I played my Gibson Les Paul Studio during song practice and it went out of tune a few times during the first half before settling down. I think someone has moved in above me so I kept the volume annoyingly low. It would be nice to have an upstairs neighbour who works 9:00 to 17:00 and isn’t home when I’m playing.
I weighed 87.25 kilos before breakfast.
Around midday I tried to finish sanding the bathroom. I got the southeast corner done and the lower part of the eastern wall to the right of lower shelf. I removed the mirror and sanded the wall behind it. The hole that I filled above the mirror with the first coat of drywall compound was still a depression before the second coat but now it’s flush with the wall. I had trouble mounting the mirror again. A couple of the adhesive Velcro strips were not exactly where I wanted them and when I tried to reposition them they came off and wouldn’t stick. I saw that I’d run out and so I went to the hardware store to get some more but when I came back I found that I hadn’t run out. I was able to remount the mirror but I’ll have to take it down again when I paint. All that’s left to sand is the area above and below the lower shelf, the lower part of the northern wall, a little of the southern wall, the door frame, and the door. I should have all that finished on Sunday.
I weighed 87.05 kilos before lunch.
In the afternoon I took a bike ride downtown and back.
I weighed 87.05 kilos at 17:52, which is the heaviest I’ve been in the evening since July 21.
I was caught up with my journal at 19:00.
In the Movie Maker project to create a video for the studio recording of my song “Paranoiac Utopia” the concert video has jumped ahead of the studio audio. I need a clip that is 8/10 of a second in length to push the video back into synchronicity with the audio. The audio for that space has the phrase “uptight cops” and so I looked for silent films that feature uptight cops. I found the Buster Keaton movie “Cops”. I plucked it from YouTube with ClipGrab, converted it to AVI with WinX and then imported it to Movie Maker. I edited out everything but the frantic scenes featuring the bumbling police and got it boiled down to about a minute. I’ll probably use the scene in which Buster is balanced on a plank that is teetering like a see-saw on top of a fence with cops on either side trying to get to him.
In my “2024-09-27 Song Practice” Movie Maker project I got the audio almost lined up with the video. I should have them in sync tomorrow.
I had a potato with gravy and four pork ribs while watching episode 2 of The Bold Ones: The Protectors.
Martin Sitomer spent seven years on death row for rape and murder. During that time he wrote a best selling book about his life called “If I Should Wake Before I Die” and also studied law. He found out that the Supreme Court reversed the decision in a similar case. He was two hours from his execution when his last minute appeal was granted. His mission now is that prisons should teach people how to live and not how to wait to die. Deputy Police Chief Sam Danforth refers to Sitomer as Carol Chessman Jr. He makes it clear that he thinks Sitomer is guilty and that he should have been executed seven years ago. Sam goes to a mental hospital to talk with Mr. Bender, who is the husband of the woman that Sitomer allegedly murdered. He says he saw Sitomer leave his house and found his wife naked and dead but because of his mental condition was not considered to be a reliable witness. District Attorney Washburn comes to visit Sitomer in his cell. Since Sitomer is acting as his own defense he requests that Washburn meet with him regularly leading up to the trial so that he can share evidence. Sitomer reveals that he is the secret donor who pays for Bender’s keep at the mental institution and for the care of his children. Sam talks with Reverend Eaker who used to be Sitomer’s partner in crime. He chose not to go with Sitomer to the Bender house but did see scratches on his face later. Sam talks with a former guard named Fanner who says Sitomer confessed and put it in writing in the form of a poem. Fanner secretly copied the poem while Sitomer was taking exercise. He gives his copy to Sam. Washburn shows him the poem and Sitomer asks if they didn’t teach about poetic license in whatever “coon” college he went to. Sitomer says there were 70 men on death row in his prison. Sitomer is forced to not defend himself and is appointed a lawyer. A waiter brings Washburn and Danforth lunch in Danforth’s office. In court Sitomer is allowed to cross examine Warden Millbank. Millbank is against capital punishment but has concluded that Sitomer is guilty. We don’t hear the verdict but one assumes that Sitomer is found guilty again and returned to death row.
The waiter was played by Connie Kreski, who was a registered nurse before coming to Hollywood. She was Playboy Magazine’s Playmate of the month in January 1968 and became playmate of the year. She was also Playmate of the Month a year later. She was a close friend of Sharon Tate and was invited to her home but didn’t come on the night Tate was murdered by the Manson family. She was James Caan’s lover from 1971 to 1975.
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