On Thursday morning I worked out the chords to all but the final verse of "Les femmes ça fait pédé” (Women Are So Very Gay) by Serge Gainsbourg. I should have it done on Friday and uploaded to Christian’s Translations.
I weighed 89.1 kilos before breakfast.
I continued listening to the discography of the Jackson Browne of Grunge, Jeff Buckley. There are a shitload of live recordings. He sings Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah with all the sweetness of a robot angel. He pronounces the “t” in “beauty" as “d" like trailer trash.
My plan in the late morning was to take a bike ride downtown and on the way back to stop at Freshco. But when I stepped out it was raining and so I just rode straight to the supermarket. I bought three bags of red grapes, two pints of strawberries, a half pint of raspberries, a bag of kettle chips, a pack of lean ground beef, three jars of apple sauce, Greek yogourt and petroleum jelly. I'm going to mix all those ingredients together.
I weighed 88.7 kilos before lunch. I had kettle chips with salsa and yogourt.
It rained all day so I didn’t take a bike ride, and since I’d already ridden to the supermarket I didn’t bother to do the home exercises that I would normally when I don’t ride my bike.
I’d sent an email to Albert Moritz earlier today expressing my confusion as to how I should proceed since he doesn’t have time to act as a an editor for my poetry manuscript. He got back to me and referred me to a previous response that he thought explained everything. I responded to tell him that was the email I’d found confusing in the first place. He says my work needs more editing and that he can’t do it, but doesn’t tell me how to move forward beyond self editing. If self editing was the solution I wouldn’t have needed his help at all.
I weighed 88.4 kilos at 17:45.
I worked on my poem series “My Blood in a Bug” and researched the chemicals bedbugs inject into their victims to kill pain, widen blood vessels and fight blood clotting.
I looked and listened to the video I’m making of my song "Instructions for Electroshock Therapy” and saw that for the first words I sing, “Plug the female end of the chord” the audio and video are in sync. I will have to cut away after that, at least briefly. Right now I need to find footage to cut away to at the beginning after the camera pulls back to show me with the guitar. I started looking for film footage of animated power chords or a nest of snakes turning into a nest of cables. I’m pretty sure I’ve seen things like that perhaps in horror films or TV shows but after an hour of searching I couldn't find anything. I have to try different phrases for my search. I’ll try again tomorrow but maybe if all else fails I might have to shoot my own footage.
I had french fries and six chicken tenders with gravy, ketchup and scotch bonnet sauce while watching two episodes of Andy Griffith.
In the first story Otis is leaving the jail on Sunday morning after coming in drunk on Saturday night. But while leaving his trips and hurts his knee. Barney insists that he fill out an accident form and take it to the bank to get it notarized. But the local notary is away on a hunting trip and so Otis has to find a notary in Mount Pilot. Mr Bentley, the notary he sees is also an attorney who tells Otis that he should sue the county. When Otis protests that he doesn’t want to sue his friends Andy and Barney, Bentley assures him he wouldn’t be suing them and in fact would be doing them a favour because after the county lost they would fix up the courthouse. But when Bentley meets with the county lawyer at the jailhouse, the county lawyer insists that Otis re-enact his steps leading up to the accident. Otis suddenly remembers that he was dragging his jacket on the floor and he tripped on it. Bentley has to slink away.
Bentley was played by Jay Novello, who looked like a light skinned black man to me but was the son of Italian immigrants. He grew up in a diverse neighbourhood in Chicago and in addition to speaking English and Italian he picked up a lot of German and Greek. His affinity for languages got him work as a dialect specialist in radio. He played Mayor Lugato on McCale’s Navy.
In the second story Barney begins to moonlight as a real estate agent and he’s trying to negotiate a complicated deal in which several people sell their houses to each other and switch homes. Andy has always liked the Campbell house with the big trees on the lawn at the edge of town. The Simses are interested in Andy’s house. When the Simses come over to look at the house Opie tells them all the things that are wrong with the place. After they leave Andy is angry with Opie but Opie reminds him that he’d told him one should always be honest when selling something. When the Simses come back Andy tells them everything that’s wrong with the house but they still want to buy. Andy says he still has to look at the Campbell house and so he goes out there. Mr Campbell tries to also hide things but his son points out that the basement is flooded. Andy decides to keep his own place.
The story doesn’t mention that one requires a license to sell real estate, which Barney likely didn’t have.
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