On Monday morning I ran through singing and playing “Le petit Lauriston” by Boris Vian in French. I started working on revising my translation and got the first verse but I’m a little stuck on the refrain “O gué” and how it relates to this comical lampooning of the French Gestapo. “Gué” is a ford or crossing but it also related to keeping watch, so I’m assuming the latter meaning is more relevant here.
I started working out the chords for the last verse of “Sacha Distel et Jean-Pierre Cassel’s Song and Dance” by Serge Gainsbourg. But I noticed I had the wrong word and so I had to figure out the right one. I had “quelque chose”, meaning “some thing” but it turns out it’s “quelque peu”, meaning “somewhat”. I should have the last verse worked out tomorrow and maybe the final scat parts as well.
I played my Martin acoustic guitar during song practice for the third session of four.
I weighed 86.7 kilos before breakfast.
After shaving and showering myself and then doing the dishes there wasn’t enough time to do any hole filling in the bathroom. But there was time to edit some of season 3, episode 3 of Batman to show only the appearances of Batgirl.
I weighed 87.05 kilos before lunch.
In the afternoon I headed out for a bike ride but stopped into Metro Cycle to get my saddle raised a touch. It might still be a little too low but I’ll compare it with the Raleigh tomorrow to double check. I should just get a torque wrench for Allen keys.
I rode downtown and back.
I weighed 86.3 kilos at 18:00.
I was caught up in my journal at 18:55.
In the Movie Maker project to create a video for the studio recording of my song “Seven Shades of Blues” I continued editing my copy of Wings of Desire. From the last appearance of the costume angel wings through the first Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds concert I deleted everything. I was up to the trapeze artist’s dream of the angel when I quit for the night. There are 51 minutes left.
I reviewed the song practice videos of my acoustic performances of “Sixteen Tons of Dogma” from October 11 to 13. On October 11 the take at 20:30 was great until the E flat chord at the end. On October 12 somehow part A of that day’s video is corrupted even though I viewed it before. On October 13 the take at 30:45 was okay.
I had a tomato, avocado, cucumber, and scallion salad with lemon juice and a glass of Garden Cocktail while watching episodes 11 and 12 of The Adventures of Batman.
Batman and Robin are being honoured with statues in Gotham Square. Suddenly it’s raining toy umbrellas and Penguin descends in an upside down bumbershoot. His umbrella hovers above the statues and robot arms clamp them as they are lifted from their platforms to be carried away. But Batman and Robin arrive and Batapult themselves into Penguin’s umbrella. Suddenly the Jokerplane arrives and knocks them all from the umbrella but catches Penguin to help him escape to their hideout in an abandoned carnival. It turns out that the Riddler is part of their gang and the trio is engaged in a competition. Whoever pulls off the most daring crime takes over the crime empire of Gotham. Joker spins a wheel and the Riddler gets the next chance. He sends a riddle to Batman via Commissioner Gordon: “What is found beneath the ground that rhymes with malt and salt?”. Robin concludes Riddler is after the storage vaults of Gotham Labs. So that night at the Gotham Vaults the guards are confronted by several replicas of the Riddler. Since they don’t stop when ordered the guards shoot but it turns out the Riddlers are balloons full of sleeping gas. Meanwhile Barbara Gordon figures out the riddle and changes to Batgirl to head for the vaults as well. Riddler is at the vaults about to steal the plutonium when he is confronted by Batman and Robin. Riddler’s men attack and the fight takes place (Neither the heroes or villains are wearing any protection from radioactivity). A Baterang hits a steam shovel and causes it to drop its load of plutonium on top of the Riddler’s thugs. The Riddler runs away and Batman is about to hit him with a baterang when the light from Batgirl’s arriving motorcycle blinds him and Riddler gets away. Batman is more forgiving than Robin. Now it’s Joker’s turn and he takes it when Gotham Bank has just filled an armoured car. Joker has a giant magnet on the back of the Jokermobile with Penguin and Riddler as his passengers. He backs into the armoured car and drives away with it. The Batmobile is in pursuit and the Joker can’t go very fast with the load he’s towing but he says he wants Batman to catch up. He crosses a bascule bridge and then pushes a button to cause it to rise just as the Batmobile is crossing. The Batmobile falls but Batman uses its hover jets for a soft landing. Seeing Batman back behind him, the Joker releases the armoured car. Then he gets a surprise message from a helicopter above guiding him to a secret entrance inside of a mountain that seals after them. Inside the villains are greeted by Catwoman who proposes the four of them work together to control Gotham. Her plan is to systematically immobilize the Gotham police. Batman and Robin have lost their trail and