I ran through singing "The Blade on the Cutting Room Floor", which is my translation of "Le Couteau dans le play" by Serge Gainsbourg. I uploaded it to Christian's Translations and began to prepare it for publication.
I audio and video recorded song practice while playing my Martin acoustic guitar. It's so much easier and more relaxing to play the Martin than the Kramer. I think it was a pretty good session. I didn't listen to all of "Megaphor" but it felt like a good final take. My ending for "Sixteen Tons of Dogma" turned out pretty good. The camera timed out while I was struggling with "Baby Pop". I kept on screwing up the final chorus even though it has the same chords as the rest of the choruses. It's weird because I hardly ever get it wrong and as soon as the camera timed out I got it right. I guess maybe the camera was making me nervous because I knew it was about to go to sleep.
I weighed 84.7 kilos before breakfast.
I changed the high E string on my Kramer. That was my last one so I need to buy some more before I play it again on Thursday.
I went over to the hardware store to inquire as to whether someone like me could actually use a drain snake. The prematurely white haired guy whose been there forever didn't deliberately try to discourage me but when he ran through the complexities of a snake's use I decided I wasn't confident enough to try. I'll just have to wait till I can get the landlord to stop being an asshole for a few minutes and arrange for the needed repairs to my kitchen plumbing.
I weighed 85.5 kilos before lunch. I had whole wheat crackers with five-year-old cheddar and a glass of limeade.
In the afternoon I took a bike ride downtown and back.
I weighed 85.5 kilos at 17:00.
I spent half an hour chiseling black quartz from a piece of the rock I found six years ago.
I was caught up on my journal at 18:20.
I reviewed this morning's song practice video. I think the final takes of "Megaphor" and "Sixteen Tons of Dogma" came out okay, as well as some of the French songs. There are five days left in this year's recording project and then I'll start re-reviewing everything song by song.
In the Movie Maker project to create a video for my song "Megaphor (God in My Head)" I imported several more images of gods, mostly Greek and Hindu. I lined each picture up with the waveforms of the beats of the intro and they appear perfectly in synch with the music. But now I have to synchronize the concert video showing Brian Haddon beginning the keyboard part with the same part in the studio audio. I'll work on that on Monday.
I scanned the rest of the nude shots of my daughter and I when she was close to newly born. I started on a set of single negatives and the first one is of me trying to look like a solo porn star. I don't know how many more of those there are.
I made pizza on a slice of seven grain bread with Basilica sauce, a sliced piece of pork loin and five-year-old cheddar. I had it with a beer while watching season 6, episodes 4 and 5 of Petticoat Junction.
In the first story it is almost time for Betty Joe and Steve's baby to arrive. The couple move from their cottage to the Shady Rest so they'll have quicker access to the Cannonball when it's time to head for the hospital. Wendell the train engineer has the Cannonball sitting and waiting at the Shady Rest stop and he's been trying to stay awake but now he's exhausted. Betty and Steve tell him to come and sleep at the hotel. That night Betty goes into labour but no one can wake Wendell and so Betty Joe has to drive the Cannonball to the hospital herself. Several locals, including Salma Plout, Gladys Tuttle, and Oliver and Lisa Douglas come along. Wendell wakes up and sees the train gone and so he walks the ten kilometers into Hooterville. The phone rings in Sam's store and Wendell uses the hidden key to go in and answer it. It's Kate Bradley wondering where the train is because she's in Pixley waiting to go to the hospital for the birth of her grandchild. Wendell takes the hand car to pick her up. We only see Kate from the back because Bea Benaderet died two weeks before this episode aired and it's very noticeably a stand-in. The phone conversation was recorded five days before Bea died. Anyway Betty has a girl.
Gladys Tuttle was played by Jean Vander Pyl, who started out on the radio in shows like The Halls of Ivy, Calling All Cops and Father Knows Best. She was the voice of Wilma and Pebbles Flintstone, and Mrs. Slate on The Flintstones; Rosie the Robot Maid and Mrs. Spacely on the Jetsons, several characters on Boss Cat, Winsome Witch on Secret Squirrel, and Ogee on Magilla Gorilla.
In the second story there is a new second half of the intro because of Bea Benaderet's death. Up until now they have always shown the porch of the Shady Rest and mention that Kate runs the hotel, then show her coming through the door. But now they show the hotel from a distance and no longer mention Kate. The intro ends showing Uncle Joe and that's the same as before.
This story is the first Beverly Hillbillies crossover. I remember when Granny got the notice from Jed's cousin Pearl about Kate Bradley's daughter having a baby. As both Pearl and Kate had been played by Bea Benaderet, they make Kate out to be Pearl's distant cousin. So in the Beverly Hillbillies episode leading up to this story we see Granny leaving for Hooterville, although she's never been there. In this story Granny arrives in Hooterville, having misplaced her glasses along the way. Granny thinks Sam's store is the Shady Rest but he corrects her and tells her the hotel is down the tracks. Granny doesn't want to wait for the Cannonball and so she walks. When she gets to the Shady Rest she thinks Joe is Kate and says she does resemble Pearl. Joe takes her into the hotel and tells her the baby is in the bassinette but the baby has been taken upstairs while inside the bassinette and drinking the baby's bottle is the dog. Granny thinks the baby is an ugly and hairy freak but she sets about to find a cure. She gets Billie Joe and Bobbie Joe to gather the herbs, dried beetles, lizard eggs, kerosene, and a Moudaber's nest that she needs for her potion. Granny tells Steve to give it to the little nipper with the fuzzy face and so he gives it to the dog. We hear a bomb drop and explode in the dog's head and it begins rolling around like crazy. Sam shows up with Granny's glasses and Betty brings the baby out to show everybody. Granny sees a normal baby and thinks that she cured it with her concoction.
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