I published on my Christian’s Translations blog “No Man’s Land” by Serge Gainsbourg and posted my translation on Facebook. I searched for more Gainsbourg songs that I haven’t finished and found in my 1966 Gainsbourg file “Ballade Des Oiseaux de Croix” (Song of the Birds of the Cross). I’ve translated it but haven’t worked out the chords, so I assume there was no audio available at the time. There is now and so I listened to it once. Tomorrow I’ll start memorizing the song.
I played my Kramer electric guitar during song practice for the first of two sessions and it stayed in tune the whole time.
I weighed 85.4 kilos before breakfast.
I tried to get in touch with the Forest Hill Family Health Centre but there doesn’t seem to be any way to talk to anyone by phone. On their website though there is a note welcoming Dr. Shechtman and his patients, so I guess that includes me. I gave their fax number to Vina Pharmacy so they can send a request to Grant Shechtman for my prescription. Next month will be time for my annual checkup so I’ll have to head up there.
Around midday I worked a bit on my “Seven Shades of Blues” Movie Maker project. I added some clips from the BBC documentary “When Hippies Ruled the World” to match my lines, “Freedom loving children, virgins to the thrust that rips the hole in innocence and frees the fire of lust to temper the foundation of a higher innocence and raise the boundaries up above for the diamond’s just ascent. We think we’re floating with our legs spread in a weightless place of love but it’s just a higher planet that we’re now in orbit of…” At this point I ran out of clips that fit and realized that I’d ignored some of the clips I would need from the doc. So I loaded WHRTW back onto the end of the timeline to try to find some more.
I weighed 85.2 kilos before lunch.
In the afternoon I took a bike ride downtown and as usual for a Thursday stopped at Freshco on my way back. Their grapes were cheap but all of them were too soft. I bought two packs of raspberries, bananas, a bag of avocadoes, two single avocadoes, a Maple Leaf smoked ham, an Australian beef eye of round (I’ve seen New Zealand lamb and ground beef in the supermarket but this is the first time I’ve seen Australian beef), a bag of McCain’s rosemary and garlic Superfries (I know they’re Canadian since I grew up ten kilometers away from them), Miss Vickie’s chips (also Canadian), a tin of Nabob Full City Dark coffee, a pack of Ferma frozen lima beans (I didn’t check but it turns out they’re from the States so I won’t buy them again), and a big pack of Sponge Towels (which are definitely Canadian).
I weighed 85.3 kilos at 18:55, which is the lightest I’ve been in the evening since April 4.
I was caught up on my journal at 20:09.
I continued to look through the When Hippies Ruled the World documentary to find clips I missed, but so far I haven’t found them.
I poured the whole bag of frozen lima beans into the leftover Manchurian broth and added a jar of salsa. I heated some super fries in the oven and had them with some of the chili on top while watching episodes 12 and 13 of the 1943 Batman serial.
In part 12, Batman and Robin are unconscious in one of the hideouts for Daka’s men. Before Robin got knocked out he radioed the police and so Daka’s men run away. One of them lights a fuse to some explosives so Batman and their evidence will be destroyed. Batman however recovers in time to grab Robin and go through a trap door before the blast. The building is blown up but Batman and Robin emerge from another trap door outside of the gate. Meanwhile Daka learns that his man Marshall did not die in the mine but has been in jail. He had a cell adjacent to that of Chuck White and might have given him important information. Daka gives his man Bernie a pack of poison Medusa cigarettes to bring to Marshall. Later Bruce and Dick go to the police station and see Bernie leaving. The captain had called Bruce in to identify Marshall but when they go to his cell they find him dead. Bruce finds the cigarette Marshall had been smoking and takes it back to the Batcave for analysis where he confirms it was poisoned. Meanwhile Daka says he has lost six men to the Batman and so before moving forward they have to destroy him. Batman has a mysterious way of appearing every time Linda Page gets in trouble. Daka sets a trap for Linda using her Uncle Martin as bait. Martin is dressed in a suit with a fedora that covers his zombie control headset. Martin is a passenger in a convertible that drives past Linda. She follows him to the Ajax Metal Works, which Martin used to own. But she first leaves a message with the clerk at her apartment building that she went there to meet her uncle there. When Bruce finds this out he goes there to investigate. The guard at the gate tells Bruce that Linda left ten minutes ago, but Bruce knows he’s lying because Linda’s car is parked nearby. Bruce and Dick change to Batman and Robin to investigate. Meanwhile Linda is being held prisoner although she doesn’t know why. Batman and Robin enter the building through a basement window. Batman sets off a smoke bomb so the men upstairs will see the smoke and go down to investigate. Three of them do exactly that and Batman and Robin ambush them. But one of them had a cigarette in his mouth and it drops to start a fire that spreads quickly. Batman and Robin take out the three men, then Robin leaves to call the fire department while Batman looks for Linda. Linda’s guard leaves with his prisoner. Batman appears trapped in the fire as the episode ends.
In part 13 Batman escapes from the burning factory. He has Alfred drive him to the apparently now abandoned Sphinx Club. Through a cabinet door under the cash register he finds a secret passage to a room where the doorman of the club has been living. After a short fight Batman takes him prisoner in the Batcave. He says he’s never heard of Linda Page or of a house on Bell Street. Bur when they say they are going to Bell Street he urges them not to go because they’ll be killed and he’ll be tied up in this bat infested cave until he starves to death. Meanwhile Daka is completing his disintegrator weapon. Linda is brought to Daka’s headquarters. When she sees Daka she exclaims, “A Jap!” Daka urges her to use the courteous appellation of “Nipponese”. He tells her he wants to meet her fiancé Bruce Wayne (That’s the first time we’ve heard Bruce is engaged). He says he wants to discuss Batman with Bruce and if she helps to lure him she will be set free. he warns her she should cooperate if she wants to see her uncle again. She doesn’t think Daka knows her Uncle Martin and so he calls Martin and she sees that he is now a zombie slave who does not even recognize her. She is devastated. Daka threatens to make her a zombie but she still refuses to help him and so he has her taken to his lab and strapped to the chair with the dome lowered over her head. The machine is switched on. Meanwhile Batman and Robin investigate the storefront on Bell Street. Batman recognizes it as the place where they took him when he was disguised as Chuck White and where he was being watched through the eyes of a portrait painting. They can’t find a secret passage from that room and so they look from the basement where a passage leads to a dead end. Batman sends Robin for a crowbar. Batman steps on a switch that looks like a rock and it sets off an alarm. Daka stops the machine that would make Linda a zombie and sees Batman on video. Daka pushes a button that sends Batman down through a trap door to a room with spiked walls that begin to close in. Then Daka returns to Linda and switches the machine back on. That’s the cliffhanger.
Alfred, the Batman’s butler was played by William Austin, who was not only the first actor to portray Alfred on screen, but his casting changed the shape of the character in the comics. Before the 1943 serial the comic book Alfred was somewhat overweight, but he went on a diet in order to match the film version. Since then all screen versions have been thin with a moustache as well. He was born on a sugar plantation that his father owned in British Guyana. He acted on stage for three years before being signed to a film studio. His film debut was in the 1920 silent picture Common Sense. He co-starred in The Night Club in 1925, It, Ritzy, Silk Stockings in 1927, and Honeymoon Hate in 1927; Just Married, Someone to Love, and What a Night in 1928; Sweetie, The Marriage Playground, and Embarrassing Moments in 1929; Along Came Youth in 1930; High Society and Don’t Be a Dummy in 1932, and Once to Every Bachelor in 1934. He starred in Three Men in a Boat in 1933. He also worked as a film editor. His last film was The Ghost Goes Wild in 1947.
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