I worked out the chords to all but the last two lines of “White and Black Blues” by Serge Gainsbourg. Tomorrow I’ll have it finished and I’ll run through singing and playing it.
I played my Martin acoustic guitar during song practice for the last of four sessions and the B string tuning problem persists. I’m going to take it to L’il Demon on Friday but if Gian tells me there’s nothing wrong then I have to find someone who sees there is.
I weighed 86.35 kilos before breakfast.
Around midday I called up Bell and ordered the $20 a month internet deal offered by the federal government’s Connecting Families Initiative. They’re installing the modem on Wednesday. I think I’ll keep using the wifi from Shambala downstairs but sometimes that’s down and one never knows when a restaurant is going to close so I’ll have this inexpensive plan as a backup.
I weighed 86.65 before lunch.
In the afternoon I took a bike ride downtown and back. It was very cold so I put on an extra sweater and I wore my balaclava all the way. It’s not very comfortable but it’s more comfortable than freezing your face off.
I weighed 86.3 kilos at 18:26.
I was caught up on my journal at 19:00.
I completed four more frames for the second rainbow wave animation and started on another. When that’s done I’ll upload the ones I recently completed to my “Seven Shades of Blues” Movie Maker project.
I reviewed the videos of my song practice performances of “Les Sucettes” and “Annie C’s Aniseed Suckers” from September 19 to 24. On September 19 and 23 I played “Les sucettes” on my Gibson Les Paul Studio electric guitar. On September 19 the take at 22:15 didn’t sound good while on September 23 the take 24:00 didn’t sound bad but I hit a couple of wrong chords. On September 21 I played it on my Martin Road Series acoustic guitar and the take at 30:30 was okay. On September 20 and 24 I played “Annie C’s Aniseed Suckers” on the Gibson. On September 20 the take at 15:30 was okay but I hit some wrong chords. On September 24 the take at 25:15 was OK. On September 22 I played it on the Martin and the take at 36:15 was one of the best.
I had a potato with gravy and a slice of roast beef. I added the drippings from the burgers I made on Saturday to thin out the gravy in which I had used too much flour. I ate while watching season 2, episode 36 of Batman.
This story is continued from episode 35 in which the Mad Hatter is obsessed with crowning his hat collection with Batman’s cowl. That episode ended with Batman and Robin being trapped inside a fluoroscopic cabinet that’s a high voltage x-ray. They are left to die from overexposure to radiation. In the opening scene all there is in the chamber are skeletons wearing Batman and Robin costumes. Hatter and his gang return to see this and Polly is negatively surprised by the experience, telling Hatter he’s gone too far. When Commissioner Gordon and Chief O’Hara learn of Batman’s death they are devastated. O’Hara cries out, “Hold onto me Commissioner!” As the news reaches the world’s capitals the leaders are shocked and all plan to come to Gotham for Batman’s funeral, including Queen Elizabeth. Even the Russians are upset. The population of Gotham is mourning in the streets. But then we see Batman and Robin alive and well. Professor Overbeck of Gotham Atomic Energy Laboratories happened to have a couple of skeletons in his closet and there were spare costumes in the Batmobile. Batman and Robin were saved by the Bat X-Ray Deflector in Batman’s utility belt. Meanwhile the Hatter has drowned in the water tower near his hideout the tracking device that Batman had placed in his radiated cowl. Why would he go to the trouble of having his men climb the tower to drop the tracker in the water when all he had to do was smash it with a hammer? Now that Batman and Robin are gone, Hatter plans to steal the Ruby from the Buddha at the museum. Polly asks if this is the right time for crime. Hatter says that it was criminals that made Batman and Robin famous, so the best way to honour the dynamic duo in their demise is to stay crooked. Polly admits that committing a crime now is sort of like putting flowers on Batman and Robin’s graves. Amidst all the mass mourning, Batman manages to get through to Gordon to let him know that he is still alive. With everyone in the streets, Hatter is free to enter the museum and steal the ruby, which he does. Then Polly informs him that she’s heard Batman and Robin are still alive. Meanwhile Batman is able to still get a signal from the tracker even though it’s underwater and he figures out the location of Hatter’s hideout. They arrive and see from the window Hatter and his henchmen climbing the water tower. They get Polly to take them there. Batman and Robin climb the tower where Hatter and his gang are waiting on the landing. Hatter plans to use the super mesmerizing device in his hat but the wind blows it off. So all that happens is a fight on the water tower. Hatter had mentioned this tower as being an important part of his plans in the previous episode but nothing is ever revealed about that. It really doesn’t serve any purpose other than to be a place for the final fight. Of course Batman and Robin win. The arrest of the defiant Hatter is left to O’Hara. The world is cheering for the resurrected Batman.
The Mad Hatter was played by David Wayne, who began in a Shakespearean repertory company and as a puppeteer. He was rejected by the army in WWII but volunteered as an ambulance driver in North Africa. After the war he made his Broadway debut and won a Tony for Finian’s Rainbow. He won another for The Teahouse of the August Moon. he was one of the first 50 members of the Actors Studio. His film debut was an uncredited role in Stranger on the Third Floor. His TV debut was in Great Catherine. He was the actor to have appeared in more movies with Marilyn Monroe than any other. He co-starred in As Young As You Feel, The Andromeda Strain, The Tender Trap, In 1955 he starred in the short lived sitcom Norby. He co-starred in the sitcom House Calls. He co-starred in the Ellery Queen TV series. Wayne’s characterization of the Mad Hatter is annoying, especially the voice. The original Mad hatter Batman villain looked very much like the one from the illustrated Alice In Wonderland. He was a small man with an enormous top hat. I think in that era it would have been better casting to have Henry Gibson as the Mad Hatter.
No comments:
Post a Comment