Linda Marsh

           On Friday morning I ran through singing and playing “Love in a Cage”, my translation of “L'amour en cage” by Boris Vian and uploaded it to my Christian’s Translations blog. Tomorrow I’ll begin preparing it for publication. 

            I worked out the chords for the first verse and part of the second of “Turlututu Capot Pointu” (You Kill With Your Pointy Hood) by Serge Gainsbourg. Once the second verse’s chords are established I should have the pattern for the whole song and may have it finished on Saturday. 

            I played my Martin acoustic guitar for the first of two sessions. It went out of tune a few times probably because the humidity made a severe drop since yesterday. 

            I weighed 86.25 kilos before breakfast. 

            Around midday I cleaned my toilet and the bathroom floor. I also washed my toilet plungers and found shit inside of one of them. I disinfected it with bleach. 

            I weighed 86.2 kilos before lunch. 

            I took a siesta and I know dozed off briefly because I dreamed but for most of the 90 minutes I was awake. The contractors were working in unit 2 across the hall and I was worried about them coming into my place. I’m stressed out over the prospect of having my walls and floor destroyed. 

            In the afternoon I took a bike ride downtown and back. 

            I weighed 85.25 kilos at 17:52, which is the lightest I’ve been in the evening since April 4.  

            I was caught up with my journal at 19:00. 

            I worked on my Movie Maker project to create a video for my studio recording of “Paranoiac Utopia”. So far the studio audio is faster than the concert video and so every few words I have to delete bits of the video in order to line them up. This happened five times with the “doot”s at the beginning. When I sing “A painful shedding of skin today…” I only needed to synchronize the video with the audio for “skin” because that’s the first word I sing when the camera has moved back to me. For the second line “as Parkdale’s…” I lined up the video with the audio at “Parkdale’s”. It goes off again soon though. 

            I uploaded my "Leave the Naïve Alone (Gibson Les Paul) video to YouTube.

             I grilled two T-bone steaks and had one with a potato and gravy while watching the antepenultimate episode of The Bold Ones: The Lawyers. 

            A former Mafia officer named Frank Delacey who turned informer has been in prison for fifteen years but is in danger there. He says if he gets out he knows a way of escaping his enemies. He sends for Nicholls, Darrell and Darrell and produces a witness who knows that Delacey’s attorney was drunk every day during his first trial. If that can be proven he will get a new trial and wants the best lawyers to defend him. Frank’s daughter Maria sends for the lawyers and urges them not to try to get her father out of prison because if they do he will be killed. Mr. Castelli the DA agrees with Maria but he believes Frank should be kept alive because he has helped the law look deeper into the Mafia than it ever has been able to before. Maria goes to see Don Passetto and begs him to spare her father. He assures her that the Mafia doesn’t find it profitable to behave in a vengeful manner anymore and that Frank will come to no harm. But after she leaves he calls a meeting of the five families to make sure Frank does not survive. He arranges for one witness to change his testimony that would have kept Frank in prison and another dies in a traffic accident. When Maria takes the stand she lies that she saw her father make a heroin deal but breaks down under cross examination. Frank is acquitted and Walter arranges for Frank to change clothes with a police officer in order to safely leave the courthouse. They drive to a rendezvous point in the country where they join Brian and Neil Darrell in their car. They stop at a gas station where Frank calls the pilot who will take him to his safe location. They drive to meet the helicopter, which Frank boards and flies away. In the distance of course we see the helicopter blow up. I saw that coming. 

            Maria was played by Linda Marsh who, after college graduation appeared in three off-Broadway plays. Her film debut was in America America, for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe. Her Broadway debut was in Hamlet in 1964. Her TV debut was on Perry Mason in 1964.