Good starter language?

Well, I've never programmed before (other than basic HTML) and would like to know a good starting language. Any suggestions?

don't start with Haskell, Lisp, Scheme or any of those other functional mathematical masturbatory languages unless you've tooled around with something fun like python and you know that programming is something you want to pursue further

telling someone to read SICP right out of the gate is just /prog trolling you