I started memorizing the final monologue in Zizi Jeanmaire’s performance of “Les millionaires” by Serge Gainsbourg.
I weighed 88.5 kilos before breakfast.
I played my Martin acoustic during song practice for the first of two sessions. It went out of tune a lot more than usual but not even close to how badly the electrics are going out these days.
Around midday I went over to Home Hardware walking with my bike trailer. I wanted to buy the Blue Bliss colour paint but in French it’s called Euphorie Bleue so I told them I was there to get high and they thought I was weird. The 3.85 liter cans were on sale for $32.97 while the 911 ml cans were $21.00. I don’t think I need that much but I think it’s better to have too much so I got the big can. I also bought a new roller, a new brush, some Frog Tape, and two jugs of cleaning vinegar. I used my new digital Scene card for the first time. I had time to put some Frog tape on the vent part of my fan casing. I plan to paint the casing Blue Bliss (turquoise) but the vent grate as Crazy in Love (pink). I’ll start tomorrow.
I weighed 89.1 kilos before lunch.
I took a siesta and then took a bike ride. The sun was still out and when I got to Bloor I checked my phone. As I suspected I’d only slept half an hour and left an hour earlier than usual. I rode to Ossington and Bloor. When I got home I went back to bed for an hour while my upstairs neighbour was stomping on the floor again.
I weighed 89.15 kilos at 17:35, which is the heaviest I’ve been in the evening since last Tuesday.
I was caught up in my journal at 19:06.
I recorded from cassette through audio interface to Audacity and then extracted to my hard drive side one of the last part of my first 20,000 Poets Under the League slam, hosted by Cad Lowlife.
I reviewed the videos of my song practice performances of “The Deserter” on September 28, 2024 and October 12 of the same year. In both cases the final takes weren’t bad. I think my whistling was a little better on October 12. I’m not going to render it in Movie Maker though. I’ll do it better in the next recording project.
I reviewed the video of my song practice performance of “Why I Drink” on September 12, 2024 but the camera battery charge ran out before the last three words.
I had the good parts of two small potatoes with gravy and a slice of roast pork while watching season 2, episode 25 of Car 54 Where Are You?
Danny, a gangleader whose schemes always fail decides to copy the crimes that are written for a show called Crime Busters. Bugsy, one of the gang members points out that the crooks always get caught but Danny reminds him that the host always points out what the crooks did wrong in the end. So all they have to do is copy the crime and correct the mistake. But while they are watching Crime Busters and making notes, Toody is also watching the show.
The next day when the police are called in to investigate, Toody solves the crime without remembering that he saw it all on TV. The Inspector is impressed with Toody’s detective work. The next week there’s a bank robbery based on that week’s episode, which Toody also watches and solves unconsciously. Now the inspector specifically calls Toody in to help and Captain Block is relegated to taking notes.
The next week the crooks watch the show again, this time about a museum robbery but this time Muldoon removes the knobs from Toody’s TV because they are supposed to be reading books on crime detection and taking notes. After they’ve studied four hours Muldoon puts the knobs back on and they watch a production of Hamlet. So when Toody is called in to solve the museum robbery he only thinks that the uncle who is the king of Denmark committed the crime.
The next day at the Federal Broadcasting Company they realize that a gang of crooks is copying their episodes of Crime Busters. To avoid accusations of instigating crime the president orders Crime Busters off the air and replaced by Peter Rabbit.
Toody realizes that he got his crime solutions from Crime Busters because a gang has been copying the shows. He and Muldoon decide to try to stop the gang by watching Crime Busters that night. The TV listings still have Crime Busters on the schedule with the subject being a warehouse robbery. Both the gang and the team of Toody and Muldoon watch Peter Rabbit stealing cabbages from farmer Brown and still think it’s an episode of Crime Busters. Toody concludes the crooks will be robbing Brown’s produce warehouse and calls the inspector. When the inspector and the commissioner hear Toody talking about Peter Rabbit they think they are wasting their time but then the gang shows up all wearing bunny costumes and they are caught.
Bugsy on this episode was played by played by Jake LaMotta and he played other characters (mostly gang members) on other episodes. When he was a child his father forced him to fight other boys for the entertainment of his friends. He learned to box while in the reformatory for attempted robbery. In his 14 year career as a professional boxer LaMotta was only knocked out once. He won the Middleweight Title and held onto it twice. He was the first fighter to beat Sugar Ray Robinson although he only beat him once out of six times. His ability to win fights came more from his capacity to take punches with one of the greatest chins in boxing history and just to stay close and keep scrapping until the other guy was down rather than having any precision skill at punching. He admitted to once throwing a fight because of Mafia involvement in the sport. His autobiography was called Raging Bull and the film starring Robert DeNiro was based on it. To prepare for the film DeNiro trained with LaMotta. LaMotta said DeNiro has the makings of a champion boxer and he could train him if he ever wanted to give up acting. DeNiro won an Oscar for his performance. LaMotta said the three toughest boxers he ever fought were Sugar Ray Robinson, Sugar Ray Robinson, and Sugar Ray Robinson. He said he fought Sugar so many times it’s a wonder he didn’t get diabetes.
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