Bryan O'Byrne

            On Thursday morning I worked out the chords for the sixth verse of “A tous les enfants” (To All the Children) by Boris Vian. There is one verse left to figure out. 

            I ran through singing and playing “Al Cassel’s Air” by Serge Gainsbourg and my translation, then I uploaded them to my Christian’s Translations blog. I started preparing them for publication and I’ll have them posted tomorrow. 

            I played my Gibson Les Paul Studio electric guitar during song practice and the rattling sound is gone since Alex Wood raised the action. 

            I weighed 87.3 kilos before breakfast. 

            I’ve been waiting two weeks for a call from Life Labs about an appointment to get a bone density scan. They are so hard to get in touch with by phone that I decided to call an imaging place at Christie and Bloor. They said they don’t do appointments but I could walk in, so I’ll go in the early afternoon next Tuesday. 

            I weighed 87.9 kilos before lunch, which is the most I’ve weighed in the early afternoon since March 18. 

            In the afternoon I took a bike ride downtown and stopped at Freshco on my way back. I bought five bags of red grapes, a pack of raspberries, some bananas, peameal bacon, a box of spoon size shredded wheat, two packs of Full City Dark coffee, Italian pasta sauce, salsa, and a can of shaving gel. I did a price match on the grapes at the No Frills price of $8.80 a kilo. It’s often a hassle showing the cashier the price in kilos because it’s always smaller than the price in pounds. Don’t we live in Canada? Why aren’t all the prices in kilograms? 

            I weighed 87.55 kilos at 18:45.

            I was caught up on my journal at 19:30. 

            I continued adding shades of blue to the sepia copy of the last frame of my rainbow wave animation. I just had one shade left to add at suppertime. 

            I had a potato with gravy and some pork ribs while watching season 1, episode 15 of The Bill Cosby Show. 

           Chet’s colleague Winona tells him he has to serve as one of the chaperones for the school dance tonight. At lunch he meets the other two chaperones besides himself and Winona. They are Leonard and the new teacher Diane. Leonard is escorting Winona, who suggests that Chet escort Diane. Chet and Diane are happy with that arrangement because they find each other attractive and he will pick her up at 19:00. Meanwhile a student named Norman reports that he’s missing his bite plate. Chet’s car is being disassembled in the school auto shop (though it’s absurd that he would allow his Mustang convertible to be taken apart by students). He calls his sister in law Verna to ask if he can borrow Brian’s car but she is so hypnotized by her soap opera that she just says “yes” without thinking. Later when he comes to pick up the car Verna has no memory of it, otherwise she would have told him that Brian’s car is in the shop. Brian had to drive his company’s garbage truck home and so Chet has no choice but to drive the garbage truck to pick up Diane. But she doesn’t seem to mind. At the dance Chet sees Norman with a date and when they go to dance Chet sees Norman’s bite plate on his seat. Chet brings it to Norman in the washroom and tells him someone who likes him won’t mind. Chet waltzes with Diane, Leonard dances with Winona, and the students are having a great time as well. The instrumental rock music being played is probably by Quincy Jones. This was the thinnest story yet in the series. 

            Leonard was played by Bryan O’Byrne, who studied acting under Stella Adler and dance under Martha Graham. He co-starred in Duel of Angels with Vivien Leigh. At the beginning of his career he was a neighbour and friend of Marlon Brando in New York. He made his TV debut in Alfred Hitchcock Presents in 1962. He appeared in more than 200 TV commercials. He played Hodgkins on Get Smart, Dick Grayson’s principal on Batman, a mortician on The Munsters, and the mailman on Blondie. He became an acting coach and some of his students became stars, such as Forest Whitaker, Jimmy Smits, Lou Diamond Philips and Pam Dawber. He discovered Nick Nolte when he was coaching Nolte’s college roommate. He asked Nolte to read some lines opposite his student and then discovered that Nolte had talent. Nolte slept on O’Byrne’s couch for almost a year while being coached. O’Byrne cast Nolte in his production of the play The Last Pad and launched his career.

             Before bed I finished adding blue to the last sepia copy of the last frame of my rainbow wave animation. I imported all of the blued sepia frames to Movie Maker and placed them in sequence at the end of the timeline of my "Seven Shades of Blues" video project.