I blog-published “Moon Honey”, my translation of “Aberdeen et Kowloon” by Serge Gainsbourg on my Christian’s Translations blog and also posted the lyrics on Facebook. That completes the 1988 list of Gainsbourg songs and so now my project has covered thirty years of his oeuvre. All that’s left are twenty five songs from 1990 starting with “Et quand bien même” (And Even If). I’ll start learning that tomorrow.
I played my Martin acoustic guitar during song practice for the first of two sessions. It stayed in tune almost all the way through, so maybe the new strings have almost finished stretching.
It feels weird not being able to weigh myself in the morning but the new scale is supposed to arrive in two days.
In the late morning I walked over to the hardware store with my Sony camera and my tripod to see if they had rubber washers so I could shorten the mounting screw enough to make it fit the new camera. The only thing they had was a pack of two rubber washers for shower hoses by Profix for $3.89. I tried one of them in the store and it worked perfectly t o secure the camera on the tripod. I also bought some Murphy’s Wood Soap.
I took an early bike ride because I wanted to look at external hard drives at Staples. The sales person showed me a one terabyte San Disk for $150. I asked about Samsung because people say it’s the best but he said Samsung makes everything while San Disk specializes in data storage. He said you will never see a San Disk refrigerator. That seemed like a good point to me. But online forums comparing the two tend to favour Samsung. But really just because one specializes in something doesn’t prove that one is better at it. One assumes that Samsung has a division that specializes in storage as well and perhaps has more money to spend on it.
For lunch I had a toasted Montreal style bagel with liverwurst and a glass of iced tea.
I took a siesta and slept for two hours like yesterday. My nap is normally ninety minutes long.
I was caught up on my journal at 18:00.
I reviewed the song practice videos of my performances of “The Post Colonial Breakdown” and “Mamadou” from August 24 to 28. On August 24 I played “The Post Colonial Breakdown” on my Kramer electric guitar and the take at 9:45 in part B was not bad for the electric. On August 26 and 28 I played it on my Martin acoustic guitar. On August 26 the take at 24:30 was okay and looked good. On August 28 the take at 3:30 in part B was pretty good. On August 25 the camera battery charge ran out before “Mamadou”. On August 27 I played it on the Martin and the take at 25:00 was not bad, there was low traffic noise and it looked good.
In the Movie Maker project to make a video for the studio recording of my song “Angeline”, in the last chorus, for the line “and since I can’t see the bottom…” the concert video was behind the studio audio by about a second and a half. I shaved off the video until they were in synch but then they were out of synch for “…the bottom with this tiny…” So I added two more of the psychedelic underwater clips from the movie Head of Mickey Dolenz sinking. Then I got them synchronized again for “…flashlight beam”. Then in the concert video I pause before the line “I’ll just resign myself to falling Angeline”, whereas I don’t pause in the studio audio. I’ll decide tomorrow whether to simply shave more off the video or to add another clip from Head so the concert video won’t look choppy.
I made pizza on a multigrain crust with Basilica sauce, two sliced chicken kebabs, and five-year-old cheddar. I had it with a beer while watching season 3, episodes 27 and 28 of Bewitched.
