I posted on Facebook the lyrics for “Song of the Birds of the Graves”, my translation of the song “Ballade Des Oiseaux de Croix” by Serge Gainsbourg. I searched for the next Gainsbourg song I missed and found in the same 1966 file “Celle-là c’est la meilleure” (This is All for the Best). I memorized the first two verses and that’s half the song and so I might have it done tomorrow.
I played my Martin acoustic guitar during song practice for the second of four sessions. Maybe in three weeks I’ll be taking it to Alex Wood to be repaired. It will be nice if he can make it sound sweet again.
I weighed 87 kilos before breakfast, which is the heaviest I’ve been in the morning since March 18.
I might be coming down with a cold. It feels like it could be pollen but the pollen report says it’s low today. The symptoms went away later and so it was pollen after all.
I weighed 87.4 kilos before lunch. March 19 was the last time it was that high in the early afternoon.
I weighed 86.05 kilos at 18:30.
I was caught up on my journal at 19:35.
I finished watching Siegried by Fritz Lang and skimmed through Virgin Spring by Ingmar Bergman. I tried to download Siegfried but 4K Downloader kept parsing without anything happening. I decided to start downloading it from Pirate Bay.
The gravy I made on Tuesday didn’t taste very good and so I added an old beefy onion soup packet and it improved the flavour. I had some with oven fries and a chicken breast while watching Birdman and the Galaxy Trio. The title is deceptive because it makes it sound like Birdman and the trio are together but they never meet and their adventures are separate. Each episode begins with a Birdman story, followed by a Galaxy Trio story and ending with another Birdman tale.
In the first Birdman story, an organization known as F.E.A.R. (We never learn what the acronym is supposed to stand for) is watching a video of Birdman. The leader says Birdman, who gets his power from sunlight, is the only one who stands in their way. F.E.A.R. has commissioned X the Eliminator to get rid of Birdman. His price is $1 million. He starts by sabotaging the launch of the first cargo rocket and uses a remote control device to send it into the ocean. Meanwhile Birdman, in his headquarters inside a volcano crater, already has determined that the rocket crash was no accident. He gets a video message from his boss Falcon 7 who tells him to investigate the island from where the ray was fired. The island is owned by a man named X. So Birdman flies out and whenever he leaves for work he shouts his own name. Imagine if you worked with someone who always shouted their own name when they were about to do something. Birdman easily breaks through X’s defences and confronts him. X paralyzes Birdman with a vice ray and then drops him through a trap door to a dark cell where the walls are closing in. Just as sunlight charges Birdman’s power, darkness drains it. Birdman summons by radio his pet eagle Avenger and calls him to follow “operation rescue”. So Avenger comes with a rope in its beak, drops one end down the pit and pulls Birdman up. Birdman pursues X and destroys his ship with an energy ray he shoots from his two fists. X ejects and lands in the ocean. Birdman has the coast guard pick him up.
The Galaxy Trio story begins on Orbus 4 where the ruler Kalex has robots serving his kingdom. But Computron the leader of the robots stages a coup and Kalex is seized so that Computron becomes the emperor and humans are enslaved by the robots. Meanwhile on the patrol ship of the Galaxy Trio, (Gravity Girl, Meteor Man, and Vapour Man) they do a communications sweep. While sweeping Galaxy 29 they pick up a signal from Spectrum A in the 14th Quadrant. There’s no such thing as a 14th quadrant since quadrants are fourths of one whole. It’s a message that Meteor Man doesn’t understand but Gravity Girl discerns that it’s a distress call in ancient Orbik telling about the robot coup. Vapour man concludes that the old language was used so it couldn’t be intercepted by the robots because they were never programmed to understand it. They land and find old Kalex is being forced to break rocks. Meteor Man can make his fists very large and he uses them to smash a robot. Gravity girl levitates a robot and then drops it to smash it. Two robots charge Vapour Man and go right through him, smashing themselves in a mountain. Back at the palace Computron introduces a disintegration chamber for getting rid of all humans I guess one by one. Four robots say it doesn’t compute and it turns out they are the Galaxy Trio plus Kalex in disguise. The trio use their powers to easily defeat the robots. They find Computron about to pull a switch that will destroy all humans on the planet. Kelex tells him he was programmed with a failsafe that requires adjustment or else he will blow up. Computron opens himself up to see that it’s a lie but when his guard is down Gravity Girl is able to levitate Computron away from the switch. They set the controls to deactivate all robots and the planet is saved.
In the second Birdman story, the evil genius Morto has been a model prisoner in the penitentiary’s metal shop. But Morto has created a powerful suit of armour and is now wearing it while using a torch to cut through the bars of his cell. He smashes through the gate and flies away with a jetpack to his secret hideout. Birdman learns of the escape and flies with Avenger to find the convict. In an ancient castle Morto constructs a robot horse and makes powerful instruments of destruction in the shape of Medieval weapons. Morto throws a mace at Birdman that explodes and causes him to drop from the sky. Morto thinks Birdman is dead. His mechanical horse sprouts wings and takes off. Birdman recovers and replenishes his powers by flying in the sunlight. Morto attacks a heavily guarded shipment of gold bullion. Tanks fire at him but his forcefield shields him. The mechanical horse breaths fire that melts the tank cannons. A clamp lowers from Morto’s horse that grabs the shipment. But inside is Birdman. Morto’s weapons can’t penetrate Birdman’s shield so he tries to escape. The horse breathes fire at Birdman but he sends it back to destroy Morto’s steed. Morto is using his jet pack but an energy blast from Birdman destroys his armour. he takes Morto back to prison where the warden says he’ll be working in the library rather than the machine shop from now on.
It is revealed at some point in this series that Birdman received his powers from Ra the Sun god.
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