I memorized the first verse of “L'amour en soi” (Love in Essence) by Serge Gainsbourg. I spent some time trying figure out the order of the lyrics in the recording of the song by Vanessa Paradis because she repeats some phrases out of the order in which the text is laid out.
During song practice I played my Martin acoustic guitar for the last of four sessions. I audio and video recorded the session as I have since September 1 and will continue for another 17 days. This was without a doubt the best session I’ve had in this year’s project. I completed both “Vomit of the Star Eater” and “Sixteen Tons of Dogma” in one take each. I think I might have gotten a chord or two wrong in “Vomit of the Star Eater” but they weren’t aesthetically off. I had time to put four or five of my translations on video that have never been captured before.
I weighed 87.5 kilos before breakfast.
Around midday I went over to Freedom Mobile to pay for my October phone plan but there was a sign on the door that read “Back in Ten Minutes”. I had to wait ten minutes so the sign must have been up longer.
I headed down to No Frills where I bought five bags of red grapes, two packs of raspberries, bananas, a sack of potatoes, Basilica sauce, low sugar iced tea, a bag of oven fries, and a container of skyr. I did a price match on the grapes because they were cheaper at Metro.
I weighed 87.75 kilos at 14:30.
For lunch I had Triscuits with five-year-old cheddar and a glass of low sugar iced tea.
In the afternoon I took a bike ride downtown and kept looking out for a drug store because I forgot to buy Q-Tips at the supermarket. All the Shoppers Drug Marts along Bloor are on the north side but there was one on the west side of Yonge south of Bloor. They put all the items that most people would buy on the second floor and all the fancy expensive items like perfume and makeup on the main floor. The cashiers didn’t really know why they do that but it seems that it’s probably for aesthetic reasons. It’s not very customer friendly though.
I weighed 87.05 kilos at 18:25, which is the lightest I’ve been in the evening since September 20.
I was caught up on my journal at 19:15.
In the Movie Maker project to create a video for the studio recording of my song “Me and Gravity” I shaved the 1922 film Sky High down to 1.5 minutes. I only need a few seconds to fit with my line “It’s the kind of place you leave” to lead into the third chorus. I might have it down to the size I need tomorrow.
I uploaded today’s song practice video. I converted from MP4 to AVI parts A and B of the September 27 videos and started converting part C. That will be done tonight and then before I go to bed I’ll start converting today’s video.
I made pizza on a slice of multigrain sandwich bread with Basilica sauce, an outer rim of five-year-old cheddar and french fries and an egg in the middle. It’s actually quite a delicious combination. I had it with a beer while watching episode 20 of The Big Valley.
Jarrod discovers that Keno Nash, the man he sent to prison for murder nine years ago is innocent. The day he was sentenced he screamed in court that he would kill Jarrod. He feels guilty now that he robbed a man of nine years of his life and he tries to make it up to him. The first thing Keno does when he sees him is try to break free to attack him. Jarrod offers him any help he may need and Keno takes the train with him to Stockton. A friend of his named Barney owes him a favour and he goes to see him. Barney’s wife Meg is a photographer and she tells Keno that Barney is dead. Most of the old gang are dead and the rest are in prison. Keno goes to a saloon called the Canton Palace and buys a bottle of whiskey. Already in the bar there are some men at a table who work at the Barkley ranch. They recognize the grey jacket that Keno is wearing as the kind that is given to convicts on the day they are released from San Quenton prison. Keno offers to buy them a drink. Keno has a drink in honour of his lost friends who he says were half horse and half alligator. Follet recognizes that as a Mississippi term for people who worked on the riverboats. Keno says a lot of rivermen came west looking for gold but none of them ever found any. Follet says a lot of them came to San Francisco where his mother ran a boarding house and most of them became Hounds.
The real Hounds were an anti-foreigner gang that was like a west coast equivalent to the Bowery Boys. In addition to being a criminal gang they were mostly made up of Mexican-American War veterans and they continued to attack Spanish Americans long after that war ended. They were influenced by the No Nothing Movement which became known as the Native American Party and later the American Party, which was staunchly anti-Catholic. The official name for the Hounds was the San Francisco Society of Regulators. They started out extorting money from Latin American communities, which the general population didn’t mind. It was only after they began expanding their operations to run protection rackets against non-Catholics as well that the city wanted officials to crack down on them.
Follet says his mother had six Hounds in her house who burned it down and killed her for the rent. Then Follet asks Keno whose throat he cut to get the money to buy the bottle. Then he tries to take Keno to the sheriff, which results in a bar fight. Keno takes on and beats all three men but they all end up in jail together. Jarrod bails them all out but tells the hired hands the damage to the restaurant will be taken from their pay. Jarrod takes Keno to work on the ranch. Some of the men resent Keno’s presence but Heath invites them pick up their final pay and they back down. Jarrod gets Keno to apprentice at the ranch’s blacksmith shop. Follet continues to bait Keno and threatens him with things going wrong that Keno will be blamed for. Keno makes friends with Audra who gives him her puppy. Nick finds that Keno has ruined the bear traps they made at the forge because he thinks it’s torture. Follet tells Keno to be careful something doesn’t happen to his dog. Follet attacks Keno and they fight, causing a horse to get loose. Turpin also attacks Keno and when the Barkley brothers break up the fight Follet and Turpin say Keno started it. Keno refuses to speak up because he assumes he will be blamed anyway. Later Follet comes with a bottle Kor keno and tell him it’s a peace offering. He then tells him he’s heard Jarrod say he’s sending him back to prison. He gets him so drunk and riled up that he attacks Jarrod. The family votes to fire Keno, all except Jarrod who refuses to accept that verdict. Keno rides away. The family and the other hands accuse Follet of inciting Keno and Victoria slaps him. Jarrod goes after Keno and when he finds him he steps into a bear trap. At first Keno is tempted to leave him to suffer like he did wearing leg irons at San Quenton but then he uses his great strength to open the trap and save Jarrod. Follet is fired and Keno returns to work, collecting his first pay. Jarrod suggests he spend some of the money getting Meg to photograph his puppy.
Meg was played by K.T. Stevens, who was the daughter of director Sam Wood who directed Goodbye Mr. Chips and two Marx Brothers films. She appeared in his second silent film, “Peck’s Bad Boy” when she was two years old. After high school she took acting lessons and did summer stock theatre. She made her Broadway debut in 1939. On the radio she starred in Junior Miss. Her adult film debut was in Kitty Foyle. She co-starred in the films Port of New York, The Girl in Room 17, and Missile to the Moon, In adulthood she was more successful on stage and in radio than in films. She played Peggy Mercer on General Hospital but she is best remembered for her role of Vanessa Prentiss in The Young and the Restless. She was a three time president of the LA branch of AFTRA.
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