MTV started in August of 1981.  I don’t remember the first time I watched it.  And, I don’t recall exactly when we finally got cable at our house; but, it was sometime in the fall of 1983.  I know this because the first weekend we had cable, I was able to tape three movies that fit onto one Betamax tape: “Valley Girl,” “Losin’ It” (a gang of boys – Tom Cruise, John Stockwell & Jackie Earle Haley – head to Tijuana to well, you know) and “The Slumber Party Massacre.”  Clearly, when we got cable, MTV was not the first…