On Monday morning I finished working out the chords for “À la manière de Brassens” (In the Style of Georges Brassens) by Boris Vian. I ran through singing and playing it in French. I started revising my translation.
I worked out the chords for the first verse of “Ballade Des Oiseaux de Croix” (Song of the Birds of the Cross) by Serge Gainsbourg. All the other verses should have the same chords so I might have the song done tomorrow and I don’t think I’ll need to revise my translation.
I played my Gibson Les Paul Studio electric guitar during song practice. Tomorrow I’ll play the Kramer.
I weighed 85.9 kilos before breakfast.
Around midday in my Movie Maker project to create a video for the studio recording of my song “Seven Shades of Blues” I edited the clips I needed from The Story Behind Flower Power of the riot police beating protestors and of the young man putting flowers in the guns of military police. All that’s left to be caught up from when I absent mindedly deleted the project ten days ago is to edit the Buster Keaton wrestling clip and the two Captain Kirk wrestling clips.
I weighed 85.9 kilos before lunch.
In the afternoon I took a bike ride downtown and on the way back stopped at the No Frills at John and Richmond. That place is always very crowded and there’s always a long line-up. But I wanted to take advantage of their sale this week on red grapes for $2.76 a kilo so I bought seven bags.
I weighed 86.05 kilos at 19:00, which is the heaviest I’ve been in the evening since last Monday.
I was caught up on my journal at 20:00.
In my “Seven Shades of Blues” Movie Maker project I edited the wrestling segment from Buster Keaton’s Three Ages and placed it into the main timeline to match my line, “So wrestle with that angel but never let it lose”. I think I’m just going to go with the Buster Keaton clip rather than try the two Star Trek wrestling clips. So now I am more than caught up after ten days ago deleting the project that took six months to build. All that’s left to finish the project is to find a video or videos to fit with my line, “The rainbow road to Asgard’s paved with seven shades of blues”.
I cut up the whole chicken that I’d thawed in the fridge. I smeared the pieces with Vegemite, lemon juice, wine vinegar, and tamarind chutney and grilled them in the oven. I also baked a potato but that wasn’t ready until after I ate a chicken leg. I ate while watching the first half hour of Captain America: Brave New World.
The first thing we see is General Thunderbolt Ross the newly elected President of the United States taking a pill just before his acceptance speech. He keeps on taking these pills throughout the story. This would be the first president in 140 years to not have a wife by his side when elected. Five months later Sam Wilson, the former Falcon and current Captain America is sent on a mission with Joaquin Torres, the Falcon in training. They go to Oaxaca, Mexico where Sidewinder has stolen a classified canister and taken hostages. The priority of the mission is to retrieve the package but Sam ignores that and goes to save the hostages. Falcon instead goes after the package and succeeds in getting it back. Sam flies in as the Falcon and comes down at a speed that would probably kill him since he’s not a super soldier. He doesn’t do anything with any less strength or endurance than Steve Rogers and so it defeats the purpose of him having been a super soldier. He also uses his wings sometimes when he fights which looks awkward. It makes one miss Steve Rogers already. I guess Sam’s suit is made of vibranium and that’s why he has some of a super soldier’s abilities without the serum. Sidewinder is about to kill all the hostages when he hears that Captain America is there and he sends his men to fight him. He takes them out easily but has a little more trouble with a big unnamed henchman until he doesn’t have trouble. Sidewinder leaves but we don’t see him teleport which supposedly he can do. It would have been nice to show it. Sam takes Joaquin to meet his friend Isaiah Bradley who is a super soldier but was thrown in prison for 30 years by the US government and experimented on and so he is understandably bitter. He resents the idea that Captain America would answer to the president. Sam assures him that he’s on top of it and won’t let Ross control Captain America. Ross has invited Sam to a White House function and Sam said he’d only go if Isaiah is invited. Isaiah reluctantly agrees. In a private meeting Ross tells Sam he wants him to help him rebuild the Avengers. This is puzzling for Sam since Ross has fought against superpowered people being allowed to enforce the law. Sam is worried that the Avengers would have to work for Ross. Ross gives a talk about the Celestial Mass that emerged in the Indian Ocean at the end of The Eternals movie. The material of the mass is made of adamantium, which is more indestructible than vibranium. From my Marvel comic book reading days I don’t recall adamantium coming from the Celestials. Captain America’s shield as constructed by Tony Stark was made of adamantium and Wolverine’s skeleton and claws are made of adamantium. Since Wolverine and Cap’s shield existed before the Celestial Mass how could they be made of adamantium? It turns out that the canister that Captain America and Falcon saved contained adamantium. We hear some kind of digital sound and suddenly Isaiah gets up to attack Ross with a gun. Sam tries to stop him but is thrown aside. Several others are suddenly in on the attack. Ross escapes. Ross’s security advisor Ruth is a former Black Widow who also fights against the attack. Sam goes after Isaiah who doesn’t seem to know what just happened. He convinces him to surrender. The next day Sam storms into a meeting in the White House and Ross tells everybody else but Ruth to leave. Ross has reverted back to his former anti enhancement attitude. He no longer wants to work with Sam. Sam sets out to clear Isaiah by first seeing to him in prison and getting every detail about the day leading up to the attack.
Ross is played by Harrison Ford, who is half Irish and half Jewish. He says as a man he feels Irish but as an actor he feels Jewish. He was a Philosophy major but he was expelled for plagiarism. His film debut was in Dead Heat on a Merry Go Round in 1966. His first credited role was in A Time for Killing in 1967. In 1977 George Lucas hired him to read lines for actors auditioning for Star Wars. Lucas was impressed with his readings and cast him as Han Solo. He co-starred in Heroes, The Frisco Kid, Working Girl, and Sabrina. He starred in Hanover Street, Indiana Jones, Bladerunner, Witness, The Mosquito Coast, Frantic, Patriot Games, Clear and Present Danger, The Fugitive, The Devil’s Own, Air Force One, Presumed Innocent, and Regarding Henry. After this a lot of his movies bombed besides the ones with established franchises and even some of those. He’s a licensed pilot and a member of several pilots organizations. He hates Donald Trump.
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