I finished memorizing “La plus jolie fille du monde” (The Prettiest Girl in the World) by Serge Gainsbourg. Tomorrow I’ll search for the chords but I doubt anyone has posted them and so I’ll start working them out.
I played my Martin acoustic guitar during song practice for the first time since Alex Wood repaired and upgraded it. It was out of tune after each of the first two songs but then it settled in and stayed in tune for about five songs, then after tuning again it was in tune for the remainder of the session. It sounded good as well and it’s a lot quieter than the Epi.
I weighed 87.15 kilos before breakfast.
Around midday I washed two pairs of shorts and put them out on the roof to dry in the hot sun.
I sanded the eastern wall in the bathroom from the underside of the upper shelf to the top of the lower shelf. I sanded the entire underside of the right upper shelf. On my next free day I’ll sand the area between the upper and lower shelf on the northern wall.
Normally on a hot day like this I would have opened the door to the deck to let the air circulate. But the landlord says it’s a fire door and my neighbour Benji complains if I open it, even though he used to prop it open all the time. Also since I no longer have friendly second floor neighbours it’s no longer pleasant to have my apartment door open. I’ve got to buy some more fans.
I weighed 86.6 kilos before lunch, which is the lightest I’ve been in the early afternoon since June 13. I had saltines with five-ear-old cheddar and a glass of iced tea.
In the afternoon I took a bike ride downtown and back.
I weighed 85.95 kilos at 17:55, the same as the evening of June 12.
I was caught up with my journal at 18:41.
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 added two clips from the 1937 animated short “Swing Monkey Swing”. At the beginning of the first chorus, while Brian is singing, “It’s all I can do, it’s all I can do…” I’m scatting “Babadabadoobap babadoobabbap”. I inserted a clip of a monkey swinging from the left towards the viewer while scatting and then swinging down to the right. Then I added another clip of the monkey swinging and scatting back up from the right and then down to the left. Altogether it really looks like the monkey is singing my part. At that point the video is behind the audio and so I worked on deleting bits of the video so it will line up with the audio for the line, “keep on making love to you”. The video was still a little behind when I stopped for supper.
I compared the song practice video of my Martin acoustic performance of “Laisse tomber les filles” on October 1 with that of September 5 and I still think September 5 is the best so far. There are three more to compare.
I made pizza on a slice of multigrain sandwich bread with marinara sauce, basil pesto, Genoa salami, and five-year-old cheddar. I had it with a beer while watching season 2, episode 7 of The Bill Cosby Show.
Mrs. Carter has asked for Chet’s help because her son Raymond has run away from home. His father has been in the hospital for a year and a half and they don’t have much money for Raymond to have the things his friends have. Also Raymond’s hero is the character of Bronson from the TV series Then Came Bronson in which the hero travels around the country on a motorcycle. Chet drives around looking for Raymond and finds him on the side of the road with a sign that says “Frisco”. Raymond doesn’t want to get into the car but when Chet stops, five hippies climb in. Chet tells them to get out but they are oblivious. They tell him to take them as far as he’s going. He drives three meters forward, then stops and tells them, “That’s as far as I’m going.” They thank him and say “Every little bit helps”. Finally Chet offers to drive Raymond to Ventura and so he gets in. Chet tells Raymond he used to run away every Tuesday when he was a kid because his mother made brussels sprouts and okra every Tuesday. He said his parents got so used to it that they just accepted it so he got bored with running away. Chet stops in a park but then Raymond starts running. Chet catches him and asks if he could postpone running away for two weeks because he has two tickets to a Jimi Hendrix concert (This was filmed while Hendrix was still alive but aired a month after he died). Raymond asks, “Who’s Jimi Hendrix?” Chet suggests they both run away together. They are on a back road and an old man in a pickup truck gives them a lift to his place. He tells Raymond he ran away when he was 11 and it was the best thing he ever did, because now he is rich. He offers Raymond work painting his fence and Chet helps him paint while talking to him. Raymond gets paid $6 and takes Chet to lunch. Afterward Chet and Raymond say goodbye. A motorcyclist offers Raymond a ride to Oakland but he can’t get his bike started. Raymond is worried that Chet won’t be able to get a ride unless he has a kid with him, so he helps him out. Raymond thinks his mother must be worried and decides to go home. He says he wants to stop and buy her some paint for the kitchen.
Raymond’s mother was played by Lynn Hamilton, who started in Chicago community theatre. She made her film debut in Shadows in 1958. She made her Broadway debut in Only in America in 1959. She spent three years with the New York Shakespeare Festival. She played Donna Harris, Fred’s girlfriend on 22 episodes of Sanford and Son. She co-starred in the TV series Dangerous Women. She played Verdie Foster on The Waltons.
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