I memorized the third and fourth verses of “Amours des feintes” (Feinting Romance) by Serge Gainsbourg. That’s over half the song.
I weighed 87.3 kilos before breakfast.
Around midday I sanded the part of the northern wall that’s between the upper and lower shelves and also sanded the top of the lower shelf. Tomorrow I’ll sand the underside of the lower shelf and the rest of the eastern wall.
I weighed 87.4 kilos before lunch.
In the afternoon I took a bike ride downtown and on the way back stopped at Freshco to buy Earl Grey tea. I also got two bags of green grapes.
I weighed 87.1 kilos at 18:00.
I edited some of the self portraits I shot yesterday and posted them on my blog and on Facebook.
I was caught up on my journal at 20:00.
In the Movie Maker project to create a video for the studio recording of my song “The Next State of Grace” I synchronized the concert video with the studio audio for my line, “by the women who pass in the rain”. Then I lined them up for the beginning of the second chorus, “Oh when oh when will I ever learn”. But after that it falls out of synch and so I started to decide which of the three clips of the line, “I can’t drive a girl home with wheels that don’t turn” from the recent video of me playing the song on the street works best. I’ll work on that tomorrow.
I had a potato with gravy and a slice of roast beef while watching season 7, episodes 15 and 16 of Bewitched.
In the first story Darrin is working on an ad campaign to sell a wearable sauna suit called a Reduceolator. Meanwhile Tabitha has lost a baby tooth and Samantha tells her that the Good Fairy is coming tonight. Darrin doesn’t think it’s a good idea to tell Tabitha there is a Good Fairy. Samantha informs him that there is a Good Fairy and her name is Mary. That night Mary comes and exchanges Tabitha’s tooth for a quarter. Darrin wakes up when he hears a noise and decides to go get a snack, but in the hall he meets Mary and calls for Samantha. Samantha gets up and she and Mary are thrilled to see each other for the first time in centuries. Samantha invites her to sit a while and offers her a cup of tea. Mary says she needs something to warm her up but she doesn’t know about tea, and coffee doesn’t agree with her. Darrin offers her brandy but she doesn’t know what that is. She drinks the whole bottle very quickly and then is too drunk to fly and complete her nightly rounds. On top of that she doesn’t want to go out in the cold and asks what have all those children ever done for her anyway? Samantha decides that she’ll have to substitute for Mary since they’re responsible for her condition. Mary uses her magic wand to switch places with Samantha. Now Samantha has the wings, the little white dress and the tiara. Darrin says if anyone had ever told him that someday he would be married to a fairy he would have punched them in the mouth. While she is the Good Fairy Samantha does not have the powers of a witch. Samantha takes Mary’s long list of children and flies off to do Mary’s job. In the morning Samantha returns exhausted. Mary has had her best night’s sleep in centuries without her wings being in the way and now she can also enjoy scratching her back. Samantha thinks Mary will change her back now but Mary thinks she’s entitled to a little vacation and so Samantha has to fill the role. Darrin goes to hug Samantha but Mary tells him to stop because the wings are very delicate. He asks her what happens if a man wants to hug her and she says, “Nothing. Now you know why they call me the good fairy”. While Samantha and Darrin are discussing the situation Mary wanders out into the neighbourhood in Samantha’s housecoat.
In the second story Mary shows up at Gladys Kravitz’s door and gets her to give her some brandy. Later as Mary is dancing drunkenly through the neighbourhood she gets picked up by the cops. Gladys witnesses the arrest and informs Samantha and so Darrin goes downtown to get Mary released in his custody. He says he’ll make sure she doesn’t run around loose. The sergeant tells him to make sure she doesn’t run around tight. Mr. Furber of the company that makes the Reduceolator is impatient to hear Darrin’s ideas for his product but Darrin has been too distracted by the situation between Mary and Samantha. Furber comes to see Darrin and since they can’t let them see Samantha with wings she hides them by wearing the reduceolator. But the off knob for the heat has come off and Samantha is overheating. They get her out and see her in her Good Fairy costume. Darrin says it’s part of his campaign idea and Furber likes it. Later Samantha tells Mary that last night she missed some of the children on the list and Mary is surprised. Then Samantha “accidentally” spills a bloody Mary on her Good Fairy white dress and says she’ll just throw it into the washing machine. Mary says she can’t do that because the dress made from spun milkweed. She says the way clean it is to fly low over a field of wheat and let the tips brush the dirt off. Samantha says she’ll just make her rounds with a dirty dress. Mary says she’ll ruin her reputation but Samantha says it’s no longer her reputation. Mary fires her and takes over again as the Good Fairy.
Mary was played by the great Imogene Coca, who was trained from childhood in singing, piano and dance. By the time she was 13 she was a serious vaudeville performer as an acrobat. At 15 she went to New York and debuted as a chorus girl in When You Smile. Over the next several years she performed in musical reviews and developed her own act which she performed in nightclubs such as The Rainbow Room. Only accidentally did her performances develop comic elements. She was capable of forming a wide range of extreme facial expressions. Her big break was in New Faces of 1934. In 1949 she began performing with Sid Caesar on The Admiral Broadway Review. In 1950 Your Show of Shows was launched with her in the cast. Coca won an Emmy and a Peabody the following year for her work on the show. Your Show of Shows lasted four years and she was with Caesar again in Sid Caesar Invites You. She also briefly had her own Imogene Coca Show. In 1967 the cast of Your Show of Shows reunited in a special that won an Emmy. She starred in the sitcoms Grindl and It’s About Time but they were not hits. She was nominated for a Tony Award for On the Twentieth Century. She co-starred in Under the Yum Yum Tree, Nothing Lasts Forever, and National Lampoon’s Vacation. In 1995 she was honoured with the Women in Film Lucy Award.
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