On Wednesday morning I worked on organizing the lyrics for “Le petit Lauriston” because the text I have written down is in a different order than both recordings, which are in a different order from each other. I also learned that the song is a reference to the French Gestapo, which had its headquarters at 93 Rue Lauriston in Paris where many members of the French Resistance were tortured and murdered. The lyrics list nasty gifts to be sent to that address, like bags of shit and cases of gonorrhea.
I memorized the fifth verse of “La main du masseur” (The Hand of the Masseur) by Serge Gainsbourg. There are three verses left to learn.
I played my Martin acoustic guitar during song practice for the second of four sessions. It only stayed in tune through one song.
I weighed 86.4 kilos before breakfast.
Around midday I went out on the deck and knocked most of the snow off the stepladder before bringing it into my apartment. I set it up in the bathroom and finished filling the holes and cracks in the north east quarter of the bathroom ceiling. There was still ice on the ladder that melted and fell on the floor but the water was manageable.
I weighed 87.55 kilos before lunch.
In the afternoon I ventured out on my bike. O’Hara and Seaforth were slightly clearer than last time but not enough to inspire me to go further than around the block. Tomorrow I’ll go at least as far as Freshco.
I weighed 86.95 kilos at 17:10.
I was caught up on my journal at 18:15.
In the Movie Maker project to create a video for the studio recording of my song “Seven Shades of Blues” I continued to edit the copy of the BBC documentary “When Hippies Ruled the World”. I kept the clips of Arthur Brown and of naked hippies cavorting.
I reviewed the videos of my song practice performances of “Sixteen Tons of Dogma” from September 8 to 11. On September 8 I played my Gibson Les Paul Studio electric guitar and the take at 48:30 didn’t sound great because of low action and a few wrong chords. From September 9 to 11 I played it on my Martin acoustic guitar. On September 9 and 10 the final takes were okay. I didn’t finish reviewing September 11 and left off before supper at 27:15. I’ll finish reviewing it tomorrow.
I made pizza on a slice of multigrain sandwich bread with the last of the Bolognese sauce, oven fries, parmesan, and five-year-old cheddar. I had it with a beer while watching season 3, episode 6 of Batman.
Bruce Wayne and Barbara Gordon are on a date. They are in the back of Wayne’s limo after having attended an accordion recital. He thanks her for accompanying him and she says, “There’s nothing I like better than hearing “Lady of Spain” played eight times in succession”. He asks if she would like to watch the television news broadcast with him. She asks, “That’s why the shades are drawn, isn’t it?” On the news an informant who has predicted two robberies has forecast another. We see that it is King Tut and he addresses the viewing audience. He says that Andrew’s Hockey Puck factory will be robbed before he finishes his sentence. The robbery takes place, Commissioner Gordon calls for Batman, Robin answers and sends a signal to Bruce on his watch. Bruce excuses himself to Barbara and he drops her off. Batman learns that Tut is living in a large and lavish tent with his entourage in a vacant lot. Batman and Robin arrive at the tent to hear Tut’s next prediction. Batman offers to take him to have his head examined. Tut tells him he’s on his side of the law now. Robin says, “I bet you are!” Tut’s moll Shirley with a heavy Brooklyn accent comes to Tut’s defence and says, “He’s on all sides of the law!” Tut says in less than an hour the box office at the football stadium will be robbed. Batman and Robin and the press leave. Tut tells his gang that he will get on the good side of the cops and then send them on a wild goose chase so he can commit the crime of the century. Batman and Robin stop the robbery at the stadium but during the fight another of Tut’s gang puts a tracer on the Batmobile. Later Tut watches the blip on the screen as the Batmobile reaches the Batcave. He checks the coordinates and discovers that the Batcave is located under Wayne Manor (But according to the actual coordinates quoted the Batcave would have to be in northeastern Turkey) and he concludes that Batman is Bruce Wayne. Tut says, “I’ll be a son of a Byzantine King!” but it really sounds like he’s about to say “I’ll be a son of a bitch!”