I played my Martin acoustic guitar during song practice for the last of four sessions. It went out of tune constantly but since I can’t try to get it fixed in the winter I just decided to enjoy playing anyway. On the weekend I’ll play the electric guitars.
I weighed 86.75 kilos before breakfast.
Around midday I brought the step ladder in from the deck and filled the cracks and holes in the southeast quarter of the bathroom ceiling. The biggest gaps were some areas where the drywall on the upper wall has separated from the ceiling. I might have the whole ceiling done next Wednesday.
I weighed 86.85 kilos before lunch.
In the afternoon I ventured out on my bike but since Seaforth is still not very clear I anticipated the Bloor bike land as being impassable and so I only went around the block. I’m waiting for clearly clear roads to ride on. I’m not taking any chances of wiping out anymore.
I weighed 87.05 at 17:15.
I was caught up in my journal at 18:26.
In the Movie Maker project to create a video for the studio recording of my song “Seven Shades of Blues” I rearranged some of the clips I made from the BBC documentary “When Hippies Ruled the World”. For my line “the thrust that rips the hole in innocence and frees the fire of lust”, I added clips of Arthur Brown with his flaming crown. I think I’ll save the clips of people dancing for the instrumental. What I have from the doc is not enough to make a video for the whole song so I’ll need to find something else. But I have lots to work with for now.
I reviewed the song practice videos of my performances of “Sixteen Tons of Dogma” from September 13 to 17. On September 13, 14 and 17 I played it on my Gibson Les Paul Studio electric guitar. On September 13 the take at 37:45 was not great. The Gibson was rattly and I hit wrong chords at the end. On September 14 the take at 41:30 wasn’t horrible but I flubbed at least one chord in the end. Before I could finish reviewing September 17 it was time for supper and so I left off at 28:15. On September 15 and 16 I played it on my Martin acoustic guitar. On September 15 the take at 17:45 was good but I fumbled a chord at the end. On September 16 the take at 34:00 was okay until the end when the E flat was fumbled.
I had a potato with gravy and some pork ribs while watching season 3, episode 8 of Batman.
The story begins with Commissioner Gordon waiting in his office for a sandwich that he ordered. The delivery person brings it in but Gordon sees it’s not his roast beef but an egg sandwich. Then he sees and hears that the delivery person is Egghead training an egg-shaped gun on him. He is teamed up with Olga Queen of Cossacks who descends in the basket of a balloon just outside Gordon’s window. They all get inside the basket and the balloon flies away. Chief O’Hara enters Gordon’s office and finds that Gordon had time to drop a note indicating that he’s been kidnapped. Batgirl arrives on a hunch that things are not right in Gotham and almost blows her cover when she hears her father’s been kidnapped as she says, “My fa…” Then Batman and Robin walk in and when they learn of the kidnapping say that they know the culprits are Egghead and Olga. Batman says that Egghead finds the telephone irresistible and so Gordon’s should be ringing soon. It does and Egghead demands as ransom a ten-cent tax for every egg that is consumed in Gotham. The police force will have to count the eggs and collect the tax. Chief Ohara goes for lunch in his favourite diner and the cook is played by Alan Hale Jr., who played the skipper on Gilligan’s Island but his character’s name here is Gilligan. Batman and Batgirl engage in separate searches for Egghead’s location. Batgirl enlists the help of Batman’s butler Alfred who is the only person who knows that Batgirl is Barbara Gordon. Batgirl’s plan is absurd. Her father uses a rare brand of after shave imported from Sumatra called Wellington #4. Alfred says he knows the brand because the earl of Chutney a former employer wore it and it contains a small amount of curry root. I don’t think anything is made from curry tree roots. Curry tree leaves are used in cooking but ironically not for making curry. So, Batgirl and Alfred set out with the ridiculous task of wandering around Gotham (which seems to be a parallel of New York) and sniffing for Gordon’s after