Kim Weston

            On Wednesday morning I worked out the chords for half of the first verse of “L'amour en cage” (Love in a Cage) by Boris Vian and most of the second verse of “La Robe de Papier” (The Paper Dress) by Serge Gainsbourg. 

            I played my Martin acoustic guitar during song practice for the second of two sessions and it only needed to be tuned at the beginning. Tomorrow I’ll start a two session stretch of playing my electric guitars. 

            I weighed 87 kilos before breakfast. 

            Around midday I sanded the drywall compound from most of the bathroom doorframe. All that’s left is the jamb and the inside of the door. I might have that done on Friday. 

            I weighed 87.45 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 86.85 kilos at 17:55. 

            I was caught up with my journal at 18:34. 

            I downloaded the video about the feather duster worm and converted it to AVI. I imported it into Movie Maker. In the project to create a video for the Christian and the Lions studio recording of Brian Haddon’s “The Ballad of My Chest Cavity” I copied the video to the end of the timeline. I edited it down to three clips and pasted a copy of the first one after the line “feather dusts him clean”. Then I shaved bits off the video until the concert video was back in sync with the studio audio for the line, “So he can smile despite his bile as happy as a clam off a Grand Bank isle”. But for the next line, “But never a grain of that beautiful sand does he bring back to me” the video jumps ahead of the audio again. I decided that since I need other video to push the concert video back in line with the studio audio it would be easier and more interesting to find the imagery of the clam than that of not bringing a grain of sand. So I looked for a video of a clam and found one of the giant clams of the Great Barrier Reef. I’ll download that tomorrow. 

            In my 2024-10-09 Song Practice Movie Maker project I synchronized the audio with the video. Then I deleted all the songs that precede “Laisse tomber les filles”. I also cut out the first few takes of the song but when it was time for supper I had yet reached the beginning of the final take. 

            I made pizza on a slice of multigrain sandwich bread with marinara sauce, basil pesto, two sliced cheddar sausages, and five-year-old cheddar. I had it with a beer while watching the antepenultimate episode of The Bill Cosby Show. 

            Chet sees his colleague and girlfriend Gloria being dropped off at work by an attractive man in a Ferrari. Chet is immediately jealous and so even though Gloria is very happy to see him he immediately has questions about the man. It doesn’t help to find out he’s a doctor. He doesn’t want to hear her explain anything about why she was riding in his car. She says she hasn’t seen Mel since high school when they used to date. Chet says Mel bought his car with the money of US sick people and he didn’t even buy a US car. Chet asks Gloria to dinner tonight but she says she has to do the lesson plans for the classes she teaches. That night he tries to call her but there is no answer although we see that she runs from the shower to answer the phone and that Chet gives up before she answers. The next day when she tells him what happened he accuses her of going out with Mel and making up a story about lesson plans and washing her hair. At first they sit at separate tables at lunch but then they make up. Chet asks her to dinner tonight but she says she’s having dinner with Mel to discuss plans for the tenth anniversary of their high school graduation. That night Chet goes to Francini’s to spy on Gloria. When Mel goes to the washroom Chet follows him and tells him that thewo man he’s with looks a lot like someone he used to know named Gloria Ruskin. Mel says it is Gloria and he should come and join them at their table and so he does. The next night Chet brings Gloria flowers at her place and she invites him for dinner. He sits down and casually picks up an old high school yearbook out of which fall some ten year old love letters from Mel. She says she’s no longer interested in Mel but Chet says he thinks she and Mel will make a great couple. She tells him that when he straightens out what’s gotten into him then he can call her, so Chet leaves. The next day Gloria isn’t at school and doesn’t answer her phone. We see she has a cold and is staying at her mother’s place. The next day Chet waits for her in her classroom before she comes to work and he’s no longer jealous, so their relationship is back on track. 

            Gloria was played by Kim Weston, who signed with Motown Records in 1961 and had a minor hit with “Love Me All the Way”. Her first big hit was “Take Me In Your Arms (Rock Me a Little While)” in 1965. Her biggest hit was her 1966 duet with Marvin Gaye of “It Takes Two”. She and her husband Mickey Stevenson left Motown in 1967 over disputes about royalties. He formed his own record label under MGM but Gloria’s records there were not as successful. She recorded the Black National Anthem “Lift Every Voice and Sing” and donated the sales to the United Negro College Fund. She made an album of duets with Johnny Nash. She moved to Israel where she taught young singers. In the 1980s she had a hit in the UK with “Signal Your Intention”.