In the first story Samantha and Darrin are planning on celebrating the anniversary of their first date by having lunch again at La Bella Donna. Darrin just has one appointment before their date, with Terry Warbell of Warbell Dresses. She is the daughter of the president and she has been made advertizing manager of the firm. On Darrin’s way to his car a woman in a sports car calls to him and says she’s Terry Warbell. She suggests that she ride with him and so they go to his office. But she doesn’t seem to be very interested in business. She wants Darrin to take her to lunch but he turns her down. When Larry hears this he threatens to fire Darrin if he doesn’t have lunch with the client. Darrin has to call Samantha and cancel their date. Samantha’s mother Endora is suspicious and so she pops into Darrin’s office invisibly to spy. As Darrin and Terry are about to leave, Darrin’s secretary asks Terry if she thinks boots will be popular next year. Terry answers, “That all depends on how Boots behaves herself this year”. Endora finds that response curious and so as they leave she transports Darrin’s notes back into his office so he has to go get them. Meanwhile Endora appears before Terry in the hallway as a fashion reporter. She asks what she thinks of the new polyester fabrics. Terry says she thinks Polyester is as good as the next designer. Now Endora knows there is something fake about Terry. Darrin and Terry go to La Bella Donna and then back to her apartment. Meanwhile across the street from Darrin’s house the doorbell rings in the Kravitz house. Gladys answers to see a very old woman who tells her she’s lost. Gladys says that happens to people her age sometimes. The woman says, “But I’m only 24!” Gladys calls Samantha to tell her that her kind of people is in her home. Samantha asks for the woman’s name and she says “Terry Warbell”. Samantha immediately brings Terry to her house. Terry explains that earlier that morning she was driving in her car when an old woman waved her down and so she stopped. The next thing she knew she was the old woman and the other was in her body and driving off in her car. Endora says that the old woman is the Crone of Cawdor who was cursed to become a hag and to live alone on top of a mountain in Carpathia. If she can get Darrin to kiss her then she will take his youth and he will become 500 years old. The crone is only in Terry’s body for twelve hours and she is desperate to get that kiss from Darrin before 18:00. Samantha needs to find Terry’s address but Larry doesn’t know it. She pops in on Mr. Warbell and pretends to be one of his secretaries, then asks for Terry’s address. It is almost 18:00 and the Crone is chasing Darrin to get that kiss when Samantha appears. She warns him about the Crone but he doesn’t believe her and is mad that she didn’t trust him. He decides he’s going to kiss her just to teach Samantha a lesson for spying on him but at that moment she turns back to an old lady. The old lady at Darrin’s house turns back to Terry.
In the second story Darrin has a wicked fight with Endora on his way to work because he caught her trying to teach Tabatha how to disappear. Endora complains that Darrin is difficult but Samantha tells her he gets along beautifully with everyone but her. Out of spite Endora goes to Darrin’s office and casts a spell on each of his clients to make them find fault with everything he does or says. The first client is Frank Eastwood, an assistant from the mayor’s office. McMann and Tate has been hired to create a new image for the mayor. Eastwood arrives and Larry suggests they order coffee. Endora casts her spell and Eastwood is mad because Darrin doesn’t want cream in his coffee. He gets mad at everything Darrin says, then cancels the account and storms out. The next person Darrin meets is a model named Gloria Adams from the Summit Model Agency. Endora casts her spell and again every innocent thing that Darrin says is offensive. He says he is sure she has a great deal of experience and she thinks that’s a crack, etcetera. Next comes Mr. Baldwin of Baldwin Blankets. Endora rings the bell again and Baldwin begins finding fault with Darrin with the result that he cancels the contract. Larry tells Darrin that if three people in a row dislike him there is something wrong with him and so he suggests that he visit the psychiatrist Dr. Farnsworth. After going to a bar to drown his sorrows Darrin goes to Farnsworth. Meanwhile Samantha hears from Larry about Darrin’s problems and she figures that her mother must be the cause. Darrin is with Farnsworth who doesn’t really behave like a psychiatrist. He keeps telling Darrin that he resents his wife. Samantha appears and makes Farnsworth say he’s the one with the problem then Farnsworth leaves to see his own psychiatrist. Samantha tells Darrin about Endora’s spell. That afternoon he gets another chance with Baldwin. Endora has lifted the spell without telling Darrin and so Darrin makes a fool of himself trying to be liked by someone who already likes him.
The executive producer of Bewitched was Harry Ackerman, who was also the executive producer of The Flying Nun, Love On a Rooftop (which he co-created), Father Knows Best, Dennis the Menace, Leave it to Beaver, Hazel, and Gidget. He started as a writer and then performed on the radio as the comic poet Wilbur W. Willoughby Jr. He became an ad executive at Young and Rubicam in 1938 and by 1946 he was vice president in charge of program relations. He became vice president in charge of CBS programming and helped develop Gunsmoke, I Love Lucy, The Jack Benny Show, Burns and Allen, Amos and Andy, and Our Miss Brooks. At Columbia Pictures Television he developed The Donna Reed Show, I Dream of Jeannie, The Monkees and The Partridge Family. He won two Emmy Awards. He was married to former teen idol Elinor Donahue of Father Knows Best fame from 1962 until he died in 1991.
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