On Friday morning I worked on memorizing the second five lines of the first monologue in Zizi Jeanmaire’s performance of “Les millionaires” by Serge Gainsbourg. I’ll probably have that nailed tomorrow but the next five lines will be more difficult because some of the lines are from two sources that have yet to be merged and she talks so fast that it’s hard to figure out.
I weighed 88.7 kilos before breakfast.
I played my Martin acoustic for the second of two sessions and it stayed in tune most of the time.
Around midday I strapped my Kramer electric to my bike trailer and hauled it up to Wood Instruments. Alex had refurbished my Gibson Les Paul and fixed the frets, so hopefully it’s back to sounding sweet. I counted out $240 and paid him. I showed him my Kramer and he thinks it needs all new frets. I agreed to go with stainless steel frets, which are more expensive but much more durable and so ultimately cheaper in the long run. It’d going to cost me around $600 but hopefully that’s the last guitar work I’ll be spending money on for a long time. He won’t be ready to work on the Kramer for another month and so I took it with me. I was at Roncesvalles and Queen when there was a phone call from Alex telling me I’d only paid him $140 so I went back and gave him the other $100.
I weighed 88.35 kilos at 14:45.
I took a siesta from 15:30 to 17:00.
Dr. Xia called and changed the date of my bone graft to February 9.
I weighed 89.3 kilos at 17:25.
I was caught up in my journal at 18:11.
I connected my repaired Sony cassette player and got it to play a tape but when I tried to record to my computer it didn’t work. The double stereo jacks are plugged into just below the tape jacks where it says “Record” and the computer jack at the other end is plugged to the blue hole at the back of my computer. The only other available hole is the orange one but I get a horrible noise when I plug it in there. I’ll try plugging it into my audio interface tomorrow.
I reviewed the videos of my song practice performances of “Le moribond” and “When They Put Me in that Hole” from September 7, 2024 to September 18, 2024. On September 7-8, 10-14, and 16-17 the camera battery charge either ran out beforehand or took a powder during the songs. There were only three complete takes. I played “Le moribond” on my Martin Road Series on September 9 and 15 and both final takes were okay but with some wrong chords. I played “When They Put Me in that Hole” on my Gibson Les Paul Studio on September 18 and the final take was not bad.
I had a potato with gravy and two chicken drumsticks while watching season 2, episode 14 of Car 54 Where Are You?
An actor is called at the last minute to play a police inspector for a TV series called Night Stick. They send him a script, tell him to pick up his costume and to change, then meet them at the 31st Precinct at 53rd and Lexington. But he gets it mixed up and arrives at the 53rd Precinct. When the cops see an inspector there they start cleaning up their lockers. Captain Block greets him but is told he’s just an actor. Seeing no film set the actor realizes his mistake and asks to use the phone so Block takes him in his office. They are sending a car for him but meanwhile he asks Block if he’d feed him his lines for the script. In the script the inspector is addressing a policeman who he’s discovered is a kleptomaniac. Muldoon and Toody happen to be passing outside Block’s door when they hear this and think that Block really is a compulsive thief. The actor leaves and Block has to go and buy some Christmas presents for his sergeants. When Muldoon and Toody see him come into the station with a bunch of parcels they assume he’s just stolen them. They decide to help the captain out and so as soon as his back is turned they take all the presents from Block’s office and take them home to Toody’s place to bring back to the store when it’s not so busy. When Block sees his stuff missing he tells Schnauser there is a thief among them and asks him to start checking the lockers. Officers Rodriguez, Nicholson and Anderson see Schnauser going through their lockers and think he’s a thief. Then Muldoon and Toody see the captain come back to the station with another stack of gifts. They think he’s stolen again and so when he’s not looking they take those parcels from him as well. Then Nicholson tells Muldoon and Toody that Schnauser is a thief and they tell him that Block is too. Then they see Schnauser helping Block bring some more packages in to put in his office. It’s Christmas Eve and Block learns that the new furniture he bought for his wife can’t be delivered but Schnauser says they can use his brother in law’s truck. But while he and Block are making arrangements, Muldoon, Toody, and Nicholson take Block’s packages again. Then they overhear Schnauser making arrangements to pick up the furniture from the warehouse and they think he and Block are going to steal the furniture. Then Block picks Claire up at the bus station and brings her home thinking when they open the door she’ll see her new furniture but they see no furniture at all. The furniture is taken to Toody’s place where he turns on the TV to watch Night Stick. They see the actor who they thought was an inspector and hear the same dialogue they’d overheard from Block’s office and realize their mistake. Next we see Muldoon, Toody and Anderson carolling outside of Block’s window as he and Clair lean out to watch and listen. Meanwhile behind them the other officers are sneaking all the furniture back in.
Anderson was played by Ossie Davis who started acting with the Ross McClendon Players in the 1940s. He made his Broadway debut in Jeb in 1946. He made his film debut in No Way Out in 1950. He won a Tony in 1958 for his performance in the musical Jamaica. He starred in Gone Are the Days, Cool Red, He made his Broadway debut as a playwright in 1961 with Purlie Victorious (which was adapted as the film Gone Are the Days). He co-starred in The Scalphunters (for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe), The Hill, Sam Whiskey, Slaves, Hot Stuff, Grumpy Old Men, The Client, Dr. Dolittle (1998), Do the Right Thing, Bubba Ho Tep, He was nominated for two Tony Awards. He directed Cotton Comes to Harlem, Black Girl, Gordon’s War, He co-starred in the mini-series King for which he was nominated for an Emmy), B.L. Stryker, and narrated the series Evening Shade. He was a member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. He was an activist who spoke at the funerals of both Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X. He was married to actor Ruby Dee for 57 years and they performed together in several productions. They won a Grammy Award for their album Ossie and Ruby.
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