Brie Marvel

            Why has no one ever thought of capturing Santa and experimenting on him to find out what gives him all that power such as to have lived for 800 years? One could experiment by injecting his blood into mice or people. One could use his DNA to create a super soldier.

            On Tuesday morning I almost finished memorizing “J’aime les roses fanées” (I Love Withered Roses) by Serge Gainsbourg. I had all the parts but couldn’t quite put them together once my time ran out.

            The morning got away from me when I got caught up looking for photographs online. When I was finished there was no time to work on washing the floor on the east side of the bedroom. So I would feel some sense of accomplishment I organized the little broken three-drawer dresser in the southeast corner of the room and pulled it out to vacuum behinds it. Luckily a piece of wood got stuck in the machine because it compelled me to unlock the hose and clean it out. That got rid of the horrible whistle the vacuum has been making for the last few weeks.

            I had chickpeas with flaxseed oil and garlic for lunch.

            I did my exercises in the afternoon while listening to Amos and Andy. This story begins with Kingfish’s brother-in-law living with him and Sapphire. Kingfish is upset that Leroy has gotten a job as a janitor because he’s worried what the neighbours will think. “If one of those bums can get a job, why can't the other one?" Kingfish has lately been obsessed with a radio contest called The Secret Melody. A band plays part of a song and whoever guesses the right song wins $2000. He learns the address of one of the members of the band at the show and he and Andy go to see him. They tell him they are with the Metropolitan Opera and they want to hire him for the orchestra. He says didn't know they used banjos in the opera. Kingfish says nobody can hear the music with all those Italians yelling anyway. Once the musician figures out they are trying to get the name of the mystery melody he throws them out. Kingfish learns that Leroy is working as a janitor at the radio station and he knows the name of the song. Because he’s an employee he can’t win the contest but he tells Kingfish he’ll sell him the name for $100. He tries to raise the money by telling Andy he’s collecting money for the political campaigns of all the presidential candidates for the 1948 election that is happening in two days. Andy writes him a cheque but Amos tells him he's been scammed again so he cancels. Then Kingfish learns that Andy has bought the Name of the song from Leroy. Andy tells Kingfish the name of the song is “The Egyptian Love Song” and he wins. A radio station rep comes to give Kingfish a cheque but it turns out that Leroy has sold the name to several people and they all have to split the money. Kingfish gets $6.50.

I spent an hour working on trying to make a video of the song “Strip Tease” from my July 20, 2017 rehearsal. The problem is that I made two videos that morning because the first one had timed out. The Sound Recorder kept rolling and it took several minutes before I noticed the camera had stopped and started another recording. That meant I had to resynchronize the two audio files. I got them close enough for an echo after an hour and then saved it and quit. I’ll probably shave down the echo a bit next time.

That night I had my last steak with three small potatoes and gravy. Since it was Christmas Eve I had a beer with dinner and watched Captain Marvel. I had the first few Captain marvel comics when I was a kid. The original Mar-vell in 1967 was a male and I lost touch with the stories because I went out on the road and lost interest in comics for several years. In the late 60s Captain Marvel became trapped in the Negative Zone but figured out a way to switch places with Rick Jones for three hours at a time, so it becomes something like the original Captain Marvel who takes the place of a boy when he calls Shazam! I think the original Captain Marvel became one with the universe and defeated Thanos in a parallel with Avengers End Game. Then in the late 70s Carol Danvers gained his powers but for a while they tried to make her a feminist icon and made her name Ms Marvel. After many years she became Captain Marvel.

The movie has a lot of flashbacks but the present of the story is in the 1980s and begins on the Kree homeworld Hala. Carol Danvers doesn’t yet know she is human because she had been kidnapped after absorbing the energy from the core of a lightspeed ship. The core turns out to be the tesseract, which has been prominent a lot of the Marvel movies. The Kree transform her body and she has blue blood like the Kree. She is trained as a Kree warrior named Veers but keeps having flashbacks of her previous life. As part of her mentor’s team they infiltrate a planet to resvcue a captured Kree but are ambushed by the Skrulls. She is captured by the Skrulls who are trying to extract information about the core from her mind. She escapes and crashes on Earth in the 80s where she meets a young Agent Nick Fury. The shapeshifting Skrulls infiltrate S.H.I.E.L.D. and Fury and Veers help each other. Veers discovers that Earth is the source of her flashbacks and that she was once Carol Danvers. She encounters a Skrull leader who reveals that it’s actually the Kree that are evil and the Skrulls are refugees trying to be free of Kree tyranny. Together they locate the tesseract just as the Kree arrive. They capture Carol and begin draining her power but she reverses it and becomes more powerful that before. She defeats the Kree and saves Earth from Kree missiles meant to destroy it. Then she flies into space to confront the Kree home world. The Easter egg brings us up to date just after Avengers Infinity War when Nick Fury sent a signal to Captain Marvel across the universe just as he was dissolving after Thanos snapped his fingers. The surviving Avengers, have the pager and are wondering who is on the other end. Suddenly Captain Marvel is there and demands to know where Fury is.

Captain Marvel is played by Brie Larson, whose father is French Canadian and her first language was French. She was home schooled. She’s a musician and a songwriter. She won the best actress Oscar for “Room”.