April 09, 2007
Moose In Control
This year, The Boy Child and The Girl Child expressed their faith in Our Risen Lord by re-enacting, for our viewing enjoyment, an excerpt from the movie "Grease."
Yes, they are six and four -- we're well aware of the inappropriateness of the material contained in "Grease." So we fast forward everything but the music. And they don't get to watch "Blue Moon."
[Interesting "Grease" Tidbit #1: Back in 1978, when "Grease" was in theatres, my Norwegian immigrant grandmother had a cousin visiting her from Norway. My Gramma was in her 70s and spoke English... amusingly. Her cousin was in his 50s and spoke no English whatsoever. They went to see "Grease" because they thought it was a documentary. About the country. Needless to say, they were surprised by the movie, but they stayed for the whole thing and actually enjoyed it. But not more than I enjoy that mental picture.]
Now, when Boy Child came out with his jacket on, started singing "You're the One that I Want" and whipped it off while singing, "I got mooooooose... in contro-hol!" I thought that was my favorite part.
But I was wrong.
[Interesting "Grease" Tidbit #2: The group called Johnny Casino and the Gamblers in the movie is actually a 50's cover band called Sha-Na-Na. Whom I saw in concert back in grade school. And dudes? They fucking ROCKED! So did Liberace.]
No, my favorite part was when he switched octaves and sang Sandy's part, "Meditaaaay... on my erection! Feeeeeel your way!"
That's what happens when you're four and have to learn the lyrics phoenetically. There wasn't a dry pair of pants in the house.
I'm not even going to talk about "Greased Lightning." We'll all be arrested.
Comments
Sha-Na-Na has been around for ever, dearest Wenchie! They even performed at Woodstock...
Posted by: some_other_dave at April 9, 2007 07:01 PM
Waaaaaaaaaaaahahahahahahaha! I'm DYING over here on this little island, woman!!!!!!!!! I can totally picture this. (and unfortunately, the endless possibilities for "Greased Lightning" also.)
Posted by: Scarlett Cyn at April 10, 2007 03:14 AM
You're never going to be able to hear those lyrics the same again. And welcome to the "We're going to put on a show" age.
Posted by: Marty at April 10, 2007 07:40 AM
Oh, and you know what? I hate Grease with a passion. Know why? Cause when it came out, we had a choice of going as a family to see a movie, and our choices were Grease and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and my mom insisted we go see Grease because "she didn't want to see any weird science fiction movie."
Bitch. I'm still bitter about that to this day.
Posted by: Marty at April 11, 2007 01:59 PM