On Tuesday morning I ran through singing and playing “A tous les enfants” (To All the Children) by Boris Vian. I started revising my translation and I’ll continue with that tomorrow.
I finished memorizing “Johnsyne et Kossigone” by Serge Gainsbourg. I searched for the chords but no one has posted them and so I worked them out for the first half of the intro.
I played my Gibson Les Paul Studio electric guitar during practice and my neighbour Benji started banging on the walls in the hallway. It’s weird because for years I played at 6:00 instead of 9:00 and I when we were talking in those days I asked him on more than one occasion if it bothered him. He always said, “No, no, nothing bothers me”. I think at 6:00 he was asleep while at 9:00 he’s awake and my music disturbs his pastime of sitting around and waiting to die. I turned it down lower than my acoustic guitar but he continued to bang. His hearing seems to have changed but there’s also the fact that his attitude changed towards me after I started trying to organize the tenants to get them to form a united force to compel the landlord to do things he’s supposed to do like get rid of the bedbugs. Benji said that I was trying to fuck up the landlord because I’m racist against South Asians.
I weighed 87.65 kilos before breakfast.
Around midday I went out to the deck to get the stepladder and Benji was out there. He started swearing at me about the noise I make with my music and blamed it partly on me removing the panelling in my bathroom. But there never has been any panelling in my bathroom and in fact I’ve patched up some big holes in the wall between his place and mine. He also accused me of causing asbestos to come into his place and make him sick. Maybe he thinks the dust from me sanding the drywall compound is asbestos.
I sanded the drywall compound on the southern bathroom wall above the door. There’s only the area above the sink left for the upper part of the southern wall. Then I’ll return to parts of the eastern wall that I can reach while standing on a chair and will probably have to deal with Benji banging pots against the wall on his side in response to my sanding.
I weighed 87.5 kilos before lunch.
In the afternoon I took a bike ride downtown and back.
I weighed 86.9 kilos at 17:30.
I was caught up on my journal at 18:30.
As the only Christian and the Lions studio recording left to put on video is “The Ballad of My Chest Cavity”, and as I need to hear from Brian Haddon before I select the audio file, I decided to make a video from one of my solo recordings. There’s a studio recording of “Paranoiac Utopia” with just me singing and playing guitar. There’s also a Riot Gallery video from 1998 of me performing the song with backup from Peter Fruchter on recorder and my ex-girlfriend Tunda’s sister Cila on bongos. My vocals sound really good in the video but the backup is horrible, so I thought I’d try to sync the video with the studio recording. I converted the VOB file to WMV, and tomorrow I’ll import it into Movie Maker along with the studio audio and start a new “Paranoiac Utopia” project.
I reviewed the song practice videos of my performances of “Leave the Naïve Alone” and “Laisse tomber les filles” from September 22 to 27. On September 22 and 26 I played “Leave the Naïve Alone” on my Martin acoustic guitar and both takes were okay. On September 24 I played it on my Gibson Les Paul Studio electric guitar and that was also okay. On September 23 I played “Laisse tomber les filles” on the Gibson but it didn’t sound great. On September 25 and 27 I played it on the Martin and on September 25 it wasn’t bad and on September 27 it was okay.
I had a potato with gravy and three pork ribs while watching episode 4 of the latest season of Doctor Who.
The Tardis arrives in an alley in London on New Years Eve, 2007. The Doctor and Belinda encounter an 8 year old boy named Conrad who saw the Tardis appear. The Doctor gives him a 50 pence which Conrad grabs and runs. Conrad becomes obsessed with the Doctor and his police box. On one occasion as a young adult he finds the police box and goes into a nearby warehouse where the Doctor and Ruby are hunting a Shreek. Conrad secretly takes pictures until suddenly the Shreek plants green slime on him to mark him for the hunt. Conrad becomes a podcaster and after years of trying he manages to land an interview with the Doctor’s former companion Ruby Sunday. Ruby gives him the antidote for the Shreek slime. Conrad asks Ruby to get together for coffee, then dinner, and soon he becomes her boyfriend. Conrad invites Ruby on a weekend trip to his home village. They are in a pub when the lights go dim and outside of the window Ruby sees two Shreek. Conrad confesses he never took the antidote. Ruby calls UNIT and Kate arrives with several helicopters and armed soldiers. But suddenly the two Shreek take off their masks and we see that this was an elaborate prank instigated by Conrad and his organization called Think Tank that exposes hoaxes. He claims that there are and have never been any aliens and UNIT is leaching the tax payers with its existence. Even Conrad’s romance with Ruby was fake and she feels hurt and betrayed. This whole scenario was filmed live and soon the public begins turning against UNIT. Conrad has hacked the computers of UNIT and published the names and addresses of all its agents. It turns out there is a UNIT agent working for Conrad and he stuns a guard to let him into the building. Conrad grabs the gun from the guard and his accomplice tries to stop him but in the struggle gets shot. Conrad arrives at the control centre where Kate and Ruby are and demands to see the monster costumes and the fake aliens. Kate decides to let the captured Shreek out of its containment cell. Since Conrad is still marked, it goes after him only. After a short hunt it takes Conrad down and is about to kill him when Ruby tazes it. Conrad’s behaviour puts UNIT back in public favour. Conrad is in prison when the Tardis arrives and the Doctor takes him inside. He tries to get through to Conrad but he is impenetrable. The Doctor tells him he will die in prison at the age of 49 and no one will care. Conrad says he doesn’t accept the Doctor’s reality and tells him to send him back to prison and get off his world. The Doctor sends him back to his cell where he is approached by the warden, who turns out to be Mrs. Flood, and who is about to set him free.
Conrad was played by Jonah Hauer-King, who has a degree in Theology and Religious Studies. His film debut was in The Last Photograph. His TV debut was in Howard’s End. He co-starred in Ashes in the Snow, Postcards from London, This is the Night, Agatha and the Curse of Ishtar, The Little Mermaid, and the Tattooist of Auschwitz.
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