. He then calls Bruce Wayne and Batman answers the phone with Bruce Wayne’s voice but Tut tells him he knows and is going to reveal it tomorrow at a press conference. The next day Bruce is there when Tut tells the press that he is Batman. Bruce says that he should tell Batman, who is just outside in the Batmobile with Robin. It looks like Batman in the car but he talks in a slightly robotic voice. Tut confirms the person speaking in the car must be Batman because who else could be that square? The Batmobile drives away with what looks like Batman at the wheel. Later Tut tells his gang they are going to steal the priceless Egyptian scrolls from the Gotham Library. Inside the scrolls is the secret to the location of the golden statue of the god Osorkon. He says whoever possesses it possesses the universe. Shirley exclaims, “That’s a lotta land!” Later Batman reveals how he used a dummy, a pocket bat synchronizer to move the lips and ventriloquism to make it look like Bruce and Batman are two different people. The Batmobile was programmed to travel by itself. Gordon calls Batman to tell him that Tut predicts a mass escape of Joker, Penguin, Egghead, and the Siren from the Gotham Penitentiary. Batman tells Gordon to send all his men to the prison while he and Robin will protect the rest of Gotham. Meanwhile Barbara Gordon figures out Tut’s real plan based on something he said that only an Egyptian bibliophile would notice, so she changes to Batgirl. Meanwhile Batman is thinking of the same quote being a key to Tut’s plans but he doesn’t remember the quote. However Alfred does. Batman says, “What’s it all about Alfred?” (Clearly a reference to the song “What’s It All About Alfie?”) Alfred says that Tut said, “A man who knows when he has lost has had it”. Batman remembers the exact scroll at the Gotham Library from which the quote is extracted. Batman and Robin rush to the library where Tut sees them and runs the other way. But before Batman can pursue him he notices one of the librarians bound in the ancient thuggee tradition with a rope around her neck tied to her hands. She is choking but Batman takes time to give Robin a lecture before freeing her. She blames Batman for telling Gordon to send the police that normally guard the library to the prison. Meanwhile in his tent Tut is ecstatic over his acquisition of the scrolls. Batgirl arrives and confronts Tut. He has his henchmen attack but she makes short work of them. While Batgirl is explaining how she figured out Tut’s plan, Shirly smashes a vase over her head and knocks her out. Batman and Robin arrive and Tut has his men attack. The final fight takes place while Batgirl slowly regains consciousness. During a pause in the fighting Batman asks her on a date to discuss crimefighting. She says, “No one knows where you live” and he admits that’s a problem. Tut’s men attack again and Batgirl joins in against them, then she sneaks away. Later Tut is in custody at Gordon’s office with Bruce Wayne there. Barbara arrives and Bruce asks if they could continue their date. Tut says, “You mean you actually had a date with this socialite lump?” She answers, “Yes. Why?” Tut says, “Because he’s so deadly dull!” Cut away to the streets of Gotham as Louis the Lilac arrives in town in his Flowermobile, indicating that he will be the villain in the next episode. A cop sees him and calls Gordon. When Bruce hears about it he says it’s his cue to leave. Tut says “Hah! He’s going straight to the Batcave!” Bruce leaves. Gordon says, “Nice young man”. Tut says, “I’m gonna be sick!” Barbara says, “Bruce Wayne’s nice enough, but he’s no Batman”. Tut asks, “Ya wanna wager a sphinx or two?”
The librarian was played by Cathleen Cordell, who was born in Brooklyn but lived from infancy to the age of 7 in India. She began school in France and later studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in England. Her stage debut was in It’s You I Want. Her United States theatrical debut was in Never Trouble Trouble in 1937. Her Broadway debut was the same year in Love of Women. Her film debut was in Who Killed Cock Robin in 1938. She played Monica Brewster on the radio series Valiant Lady. During WWII she worked for the BBC.
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