have to give up for now. But later Batman gets a tip that Penguin is planning to wreck the police communication centre. Penguin uses an electrical ray to destroy the police switchboard and then he is confronted by Batman, Robin and then Batgirl. Penguin tries to run but Batgirl grabs him by his coattails and he is arrested. Then they get a tip that Riddler plans to foul police transportation. An all points bulletin directs all cars to a particular corner where Riddler activates a maze that traps all the police cars. Batman uses the battering ram on the Batmobile to break through the walls of the maze. Then the ram hits the building where Riddler is standing on the roof and knocks him down into Batgirl’s sidecar, which she never had before. Meanwhile at the entrance to the Gotham Police Arsenal the guards see a miniature Joker windup toy approaching. They think it’s a time bomb and scatter but the toy only holds up a sign that says “Boom!” The Joker’s men roll trucks into the arsenal to steal all the weapons but Batman and Robin got a tip that this was his plan and so they are already there. The fight erupts and the heroes win easily. The Joker tries to get away but Batgirl slaps bat cuffs on him. The three captured villains say Catwoman betrayed them. Batman and Robin take the Bat plane and out in the country see a clearing in the woods shaped like a cat’s head. They descend from Bat ropes but immediately fall into a camouflaged tiger trap where they are suspended above the jaws of a giant robot tiger. Batman and Robin melt the tiger’s teeth with Bat torches. Catwoman tries to escape but she is wound up with a batrope baterang.
In the second story, instead of a robbing the bank the crooks leave a sack of silver dollars. Batman and Robin hear of a burglary at a jewellery store and they rush there but find diamonds strewn on the floor with a note that reads: “Bringing ice to a jeweller is a strange kind of crime, keep your eye on the birdie and we’ll see you next time”. They conclude the message is from the Riddler and that a birdie refers to a picture and so they head for the museum. Riddler instals homing devices and exits without stealing anything but is cornered by Batman. Suddenly Catwoman jumps out and sprays freezing gas that causes the heroes to slip on ice. When they recover their balance the Riddler and Catwoman are gone. They go back to the museum where a golden statue that was stolen last year has been returned with another riddle: “If you’re still blind as a bat the next time around, the Riddler and his girl will be the richest in town”. Batman concludes that Riddler plans to rob the same three places again. Meanwhile Catwoman and Riddler are riding through a sewer tunnel in a rocket powered sled. Then Riddler bores up into the Gotham bank using his atomic tunnel digger following the homing device he left in the bank. He successfully robs the bank but plants clues to lure Batman to his and Catwoman’s hideout. He causes the clocks to stop at 9 to 4:00. Batman picks up the clue and reverses it to 49ers and figures out that they are using the sewers but I don’t get it. Batman and Robin go to the tunnel under the museum and watch as Catwoman and Riddler emerge with the treasures. They follow the crooks but are detected and a trap is sprung. Two walls come down and water begins gushing in. They use the underwater bat torch to cut through. They chase the villains again. Batman and Robin are then caught in a giant metal spider’s web. Catwoman says that the web is hooked to a power line and she goes to turn on the switch to electrocute them. But Batman uses an acid capsule to cut the power line. Next Catwoman and Riddler bore up into the bullion vault at the trade centre. While they are getting the gold Batman and Robin hide under their rocket sled and so they are transported to the villains’ hideout. Their thugs attack the heroes while the Riddler and Catwoman use the tunneller to escape. But Batman has hacked the homing device causing them to tunnel into prison.
Some of the layouts for these episodes were done by Marilee Heyer, who earned her BA at the Art Centre College of Design in LA and then studied at the San Francisco Institute of Art. Her first job was doing layouts for the Lone Ranger animated series. She also worked on The Adventures of Batman, Journey to the Centre of the Earth, The Hardy Boys, and The Archies. She became a fashion artist for department stores and newspapers. After seeing the first Star Wars movie she was inspired to put together a portfolio of science fiction themed drawings in hopes of working for Lucasfilm. In 1981 she was hired to work on storyboards and to do portraits of Carrie Fisher in various hairstyles for the upcoming Return of the Jedi. She was the only woman in the art department. Her first illustrated book was The Weaving of A Dream” based on a Chinese folk tale. Then she wrote and illustrated The Forbidden Door. She did posters for the LA Opera. Star Wars has credited her for some of her work but they have published some of it in books without credit. She continues to struggle with that.
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