I finished memorizing “La Robe de Papier” (The Paper Dress) by Serge Gainsbourg and searched for the chords but of course none have been posted for this obscure song. I worked them out for the intro.
I played my Kramer electric guitar during song practice for the second of two sessions. . It sometimes goes out of tune after I use the tremolo bar but after a few seconds bounces back in tune by itself.
I weighed 87.75 kilos before breakfast, which is the heaviest I’ve been in the morning since June 6.
My landlord knocked on the door but I said I was busy because I was. Later I was about to take a shower when he knocked again but I told him I was about to take a shower. He didn’t come back while I was here.
I weighed 87.75 kilos before lunch. June 16 was the last time it was that high in the early afternoon.
In the afternoon I took a bike ride and decided to wear my sandals because my Blundies are falling apart at the soles. I took them with me and stopped at the Dufferin Mall to see if Money’s Worth could fix them. The guy said maybe the company could repair them and so on the way home I stopped at the Australian Boot Company at Queen and Manning. They said they are too far gone but that they offer “blemished” Blundstones with a slight crease in the leather for $160. My old ones were size 9.5 but they had 9 and 10. I tried both and found 10 more comfortable. The guy told me that one’s shoe size can increase as we age. I left my old ones there. I was told that if I’d brought them around every six months they probably could have saved the soles of the old ones. The new ones are black and look better than the brown old ones. I paid only $180.74 for new Blundies so that was pretty satisfying.
I weighed 86.8 kilos at 18:11.
I was caught up with my journal at 19:00.
In the Movie Maker project to create a video for the Christian and the Lions studio recording of Brian Haddon’s “The Ballad of My Chest Cavity” I edited the video of waves on the beach. But Movie Maker didn’t like the video even though I’d converted it to AVI, which Movie Maker generally responds well to. The clips kept blacking out after a while and I had to keep restarting Movie Maker. I finally got the clips that I wanted and inserted the last one into the main timeline just before the line, “Where the beach is soft as eiderdown…” I narrowed the clip down to just a couple of seconds but it was causing the audio to be glitchy so I deleted all the clips. I opened a Movie Maker project just for that beach video and then published it. Movie Maker converted it to WMV and when I imported that version back into Movie Maker there were no glitches. I was shaving little bits of the beach clip and pulling the concert video closer to being in sync with the studio audio when it was time for supper.
I had a potato with gravy and two slices of roast beef while watching season 2, episode 22 of The Bill Cosby Show.
Chet’s Aunt Bertha brings Chet’s nephew Darryl to him so he can take him to get a haircut for the wedding that night because Darryl is a ring bearer. Chet takes him to his local barbershop where the regular barber has retired from cutting hair and left the shop to JJ, who only yesterday earned his certificate. Cartons is the one customer ahead of Chet but he says he’s going to watch JJ for a few customers before he decides if he’s safe. Chet sits in the chair and asks JJ if he’s sure he can cut hair. He answers that not only was he the top student at barber college but in Korea he cut forty heads an hour. Cartons says Korea was nothing and that WWII was the real war. They argue and JJ keeps saying “Don’t make me mad!” and becomes agitated while cutting Chet’s hair. JJ says hand to hand combat was what they called rest and recreation in Korea. Carton bets JJ $23 he never was in Korea. JJ starts to leave to get his papers when Chet stops him. After cutting Chet’s hair JJ forces him to have a complimentary shave. He ends up with cuts all over his face. While JJ is cutting Darryl’s hair he and Cartons argue about baseball catchers. JJ says Roy Campanella was the greatest catcher in baseball. Cartons says Josh Gibson of the all-black Kansas City Monarchs was the greatest. Chet says his father told him he saw Josh Gibson hit a ball 187 meters. JJ says Campanella’s batting average was 327. Cartons says Gibson’s was 389 and he once caught a ball that was dropped from the top of the Washington Monument. JJ says he could do that. Chet argues that a ball dropped from that height would have the velocity of a bullet. Since the Washington Monument is on the other side of the US, Cartons challenges JJ to catch a ball dropped from the top of the Ames Hotel, which is 122 meters. Cartons bets his $23 and Chet adds another $8 as they head for the Ames. JJ’s brother in law is the clerk at the Ames. JJ tells him they want a room at the top. Rudy says all the rooms are taken. JJ sees the keys to 1212 are there but Rudy says they just stepped out. JJ says they only need the room for ten minutes. JJ waits below and Cartons drops the ball but it hits and breaks Chet’s windshield. They agree to give JJ another chance but on the way up they ride with the young couple who are the real tenants of 1212, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas. When Mr. Thomas sees them in his room he’s mad until he learns about the bet and he becomes interested and agrees to be the one to drop the ball. JJ catches it but falls at the same time and the ball leaves his glove. JJ says he held it for the regulation three seconds but Cartons says he has to hold it for ten seconds. There is apparently no time limit but it must be securely in the glove before it hits the ground and it doesn’t look like it was. Back at the barber shop JJ’s hands are bandaged and so he has to direct Chet while he finishes cutting Darryl’s hair. It looks lop sided when he’s finished. Aunt Bertha is fixing it in Chet’s apartment when the show ends.
JJ was played by Antonio Fargas, who made his film debut in The Cool World. He co-starred in Foxy Brown, I’m Gonna Get You Sucka, and Sucker Punch. He is best known for playing Huggy Bear on Starsky and Hutch. He played Les Baxter on All My Children. He started a music production company called Bump It. In later life he restored old homes.
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