythTV box and it is actually watchable if you turn on &#8220;auto-skip commercials&#8221; (otherwise, definitely NOT).  The following have me humming all day:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Audioslave: Doesn&#8217;t Remind Me<\/li>\n<li>Nickelback: If Everyone Cared<\/li>\n<li>John Mayer: Waiting on the World to Change<\/li>\n<li>Gorillaz: Feel Good Inc.<\/li>\n<li>Sophie Ellis-Bextor: You Get Yours<\/li>\n<li>Paulo Nutini: New Shoes<\/li>\n<li>Juliet: Ride The Pain<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I guess some of that comes from MTV, so I guess I&#8217;m still young (immature? delusional?)&#8230; and some comes from elsewhere&#8230; whatever&#8230;  :P<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, I guess I&#8217;m officially getting old, to be interested in a show on the &#8220;more mature&#8221; music video channel. Or am I just incurably immature for watching music videos at all? Age is so confusing these days. Is 40 the new 30? And 30 the new 20? Or do we all just remain children &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2007\/85-vh1s-nocturnal-state-etc\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">8.5 VH1&#8217;s Nocturnal State, etc.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,12,25,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-life","category-heavy-rotation","category-reviews","category-tv-shows"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9M0Zg-3P","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1350,"url":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2011\/9-5-beastie-boys-make-some-noise\/","url_meta":{"origin":237,"position":0},"title":"9.5 Beastie Boys: Make Some Noise","author":"m","date":"June 11, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Yes I am a Beastie Boys fanboy. 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