A funny thing happened the other night while I was watching MTV. They were inaugurating a new feature (one hesitates to give this station credit for coming up with anything that might be remotely classified as a “show”; after all, their idea of creative programming is Monkees re-runs twice a day—or is it up to three by now?) apparently geared towards squashing all those accusations about how they hardly ever air anything that isn’t “formatconducive” in the form of a twohour block of so-called “alternative” and “avant garde” videos. The segment, entitled “120 Minutes” (like I said, creativity certainly does seem to run rampant around MTV), is supposed to provide the adventurous viewer with a glimpse of what host J.J. Jackson’s cue card calls “tomorrow’s videos today.” And, outside of the fact that they’ve deliberately stuck this program in that most coveted of time slots—Sunday at midnight—the thing does expose, however minutely, some worthwhile videos.