I worked out the chords for the intro and the first three lines of “Variations sur le même t'aime” (Variations on the Usual I Love You) by Serge Gainsbourg.
I played my Kramer electric guitar during song practice for the first of two sessions.
I weighed 86.8 kilos before breakfast, which is the heaviest I’ve been in the morning since November 30.
I’ve been listening to the discography of Hoyt Axton, who wrote so many songs that I grew up with but that were made famous by other people. He wrote “Joy to the World”, which was one of the songs that I sang with a group we called The Peace Seekers when I was in grade 10. Our school principal, Garth Hathaway, who we called “The Plague”, was also a Pentecostal minister and he made us change the lyrics so we wouldn’t sing the line, “But I helped him drink his wine”. “Joy to the World” was a hit for Three Dog Night, as was another Axton song “Never Been to Spain”. He wrote “The Pusher” for Steppenwolf and “The No No Song” for Ringo Starr. Axton’s mother co-wrote “Heartbreak Hotel”. Axton is also Arlo Guthrie’s cousin. Axton’s first album was The Balladeer in 1962 and it included the song “Greenback Dollar” that was covered by The Kingston Trio. He was also an actor and appeared in several films and TV shows, including Gremlins and WKRP in Cincinnati. He recorded all of the songs mentioned along with many others. His voice was the sonic equivalent of a rolling barrel of lead. His own version of “The Pusher” is as good as the one by Steppenwolf.
I weighed 87 kilos before lunch.
In the afternoon I took a bike ride downtown and back.
I weighed 86.3 kilos at 18:11.
I was caught up on my journal at 19:00.
I worked some more on the first frame of the second rainbow wave for the animation I’m creating for the video of my song “Seven Shades of Blues”. The work is mostly filling in the backgrounds of the rainbows.
In the Movie Maker project for my October 1 song practice I continued synchronizing the audio with the video. The audio is still a split second behind.
I cut up a whole chicken and grilled the parts. I had a leg with a potato and some margarine while watching episodes 81 to 85 of Batfink.
In episode 81, Karate chops open the safe of a jewellery store and then enters the getaway car where two crooks named Marvin and Walter are waiting for him. The getaway car is Batfink’s Batillac. Batfink hears of this from the chief and sends out his super sonar to see if it’s true. Meanwhile in Marvin and Walter’s hideout they ask Karate how he likes being a criminal. He says it’s very exciting but he wouldn’t be doing it if they didn’t have Batfink captured and tied to a rocket. He indicates a picture on the wall of Batfink tied to a rocket. Walter whispers to Marvin that their fake photo sure did the trick. Batfink’s sonar confirms the chief’s claims and so a disappointed Batfink flies to arrest his friend. When Batfink arrives the crooks drop Karate through a trap door into a cage. They shoot a ceiling beam down to knock Batfink out. He is then tied to a rocket exactly like in the fake photograph. The rocket blasts off but it’s a two stage rocket and Marvin and Walter foolishly only tied Batfink to the first stage and so when the second stage separates to escape Earth’s gravitational pull, Batfink’s stage falls back down to heat up so Batfink easily breaks his bonds. He captures the crooks and Karate is cleared.
In episode 82, the director of the museum that holds Whistler’s Mother in Law approaches the guard and tells him he is removing that painting. The director leaves the building but then we see he is really Mike the Mimic and he escapes with the painting. Then the police chief gets Batfink on the video hotline and tells him about the theft. He also tells him that Mike’s hideout is the abandoned house at the edge of town. Batfink heads for that location but we see that the chief is really Mike the Mimic, who has the chief tied up. When Batfink and Karate arrive, Batfink flies to the second floor window while Mike lures Karate inside with Batfink’s voice. Karate is knocked out with a chair. Then Batfink is knocked out with a falling door. Mile plants dynamite to blow up the house, then he disguises himself as Batfink and drives away in the Batillac with Karate. But Batfink revives and escapes the explosion in time. Mike as Batfink goes to the chief and tells him he’ll return the painting to the museum. But then the real Batfink arrives to expose him.
In episode 83, the chief is preparing the the police payroll when heis new cleaning lady enters his office with her vacuum. She knocks the chief out with her shoe and sucks all the money into her vacuum. She escapes but leaves her shoe behind. Batfink tells the chief that his cleaning lady is really Cinderrobber. Batfink finds her house with his super sonar. Karate enters with her shoe and asks if he can see if it fits. He gets down on one knee and slips the show onto her foot, then she kicks him in the head to knock him out and drops him through a trap door. Batfink confronts her but she calls for her Prince Charming, which is a big dog. It jumps Batfink and knocks him out. Cinderrobber straps Batfink to a wall and leaves behind a pumpkin time bomb. But she leaves it on top of the trap door, which Karate opens, causing the pumpkin to roll out the window and down the path after Cinderrobber and Prince. The bomb catches up and explodes and so the thief and her dog are captured.
In episode 84, the main bridge of the city spans the river. The Bouncer flies over it and sprays a gas that turns the bridge to rubber. He demands the city give him $1 million to change the bridge back to normal. Batfink’s sonar finds the Bouncer at his rubber factory. The Bouncer drops a safe on Karate’s head and sprays Batfink’s wings of steel to turn them into rubber. He drops Batfink through a trap door to his rubber room where he continuously bounces from wall to wall. But Batfink puts reverse English on the Bouncer’s spin and is able to fly out of the room and into the Bouncer’s de-rubberizing vat. Then he captures the Bouncer.
In episode 85, Hugo Agogo has built a giant mechanical carrier pigeon that carries him from crime to crime. The pigeon drops an egg bomb on an armoured car. The bags of money fly up in the air and Hugo catches them in a fishing net. Batfink and Karate go to Hugo’s lab where Karate is captured by Hugo’s bird. The bird and Hugo fly away with the bound Karate. Them but Hugo has the bird heave Karate at him and they are both knocked out. The police have orders to shoot the bird out of the sky if it is seen again and so Hugo ties Batfink and Karate to the bird and sends it out over the city. A tank fires at the bird but falls short, however the concussion breaks their bonds somehow. The second cannon shot destroys the bird but the heroes escape to capture Hugo.
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