{"id":1221,"date":"2006-08-20T22:21:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-21T03:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/2006\/08\/20\/there-are-worse-things-i-could-do\/"},"modified":"2022-07-05T14:47:37","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T12:47:37","slug":"there-are-worse-things-i-could-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/2006\/08\/20\/there-are-worse-things-i-could-do\/","title":{"rendered":"THERE ARE WORSE THINGS I COULD DO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The kids have been watching <i>Grease<\/i> lately. They watched it once before about a year ago and liked it, but had apparently forgotten about it until they were reminded by an ad for the musical which is coming this fall to Malm\u00f6. It&#8217;s fun to watch and hear all the music again, but some of the scenes make me a bit uncomfortable to sit watching with my 7 and 8.5-year-olds, in light of the fact that the subject is sex, albeit obliquely referred to most of the time. Because really, how AM I going to explain what Kenickie is talking about at the drive-in when he digs in his wallet for a condom and sadly tells Rizzo, &#8220;It&#8217;s broken&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>Karin, however, is now a hardcore Travolta fan (&#8220;<i>Han \u00e4r SNYGG, mama!<\/i>&#8220;*) and when asked if she wanted to be a Pink Lady or a Scorpion emphatically declared that she was a T-Bird. I haven&#8217;t wanted to crush her illusions by mentioning that Mr Travolta is older than her mother by a good 10 years or that he looks like this now:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=166 src=\"http:\/\/interaktiv.vg.no\/filmextra\/bilder\/personer\/john_travolta.jpg\" width=150 align=middle border=0><\/p>\n<p>and not like this:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=180 src=\"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/115257_grease.jpg\" width=150 align=middle border=0><\/p>\n<p>I admit to feeding my kid&#8217;s musical habit with frequent injections of movies and music I have loved as well. If I can influence their musical taste away from rap and thrash metal, I&#8217;ll do so gladly and be proud of it. My dad did it to me at a young age, giving me a lifelong admiration for musicals, by raising me on <i>My Fair Lady<\/i> and <i>Fiddler on the Roof<\/i> and <i>The Sound of Music<\/i> and <i>South Pacific<\/i> and <i>Hair<\/i> (and I wonder if he had the same sort of worries in regards to THAT film as I have with <i>Grease<\/i>, and hoo boy, <i>Grease<\/i> is a walk in the park compared with <i>Hair<\/i> in terms of sexual connotations).<\/p>\n<p>While in this mode, however, I have realized that I don&#8217;t actually have very many classic musicals on film, and although I DO have the soundtracks that isn&#8217;t enough at this stage to capture the interest of the visually-oriented generation my kids belong to. And after looking at a (by no means complete) <a href=\"http:\/\/musicals.net\/?shows=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> list of contemporary stage musicals<\/a>, there are many that I haven&#8217;t seen myself which makes me long for Chicago and the many, many theaters with which it abounds.<\/p>\n<p>While looking for musicals on DVD, I also came across something frightening. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/list\/B00005NKSV\/ref=pd_ts_d_29\/104-7286617-9425536?ie=UTF8&#038;n=554052&#038;s=dvd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> David Hasselhoff in the musical version of Jekyll &#038; Hyde<\/a>? SO WRONG IN SO MANY WAYS.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I&#8217;m thinking maybe <i>Cats<\/i> ought to be next up for the musical-obsession-maniacs that my children are turning into, or perhaps <i>Fame<\/i>. What do you think? Got any favorites you can recommend?<\/p>\n<p><font size=\"-3\">*He&#8217;s HAWT, mom!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The kids have been watching Grease lately. They watched it once before about a year ago and liked it, but had apparently forgotten about it until they were reminded by an ad for the musical which is coming this fall to Malm\u00f6. It&#8217;s fun to watch and hear all the music again, but some of the scenes make me a bit uncomfortable to sit watching with my 7 and 8.5-year-olds, in light of the fact that the subject is sex, albeit obliquely referred to most of the time. Because really, how AM I going to explain what Kenickie is talking&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[17,23],"class_list":["post-1221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-offspring","tag-tralalala"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5190,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221\/revisions\/5190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}