Ford Rainey

            On Sunday morning I published “Love in a Cage”, my translation of “L'amour en cage” by Boris Vian on my Christian’s Translations blog. Tomorrow I’ll post it on Facebook. 

            I finished working out the chords for “Turlututu Capot Pointu” (You Kill With Your Pointy Hood) by Serge Gainsbourg. I ran through singing and playing it in English and French and tomorrow I’ll upload it to Christian’s Translations. 

            I played my Les Paul Studio electric guitar during song practice for the first of two sessions and it went out of tune quite a bit. 

            I weighed 87.5 kilos before breakfast, which is the most I’ve weighed in the morning since July 7. 

            Around midday I cleaned my tub and since it wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be I also had time to sweep my bedroom floor and most of the living room. On Tuesday I’ll probably finished the sweeping and maybe the mopping. Then on Wednesday I would be ready to apply the second coat of drywall compound to my bathroom ceiling and walls. 

            I weighed 88.1 kilos before lunch. June 8 was the last time I tipped the scale that far in the early afternoon. 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 87.05 kilos at 17:45. That’s the most I’ve weighed in the evening since June 30. 

            I was caught up with my journal at 18:43. 

            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 lag behind the studio audio and so I have to keep deleting bits of the video in order to get them back in sync. About every two or three syllables the video is about a tenth of a second behind. I got the video lined up with the audio for “has been circumcised”; then for “only later to be”; then for “reattached”; then for “with”, then for “the”, then for “brain”. 

            I uploaded to YouTube the video I'd made in Movie Maker of my October 6, 2024 Kramer electric performance of "Leave the Naïve Alone". 

            Now I'm done with that song and I'll replace it in my daily practice with "Le petit commerce" and "My Little Business". Every few days I'll play all of "On n'est pas là pour se faire engueuler" and "We Didn't Come Here to Be yelled at and Flayed". And every week I'll be practicing parts of "La java des chaussettes à clous" and "The Tap-dance of the Hobnail Boots"

            I reviewed the video of my September 1, 2024 song practice Gibson electric performance of “Comment te dire adieu”. It took up all of part D and halfway through that I stopped doing retakes but rather just worked through my mistakes. I finished it at 1:11 in part E. I reviewed the video of my September 2 Gibson performance of “How to Say Goodbye to You” and the take at 00:15 in part B was okay but the Gibson sounded rattly. 

            I made pizza on a slice of multigrain sandwich bread with marinara sauce, tomato pesto, two hot Italian sausages and five-year-old cheddar. I had it with a beer while watching the first season finale of The Bold Ones: The Lawyers. 

            Mike Shields leaves a party and drives away but his car is blocked in the driveway by another vehicle and the driver Ted Hollister gets out, walks over to Mike’s window and shoots him dead. Walter Nicholls arrives in Sparta to defend Ted. Ted tells him he shot Shields because he tried to rape his wife Nina. Nina tells Walter that Shields did sexually assault her. Walter is going to argue that Ted was temporarily insane when he shot Shields. The DA Phil Douglass is not going to accept that and is going to try to get Ted the death penalty. Walter meets Ralph Turner who is a powerful man in town and claims Mike was incapable of behaving inappropriately towards a woman. The disadvantage is that Turner and Shields were town royalty while Ted and Nina did not mix much with the town elites. Turner invites Walter to a poker game at his house. In court Walter shows that Shields was kicked out of college for sexually assaulting a female student. Walter goes to the poker game and wins $5000 quite easily. The next day Walter wins the court case as well. Later Walter’s hotel room is burgled and his poker winnings are stolen. Seconds after discovering this he is arrested for bribing with $5000 a woman of the jury. Walter is sure that this was set up by Turner. Walter’s partner Neil Darrell arrives and offers to defend him but Walter says he will defend himself and only wants Neil to do some investigating. Neil investigates the custodial service that cleans the hotel and finds there is a big turnover. He finds that one of the janitors that recently was hired and shortly quit has a record for burglary. He finds him and gets the name of who hired him with the promise that he will defend the burglar for free. Walter is a brilliant trial lawyer but he is doing a lousy job of defending himself. In the end, with Neil’s help he is found not guilty. 

            The DA was played by Ford Rainey, who as a child struggled with shyness but found an outlet in school plays. He studied in Connecticut with Michael Chekhov. He moved to California where he became a founding member of the Ojai Valley Players. He made his film debut in 1949 in White Heat. He co-starred in The Cellar and Guardian of the Wilderness. He co-starred in the TV series Window On Main Street and The Manhunter. He was a regular cast member of the Richard Boone Show. 

             I won’t be watching season 2 of this series. The only legal TV series I’ve ever enjoyed are the funny ones like Ally McBeal and Boston Legal. Next I’ll watch the first season of The Bold Ones: The New Doctors.