I worked out the chords for the first two verses and the first chord of the chorus of “Variations sur le même t'aime” (Variations on the Usual I Love You) by Serge Gainsbourg.
I weighed 86.3 kilos before breakfast.
At around midday I headed out to Woodbine and Danforth to pick up my guitar from The Twelfth Fret. I’d left it there on Friday because they were understaffed and so Brian wasn’t free to adjust the action right away as he usually is. The problem with going out at midday on a long bike ride is that I drink three glasses of water in the morning and it’s all just working its way out around that time. I peed several times before leaving because I wanted to make it to the Second Cup at Logan before stopping to pee. But I ended up stopping close to home at Long and McQuade where I know the washroom.
I continued on and just past Ossington someone called my name from in front of the post office. It was Lee, who I know from when she came to my Orgasmic Alphabet Orgy writers open stage back in the 90s. Lee has worked for Canada Post for many years and nowadays she’s in the picket line because Canada Post workers are on strike. I stopped to chat and reminded her that I’d left her a message on Twitter about my book launch but she said she’s been avoiding Twitter because of Musk. She insisted on buying my book but had to go get cash, so I was there for at least twenty minutes. She asked me whatever happened to Reggie Bovaird, who she used to date, and so I informed her that he died about ten years ago. She wasn’t surprised.
By the time I was on my way again I once again had to pee and so I stopped at Insomnia, which has one big, open, gender neutral washroom. I didn’t have to pee again until The Second Cup at Logan and Danforth.
At the Twelfth Fret my guitar was ready. Brian said the action had been quite high. When I was there in the spring it was also high and so he had to shave off some of the saddle. When I came in the fall it was low and he had to glue a piece onto the saddle to raise it up again. This time he had to shave off some of the glued piece. Hopefully now that my place is being humidified like crazy, the latest adjustment will stay where it is. He hadn’t changed the strings and so he didn’t charge me anything. I used the washroom again before leaving and though I felt like peeing on the way home I made it all the way without stopping.
I weighed 85.45 kilos at 15:45.
I had a late lunch and took a late siesta at 16:30.
I weighed 85.65 kilos at 18:13.
Last night I fell asleep on the couch and so I didn’t have time to update my journal before going to bed. Instead of working on projects I spent the time this evening getting caught up.
I made a new batch of gravy from last night’s chicken drippings. I had some with a potato and a chicken leg while watching episodes 86 to 90 of Batfink.
In episode 86, we see a silhouette that looks a lot like Batfink’s breaking into city hall, stealing the city payroll and flying away. It flies to Hugo Agogo’s lab and we see that Hugo has developed his own wings of steel. Batfink is arrested and Hugo shows up to volunteer for jury duty. Karate is determined to find out who has been imitating Batfink and Hugo volunteers to help him. Hugo takes Karate back to his lab where he reveals himself to be the imitator. He knocks Karate out and Karate wakes up in the sky as Hugo is carrying him with his wings of steel. Karate asks where they are going and Hugo says to destroy the evidence that links him to the robbery. Karate asks, “What’s the evidence?” and Hugo answers, “You.” He drops Karate over a cliff. But Batfink saves him and reveals to Hugo that he was never really arrested. It was a trick that he and the chief played to draw Hugo out. Hugo takes to the sky to escape but his wings are powered by a motor that runs on gas. One of the bullets that he shoots at Batfink bounces off his wings and hits Hugo’s tank, causing him to crash.
In episode 87, a man dressed as a king steals $10,000 from a charity and then steals candy from a baby. Batfink says it must be Old King Cruel. Batfink’s super sonar locates King Cruel’s castle. Karate enters through the front door and is trapped by Cruel, who suspends him from the ceiling by his hair. Batfink confronts him but Cruel threatens to shoot Karate in his head if Batfink doesn’t pull his own wings wide open to snap them back together and knock himself out. Batfink is chained to a wall with a cannon pointed at him while Karate is tied to a table. The trigger of the cannon is tied to Karate’s toe and Cruel tickles Karate’s foot so he will twitch to cause the cannon to fire. But Karate laughs so hard that it pulls the cannon off its pedestal. The cannonball goes high to break Batfink’s bonds and the cannon winds up on top of King Cruel.
In episode 88, on the popular TV show “Shoot Your Mouth Off’ audience members are invited to come up on stage and speak their minds. A man who calls himself Victor the Predictor predicts that the Ruby Red Ruby will disappear under Batfink’s nose. He’ll run out of gas and the curtain will finally come down on him and his career. Later we hear Victor addressing the Fourth Wall as he says that he has already stolen the Ruby Red Ruby and replaced it with a fake that will disintegrate when touched. Batfink decides to check on the Ruby Red Ruby. Karate touches it and the gem disappears. Soon after that the Batillac runs out of gas. Batfink sends out his sonar to locate the disappeared ruby. Victor stole the ruby to complete his laser gun. Batfink confronts Victor who connects the ruby to his laser, but the ray has no effect. Batfink tells him it’s because he grabbed one of the fake rubies. Victor runs and pulls a curtain down on top of Batfink. But he is caught by Karate. Victor says all his predictions came true but Batfink says it wasn’t curtains but drapes that came down on him.
In episode 89, it is a Sunday but the bank door is unlocked, the vault is unlocked and all the safety deposit boxes are unlocked. It’s because master safe cracker Goldie Unlocks and her gang the three Baer brothers are on the job. Somehow Batfink deduces that it is Goldie and her gang that robbed the bank and sends his sonar to find them. Karate enters the house and puts handcuffs on Goldie. He asks where the three Baers are and she directs them to a door. He enters and she closes the door behind him. What he finds are three actual bears. He climbs onto a chandelier to escape them. Batfink confronts the Baer brothers but while doing so gets hit over the head and knocked out by Goldie swinging a gun butt. Two brothers hold Batfink’s wings apart while a third fires his gun. But directly below the three bears have all grabbed hold of the chandelier. Their weight plus Karate’s at that moment causes the floor to collapse and so the bullet goes wild. The Baers and the bears are all knocked out and so Goldie gives up.
In episode 90, Hugo has invented a ray that gives him super strength. He says he will use that strength for crime under the name Jerkules. The narrator asks why not Hercules and Hugo answers that he’s afraid of being sued. Hugo goes to an appliance store and lifts up one side, causing the contents to spell out into his truck that is waiting on the other side. Hugo leaves a “Jerkules” sign behind so people will know who did it. Batfinks sonar finds that Jerkules is at Hugo’s lab and he deduces that Jerkules works for Hugo. But Hugo reveals he is Jerkules and bends Batfink’s wings of steel. Hugo throws Karate at Batfink and knocks them both out. Then he carries a 900 kilo weight to throw on top of the heroes. But before he can do so the effects of his strength ray wears off and Hugo collapses under the weight.
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