On
Friday morning I tried to write down the lyrics to “Docteur Faust” by Serge
Gainsbourg while listening to Jane Birkin sing it. It’s so much easier to
understand French in text than in audio. I could only get bits and pieces. I'll
try again on Saturday.
I worked on my poem series “My Blood
in a Bug” but I got incredibly sleepy. I really felt like throwing myself down
on my futon and conking out but that would have thrown my day off. I forced
myself to stay awake but abandoned doing any writing.
I finally finished washing the north
side of my bedroom floor when I scrubbed the dirt and scraped the paint and
plaster from the five boards in front of the door at the north end of the room.
I had a can of curried organic sweet
potato soup with potato chips for lunch.
In the afternoon I did my exercises
while listening to Amos and Andy. This story begins with Kingfish having
working as a real estate broker for a week but hasn’t been able to sell a
house. He hears about an area where the government is putting in a highway and
is giving the houses on the land away to anyone that can move them. Kingfish
plots to sell one of the houses to Andy for $500 without telling him that there
is no lot. He tells him that the United Nations is moving to Harlem and that
the iron curtain is going to be running right through the middle of his room.
When Andy finds out he wants to punch Kingfish in the nose but Kingfish tells
him he has a lot for him twenty kilometres away. The only problem is that the
lot is two metres smaller than the house. Kingfish says he’ll buy three more
metres to expand the lot but it’ll still cost Andy $350 to move the house. Andy
refuses to pay and says he’ll sue Kingfish. Kingfish goes to Stonewall the
lawyer who suggests that he get the house declared a historical monument so the
government will move it for nothing. Kingfish says the house is too young.
Stonewall says he has to put this in the spirit of legal jurisprudence. The
procedure that must be followed is the old principle of “veritas omni ipso
facto.” Kingfish asks what that means and Stonewall says, “Lie like a fool
man!” Kingfish later finds out that the highway is being diverted twenty-three
metres from the property and so the house doesn’t have to be moved after all.
Kingfish decides to not tell Andy about that and to offer to buy it back from
him because he has the ideas of opening a gas station beside the highway. Andy
takes the deal but then Kingfish finds out the redirection of the highway would
be twenty-three metres above the house.
I worked on editing the video of my
rehearsal of “Andalouse” from September 20, 2017. I shaved a little off the mic
audio to make the echo less extreme and trimmed the beginning to fade in. I
trimmed the end but will probably cut a little more off and then make it fade
to black.
I had three small potatoes, the last
of my roast beef and some gravy while watching an episode of Racket Squad. This
story begins with soon to be married couple Johnny and Sue out on the highway
in the car that Johnny bought that day. The brakes fail and they slam into a
truck. Both Johnny and Sue are in the hospital with Johnny a little more beaten
up than Sue but he’ll make a full recovery. The cop that takes down their
information finds it odd that they’d bought the car that day and so he calls
Captain Braddock of the racket squad. When he interviews Johnny and Sue he
learns that a mechanic had tried to dissuade them from buying the car but a
salesman had intervened, sent him back to the garage and convinced them that it
was a honey. The same mechanic comes to the hospital to inquire if the couple
are all right and Braddock learns the story of the car. He says that his boss
Danny got it for $50 at a junk yard and had Pete make it run and fix it so it
looked new. Danny wouldn’t pay for details like new brakes and so Pete had to
tape them. He also turned back the mileage so it didn’t show 130,000
kilometres. Danny and the salesman get busted and Pete gets a job as a police
mechanic.
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