365 project, "Where do you go when you're lonely? Where do you go when you're blue? Where do you go when you're lonely, i'll follow you"

171.

Artist: Various
Album: Music From the WB Television Series One Tree Hill

I showed up to the One Tree Hill game late into the show’s run. As a matter of fact, I believe that the show is in its 8th season now, and I have only seen the first six, only in reruns (or seven and five, I can’t be bothered to be too sure.) I don’t know what finally pushed me to start watching these shows, but it was likely a YouTube video of a song that I like featuring clips from the show. I will say one thing about this show with the utmost certainty, it has a rocking soundtrack.

I knew about this show well before it actually went into production, actually, and that is the exact reason that I never bothered to watch it. This is probably going to sound like a petty and ridiculously dumb story, but for the sake of the honesty I have so far practiced in this blog, now is not the time to chicken out and leave out details.

You may or may not be aware of this, but I spent the summer between my junior and senior year of college interning for MTV in seaside heights. I did a lot of different things during that summer (including, but not limited to counting spoons to make sure we had enough for one Puff Daddy (I think) and babysitting Johnny Knoxville (in which I was asked to stop looking at him while he was eating. I don’t know how else to keep an eye on someone without actually keeping an eye on someone, but such is the entertainment business lifestyle) but the two main duties I had were working on Direct Effect and TRL. While working on Direct Effect had its moments, it was weird because I didn’t know most of the artists that came through, and spent a lot of time researching hip hop, which was interesting but not really something I cared a whole lot about.

TRL was actually less fun, though. We only filmed at the beach house a few weeks out of the summer (recording more than one show in a day in order to be aired during the weeks following) and the second time TRL came down for recording, they brought their own interns from 1515, leaving us with nothing to do at all. (I spent that day reading a babysitters club book. True story.)

Carson Daly didn’t always host TRL towards the end, so while they were there we got to spend some time with the other VJ’s that were shooting the show, both of which were WAY nicer to us than Carson Daly ever was (he always has been and always will be a toolbag.) Aside from Daly, we got to spend a lot of time with Damien Fahey, Quddus Phillipe, La La Vasquez, and Hilarie Burton. Can you see where this is going?

Because Hilarie went to school with some of the other interns, she was the one most likely to talk to us, and she didn’t have that “im a star and you are a peon” quality that so many people in a position like hers might have. She was pretty awesome to be around, actually. But then she announced that she was leaving MTV to go be on a WB show, and this really annoyed me for some reason, even though soon enough I was leaving MTV, too (I only wish to star in a WB series.)

So I ignored the show. I used to make fun of Michelle and Brooke for having their One Tree Hill nights, and if I happened to be out that way on the night that the show was on, id make it the plan to be out of there before it came on so that I wasn’t subjected to nonsense. But eventually I came around, and I am so glad that I did. I have actually started listening to a lot of different artists solely based on hearing their clips used in the show, and there are days where the titles of the episodes make me dance like a little kid-one of the re-runs that ran today was entitled “The Quiet Things That No One Ever Knows.” See why i might like the show so much?

 This picture makes me way more nostalgic than i really expected. I wonder what Q is up to these days?