I memorized the chorus of “Je suis capable de n’importe quoi” (I’m Capable of Anything) by Serge Gainsbourg and almost nailed down the first verse. There are only two repeated verses and so this song shouldn’t take long to learn.
I played my Kramer electric guitar during song practice at the lowest reasonable volume. If it still disturbs people I’d be willing to play during a time when nobody is sleeping unless they sleep at every hour.
I weighed 87.6 kilos before breakfast.
I shaved and showered.
Around midday I published my fifth Batgirl video even though it wasn’t finished, as the project in Movie Maker had gotten corrupted perhaps because of the file format and it went black whenever I tried to edit it. The published version edits fine so I deleted the old project.
I weighed 87.85 kilos before lunch.
In the afternoon I took a bike ride downtown and back on my vintage Raleigh. The Selle Royal saddle is cracked and it’s starting to pinch, so I decided to take it to Metro Cycle to get a Brooks leather seat and some Axiom fenders. My seat post might be fused to the frame and so Gordon warned me that Brooks saddles are slightly higher but that they do drop a bit over time. I decided to go ahead. I left the bike there for maybe a couple of days and it’s going to cost over $400 or $500 but I think it needs to be done.
I weighed 87.4 kilos at 17:53.
I was caught up on my journal at 18:43.
In the Movie Maker project to create a video for the Christian and the Lions studio recording of Brian Haddon’s song “The Ballad of My Chest Cavity” I got the concert video of the first verse synchronized with the studio audio. During the chorus the studio audio falls a bit behind and so I need to add some outside video to push the concert video back. While Brian is starting the chorus I’m singing “Babadabadoobopbadabadoobopbop” and I want to find one of those old cartoons with animals singing to see if I can get something to look like the animals are singing my scat part. I looked at an old Fleischer cartoon and another from Disney but so far there’s nothing that fits. I’ll look again tomorrow.
I reviewed the song practice videos of my performances of “Laisse tomber les filles” and “Leave the Naïve Alone” from October 3 to 6. I played “Laisse tomber les filles” on October 3 with my Gibson Les Paul Studio electric guitar and the take at 00:45 in part B sounded okay considering that the Gibson had low action. On October 5 I played it on my Kramer electric guitar and the take at 55:00 didn’t sound too bad. I played “Leave the Naïve Alone” on October 4 with the Gibson and on October 6 with the Kramer and both final takes were okay.
I had a small potato with gravy and two big chicken drumsticks while watching season 1, episode 20 of The Bill Cosby Show.
Wally the cafeteria chef at the school where Chet teaches probes Chet for advice on how to ask a girl out. He’s never done it before but now there’s a waitress he’s been mooning over for two years. Chet gives him some pointers. He tells him first of all he has to make eye contact to convey what is on his mind. Chet then informs him that there are different kinds of eye contact. There is cuddly little boy approach and the soulful he-man approach that says “I’m a man, you’re a woman…rar!” There is also the savoir faire continental approach but they all require eye contact. Wally asks if they can role play the contact and so Chet plays Wally while Wally plays Angela. Chet compliments Angela’s uniform. He gives a pretend order and makes seductive eye contact the whole time. Wally says he’ll ask Angela out tomorrow and requests that Chet come along for moral support. Chet agrees and the next day comes by Wally’s room to pick him up. He tells Wally to wear mismatched socks so she will notice that he needs a woman to look after him. In the restaurant Angela takes Wally’s order but doesn’t look at him to see his eye contact. Then he tells her that his friend bet him $25 that she wouldn’t go out with him. She says she wishes she had a piece of that bet. When he asks, “What time should I pick you up?” she thinks he’s kidding. He asks, “Did I win my bet?” and she tells him never to mix business with pleasure. Wally then tells Chet he’s going to kill himself. Chet follows him home and tells him it’s silly to take his life over one rejection. Chet tells him he’s been turned down lots of times. Wally insists he’s going through with it. Chet tells him he should start by writing a note and make sure it’s something from the heart. He writes “Goodbye, signed Wally”. Chet asks, “This is what’s in your heart?” Wally says, “They’ll just have to read between the lines”. Chet tells him he has to make it important because it will be in the newspapers. Wally says he thinks better on his feet and asks Chet to take notes. Wally starts complaining about the lousy bus service in LA and then about the air pollution, and finally about how soft and mushy tomatoes are these days. Chet stops him and says that’s good enough. Wally has decided he’ll commit suicide by jumping out the window. Chet reminds him he is only two floors up. Then Wally says he could drown himself at the beach but Chet tells him the beach is crowded today and so he’d probably get saved eight or nine times. Then Wally suggests poison and grabs a can of bug spray. Chet says he can’t spray himself to death. Wally decides to go to the hardware store to buy some rope and Chet goes with him. After Wally gets the rope Chet suggests they go into this Mexican restaurant they are passing for a last meal. Inside Wally connects with the pretty Mexican waitress and doesn’t want to kill himself anymore.
Cosby’s fashions were provided by Toronto’s House of Mann. Cy Mann was born and raised in Toronto in what was then the Jewish neighbourhood of Spadina and College. He quit school in Grade 9 and served a stint with the Royal Canadian Navy. Then he went to California where he worked as an assembly line animator but hated the factory approach to art and went back to Toronto where he became an apprentice tailor. He went into business with a cousin from 1954 to 1959. In the early 60s he started House of Mann at 377 Yonge Street. There was a full sized iron McLaughlin carriage on top of the building and so he started using it to identify his business as the shop with the carriage on top. he decorated it with lights at Christmastime to make it look like the wheels were moving. One night Cy went to see a young, unknown comedian at a coffeehouse called The Fifth Peg on Church Street. He liked his act but thought Cosby needed a better look and so he made him a sports jacket. After Cosby became famous he made Cy his personal tailor and sent his friends such as Nat King Cole and Sammy Davis Jr. to be tailored by him as well. He created Cosby’s fashions for his 1969 The Bill Cosby Show. He designed the ice cream vendor suits that Cosby wore for his Jello Pudding Pops commercials and the chocolate brown tuxedo he wore for the 1970 Emmy Awards ceremony. In his shop he understood that men hate shopping and just want to get it over with.
No comments:
Post a Comment