I published “I Am Capable of Anything”, my translation of “Je suis capable de n’importe quoi” by Serge Gainsbourg on my Christian’s Translations blog and posted the lyrics on Facebook. That takes care of the 1967 Gainsbourg file. Tomorrow I’ll look for the next Gainsbourg song that didn’t get translated because of absence of original text or the audio online.
I played my Gibson Les Paul Studio electric guitar during song practice for the first of two sessions.
I weighed 87.25 kilos before breakfast.
At 11:30 I rode to Family Dentistry for my appointment. They still have the Building Permit sign on the window and I could hear power tools in the back. The washroom finally has a mirror and paper towels. Dr. Singh did a few more fillings, this time on the upper right. I have one more appointment on July 2 and that’ll be it for a while.
I had a date to meet my upstairs neighbour for lunch but had plenty of time and so I rode west to the new book store Book People. The owner is a young woman named Kai who looked kind of lonely at the back of that long space. I congratulated her for starting a bookstore in Parkdale since there has never been one here in at least fifty years. She said she would look into how she might be able to order my book but meanwhile I could leave a copy there and she said she’d give me 60% if it sells. She put it on the shelf that features local authors and she took down my email.
I got home just before the rain storm and fifteen minutes before meeting David. We went to the T.O. Lounge and were the first customers of the day. The owner surprised me when he said he’s been there for 25 years since the T.O. Lounge is new, until I learned that the name used to be Happy Time. Happy Time was there for a long time and was a bit of a dive. The owner has successfully remarketed the place as a live venue and it’s become fairly popular. I think the menu hasn’t really changed but it’s been remarketed as Asian Fusion. I had the popcorn chicken and it was nothing special. I had a pint of steam whistle. David had fish and chips. The owner is very friendly but I find the atmosphere isn’t any better than Happy Time. It was like pulling teeth to get David to let me pay as it always is. I had to jump up and go to the bar to pay before he did.
I took a siesta at 14:30 and woke up at 16:18. It was raining and so I was thinking I might be staying home but by the time I’d brushed my teeth the rain had stopped. I weighed 87.35 kilos at 16:39. I took a bike ride downtown and back in the heat and it was my first time making it all the way downtown and back with the newly elevated handlebars. The handlebar height is now quite comfortable. The seat post is the same height as before because it’s fused to the frame but the Brooks saddle is a little higher than the Selle Royal and so I’m bending my knee a bit less when I pedal low. Supposedly the leather seat will drop to some extent over time.
When I got back I still weighed 87.35 kilos when I should have lost some of the prior measurement. The scale has got to be wrong for one of those weights.
I remembered that I was out of beer and so I went over to the liquor store to get a six-pack of Creemore.
From time to time I do a search for my book to see if anybody has bought or read it. This evening I saw that it’s now available on Amazon. I assume Ekstasis Editions made it available there but it’s weird Richard Olafson didn’t do that before. Maybe he was nudged by the interest of Type Books having ordered it.
https://www.amazon.com/Paranoiac-Utopia-Poetry-Christian/dp/177171574X?language=en_US
I was caught up on my journal at 19:48.
I finished editing the Tweety bird cartoon musical segments, a Betty Boop musical segment and a Hep Cat Symphony musical segment. I figure if I get all the animated clips that I converted to WMV down to the musical parts then it will be easier for me to pick which ones I’ll use for the Ballad of My Chest Cavity video.
I made pizza on a slice of multigrain sandwich bread with marinara sauce, pesto sauce, Genoa salami and five-year-old cheddar. I had it with a beer while watching season 2, episode 3 of The Bill Cosby Show.
Chet is showing his class how to perform on the parallel bars when he slips and hurts his back. A colleague has to help him to the hospital. At reception he gives his birthdate as 7/12/37, which is the same as Bill Cosby’s. But he doesn’t have his Blue Cross card with him and so he has to call the school to get someone to get the card from his wallet and tell them his number. He is finally placed in an examination room and lies down painfully on the table. He’s facing the other way when the janitor comes in but Chet thinks he’s the doctor. He offers Chet medical advice and says heat and bedrest are the best things in the world. Then Chet finds out he’s not the doctor. The nurse tells him to take off his clothes because the orthopaedic surgeon has just stepped off the floor. Chet says, “I hope he didn’t hurt himself”. An intern tells the nurse he needs the room and so Chet has to go to an orthopaedic room. He shares the room with a boy named Jimmy who is about to get out after having been in hospitals most of this life. Doctor #2 comes in with three medical students. The doctor has each student give a diagnosis. One of them asks Chet to get out of bed so he can test his motor response. With excruciating movements Chet struggles out of bed and then is told to touch his toes. Chet’s colleague brings him his clothes and says he just saw Dr. Libby down the hall. He says Libby does all the compensation cases for the board of ed. When the last gym teacher hurt his back Libby paid the claim but recommended him to be retired to a desk job. Because of that Chet decides to leave the hospital and gets dressed in the washroom. Meanwhile Jimmy’s father arrives to pick Jimmy up but Jimmy isn’t thrilled about leaving. The nurse comes to take Jimmy to see the doctor one more time. Chet comes out, thinks Jimmy’s father is Dr. Libby, and pretends he’s fine. He’s on his way out the door when he finds out it’s not Dr. Libby, then he asks him to help him to the bed. Chet still hasn’t seen a doctor and so Jimmy shows him how to get one right away. He has Chet call the desk and claim to be Dr. Kelty, who is very important at the hospital. He tells the head nurse to have a doctor see Chet Kincaid immediately and it works. The doctor comes in and tells Chet there’s nothing wrong with him but a muscle spasm so he can leave. He recommends the exact same treatment as the janitor suggested. He and Jimmy leave together but Jimmy is scared because he doesn’t know how to function outside of a hospital. Chet gives him a pep talk and tells him that how well he handles himself in the hospital proves he will do great on the outside. While checking out Chet meets Dr. Libby and tells him he’s not going to file a claim.
Jimmy’s father was played by Gregory Sierra, who as a teenager was just beginning to flirt with gang life in New York when he discovered the theatre and became a Shakespearean actor. He moved to Hollywood in 1969 and his TV debut was in It Takes a Thief. He got his first big break playing the part of Julio Fuentes on Sanford and Son. His film debut was in Beneath the Planet of the Apes in 1970. He became a star when he played Sergeant Chano Amenguale on the first two seasons of Barney Miller. He co-starred on the short lived sitcom Zorro and Son and the short lived science fiction series Something is Out There. He played El Puerco in the final season of Soap. He played the Cardassian Corbin Entek in the Star Trek Deep Space Nine episode “Second Skin”. He co-starred in John Carpenter’s Vampires, and The Prisoner of Zenda.
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