I video-recorded most of my song practice and audio recorded the whole thing. I tend to make less mistakes on the French songs than I do on my own. Every morning I practice my songs “Megaphor” and “Sixteen Tons of Dogma” and I usually have to start again a couple of times because of mistakes. I think some of my recordings of “Megaphor” may have turned out okay but the other song is longer and so there are more moving parts that can break down. I’ve certainly almost gotten it right at least once. Maybe when I review all these recordings I’ll find one version that is okay.
I recorded the audio in Ableton for the second session in a row, and this time I had no problem exporting the file. Ableton takes longer because it times through three processes before the export is complete. I’ve yet to listen and compare it with the recordings I’ve made with Audacity.
I weighed 85.4 kilos before breakfast.
Around midday I rescrubbed the area just to the left of the fridge. This time I also used the toothbrush-shaped steel brush that I’d bought last month, and that really helped a lot. I got most of the glue off and should get the rest tomorrow.
I weighed 85.1 kilos before lunch.
In the afternoon I took a bike ride downtown and back. It was a warm day but not extremely so.
I weighed 84.5 kilos at 17:00.
Benji came to my door in the evening because he’d locked himself out again. It’s lucky that I keep his spare key for him.
I finished updating my journal at 18:43.
I uploaded the videos that I shot of this morning’s song practice. Skimming through them I saw that it took me more than ten minutes to get through my three-minute song “Megaphor” because I kept making mistakes.
I had a potato with gravy and a slice of roast pork while watching another seven episodes of the 60s cartoon series Aquaman.
In the eighth story, from a poisonous pool on the ocean floor emerges a strange creature with one eye and two arm-like tentacles that shoot acid. The mindless creature heads towards Atlantis for no particular reason and also purposelessly stops from time to time to dissolve rocks and things with its acid. Aquaman has an octopus attack it and it sprays the creature with ink that neutralizes the acid it shoots. Aquaman ties it with seaweed and drops it back in the pool.
In story nine, somehow there is a cold-breathing dragon terrorizing the ocean. Aquaman throws balls of compressed water at the beast, then he spins around to create a water wall but the dragon freezes it and Aquaman is trapped inside. Aqualad gets him out, then the pair attack on the backs of swordfish, but the monster breathes an ice wall to protect it. The heroes swim to the surface but the dragon freezes the top of the ocean. Then it traps the pair in ice but Aquaman has a sawfish cut a hole so they drop back in the water. Aquaman puts the beast in a chokehold and knocks it out. Then they put it in the cave of an iceberg and Aquaman creates a wall of concentrated water so that when the dragon wakes up it breathes and freezes the wall, trapping itself inside. They then send the iceberg floating north so the dragon will stay frozen.
In story ten, the Mole men from beneath the sea send robot ships with drills in front to attack Atlantis. Also an Earthquake opens a crevice into which Aqualad falls, then the crevice begins to close on him until he is rescued by Aquaman. But Aquaman is stunned by an electric cannon and trapped. On a screen he meets Agnavar, king of the Molemen, who plans to take him back to be studied at the Earth’s core. But stupidly they’ve locked Aquaman in a room with torpedo tubes and so Aquaman escapes through one of them. Aquaman orders many large sea creatures to attack and they destroy over half of them. The Molemen decide to retreat and Aquaman lets them go.
In story eleven, Vassa, Queen of the Mermen attacks Atlantis with robot whale ships. Mera is trapped inside one of them. Aquaman tears the steel fins of the robot whale and it goes out of control with Mera inside, heading to crash. Aquaman pries open a hole in the hull and Mera escapes. Mera wants to help defend Atlantis but Aquaman orders her to the Aquacave. Vassa’s ships reach Atlantis and they fire shock rays that start to crack the dome. Aquaman commands several creatures to divert the robot whales. Aquaman destroys more of Vassa’s ships until she only has one. She orders it to ram the dome. But Aquaman hooks the ship with an anchor tied to a chain and pulls the ship back. He captures Vassa, but lets her go.
In story twelve Aquaman invents a stupid gun that can make microscopic creatures large. He winds up creating a menace when plankton grows into monsters. He has to trap them in a cave, but while he is doing that, Aqualad and the invention are captured by the Black Manta. Aquaman has a giant lobster destroy Manta’s ship’s gun. Then he has electrically charged torpedo rays somehow burn a hole in the steel hull of Manta’s ship so Aqualad can escape. Manta shoots Aquaman’s enlarging gun and every plankton in the area is enlarged. Manta escapes while the heroes fight the monsters. Aquaman has several creatures attack the plankton and discovers that the venom of stingrays causes the plankton to shrink back to normal.
In story thirteen, Aqualad is exploring a far region when he discovers an advanced city where he is captured by octopus men. The ruler of the Octomen kingdom traps Aqualad on a suction cup and says he will use him to lure Aquaman so he can learn the secret of communicating with sea creatures. Aquaman rescues Aqualad but is captured as well. Aquaman commands several sea creatures to help free him and then the Octomen release a giant Octoman made of electricity. Aquaman tells his sidekick to turn up the power and it causes the entire city to explode.
In story fourteen, Tusky the walrus leads Aquaman to a sunken galleon where they find it’s the hideout of the Torpedoman. Torpedoman attacks and Aquaman lassos him with seaweed but he breaks free. Torpedoman is fast and difficult to catch. Torpedoman throws harpoons but somehow they bounce off Aquaman’s dolphins. Aquaman finds the electric grid where Torpedoman charges his batteries and Torpedoman turns it on. Then Torpedoman charges towards them but they duck and he hits his own grid, which is electrocuting him. Aquaman has some electric fish absorb the electricity to save him. Torpedo man catches them in a metal net and then tries to knock the ship they are on off the sea cliff. Aquaman has a giant octopus lift the net off and then Torpedoman becomes wedged in the wrecked ship and falls over the cliff. There is an explosion and no trace of Torpedoman.
Aqualad was voiced by Jerry Dexter, who made a specialty of doing the voices of teenage boys in animated shows. He started out on radio and had a show called The Dexter Affair. He played Corporal Johnson on Gomer Pyle. Then he hosted a TV show called Good Day LA on KABC. His first cartoon voice was as Chuck on Shazzan. He voiced Gary Gulliver in The Adventures of Gulliver, Alan in Josie and the Pussycats, Ted in Goober and the Ghost Chasers, Hal in Sealab 2020, Biff in Fangface, Drac Junior in Drac Pack, and Sunfire in Spiderman and His Amazing Friends.
Before bed I did a search for bedbugs and dug one out of a groove in the plaster near the foot of the bed where they’ve made a nest in the past. It seems that since pest control came last week I find bedbugs every other day and they are concentrated on the wall near the foot of the bed whereas before they tended to hide around the old exit door at the head.
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