shave. Meanwhile Batman and Robin go to the Bessarovian embassy and talk with the ambassador. He says the Cossacks have been at war with Bessarovia for centuries so he doesn’t think Olga would come to him. Batman thinks Olga would come to try to steal the Brass Samovar of Genghis Khan, which is right there in the room where they are talking and it’s very large (probably about three meters tall and two meters in radius). The Cossacks and Samovars had nothing to do with Genghis Khan. But is in this made-up reality whoever possesses the samovar rules Bessarovia. That night Olga and her Cossacks break into the embassy and steal the samovar, then take it back to their hideout where Commissioner Gordon is in a standing room only cage. After Olga and her Cossacks leave the room, as one might expect, Batman and Robin emerge from inside. But Olga expected the same thing and Batman and Robin are ambushed. She throws a gas bomb that knocks them out and has Robin placed in the cage with Gordon. When Batman recovers, Olga reveals that they were tricked because the Bessarovian ambassador is on her side. He’s also a famous Bessarovian chef and he’s going to make borsht out of Robin and Gordon. Olga says she might not kill Batman because she’s attracted to him. Egghead protests because Batman is too dangerous to allow him to live, plus Olga is engaged to him. He gets knocked out for standing up to her. She comes on to Batman and tries to kiss him while Robin and Gordon are put into the soup. She says she’s marrying both Batman and Egghead because a Cossack queen is allowed up to six husbands. Meanwhile Alfred is walking and sniffing around Gotham and he happens to catch a whiff of Gordon’s after shave from outside a warehouse. He radios Batgirl and she arrives on her Batgirl Cycle. She tells Alfred to stay outside as she goes in. When everyone sees Batgirl, a fight begins with her and Batman against Olga’s Cossacks. Alfred sneaks in, knocks out the chef with one punch then frees Robin and Gordon, who join in the fight. But Egghead brings out his secret weapon. He has chickens that have been fed nothing but onions for six months, which has turned their eggs into tear gas bombs. He throws one in front of Batman causing him to begin sobbing. Olga tosses one in front of Robin and he starts boohooing as well. Then Batgirl gets one and also commences to cry. The villains escape as the heroes continue weeping. The story is continued in the next episode.
Olga is played by Anne Baxter, who’s mother was the daughter of Frank Lloyd Wright. Her family moved to New York when she was 11 and she became interested in acting. At 13 she appeared on Broadway in Seen but Not Heard and the rave reviews got her into acting school. At 16 she was signed with Twentieth Century Fox. She made her film debut at 17 in Twenty Mule Team. She co-starred in Swamp Water, All About Eve (for which she was Oscar nominated), The Ten Commandments (She said it was silent film acting with dialogue), Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, Cimarron, The Pied Piper, I Confess, Homecoming, You’re My Everything, A Ticket to Tomahawk, Five Graves to Cairo, Crash Dive, A Royal Scandal, Smoky, Angel on My Shoulder, The Walls of Jericho, The Luck of the Irish, Yellow Sky, Follow the Sun, O Henry’s Full House, Three Violent People, Chase Crooked Shadow, and Fools Parade. She starred in The North Star, Guest in the House, Sunday Dinner for a Soldier, Blaze of Noon, My Wife’s Best Friend, The Outcasts of Poker Flat, The Blue Gardenia, The Sullivans, Guest in the House, Carnival Story, Bedevilled, One Desire, The Spoilers, and The Come On. She won an Academy Award for her supporting performance in The Razor’s Edge. In the 1950s she bleached her hair and successfully marketed herself as a sex symbol. She was a frequent guest and guest host of The Mike Douglas Show. She said Tallulah Bankhead was a great female impersonator. Her memoir Intermission was published in 1976.
While I was getting caught up on my journal my toolbars suddenly disappeared and the doc froze so I could no longer add to it. I checked last year’s journal and the same problem was there for all my docs. I tried a quick repair of Microsoft Office but that did nothing. I started an online repair and went to bed.
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