I finished revising my translation of “Shotgun” by Serge Gainsbourg and then I ran through singing and playing it in English. I uploaded it to Christian’s Translations and then began preparing it for publication on the blog. I’ll probably have that done on Monday.
I played my Kramer electric guitar during song practice for the second session of two.
I weighed 85.9 kilos before breakfast.
I read about fifty more pages of The Mere Wife. Gren swims into the mere to leave the mountain and look for Dylan. Dylan has run away from boarding school and gone home. He jumps off the bridge to drown himself in the mere just as Gren surfaces. He saves Dylan and they are reunited and back in the cave. B. Wolfe is on patrol when he discovers Dana. They fight and she bites off his finger. He is about to shoot her when Dylan stabs him with a Swiss Army Knife. Dana gets the gun and fires but Wolfe escapes. He runs to his house where Willa is high on sedatives and Dana, Gren and Dylan head there too, She stabs Gren in the back and kills him but it turns out it is not Gren but her son Dylan. Her mother and the other mothers wipe the fingerprints from the knife and say that Wolfe killed Dylan so he is on the run too. Gren asks his mother to teach him to be a soldier so he can kill Wolfe and Willa. There are 28 pages left.
I weighed 86.7 kilos before lunch. I had Triscuits with five-year-old cheddar and a glass of lemonade with cranberry juice.
In the afternoon I took a bike ride downtown and on the way back it started feeling bitterly cold. I stopped at Freshco to appease my grape fetish and the cold was stinging my hands as I unlocked and locked my bike.
I weighed 85.6 kilos at 17:45.
I was caught up on my journal at 18:45.
I finished reading The Mere Wife. At the dedication of the new train running from the cave in the mountain, Dana and Gren are watching all the people through the skylight. Then B. Wolfe walks in even though he’s a fugitive. Gren crashes through the skylight to attack him. Dana has no choice but to jump down after him. They both fight Wolfe but Wolfe kills Gren. Willa is arrested but I don’t know why. She accidentally killed her son but the evidence was wiped. Dana boards the train as do all of the wealthy guests for the maiden voyage. The train starts and accelerates with Dana at the throttle. The train is barreling at top speed towards Wolfe who for some reason doesn’t step off the track. The train hits Wolfe and then derails to the bottom of the mere. Dana reunites with her family in death I guess or afterlife. It seemed like an odd ending with a lot of loose ends.
I made pizza on two mini-naan with basilica sauce and five-year-old cheddar. I had it with a beer while watching the first episode of Burke’s Law.
It’s a ridiculous concept from the start. Burke is a suave, debonair police captain with inherited wealth who lives in a mansion and has a Rolls Royce and a chauffeur. There is no record in the history of policing of any cop that would stay a cop if they were rich. There are a few wealthy ex-cops who became actors. Not only is Burke wealthy but he uses his personal resources to aid in his police work.
A young woman’s dead body is found at a construction site, shot in the back. Burke arrives on the scene but the new Detective Tim Wilson is on top of everything and has already done everything Burke suggests. Burke has these rules that he lives by and whenever he quotes one he adds, “Burke’s law!” The corpse has very expensive dental work and through it they find she is Holly Howard. They go to the address that she had at the time of the dental work but she moved. They get the address and find she was a model so they go to the agency but she only did one job. Burke goes to the advertising agency that hired her. A model named Bridget gets a ride there. Billboards were made with Holly’s face but now that she’s dead they’ll have to change them. The painter says that’s good because he’ll get overtime. They learn that Holly was actually drowned first and then shot. Burke goes to see Bridget. She tells him where she used to go swimming with Holly. In the pool at a house owned by a Texan who was never there. There’s a Texas company called 3M and Mathison, Moore and Murdock all use the house when they’re in town. Their butler Bush is at the house. Burke sees Bush does photography and takes pictures of birds. He names the Kalima warbler but Ted is an expert and says the Kalima warbler is only found in Texas. They arrest Bush and in his bible are negatives of compromising photos he’s taken of his employers except for Murdock with the intention of eventually blackmailing them. They round up the three Texans. Murdock says he knew Holly. Burke finally finds that Ted has made a mistake. He swept the house for photo negatives but forgot to check the butler’s camera. He goes back there and is hit over the head but he manages to recover and tackle Murdock. Murdock admits he was Holly’s lover. They go back to Holly’s first address where it turns out the billboard painter Mr. Hopke also lives. Hopke says Holly was ugly before her plastic surgery. They learn Holly didn’t drown in a pool but in a tub in water scented with orange blossoms. Burke goes to see Bridget. She’s been bathing in orange blossoms. Tim goes to Hopke at work and Hopke kicks him in the head. He climbs up onto the scaffolding, gets excited and has a very fake looking stumble and fall, then the giant billboard of Holly falls on him and kills him. Burke finds Bridget there and figures she killed Holly so she could get the nationwide billboard ad with her face all over.
So far I don’t find this show very interesting. Apparently in the third season Burke becomes a secret agent. Maybe when I’m done with the first season I’ll jump to the third. The spy angle failed but it sounds more intriguing to me.
Bridget was played by Suzy Parker, who started modeling at 15. Her sister was already a model and the typical type while Suzy was a big boned redhead with freckles. The agency didn’t know at first what to do with her. She was the first model to pose in a bikini. She became the face of Chanel. In 1956 she made $100,000 from modeling, which is more than a million and a half today. She said that she got paid the most because she was the best. She is considered to have been the very first supermodel. Her first film role was in Kiss Them For Me in 1957. She was apparently the inspiration for the movie Funny Face, or at least Audrey Hepburn’s inspiration for playing the lead part. She said unlike the models around her she never starved herself or took drugs to stay thin. She starred in Circle of Deception and The Best of Everything. All four Beatles are credited with writing the song “Suzy's Parlour” for her.
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