I worked out the chords for the first verse of “Je suis capable de n’importe quoi” (I’m Capable of Anything) by Serge Gainsbourg. I think the second verse will have the same chords but I’ll find out for sure tomorrow.
I played my Epi acoustic guitar during song practice for the last of four sessions. Tomorrow I’ll begin a two session stretch of playing my electric guitars, which will probably be quieter.
I weighed 86.75 kilos before breakfast.
At 13:30 I left for my appointment with Family Dentistry at their new location next to Vina Pharmacy. The “Building permit” sign is still on the window and it looks like some parts of the place are still under construction. A guy was there showing the dentist who’d pulled my tooth a couple of weeks ago how to work the new security system but she was not getting it. I was surprised to see a bowl of candy on the table in the waiting area. I assume it’s just for opening week and not a regular thing. I asked if they were rotting people’s teeth to drum up business. The place is so new that when the receptionist showed me the washroom it was a closet. It turned out the washroom was the next room down the hall and it had no mirror and nothing for drying one’s hands. I was glad it was Dr. Singh who saw me and not the one who’d pulled my tooth. I told him she was a bit of a quack in that she tried to convince me not to have my aching tooth pulled and said, against every other expert opinion including Singh’s, that it could be saved with a root canal. Dr. Singh filled a few of my lower teeth on the right side and it was a very short appointment. I have an appointment for next Wednesday to get some more fillings done.
I weighed 86.6 kilos at 14:30, which is the lightest I’ve been in the early afternoon since May 30.
In the afternoon I took a bike ride downtown and back.
I weighed 86.4 kilos at 18:15.
I continued to search for classic cartoons featuring characters singing jazz and I think I’ve bookmarked enough. I tried to use 4K Downloader to download the first one I bookmarked. It said it was parsing the video but nothing completed and so I stopped. 4K recently stopped supporting the free downloader because it wants people to upgrade to the paid version. It says the app still works but there are no free updates. I tried Freemake but learned when I tried to use it that it puts its logo on the videos it downloads for free. Then I tried Open Video Downloader but I didn’t like the look of the file that appeared in my Downloads folder so I got rid of it. Finally I found Clipgrab and that worked. I also had to download YouTube dlp so that Clipgrab would work. Clipgrab survives on donations so I don’t think it’ll abandon me like 4K Downloader. I tried it out and it works fine.
I was caught up on my journal at 19:04.
I reviewed the song practice videos of my Martin acoustic performances of “Laisse tomber les filles” and “Leave the Naïve Alone” on October 7 and 8. The final takes on both dates didn’t sound bad and looked good.
I had a big potato with gravy and a slice of roast beef while watching the antepenultimate episode of the first season of The Bill Cosby Show.
The opening part was funny as Chet was trying to open a jar of honey and I would have been okay with the whole show being about that. He receives a letter from a guy he went to high school with named Big Bad Bubba Bronson saying he’s coming to LA next Friday and wants to see him. Suddenly Chet remembers that Bronson once asked him to help him cheat on a math test but he refused. When Bronson flunked the chorus he blamed Chet and told him he’d pay him back no matter how long it takes. Chet decides he needs self defense skills and so he goes to a local gym and meets a former professional boxer named Hurricane Smith. Hurricane says he’s leaving for opportunities in New York but will spend a few hours training Chet for $2 an hour. Chet says he wants to learn street fighting and so Hurricane starts hitting him, saying there are no rules in street fighting. After a few hours Hurricane tells Chet he needs another day of training and he will delay his trip to New York for one day to help him out. The only problem is he’s already checked out of his hotel and so Chet offers his place for one night. Hurricane takes over the bedroom and stays longer than a day. Finally Chet confronts him and Hurricane confesses that the only job waiting for him in New York is janitorial work. Chet takes him to the Department of Recreation, which is looking for athletes to work with kids in the parks. At first Hurricane doesn’t like the idea but takes the job. Then Chet learns that Bronson will be at his place in an hour and he tries to get protection from Hurricane but Hurricane is now busy with the kids. Chet borrows some knives from the gardener of his building and is holding one when Bronson arrives. Bronson is wearing a suit and carrying a briefcase and is extremely friendly. He has come to see Chet because he’s a high school teacher and Bronson works for a visual aids company. He wants Chet to hook him up with his principal so they can do business. Bronson stays for dinner and Chet brings up the old conflict but Bronson says that wasn’t him, but rather Willie Jackson. Willie works for the same company and says he’s coming out on Tuesday. Suddenly Chet is preparing again for a vengeful former classmate.
Hurricane was played by Louis Gossett Junior, who started taking acting classes after a sports injury. He made his stage and Broadway debut at the age of 17 in Take a Giant Step. His film debut was in A Raisin in the Sun (He turned down being drafted into the New York Knickerbockers for the role). He was a folk singer in the early 60s and performed at Gerde’s Folk City. He attended the original Woodstock festival. He co-wrote the song “Handsome Johnny” that Richie Havens performed at the festival. He was getting ready to leave for a party at Roman Polanski and Sharon Tate’s home when he saw the news report of the murders. For An Officer and a Gentleman he was the first black person to win the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He won an Emmy for his performance as Fiddler in the mini-series Roots. He won a Golden Globe for his performance in The Josephine Baker Story. He co-starred in The Skin Game, The White Dawn, J.D.’s revenge, The River Niger, The Choirboys, Jaws 3-D (for which he was nominated for a Golden Raspberry for Worst Supporting Actor), Finders Keepers, Iron Eagle, Firewalker, A Gathering of Old Men, The Principal, Enemy Mine, The Punisher, El Diablo, Diggstown, A Good Man in Africa, Inside, Daddy’s Little Girls, Why Did I Get Married Too, Smitty, The Book of Negroes, Boiling Point, and Not to Forget. He starred in Keeper of the City and The Grace Card. He played Gerak on Stargate SG-1. He co-starred in The Watchmen. He was the voice of Lucias Fox in the Batman animated series. His best selling autobiography was called “An Actor and a Gentleman”. In 2006 he started the Eracism Foundation.
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