I wasn’t quite able to memorize the seventh verse of “Glass securit” (Security Glass) by Serge Gainsbourg, but I should have it nailed tomorrow.
I played my Martin acoustic guitar during song practice for the first of two sessions.
I weighed 87.2 kilos before breakfast, which is the heaviest I’ve been in the morning in three weeks.
The cold symptoms went away after breakfast.
In the late morning I did my laundry and was done at 13:30.
I weighed 86.6 kilos before lunch.
In the afternoon I took a bike ride downtown and back.
I weighed 85.9 kilos at 17:30.
I was caught up in my journal at 18:15.
I finished re-reading Beowulf. Beowulf was an old king when he went to fight the dragon and had an entire army at his command. Yet he chose to try to take on the worm alone. He had no heirs and as the narrator said, with him gone there was nothing to stop the Swedes from invading Geatland. It seems like very poor leadership for him to sacrifice his kingdom just for a glorious adventure. On his way there it says he wasn’t scared because he’d had battles before from which he’d barely escaped with his life. What kind of dumb logic is that? If he’d almost died before he has reason to be cautious the next time.
I started reading The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro. The story seems to be set in Medieval England. The narrator is focusing on an old peasant named Axl with a wife named Beatrice. The peasants live in tunnels in the sides of hills. The first thing I thought of is the Picts who legend says lived underground but though they had underground spaces adjacent to their homes there is no record of them living in them. There are ancient tunnels in Cornwall and a famous city of man-made caves in Nottingham where the poor may have lived. But the most striking thing about the novel so far is that the people of these villages seem to suffer from long term memory loss. Axl is remembering a red headed woman who was a healer but disappeared. No one, not even Beatrice remembers her even though Axl says she was there as recently as a month before. Everyone thinks he’s been dreaming.
I had a potato with gravy and a chicken leg while watching season 1, episode 8 of Burke’s Law.
A rock star named Billy Jo is having a party at his house. He leaves the party and walks to his beach house, but just outside a high powered rifle aimed from the main house shoots and kills him. Burke goes to see Lynn Dexter, Billy’s manager. She says Billy and his agent Lou Cole weren’t getting along. Cole is auditioning new acts and a juggler gets up and drops every pin then throws the last one away and walks off. The juggler is David Niven. Cole tells Burke he’d be a fool to kill his biggest money maker. But Burke learns that Cole’s wife Lisa was having an affair with Billy. Burke goes to see a band leader named Rip Foley. He says he conducted all of Billy’s recordings and hated him . He used to beat Billy up for lipping off at him in front of his band but Billy considered him good luck. They go to talk again with Lisa and find her dead in her home. He goes to see Marcus DeGrute, Billy’s astrologer. Tim goes to Billy’s funeral and watches the procession. One person passing the coffin stops to smile and so Tim follows him. Burke goes to see Billy’s right hand man Charlie Vaughn. Charlie and Billy grew up together and Billy took him along when he became a success but Charlie’s pride was hurt at hand me downs. Charlie wrote Billy’s first hit but gave him the credit. He’s bitter. Burke says Charlie is selling bootleg Billy Jo records and siphoning money from Billy’s accounts. Burke finds Billy’s sister Bonnie Belle who is working as a stripper. She tells them about their religious fanatic stepfather Jethro Tate. He turns out to be the one that smiled at the funeral. He now runs a mission. Jethro says Billy got the lord’s retribution. Jethro has a bottle of 25 year old scotch and Burke recognizes the bottle from DeGrute’s bar. He goes back to DeGrute to arrest him for murder. He says DeGrute got information from Jethro on Billy to make it sound like he was getting it from the stars. But Billy saw DeGrute with Jethro so he had to shut him up. DeGrute tries to run but they catch him on the beach.
Lynn Dexter was played by Ida Lupino, who at the age of 14 in England was taken by her actor mother to an audition and got the part her mother wanted. The part was a starring role in Her First Affaire. She co-starred in The Ghost Camera, I Lived with You, and Money for Speed. In Hollywood she co-starred in The Sea Wolf, High Sierra, Pillow to Post, Deep Valley, Out of the Fog, They Drive By Night, Ladies in Retirement, Moontide, The Hard Way, Road House, While the City Sleeps, Junior Bonner, On Dangerous Ground, and The Man I love. She refused roles that Bette Davis turned down. In 1947 she went freelance as an actor and began directing, writing and producing. She co-wrote Not Wanted. She directed and starred in Outrage and The Bigamist. She directed and co-wrote The Hitchhiker (making her the first female director of a film noir), and Never Fear. In the 50s she directed episodes of TV series like The Untouchables and The Fugitive. She is the only actor to have both performed in and directed episodes of The Twilight Zone. She was the most prominent female film maker of the 1950s. The last film she directed was The Trouble With Angels in 1966.
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