Grease, You're The One That I Want.

I enjoyed watching this show . It's like American Idol minus the bitchiness .I noted 'though that the contestants are below AI's standards. I guess that's alright because the winners are supposed to act as John Travolta's and Olivia Newton John's roles in the stage version of Grease .
The format is like AI as I've said from the way they are asked to perform to the way they are judged . Last Sunday , Olivia was there to judge the contestant . Why not ? She's excellent as Sandy . Grease is one of my favorite movie up to now .

Politics As Usual

The TV was filled with politics this week . There was Barack Obama's announcement , followed by Hillary Clinton's .This Sunday , another Democrat , Gov. Richardson joined the prey . The more , the merrier . That's only one side . Sen. Edwards , announced his presidential aspiration earlier.

On the Republican side , McCain and Guilliani were the frontrunner . This A.M. , another lesses known candidate - Reynolds - announced he is seeking the GOP nomination. This is one hell of an election .
My TV would surely be very busy starting this month .

Yakuza

I watched a good series on the Japanese Yakuza . It was a 5 part series and an original Japanese TV series so it has English translation sub title . The series tackled the start of the Japanese gang after post war . Unfortunately , I missed some parts so I had a hard time following the story at the beginning . Add to this , there are numerous characters which made it hard to follow. However in the end , I managed to piece things together and I enjoyed the whole experience . It's just like the story of Mafia's start in America. I find similarities in the Japanese crime syndicate turning ' legitimate ' in the latter days . So out with the decapitated fingers and many body tatoos .The crime heads agreed to form a single group like Lucky Luciano did with the different groups . In Japan today , Yakuzas are part and parcel of corporations so I was told by someone .