Grease

And the winner of the most insane thing to listen to after 7 Megadeth albums in two days goes to.....the soundtrack to Grease!

I'm partial to the theory that the whole thing is the death dream Sandy has as she's drowning in the ocean, but i'm nothing if not morbid for the sake of humor. If i were a character from Grease, i'd be Rizzo.

Hello, Frankie Valli. Grease is the word? Sure, it does have a meaning, but i though the bird was the word. Did Barry Gibb write this? Yes, yes he did. What are we doing here? Throwing away conventionality by listening to the Grease soundtrack after Megadeth. I already explained that.

Nearly drowned? It's a good theory.

As far as movie musicals go it's pretty darned popular. I'm still not known for agreeing with Roger Ebert, so i find it incredibly confusing why he gave it a 3 out of 4 but called it average and plastic. I don't share Gene Shallot's dude crush on John Travolta either. If brain tumors could actually help you learn Portugese maybe, but Face Off. He peaked as Vinnie Barbarino. Yeah, don't act like i didn't watch Welcome Back Kotter reruns, 'cause i totally did. Gabe Kaplan for life.

Guess which soundtrack it was second to in sales figures, go ahead guess. It rhymes with Latterday Blight Beaver.

The original version of "Look at me..." refers to Sal Mineo, but somehow Elvis' heart attack was less unnerving than Sal's death by being stabbed in a random mugging for the movie version. Brandon Lee got killed during the actual filming of his character's death in The Crow because the prop-master was lazy, so maybe i'm a little too jaded to care?

Grease: it's what the 70s thought the 50s were like. Cute. The songs are catchy (Beauty School Dropout is a freakin' classic in the Frankie Avalon catalog), and it's better than an actual Olivia Newton John album, so i really don't have much to actually complain about. Except Travolta, he flunked Shampoo.

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