I ran through singing and playing “La Robe de Papier” (The Paper Dress) by Serge Gainsbourg. I adjusted my translation and then sang and played that, then I uploaded it to my Christian’s Translations blog. Tomorrow I should have it published and then I’ll move on to the next Gainsbourg song that I didn’t finish either because the French text or the audio was not available.
I weighed 86.75 kilos before breakfast, which is the lightest I’ve been in the morning since June 29.
Around midday I finished sanding the drywall compound from the bathroom doorframe and the bathroom side of the door. Now that the drywall compound is sanded down on the door jamb I can finally fully close the door again. That completes the sanding of the first coat of drywall compound. Next I have to wash the dust from the ceiling and walls before adding the second and hopefully final coat of compound. A lot less will be needed just to even up the holes where there was shrinkage, then there will be a little more sanding, followed by another wash and then finally I can paint.
I weighed 87.1 kilos before lunch.
In the afternoon I took a bike ride downtown and back. It was a hot day and when I got home I went over to the liquor store to buy a six pack of Creemore.
I weighed 86.1 kilos at 17:45.
I was caught up on my journal at 18:30.
I worked on 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 synchronized the concert video with the studio audio for the line “But never a grain of that beautiful sand does he bring back to me”. Then it stayed in tune for the beginning of the last chorus when Brian sings, “It’s all I can do…” but the video jumps ahead slightly for the second “It’s all I can do”. During that time I’m singing “Baba daba doo bap ba dabba doo bap bap” so I took another clip of the monkey singing from the 1930s cartoon “Swing Monkey Swing”. At that point I stopped for supper so I’ll find out which parts have to be synchronized tomorrow.
It was hot and I didn’t feel like using the stove. Since I already had a cooked chicken leg in the fridge I ate it with some barbecue flavour potato chips and some skyr while watching the series finale of The Bill Cosby Show.
Chet is trying to turn the boys from the community centre into a baseball team but they’ve lost their first five games. Miss Garcia from the community centre brings Chet a Hassidic Jewish boy named Harry to be part of the team. Chet is disappointed because Harry is small and doesn’t look like he can play. Garcia says Harry’s mother is dead and he just moved to town from Brooklyn with his father. The boys start making fun of Harry’s curls and there is a fight. Chet breaks it up and makes Frank and Harry shake hands. He warns that anybody who starts a fight from now on is off the team. They begin practicing and Harry shows himself to be the best hitter and fielder on the team. Suddenly all the boys like him so it’s sort of like Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer in which the hero is subject to ridicule until he proves he is useful, which is a fucked up reason to like somebody. Now that Harry is on the team the other boys and Chet are confident that they can win but when Harry learns that although the games are usually on Sunday, the next game will be on Saturday, he begins to cry and runs home. Later Chet goes to Harry’s home and meets his father who explains to Chet that Saturday is the Jewish sabbath. On Saturday Chet arrives at the field and sees Harry there, who says he wants to play. He tells Chet that he sneaked out of the house. He says he wants the others to like him but Chet asks, “How about liking yourself?” Harry says nobody has to know but Chet says, “Except you”. He tells him he has to realize what his values are, but he’s not going to tell him what to do. Harry sadly walks home. Later three of the boys come to visit Harry and tell him they won the game. They all go out to ride their bikes together.
Miss Garcia was played by Stella Garcia, who made her film debut in The Private Lives of Adam and Eve. She played Dennis Hopper’s girlfriend Maria in The Last Movie. She played the most prominent female role in Joe Kidd.
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