I finished working out the chords for “White and Black Blues” by Serge Gainsbourg and ran through singing and playing it in French. I sang and played the first verse and the chorus of my translation as well. Tomorrow I need to make some revisions of my translation before I finish it.
I played my Gibson Les Paul Studio electric guitar during song practice and it was perfectly in tune when I took it off the wall. It only needed a slight adjustment about halfway through and it was a joy to play. I want my Martin Road Series acoustic guitar to be that way.
I weighed 86.2 kilos before breakfast.
Around midday I washed my north and west bathroom wall tiles. There are only the south wall times left, then the tub and then the floor.
I weighed 86.35 kilos before lunch.
In the afternoon I took a bike ride downtown and back in the minus 14 temperature. I wore three layers of socks and my snow boots.
I weighed 86.2 kilos at 18:30.
I was caught up on my journal at 19:42.
I uploaded to Movie Maker the ten frames I recently made for my second rainbow wave animation. I placed them in sequence on the video timeline of my “Seven Shades of Blues” project. I still need more so I’ll create another ten.
I had a potato with gravy and a slice of roast beef while watching season 2, episode 37 of Batman.
In this story Chief O’Hara has created a map of all the rare art pieces being displayed throughout Gotham and he is showing it to Commissioner Gordon. But the Joker suddenly appears in Gordon’s office. He’s holding a metal wand and when Gordon tries to call for help Joker points the wand and causes Gordon’s hand to get an electrical shock. Joker lets go of the rod and it floats threateningly in front of the two cops. O’Hara tries to grab it and also gets a shock. Joker takes the map and announces his new crime wave of twelve zodiac crimes with this being the first. Joker heads for the window and calls for Venus. She descends on a rope ladder and is wearing a classical chiton. Joker grabs hold of the ladder just below her with his head at the level of her derriere. The ladder rises to the hovering helicopter. Batman of course is called and he explains that Joker’s rod was magnetized and using the polarity of the steel girders in the building it was levitated with a rheostat. Batman finds an electronic bug in Gordon’s office and then Joker speaks through it before it self destructs. Batman realizes that the stealing of the rare art map was Joker’s first zodiac crime as the first letters of “Rare Art Map” spell RAM for Aries. Then a package is delivered to Joker’s hideout at the cost of $2450. Inside is the Penguin. Joker calls Batman at Gordon’s office and says, “Taurus the Bull is next on my show and you’ll soon be singing a song of woe”. But Batman doesn’t think it’s about Taurus but about Gemini, the Twins. The most popular new singing sensation right now in Gotham is an act called The Twins. Batman and Robin go to the club where the Twins will be playing that night and the Twins’ music is playing. Robin starts dancing but Batman tells him another time might be more appropriate. The Twins that Batman and Robin meet are really Venus and another member of Joker’s gang. Not knowing that, Batman warns them they are in danger. Then Penguin steps out on stage and while Batman and Robin are startled, the Twins gas them with the necks of their acoustic guitars. Penguin runs out the door and the heroes chase him. On the street Penguin mounts what looks like a parade float that elevates him in the air as it drives away. Batman and Robin jump the float and begin climbing toward Penguin. But Penguin hooks an overhead wire with his umbrella and leaves the float with Batman and Robin still on it and riding away. Meanwhile the Joker and Venus are in a jewellery store looking at a set of diamonds called The Twins, which are his real target. Joker opens a suitcase under the pretense of accessing his money but unleashes a chaos of frantic jumping beans upon the salesman and the guards while he and Venus make off with the diamonds. Batman analyzes Venus’s wig from her Twin disguise and finds there is only one shop in Gotham that sells a wig of such quality. Batman and Robin go there only to find that Venus is an employee of the shop. They try to convince her to give up her life of crime and turn the Joker in. She says she may be felonious but she’s no fink. Batman says he’s glad she has standards, albeit unlawful ones. The phone rings and Batman answers it with a muffled voice. At the other end is the Penguin, who says it’s on for tonight. Batman doesn’t have to try very hard to convince Venus to help him. The employment agency where Joker, Penguin and Riddler get their molls really needs better screening. She takes them to a concert hall where the famous opera singer Leo Crustash is performing “Stout Hearted Men” from the operetta The New Moon by Sigmund Romberg and Oscar Hammerstein II. Suddenly Joker swings out onto the stage and Penguin is above on the catwalk dropping sandbags on Batman and Robin. Then Joker’s men attack and the first big sound effect fight unfolds as Crustash continues to sing. Joker grabs Crustash, as this is a kidnapping. Venus doesn’t want to leave with him but he insists. Penguin tries to get away but Batman and Robin throw spears that pin him to the wall. He is angry that Joker abandoned him but informs them that the Joker achieved two zodiac crimes in one when he kidnapped Leo Crustash, who is both the lion and the crab. Batman thinks the Joker’s next target is the statue of The Virgin Bereaved at the Gotham Museum. Batman and Robin arrive there and are confronted by the Joker and one of his men. Then some of the statues begin to move to attack the heroes as once again Batman and Robin seem to have no concern for the objets d’art that are being thrown and knocked around during the battle. Venus steps down from her pedestal and throws the sparkling contents of a goblet at the Dynamic Duo, subduing them. They wake up tied beneath a large meteorite that is part of a model of the solar system. A thermite bomb attached to Saturn will set the solar system in motion and at dawn the meteor will crush Batman and Robin. Venus tries to stop it but is restrained. The Joker leaves them to die and that’s the cliffhanger.
Leo Crustash was played by Charles Fredericks, who as a child sang in the choir in the church where his father preached. He won the best singer in Mississippi contest and then won a singing scholarship. His Broadway debut was in the 1946 production of Showboat for which he won the George Jean Nathan award. His film debut was in Thunder Pass in 1954. His TV debut was in Gunsmoke. He played King George V in a musical segment of the film My Fair Lady.
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