I worked out the chords for the chorus and verses two and three of “Tout l’monde est musician” (Everyone’s a Musician) by Serge Gainsbourg. I’ll probably have the song finished tomorrow.
I weighed 88.15 kilos before breakfast.
I played my Martin acoustic during song practice for the first time in a few weeks since Alex Wood set it up and it sounded great. It stayed in tune most of the time.
Around midday I opened up the old can of Crazy in Love paint and started touching up the edges of my bathroom ceiling. I started with the patch where a bunch of paint peeled off with the painters tape and I filled that in. I did all of the west side and almost half each of the north and south edges. Doing fine work on a ceiling is a pain in the ass so now I understand what Michelangelo went through. It’s surprising that it’s not always easy to tell where the ceiling ends and the wall begins even when they are different colours and shades. But in retrospect what I did looks good. There were slight overlaps but when I touch up the wall paint it will be easier to cover the lighter ceiling paint at a better angle.
I weighed 88.65 kilos before lunch. I had Skyflakes crackers with peanut butter and five year old cheddar with a glass of iced tea.
I tried to take a bike ride but my tires slipped slightly on a strip of frozen sledge and so I anticipated things being worse on the bike lane and just went around the block. My policy these days for surviving winter riding is: “With just one slight slip I will end my bike trip”.
I weighed 88.65 kilos at 17:25.
I checked the status of my Best Buy order and found that after ten days of problems with my banking limit and conflicting addresses they canceled it. I searched their site for several minutes and found the same computer but with twice as much RAM (64GB) and it was $400 cheaper, so I ordered that. Hopefully starting fresh there won’t be any hassles.
I was caught up in my journal at 18:51.
I reviewed the last cassette tape on my pile. This was the demo of Bomb Shelter Light, which featured on my open stage on October 8, 1996. They gifted me the cassette with the note that I am an inspiration to many. The thing is I don’t remember the names of the guys in the band and no internet search turns up anything about them. I have a vague memory of what the two guys in the band looked like but nothing else. The music sounds influenced by Nick Cave. I digitized the cassette twice. Tomorrow I want to start trying to figure out how to get my Sony Dolby double cassette player working again so I can make some less glitchy conversions from tape to digital.
I uploaded my “Leave Some for Everyone Else (Gibson electric) video to You Tube.
I opened my “2024-10-06 Song Practice” Movie Maker project and deleted all the songs before “Leave Some For Everyone Else”. I hadn’t found the final take before supper.
I made pizza on a slice of Bavarian sandwich bread with marinara sauce, tomato pesto, Genoa salami, and five-year-old cheddar. I had it with a glass of Creemore while watching season 2, episode 26 of Car 54 Where Are You?
The filing system at the 53rd precinct is a mess with files dating back to President Woodrow Wilson. Captain Block can’t get any of his men to help organize the place. Then Inspector Kerman arrives to tell Block he has to take a vacation because he hasn’t had one in five years. Block says he can’t leave Toody alone with another captain and the inspector is aware of Toody being a special case. But the inspector insists and so Block has to go. They need to replace him for two weeks with another captain but the only one available is Captain Burkholtz. Burkholtz however is not an effective precinct captain because he is the sweetest, kindest, most easy going police officer to ever wear a uniform. The last time he was in charge of a precinct it spoiled all the men so much that they needed to be reassigned. Because of that they have buried Burkholtz for the last fifteen years as the head of Lost and Found. For anyone who comes to his department looking for something he insists that if they can’t find it they should walk away with something else they like. But nobody at the 53rd Precinct knows anything about Burkholtz. Toody and Muldoon deliver Block’s vacation papers to the chief of police and hear him say they hate to do this to the 53rd but they are going to have to let Burkholtz out. Now they are scared that Burkholtz is some kind of monster and so they go to the files department only to find there is no file on him. Someone has to check the old archives to find the Burkholtz file. All that person hears is about the 91st Precinct being ruined but not how so he assumes it’s because Burkholtz is a sadistic tyrant. The rumour passes through the file department and builds with each person until Toody and Muldoon are told that Burkholtz is a former Nazi general. When Burkholtz arrives he comes with his beloved fish in their tanks and he is as sweet as can be. But they have all seen the movies about smiling torturers and they assume that the captain’s fish are man eating piranhas. The men all decide in their terror that they need to work like dogs for the next two weeks to give no reason for Burkholtz to discipline them. They work on their days off and overtime to clean, paint and organize the precinct. They do everything that Captain Block could not get them to do. Burkholtz sees Officer Kissel is working too hard and takes him into his office to feed his fish because it’s a calming activity. But Kissel is so nervous Burkholtz concludes he needs a holiday. Kissel says he doesn’t want the men to see him abandon them and so Burkholtz helps him sneak away unnoticed. When the men see Kissel go into the captain’s office but not come out they assume he has been fed to the piranhas. But then the two weeks are up and Burholtz says goodbye. Kissel returns and everyone is relieved. Block tries to discipline the men the way he thinks Burkholtz did but the men go back to their old habits.
Burkholtz was played by Howard Freeman, who worked in theatre for almost twenty years before entering the film industry. His film debut was in Inflation in 1942. He co-starred in The Unwritten Code, Carolina Blues, I’ll Tell the World, and Susie Steps Out.
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