Christopher Knight

            On Wednesday morning I found the broken temporary bathroom mirror had fallen down but only a small chip had broken off. 

            My left arm was worse than the day before. There are so many simple movements that can throw it off. 

            I finished working out the chords for “L'année à lenvers” (The Year in Reverse) by Boris Vian. Tomorrow I’ll run through singing and playing it in French. I may have to revise my translation. 

            I continued collecting images to use in a photo montage video for “Notre Derniere Chance” (Our Final Chance) by Serge Gainsbourg. There are seven more French magazines from which to capture images from their covers. The only French magazine left for harvesting cover images is Ici Paris, so I should be finished with the collecting phase of this project tomorrow and I can start making the video. 

            I played my Martin acoustic during song practice and it only needed to be tuned once. 

            I weighed 86.75 kilos before breakfast, which is the lightest I’ve been in the morning since August 5. 

            Around midday I remounted the biggest piece of the broken bathroom mirror. 

            I mopped all my floors. On Friday I’ll go to the hardware store to buy primer for the bathroom. 

            I weighed 87.4 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 87.05 kilos at 17:45. I was caught up with my journal at 18:18. 

            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. In the sixth verse I managed to synchronize the concert video with the studio audio for “funnel of the”, “afternoon and”, “Parkdale’s paranoia’s”, “disappeared”, “Did”, and “a young boy’s”. I should have the sixth verse finished tomorrow and then there will be only the chorus to do. 

            I reviewed my song practice performances of “Eliza” and “Coiffure by Eliza” from September 21 to 29. I played “Eliza” with my Martin acoustic on September 21, 25, and 27. On September 21 the final take was not bad; on September 27 the final take was okay; and on September 25 the last take was good. On September 23 and 29 I played it on my Gibson Les Paul Studio. On September 23 the final take was not horrible and on September 29 it was okay. I played “Coiffure by Eliza” on the Martin on September 22, 26, and 28. On September 22 the last take was more than okay; on September 26 the final take was okay; and on September 28 the last take was not bad. On September 24 I played it on my Gibson and the final take was OK. 

            I grilled four grass-fed New Zealand beef burgers and had one on multigrain sandwich bread with ketchup, Dijon, horse radish, and a gherkin. I had it with a beer while watching episode 8 of The Brady Bunch. 

            The Brady’s go on a camping trip. The girls don’t want to go and the boys don’t want the girls with them but their parents insist. The boys take the girls fishing and they care all the fish away with their reactions to slimy fish and falling in the water. Fortunately Carol has brought extra food but at first the boys reject it because their camping code is to live off the land, but they give in. This is the girls’ first time sleeping in a tent and they react to every noise. Alice thinks she hears a rattlesnake in her sleeping bag but she has punctured her inflatable mattress. The girls make a cutout in the shape of a bear and shine a flashlight through it, projecting it onto the boys’ tent, causing them to panic. Everyone runs into the girls’ tent and it collapses. In the end everybody has a great time and they all want to do it again next year. 

            Peter Brady was played by Christopher Knight, who at the age of 7 got work doing commercials for Toyota, Tide and Cheerios. His TV debut was on Mannix in 1966. His film debut was in Just You and Me Kid in 1977. 1988 he started working for Martec as an account sales manager. Within 18 months he made the company’s first million dollar sale and earned Employee of the Year. In 1989 he became the vice president of Design System Marketing and Sales at New Image. In 1991 he cofounded Visual Software. In 1995 he cofounded Kidwise Learningware. In 1995 he became vice president of sales at Adesso and doubled sales in his first four months. In 1997 he became vice president of marketing at Micro Solutions. In 1998 he cofounded Eskape Labs. In 2003 he was an executive at Casting Solutions. Also in 2003 he hosted TV Road Trip. In 2005 he was on The Surreal Life. In 2006 he co-starred in the film Light Years Away.