I published on my Christian’s Translations blog “This is All for the Best”, my translation of “Celle-là c’est la meilleure” by Serge Gainsbourg and posted the lyrics on Facebook. I searched for the next Gainsbourg song for which I had yet to work out the chords and found still in the 1966 file “Qui lira ces mots” (Whoever Reads These Words). I listened to it twice and then started memorizing it. Something about my text didn’t mesh with the audio and so I checked the lyrics on Gainsbourg.net and realized that I’d never had the proper French text of the song. Gainsbourg.net didn’t exist when I first worked on this song and so I’d tried to transcribe the audio. That’s why I hadn’t worked out the chords, because I knew I didn’t have it right. Tomorrow I’ll transcribe the proper lyrics and start memorizing it.
I played my Gibson Les Paul Studio electric guitar during song practice for the first of two sessions and it pretty much stayed in tune the whole time.
I weighed 86.3 kilos before breakfast.
Around midday I paid my rent online and reminded my landlord there are still bedbugs in the building. Of course he doesn’t care.
I tried to make an appointment online with my doctor at his new workplace at Forest Hill Family Health. There was a link that read “To make an appointment click here” so I did. I arrived at some website called Ocean and found that to do anything I had to register but as I answered more and more questions on Ocean I felt more out to sea. It seemed to me this was a site for medical professionals. If it was also for patients it wasn’t very patient friendly and so I gave up. I’ll just make an appointment by phone.
I weighed 87.3 kilos before lunch, which is the most I’ve weighed in the early afternoon since last Thursday.
In the afternoon I took a bike ride but it was raining and I only went as far as Brock and Dundas before turning east, riding to Gladstone and then heading south to Freshco. The rain was icy cold and I was wet, though not soaked when I got there. All the grapes were too soft so I just bought a pack of raspberries, some bananas, and a pack of hot Italian sausages.
I rode straight to Freedom Mobile where a sign outside reads "We make saving easy. Ask us how." I go inside and ask, "How do you make saving easy?" The guy says, "Earn more money".
I weighed 86.35 kilos at 18:00.
I was caught up on my journal at 19:00.
I finished adding seven shades of blue to the sepia copy of frame 13 of my rainbow wave animation. I started on frame 14 and with each one the amount of blue is increased and so it takes a little more time for each one. There are 14 frames left to make.
I had a potato with gravy and my last two small sirloin tip steaks. Eating is not very enjoyable when food that touches my tooth causes pain. I ate while watching episode 8 of Birdman and the Galaxy Trio.
In the first Birdman story, we learn the name of the leader of F.E.A.R. He is called Number One. He hijacks an armoured car carrying the top secret component of the newest radar device. But the whole thing is an elaborate plot to capture Birdman. A decoy copy of the armoured car is driven over a cliff. We also learn that Avenger, Birdman’s eagle also has super powers as Birdman refers to his super eagle vision. It’s that super sight that picks up the crashed armoured car. But when Birdman looks inside the vehicle it closes on him. It’s then grappled by a helicopter and taken to Number One’s secret F.E.A.R. headquarters. Birdman is trapped in a glass bell and a de-energizing ray drains his solar energy to transfer it to the solar energy banks of his pirate satellite. He’ll be able to control the orbital lanes above Earth. The weakened Birdman radios Avenger who comes to him. When the guard sees him he keeps shooting at him and ends up stupidly breaking the glass bell that holds Birdman prisoner. Avenger then opens the skylight of Number One’s hideout and it lets the sun in to partially renew Birdman’s strength. Then Birdman is able to fly into the sky so he can fully recharge. Meanwhile Number One is flying in his solar powered ship and shoots a rocket at the ocean that causes a tidal wave. Number One threatens Security Intelligence that he will do worse if his demands are not met but then Birdman confronts him. Number One fires an electro ray but Birdman’s solar blast knocks a hole in his ship and he flies inside. Number one drops a cage on Birdman, throws the destruct switch and separates the nosecone. Birdman escapes just in time and attacks the nosecone. Number One releases a smoke screen that allows him to slip free but he is also blinded and crashes into a mountain. It looks like that’s the end of Number One.
In the Galaxy Trio story, Condor 1 receives an order to fly to Earth. The leaders of the three largest countries have declared war on each other. The Trio are sent to the Conference of Peaceful Nations to try to stop the catastrophe. They travel in a rocket pod that has been sabotaged. Meteor Man calls for help and is told to push the failsafe button, but that splits the ship in two and Gravity Girl and Vapour Man are ejected. Then Meteor Man is hit with knockout gas. He wakes up in a cave with the Chief aiming a gun at him. Meteor Man punches him and his head falls off revealing that the Chief has been replaced by a robot replica. Meteor Man gets gassed again. The villain behind it is Spectre, who brings a robot replica of Meteor Man and transfers Meteor Man’s memory and brain pattern to the robot. The fake Meteor Man returns to Condor One and takes the controls but tries to crash the ship. Gravity Girl forces him away from the controls and then Vapour Man examines him to find he is a robot. Gravity Girl reprograms it to serve as a homing device to take them to Spectre. They subdue Spectre and then tune into the Conference of Peaceful Nations. The three leaders are about to declare war when Gravity Girl pulls a switch to destroy the duplicons. She lets everyone know by video that the real leaders are safe and sound.
In the second Birdman story, Birdman is about to receive the city’s medal for bravery when suddenly a wrecking ball comes crashing down on the crowd. But suddenly a female version of Birdman with mechanical wings grabs the ball at the last second. She says that Birdman has been taking credit for things he never did. The mayor confronts Birdman about her statement but he decides to be quiet until he can figure out what’s going on. Birdman learns from Falcon 7 that Birdgirl is a servant of Dr. Mentor and he’s using her to steal a supply of hydrogen bombs. When Birdman gets to the facility he learns that the theft has already occurred. Birdman’s atomic compass is tuned to the wavelength of the bombs and he finds Mentor’s hideout. Birdgirl arms herself with atomic grenades and flies up to confront him. She throws a grenade at Avenger but Birdman flies in front of the blast and is knocked out. He is locked in a dungeon away from the sun and his strength is ebbing. He tells Birdgirl he is dying and would like a final request granted that he might look at the sun one more time. I guess she doesn’t know where his strength comes from and she grants his wish. His power is restored and he flies away to fully recharge. Birdgirl confronts him but then Mentor fires an atomic missile at both of them. Birdman’s shield takes most of the blast but Birdgirl is falling from the sky. Birdman saves her and suddenly she has no memory of her experiences as Birdgirl. Birdman takes on the rest of Mentor’s arsenal and destroys his headquarters, perhaps along with him. Birdgirl says she was an aerialist when she met Mentor and then everything went blank. Birdman tells her Mentor hypnotized her, gave her super strength serum and mechanical wings.
One of the three co-writers on these stories was Phil Hahn, who worked for Hallmark cards, published articles and cartoons for Playboy, Esquire and Mad Magazines, and wrote children’s books before moving to LA to work for Hanna-Barbera. He co-wrote five episodes of The Fantastic Four animated series, three episodes of Get Smart, 24 episodes of Rowen and Martin’s Laugh-In (for one of which he won an Emmy and was nominated for another) and 58 episodes of The Sonny and Cher Show (earning two more Emmy nominations). He also wrote scripts for Three’s Company, Mama’s Family, Punky Brewster, Head of the Class, Dr. Kildare, the 1967 Academy Awards, and the Banana Splits. He wrote for the Donny and Marie Show. He was head writer for the US portion of the Live Aid Concert.
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