I worked out the chords for the second verse of “Celle-là c’est la meilleure” (This is All for the Best) by Serge Gainsbourg. That’s half the song and I think the third and fourth verses will repeat the pattern of the first and second.
I played my Kramer electric guitar during song practice. Tomorrow I’ll begin a two session stretch of playing my Martin acoustic guitar.
I weighed 86.15 kilos before breakfast.
Around midday I looked up the candidates who are running for the federal election in Parkdale. The Marijuana party still exists for some reason but they seem to have stopped trying since their profile is still the same as in a previous election. There’s also the Protect the Animals party but it turns out to have a vegan agenda. The last thing I need is an MP who anthropomorphizes animals.
I weighed 86.65 kilos before lunch.
In the afternoon I went to vote before my bike ride. The line-up wasn’t long and everybody was friendly. In the Ontario election they used a machine but the federal uses old fashioned ballots. I voted Green like I did the election before last. Last time the party was in disarray but now that Elizabeth May is back it feels like they have leadership again. The guy congratulated me when I but my ballot in the box and the woman at the front door called after me when I left the school and thanked me for voting.
I rode downtown and back. I stopped to pee and McDonalds around halfway and when I got back I stopped at Queen Fresh to buy two packs of raspberries.
I weighed 86.8 kilos at 18:30.
I was caught up on my journal at 19:30.
I continued to make sepia tone copies of my first rainbow wave animation. I made frames 6 to 9 in sepia and with each one I added a little more of different shades of blue. I have about twenty more to do.
I had a potato with gravy, two chicken wings and parts of a chicken spine while watching episode 6 of Birdman and the Galaxy Trio.
In the first Birdman story, the members of F.E.A.R. are dividing their profits when there is an explosion and an armoured figure interrupts the meeting. He says his name is Nitron and he was a scientist working on nitro-hydrogen when an accident caused him to be saturated with the chemical. It gave him the power to throw explosion bolts and destroy objects with his fists. He offers his powers to F.E.A.R. but only in exchange for half the control of the organization. The leader says he’ll agree to his terms if he can prove himself by completing three tasks. The first is to destroy an atomic reactor off the coast, the second is to destroy the newest nuclear sub when it is launched next week, and the third assignment will be given if he succeeds in the first two. Nitron leaves to prepare for these missions but then the leader of F.E.A.R. calls Birdman to tip him off about Nitron’s plans. From a flying platform Nitron blasts the nuclear reactor but Birdman uses a super solar energy bolt to patch up the breach. At the christening of the sub, Nitron attacks and tears a hole in the hull but Birdman seals it up again. Nitron escapes by sending an explosive boat toward the crowd and so Birdman has to focus on saving the people and lets Nitron get away. The leader of F.E.A.R. tells Nitron he can still join them if he destroys Birdman. Nitron finds Birdman’s volcano crater headquarters and blasts it, causing an avalanche that knocks out Birdman with radioactive lava about to fall on him. But his pet eagle Avenger picks him up and flies him to be recharged by sunlight. Nitron tries to escape but flies into a volcano that explodes and apparently kills him.
In the Galaxy Trio story, the team is headed for a vacation when they get a distress call from the warden of the prison planet telling them that three prisoners have escaped. They have subdued most of the guards and as the warden is speaking they’ve breached his office. The leader of the prisoners fires missiles at Condor 1 as it approaches the planet. The trio uses the ship’s lasers to destroy the missile launchers before beaming down. The three prisoners jail the guards and the warden then release the rest of the prisoners to occupy the Trio while they get away. The Trio takes on the prisoners until the cons realize they are no match for them and run back to their cells. Meanwhile the three prisoners escape in a short range rocket and board Condor 1. The trio beams back to their ship. The prisoners are about to take control of Condor 1 when the Trio stops them. They run into the transporter room and Gravity Girl pushes the button from a distance that causes them to be beamed down directly into their cells.
In the second Birdman story Mentok the Mindtaker has set up a hideout in a volcano crater near Birdman’s. He takes over the mind of Avenger the eagle and makes him attack Birdman. Avenger then flies away to Mentok so Birdman follows him. Both Birdman and Avenger are trapped in separate glass bells. Birdman uses all his power to free Avenger so he can fly away. In his weakened state Birdman’s mind is taken over by Mentok and he is made to serve as his envoy to present his demands to the government. After that he is told to destroy Avenger but Avenger flies high to where the sun is strong. In chasing Avenger up there the solar rays cause Birdman to overcome Mentok’s control. Mentok launches the world’s most powerful atomic weapon aimed at a foreign power and meant to cause war. Birdman grabs the missile and rides it to where he can absorb the most solar power then he is given the strength to turn the missile around and explode it in the ocean. Birdman then destroys Mentok’s mind control weapon but Mentok escapes.
These episodes were co-directed by Joseph Barbera, who showed drawing talent in the first grade. In high school he became a successful boxer but later lost interest in fighting. In 1935 he married his high school sweetheart and the marriage lasted until 1963. He then married the sister of Britain’s answer to Elvis, Vince Taylor who was an inspiration to many later rock starts like the Clash and Bowie. After high school Barbera began to publish single panel cartoons in popular magazines like Redbook, The Saturday Evening Post and Colliers. He took classes at the Art Students League of New York and the Pratt Institute. He was hired by Fleischer for its ink and paint department. In 1932 he joined Van Beuren Studios as an animator. In 1936 he moved to Terrytoons. He moved to California and joined MGM in 1937. At the opposite drawing board was William Hanna and they became a team that lasted 60 years. They worked on Tom and Jerry together and in 1943 for Yankee Doodle Mouse they won their first of many Academy awards. Altogether they won seven Oscars and eight Emmies. On the side Barbera partnered with Harvey Eisenberg to found the Deerfield Publishing comic company. It lasted five years and they produced Red Rabbit Comics, Foxy Fagan and Junie Prom. While Barbera and Hanna were the best of colleagues professionally, they did not hang out socially. Hanna enjoyed a quiet life and the outdoors while Barbera liked the night life and had lots of celebrity friends including Zsa Zsa Gabor.
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