Malachi Throne

            On Friday morning I finished memorizing “Amour jamais” (“No More Romance”) by Serge Gainsbourg. I searched for the chords but no one has posted them and so tomorrow I’ll start working them out. 

            I played my Kramer electric guitar during song practice. It’s the one guitar I play that has no tuning problems. 

            I weighed 85.7 kilos before breakfast. 

            Around midday I finished washing the sanding dust from all of the walls and the ceiling in the bathroom. On Sunday I’ll wash the tiles. 

            I weighed 85.85 kilos before lunch.

            In the afternoon I took a bike ride downtown and back and it was lightly snowing all the way. There was no slipping or sliding but there probably would have been if the snow had been slightly heavier. I really don’t want to wipe out this winter. I had an injury last year and the year before. Now that I’ve finished school I don’t have to go anyplace and so I’m not going to take as many risks. 

            I weighed 85 kilos at 18:22.

            I was caught up on my journal at 19:08. 

            I completed frame 8 of my second rainbow wave animation and started on frame 9. 

            In the Movie Maker project for the acoustic version of my song “Vomit of the Star Eater” I finally isolated the good take. I added a fade to black effect at the end and I’ll decide tomorrow if I want any more effects. I might just keep this one clean and publish it as it is.

            I had a potato with gravy and a slice of roast pork while watching season 1, episodes 17 and 18 of Batman. 

            In episode 17, False Face has made a public promise to steal Princess Mergenberg’s crown, which is on display at the Exhibit Hall. The princess comes there to confront the police about the note that False Face sent. They reassure her it’s safe but then we see False Face is there. He takes off part of his mask and it explodes as he runs off with the crown. The princess runs after him and drops her cloak in the doorway. The police run after him but her cloak expands into a barrier blocking the door and we see she is not really the princess but False Face’s accomplice, Blaze. False Face is driving a police van but pulls a lever and it transforms into a bakery truck and he escapes. Commissioner Gordon calls Batman. At police headquarters an elderly messenger delivers a note to Batman. The note says, “I intend to give money to a defenseless little girl”. But False face always says the opposite of what he means. Batman and Robin conclude he plans to steal money from the Ladd Armoured Car Company. But Batman also deduces that the messenger is really Blaze. She jumps out the window, lands on an inflated cushion and escapes with False Face. Batman goes to the president of Ladd who says one of his armoured cars with bank money is late. Batman finds the car loading the money but says he knows the driver is False Face because only a criminal would disguise himself as a licensed bonded guard and then park in front of a fire hydrant. But the bag of money is a smoke bomb and the armoured car is really False Face’s van in disguise. False Face and his men block the Batmobile in an alley and the first big fight happens. False Face escapes with Blaze. Then False face disguises himself as Chief O’Hara, knocks him out with knockout dust and abducts him. Batman analyzes the paper of the note and it is the same kind on which money is printed. False Face has penetrated the official bank note printing company and will probably return there to get more. Batman and Robin stake it out. Blaze arrives with some of False face’s henchmen to take more paper. Batman and Robin confront them. Blaze tries to blow knockout dust at Batman but he blows it back at her and she is rendered unconscious. She is interrogated by Batman at police headquarters with the false Chief O’Hara present. Batman expresses the belief that False Face and any criminal can be rehabilitated. Blaze takes Batman and Robin to an abandoned subway station that she says False Face is using. She asks Batman to get her a bar from the candy machine. It emits knockout dust. She knocks out Robin. False Face ties Batman and Robin to the subway tracks. Blaze draws the line at killing and begins to turn against False Face at this point. She tries to stop him but he drags her away as the express train approaches. That’s the cliffhanger. 

            In episode 18, Batman and Robin are still tied to the subway tracks as the train draws nearer. Just then, their faithful butler Alfred radios them because he’s concerned about their whereabouts. Batman tells Alfred to short circuit the transmitter. He does so and somehow that causes the radio to burn through Batman’s bonds on the tracks. He frees himself and Robin in time just before the train comes through. Meanwhile things have changed between False Face and Blaze as she has expressed sympathy for Batman she is being restrained and is no longer False Face’s trusted aid. The real chief O’Hara is found after he’d been put in a sack and thrown on a garbage scow. Batman learns that False Face plans to break into the bank and replace the good money with counterfeit. That night False Face and his men break into the bank vault but it turns out Batman and Robin are inside. False face’s men are captured but he escapes. False Face is driving his van and he has Blaze handcuffed in the passenger seat. The Batmobile is in pursuit. A net drops in front of the Batmobile and somehow all of False Face’s men are there and still free even though we saw the cops capture them. Batman shoots a laser and causes the net to fall on False Face’s gang. False face blows up the Batmobile but it’s really only an inflated decoy and the real one is still intact. False Face escapes alone on a motorcycle. But Blaze knows where to find False Face and she guides them on foot through this abandoned movie set. Batman uses a Bat Rope across False face’s path to make him lose control of his cycle. Fale Face disguises as a cowboy but Batman and Robin see through it and there is a fight. Then false Face disguises himself as Commissioner Gordon but that ruse is penetrated as well because Batman knows Gordon is right handed yet he is holding a handkerchief in his left. False Face is captured. Months later Blaze is rehabilitated and is going to go to New Zealand to help her brother on his sheep farm. There is a weird philosophy on this show that women are more easily rehabilitated than men because they are inherently good. When women go bad it when they’ve been corrupted by men. That’s fucked up. 

            False face was played by Malachi Throne, who began performing at an early age. While studying at Brooklyn College he worked as a wandering player for various summer and winter stock companies. His enunciation made him a natural for television and he worked in that medium while studying acting with Uta Hagen. He moved to Hollywood and in the late 50s established himself as a major character actor on television. His film debut was in The Young Lovers in 1964. His TV debut was as the voice of The Keeper on the Star Trek pilot episode. He turned down the role of Dr. McCoy on Star Trek because an old saying among actors is “Never be the third man through the door”. In addition to playing False Face he was also the Thief of Outer Space (modeled after The Thief of Bagdad) on Lost in Space. He co-starred as Noah Bain in the series It Takes a Thief. In TV commercials he was a spokesman for Ziebart throughout the 70s.