I copied the Vizard transcription of the video for “Notre Derniere Chance” (Our Final Chance) by Serge Gainsbourg but the text doesn’t seem to fit the audio when I sing along. I tried another free transcription app but for some stupid reason it decided to translate the audio although some of the text it gave is in French. I’ll try to find a better transcription app tomorrow.
I played my Kramer electric guitar during song practice for the last of two sessions and it was in tune pretty much from the start. Tomorrow I’ll begin a two session stretch of playing my Martin acoustic guitar.
I weighed 86.65 kilos before breakfast.
Around midday I finished mopping my bedroom floor and re-mopped the kitchen area. Then I brought in the stepladder and added a second coat of drywall compound to the northeast quarter of the bathroom ceiling and the walls that I could reach from that position. There was a lot less to do than for the first coat. On Friday I’ll probably finish all the parts for which I’ll need the ladder. I might actually have the bathroom painted before the end of summer.
I weighed 86.6 kilos before lunch. I had saltines with five-year-old cheddar and a glass of iced tea.
In the afternoon I took a bike ride downtown and back.
I weighed 86.15 kilos at 17:40.
I was caught up with my journal at 18:45.
I worked on the Movie Maker project to create a video for the studio recording of my song “Paranoiac Utopia”. The concert video continues to drag behind the studio audio and so every few words I have to delete some of it to bring it forward. I managed to synchronize “beast defends”, “itself”, “from the mirror of”, and “my patience”. Then the first chorus begins and for “wowo whoever doesn’t share our hell must be…” I’m out of view. I synchronized the concert video with the studio audio for “the” and tomorrow I’ll see how “devil” lines up.
I reviewed the song practice videos of my performances of “How to Say Goodbye to You” and “Comment te dire adieu” from September 22 to 29. On September 22, 26, and 28 I played “How to Say Goodbye to You” on my Martin acoustic guitar. On September 22 and 26 the final takes were okay. On September 28 the take at 36:00 was not bad. On September 24 I played it on my Gibson Les Paul Studio electric guitar and the final take was OK. On September 23 and 29 I played “Comment te dire adieu” on my Gibson. On September 23 the take 48:45 was rattly but not horrible. On September 29 the final take was okay. On September 25 and 27 I played it on the Martin. On September 25 the take at 43:00 wasn’t bad. On September 27 the take at 3:30 in part B was okay.
I made pizza on a slice of multigrain sandwich bread, with marinara sauce, tomato pesto, a sliced hot Italian sausage, and five-year-old cheddar. I had it with a beer while watching episode 3 of The Bold Ones: The New Doctors.
Jennifer, one of the kids in the children’s ward has leukemia. Dr. Hunter is looking into the possibility of that bone marrow transplants might be a cure and visits the nuclear research centre. He wants to find out if radiation will prevent rejection of the transplant. Suddenly there is an explosion and he is closest to the radiation, with shards of metal imbedding themselves into his body. He and Dr. Truesdale are rushed to the hospital and are given an entire ward to themselves. Dr. Stuart does the surgery and is expected to leave the operating room after being exposed to fifty rads. All other staff have to leave after five rads and be replaced. Stuart stays past fifty rads to get a shard that is close to the kidney. The shards are successfully removed but there is still the radiation exposure that has severely dropped Hunter’s blood count. This results in a night of detachment and disorientation. The next day when he is able to think again he has the idea that they can use him as a guinea pig for bone marrow transplants in order to bring his blood count back up. There are four volunteers with blood type AB who donate their bone marrow. After all four donate, Hunter’s blood count starts to return to normal. The four donors and Hunter form the Bone Marrow Club and go out to dinner every year.
Dr. David Craig the hospital head was played by E.G. Marshall, who never told anyone what “E.G.” stood for but his full birth name was Everett Eugene Grunz. He was one of the original members of The Actors Studio. He made his film debut in The House on 42nd Street in 1945. He made his TV debut on Studio One in 1949. He played Juror number 4 in 12 Angry Men. He co-starred in Town Without Pity and Interiors. He played the US president in Superman II. He starred in the TV series The Defenders. He was the host of CBS Radio Mystery Theatre from 1974 to 1981.
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