On Sunday morning I finished memorizing “L'homme de l'ombre” (The Man of the Shadows) by Serge Gainsbourg. I searched for the chords but no one has posted them, so tomorrow I’ll start figuring them out. I’ve also got to figure out a translation for the final verse that will make it mean something more than just referencing Gainsbourg’s producer Philippe Lerichomme as it does in French.
I played my Gibson Les Paul Studio electric guitar during song practice for the second session of two. Tomorrow I begin two sessions with the Kramer electric guitar.
I saw a cockroach for the first time in quite a while and on my living room floor. It might have come up from the restaurant downstairs attracted to the humidifier. I know they lay eggs but tiny white nymphs seemed to be coming out of its body. Hopefully I killed them all.
I weighed 85.3 kilos before breakfast.
I was filling up my kitchen sinks with hot water to flush the pipes when I was distracted by a text from Bell Canada asking me to confirm an appointment for tomorrow that I already confirmed yesterday. I caught the water just as it started to overflow and so probably a couple of liters fell on the floor, which I wiped up as quickly as I could and so hopefully nothing leaked downstairs at Popeyes to make them call the landlord and make him call me and threaten me with damage costs.
I washed the last of the bathroom wall tiles.
The next free midday I have I’ll clean the tub.
I weighed 86.1 kilos before lunch. I had saltines with five-year-old cheddar and a glass of low sugar iced tea.
In the afternoon I took a bike ride downtown and back.
I weighed 85.55 kilos at 18:17.
I was caught up in my journal at 19:15.
I completed the tenth frame of the newest ten frames for my second rainbow wave animation. I uploaded the ten to Movie Maker and loaded them in sequence onto the video timeline of my Seven Shades of Blues Movie Maker project. At the current pace of flow of the animation there are now too many frames, but I think I need to shorten some or most of the frames to speed up the pace and make it look less choppy. So I’ll probably be making more frames.
I reviewed the song practice videos of my performances of “Annie C’s Aniseed Suckers” and “Les Sucettes” on October 6 and 7. On October 6 I played “Annie C’s Aniseed Suckers” on my Kramer electric guitar and the take at 16:15 was okay. On October 7 I played “Les Sucettes” on my Martin acoustic guitar and the take at 26:30 wasn’t bad.
I made pizza on a slice of multigrain sandwich bread with Italian sausage sauce, sautéed onion, and five-year-old cheddar. I had it with a beer while watching season 2, episode 42 of Batman.
The story begins with Batman and Robin riding through downtown Gotham in the Batmobile when they see an armoured car robbery taking place while the Penguin is standing nearby with a megaphone and directing the action. They jump in to beat up the thieves only to learn from Chief O’Hara that they have just crashed the set of a movie that Penguin is making. Penguin threatens to sue but then offers a compromise that they will be free from a lawsuit of they agree to star in his movie. Batman agrees but later reveals to Robin that he knew all along that it was a movie and pretended to blunder into it so Penguin would think that he had the upper hand. Batman wanted to be involved with the picture in order to keep an eye on the Penguin and find out what crime he is really planning. Meanwhile Penguin has a meeting with Marsha Queen of Diamonds to ask her to be his partner in his film company. She’s not interested until he tells her that it’s all a front for a big caper. He says he needs her to invest about a dozen of her diamonds. She tells him she would need to be the leading lady, especially with Batman as the star. Meanwhile Batman and Robin are reading the script and find the film is a Roman period piece in which they are gladiators. Batman discovers that scene 12 is R rated by mid 60s Middle North American standards and calls in the Gotham City Film Decency League. The next day they are going to shoot scene 12 which Batprude protests is in very poor taste. Marsha arrives with two assistants holding a towel in front of her above which are her naked shoulders and below which are her bare legs, with the implication that behind the towel she is nude. This seems to be the indecent aspect of the script that Batvirgin is protesting. Then Harriet Cooper arrives representing the Gotham City League of Film Decency. Penguin tells her to remove her Victorian mind from his set. Finally Penguin gives in and they do the love scene between Batman and Marsha instead. They are on a chaise lounge but Batman is hesitant and so Marsha grabs and pulls him in for the kiss. She is wearing a love potion prepared by her Aunt Hilda. During the many retakes Batman is less shy. The next day they are shooting at the Gotham Museum of Antiquities and Batman has planted homing devices on all the objets d’art. Marsha goes to see Aunt Hilda who now has a sea monster named Mortimer in her cauldron. She says he came from a potion that she left overnight. The next day at the museum Batman learns that the museum’s collection of 15th century chain mail armour is gone. Batman thinks the metal alloy in the armour could have set up a magnetic field that blocked the homing transmission. When Penguin realizes Batman has discovered the theft he makes the battle scene real as his men in armour attack. Just as Batman and Robin gain the upper hand Penguin shines a spot light in their eyes and a net is thrown over them. Next we see them tied to a catapult and about to be flung across Gotham. That’s the cliffhanger.
One of Penguin's henchmen was played by Albert Cavens, whose father was the renowned fencing master Fred Cavens. Albert’s film debut was at the age of 8 in The Town of Nazareth. He played Valvert in Cyrano de Bergerac in which he fights a duel with Cyrano. His TV debut was in My Little Margie.
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