Kacey Rohl

            On Sunday morning I worked out the chords for all but the last line of “À la manière de Brassens” (In the Style of Georges Brassens) by Boris Vian. I’ll have that finished tomorrow and will probably have time to run through singing it in French. I might have to revise my translation. 

            I finished memorizing “Ballade Des Oiseaux de Croix” (Song of the Birds of the Cross) by Serge Gainsbourg. I searched for the chords but found none and so I worked them out for the first line. I might have the whole song done on Monday. 

            I played my Martin acoustic guitar during song practice for the second of two sessions. Tomorrow I’ll begin a two session stretch of playing my electric guitars. 

            I weighed 85.6 kilos before breakfast. 

            Around midday I brought in the stepladder and sanded the upper right quarter of the eastern wall of my bathroom. I didn’t really need the stepladder because I was able to stand on the counter of the bathroom sink and do the work. There are only a couple of small areas where the wall meets the ceiling and where to walls meet that I’ll need to refill and sand again.

            I weighed 86 kilos before lunch. I had saltines with five-year-old cheddar and a glass of iced tea.

            I weighed 85.85 kilos at 18:00. 

            I was caught up on my journal at 19:24.

            In the second Movie Maker project to create a video for the studio recording of my song “Seven Shades of Blues” I used two clips from Wings of Desire to correspond with my line “Man wants to be the angel that desires to be a man”. Then I used two clips from the 1913 film Lime Kiln Club Field Day to fit the line, “Freedom marries slavery and their child transcends them both”. This brings me up to April 2 in recovering the video project that I absent mindedly deleted nine days ago, so now I’m two and a half weeks behind whereas nine days ago I’d lost six months. I’m five video clips short of being caught up. Next I need to re-harvest the clips from The Story Behind Flower Power to match my lines “Rebellion drags us to the grave, resistance leads to growth”. Those are the last clips that I actually inserted into the main timeline of the lost project. The other three clips of Buster Keaton wrestling with a woman, and Captain Kirk wrestling with a Gorn and an Andorean had just been prepared when I lost the project. 

            I made pizza on a slice of sandwich bread with marinara sauce, two slices of ham, and five-year-old cheddar. I had it with a beer while watching the last half hour of Star Trek: Section 31. 

            The team has just learned that their Mechanoid member Zeph has killed himself. But Philippa deduces that their member Fuzz (who is a microscopic organism that pilots a Vulcan shaped robot) set the robot on autopilot, then he flew his ship into Zeph’s exoskeleton to take control and cause Zeph to commit suicide. Then he planted the evidence to incriminate Garrit. They draw their phasers on Fuzz but he’s still hacked into Zeph’s exoskeleton and causes it to attack them while he runs away. He tries to escape on a garbage transport sled but they go after him. Alok fights Zeph’s body while Philippa battles Fuzz. Fuzz knocks her off the sled and he thinks she’s fallen to her death but she’s hung on and comes up with a knife to stab him from behind. She wants to know who he’s working with and he reveals that her lover San who she defeated to become the Terran emperor in her home mirror world is the masked warrior who stole the Godsend weapon. She’d thought she’d poisoned him but he had deliberately built an immunity by taking it in small doses. Fuzz is beamed up to San’s ship. San plans to open the passageway from the mirror universe to let the Terrans through. They’ll use the Godsend to cripple and conquer the prime universe. It turns out that Alok had the missing part for the garbage scow to fly all along but he didn’t tell anyone while they had an unknown traitor in their midst. Their only weapon is a field it uses to collect garbage. San’s ship fires a torpedo but the scow locks its tractor beams on and begins hauling his ship away from the portal. Philippa and Alok beam onto San’s ship. She has her big martial arts battle with San while Alok fights Fuzz. Fuzz’s Vulcan robot is fighting on auto pilot while Fuzz’s tiny ship leaves to attack the scow. He disables the tractor beams. Garrit goes to the garbage storage area where she finds a trashed Droom doll. The Drooms are not allowed in the Federation because the use terrenium, a potentially explosive material as a power source. There is terrenium inside the doll, which she uses to destroy Fuzz’s ship by releasing the garbage from the hold into its path and the doll then explodes to kill him. San almost has Philippa at his mercy when she causes him to sever his own jugular vein with his sword. Now she’s sorry and he dies in her arms. The portal is opening. Philippa activates the Godsend with just seconds before it will explode to close the portal. It looks like she’s sacrificing herself but of course she is beamed out at the last second. Three weeks later they all meet back in Madame du Franc’s (Philippa’s pseudonym) space station nightclub. Garret is now a lieutenant commander with Starfleet but she is also still with Section 31. They all joke about Philippa being a mass murderer as if it doesn’t bother them anymore. Philippa jokes that not being able to fully trust her will keep things lively. They meet Whizz, who is identical to Fuzz but is Fuzz’s wife and just as Fuzz spoke in an extremely exaggerated Scottish accent Mrs. Fuzz speaks in an over the top Texan accent. She is a new member of Section 31. She says Fuzz probably survived and she’s going after him. The head of Control played by Jamie Lee Curtis appears as a hologram to give them their next mission. Since the film didn’t do very well it’s not certain that there will be a sequel. 

            Garrett was played by Canadian actor Kacey Rohl. Her TV debut was in V and her film debut was in Red Riding Hood. She starred in the sitcom Working with the Engels. She played Kerry Campbell in the series Wayward Pines. She played Katie Arneson in White Lie (for which she was nominated for a Canadian Screen Award). She co-starred in the series Fortunate Son.