I memorized the second verse of “Flagrant délire” (Flagrant Delirium) by Serge Gainsbourg and revised my translation of the second and third verses.
My Noma warm mist humidifier is malfunctioning. I keep getting an error message and it shuts off. I have to unplug it for a while so it will restart but the error message appears more and more frequently. I just bought it 13 days ago. I’m going to have to return it today and hopefully exchange it for the Honeywell warm mist humidifier that Canadian Tire also sells. It gets better reviews.
I weighed 87.1 kilos before breakfast.
Around midday I emptied my Noma humidifier, put it back in its packaging, found the receipt, and headed down to the local Canadian Tire. I didn’t realize until I entered the store that customer service is outside the store and so I had to wind through the cashier line to get back out again. There’s always a lineup at customer service. The clerk didn’t question the problem beyond me telling her the humidifier is malfunctioning. I told her I wanted to exchange it for the Honeywell warm mist humidifier and she said okay. So I went back in the store and got it, then wove back through the cashier line and told them I was leaving the store to go to customer service. I wonder if someone could get away with stealing things that way. The lineup was bigger this time for customer service but the Honeywell was on sale and so I got $70 credited to my bank account on the exchange. I took it home and set it up right away because the humidity had already dropped below 40, which is the limit for guitar safety.
I headed out to No Frills where I only found one bag of red and one bag of green relatively firm grapes. I also got two packs of raspberries, bananas, two mangoes, pea meal bacon, a big pack of Irish Spring soap, spoon size shredded wheat, pasta sauce that I use for pizza (there seems to be a shortage of Basilica sauce lately so I got a PC brand with Italian sausage), Swiss cheese crackers, a jug of low sugar iced tea, two containers of PC skyr, a bag of regular Miss Vickie’s chips and another of the sweet chili kind. I said I wanted to do a price match on the green grapes but Hanan matched both the red and green with the Metro green grapes price.
I weighed 87.25 kilos at 15:00. For lunch I had Breton crackers with five-year-old cheddar and a glass of low sugar iced tea.
I took a siesta at 15:30 and got up at 17:00. I felt it was too late for a bike ride.
I weighed 88.35 kilos at 17:00, which is the heaviest I’ve been in the evening since September 23. But then I weighed myself again right away twice and it was 87.5 kilos and that’s normal for lately.
I turned the new humidifier off when the level got to 55. I’ll turn it back on at 50. So far it’s working fine. The Noma one had a fancy digital reading that told you the percentage of water in the tank, but this one simply is open enough at the top so one can see how much water is there. The more bells and whistles the more things can go wrong.
I was caught up on my journal at 18:30.
I reviewed the song practice videos of my performances of “Vomit of the Star Eater” from September 2 to 5. On September 2 and 4 I played it on my Gibson Les Paul Studio electric guitar. On September 2 the take at 6:45 had a lot of stops and starts but the Gibson didn’t sound too bad. On September 4 during the take at 11:45 I fumbled the second verse and didn’t retake but the video looked good. On September 3 and 5 I played it on my Martin Road Series acoustic guitar. On September 3 the 6:30 take wasn’t going too bad but I fumbled near the end. On September 5 the take at 10:00 fumbled in the third verse but was the best so far in this project.
I spent about an hour working on re-learning to play “Paranoiac Utopia”. I still can’t play it all the way through without checking on the chord sequence but I’m getting closer.
I made pizza on a slice of multigrain sandwich bread with Basilica sauce, a sliced ground beef burger and five-year-old cheddar. I had it with a beer while watching episodes 15 and 16 of The Beatles cartoon series.
In story 1 of video 15 The Beatles are in an airplane and John is reaching out the window to slice a salami with the propeller as the slices are flying in through another window onto a sandwich that George is making. Suddenly the engine conks out and they have to parachute down into a Roman street fair. Bonnie the Dancing Bear becomes enamoured with Paul and won’t stop dancing with him. The Beatles play “I’m so Happy Just to Dance with You”.
The first singalong is to “Don’t Bother Me”. When George sings, “I know she’ll always be the only girl for me” he holds up a picture of Brigitte Bardot. The second singalong is to “Can’t Buy Me Love”, which was written and sung by Paul.
In story 2 of video 15, the Beatles are on a ship on its way to Hawaii when they are again chased by screaming girls. They meet up with a stowaway named Professor Ludwig Von Brilliant who is being chased by the crew. They all hide in the lifeboat where Ludwig has been living during the cruise. Ringo accidentally releases the lifeboat but since it’s covered by a canvas they don’t realize they’ve been separated from the ship until they’ve been adrift for three days. The professor has been planning to watch the eclipse on the island of Moony and by coincidence that’s where they’ve drifted. At first the natives are unfriendly but then the eclipse begins and Paul tells them the Beatles will bring the Moon back. They sing “Mister Moonlight”, by Roy Lee Johnson. It was originally recorded by Dr. Feelgood and the Interns in 1962. On the Beatles version John sings lead while Paul and George sing backing vocals. The Beatles and the professor leave the island on a submarine that somehow is there.
Episode 15 was directed by Bob Godfrey, who directed the cartoon series Roobarb, He produced Noah and Kelly in Skylark. He also directed Great (about Isambard Kingdom Brunel, and which became the first British film to win the Academy Award for animated short film), Kama Sutra Rides Again (which was personally selected by Stanley Kubrick to be the cartoon short to be shown before screenings of A Clockwork Orange) and Dream Doll. He was the director and the star of Henry’s Cat. He animated Alf, Bill and Fred. His voice became well known for his Esso Blue commercials that were produced by his company. He was awarded the Member of the Order of the British Empire. He said the great animators are the ones who don’t listen to you.
In story 1 of video 16, the Beatles are on a tropical holiday when a tribal native approaches John to give him a ring that is a gift from the tribal chief as an offer of friendship. He accepts the ring but later he learns that in doing so he has committed himself to marrying the chief’s daughter. He says he hasn’t agreed to marry anyone but they grab him and insist. A monkey above them cracks two coconuts on their heads. John escapes by hiding in the back of a pineapple truck while “Can’t Buy Me Love” begins. John ends up being loaded into a pineapple canning factory and finally sealed into a can. Meanwhile the chief’s daughter is waiting for her bridegroom. The first can of pineapple from the new factory is brought as a wedding gift. The chief’s daughter says in a Brooklyn accent, “But I hate pineapples!” The can is opened and John emerges. The bride runs to him but then she sniffs and says she can’t marry him because he smells of pineapple and she hates pineapple. Later John gives the ring to Ringo, who doesn’t know that means he’s engaged to the chief’s daughter.
The first singalong is to “Anna”, which was written by Arthur Alexander, who was a big influence on both the Beatles and The Rolling Stones (He also wrote “You Better Move On”). The second singalong was to “Mister Moonlight”.
In story 2 of video 16 the Beatles are driving in Japan and looking for a place to stop for a picnic. Meanwhile at a miniature garden a professor is demonstrating his shrinking formula. He pours it into a pond and then dips a small tree into it, which emerges as a much smaller tree. The Beatles stop at the miniature garden for their picnic and John Goes for a swim. When he emerges the others think he’s some automated Beatle doll. Paul wants to take it home for a toy. John gets away and they all chase what they think is the doll to the tune of “It Won’t Be Long”. They chase him back to the pond and he jumps onto a leaf and uses it for a boat. They all jump in to swim after him and shrink, while the shrinking formula wears off for John.
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