Louise Sorel

            On Sunday morning my arm was sore again after a couple of days of progress although not as bad as on the day after wrenching it last week. The tongue bite on the right side continues to heal but last night I bit my tongue on the left side in the back while eating cherries. It’s not as bad as the other bite but it’s still annoying and might affect my singing. 

            I memorized the seventh verse of “L'année à lenvers” (The Year in Reverse) by Boris Vian. There’s only one verse left to learn. 

            I finished working out the chords for “Notre Derniere Chance” (Our Final Chance) by Serge Gainsbourg. Tomorrow I’ll run through singing and playing it in French and then I’ll need to finish my translation.

            I played my Martin acoustic guitar during song practice for the first of two sessions. It stayed in tune most of the time. 

            I weighed 87.45 kilos before breakfast, which is the heaviest I’ve been in the morning since July 21. 

            Around midday I tried to finished sanding the rest of the second coat of drywall compound that I’d applied in the bathroom but I got started a little late. I did finish the north and the east walls, which had the most difficult parts under the upper and the lower shelves. That also finished the areas that are on the other side of my neighbour Benji’s walls and so he’ll have no more reason to complain about the noise of my sanding. He was quiet while I worked but a few minutes after I stopped he started banging on his walls, the walls of the hallway, slamming doors and swearing. All that’s left is the reachable areas of the south side, which is mostly the door and the door frame. I have to do laundry this week but I think I’ll wait until the sanding is done because the dust gets on everything. I’ll finish the sanding on Tuesday then and it shouldn’t take much more than ten minutes. 

            I weighed 87.95 kilos before lunch. July 20 was the last time I tipped the scale that much in the early afternoon, though it was a little more then. I had whole wheat 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 kilos at 18:00.

            I was caught up with my journal at 19:33. 

            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 fourth verse I managed to synchronize the concert video with the studio audio for “I’m on the other”, “side and”, “that there’s”, and “no such”. 

            In my “2024-09-27 Song Practice” Movie Maker project I deleted everything before the final take of “Comment te dire adieu””. Then I saved the project as “Comment te dire adieu (acoustic), deleted everything after the song, adjusted the audio balance between the video and the audio interface recordings, and published it. Tomorrow I’ll probably upload it to YouTube. 

            I had planned on grilling the two pork souvlakis at 19:00 that I’d thawed out since this morning so I could put them on the pizza I planned to make for supper. But I forgot and so I started grilling the souvlaki when I should have started the pizza. Then at 20:30 I made pizza on a slice of multigrain sandwich bread with marinara sauce, tomato pesto, the two cut up souvlakis, and five-year-old cheddar. I had it with a beer while watching the antepenultimate episode of The Bold Ones: the Protectors.

            Victor Bruno has escaped from prison and does not look well when he calls his brother Dom from the McDonald Lumber Yard and says he needs to see him. Dom finds Victor dying but with his last breath Victor tells Dom that Anselmo committed the murder for which he went to prison. He makes Dom promise to kill Anselmo. After Victor dies Dom leaves him there. A boy comes to loot the corpse but runs away when he sees the watchman come. Dr. Marti Lang examines Victor’s body and learns that as part of a prison experiment he was injected with a pneumonic plague known as Pasteurella pestis and that’s what killed him. Everyone who has come in contact with him is in danger. They are looking for the boy that the watchman described and they’ve determined from tire tracks and foot prints that they are looking for a man that Victor called from the phone booth. Dom’s girlfriend is Victor’s wife Nina. She observes that Dom lied to her about where he was going when he went to meet Victor. She says it’s a matter of concern when men lie because they are not liars by nature like women are. Dom has never handled a gun but he gets one from Joseph Travino and uses it to kill Anselmo. He has learned that it was Nina who sold out Victor so she could be with Dom and now he wants to kill her. The boy is found and is successfully treated. Dom is starting to get sick but he goes to the airport where Nina works and tries to kill her but collapses and shoots wild. 

            Nina was played by Louise Sorel, who studied at the Neighbourhood Playhouse in New York. She trained as a mime. Her film debut was in Eighteen and Anxious in 1957. She married Herb Edelman. She made her Broadway debut in Take Her She’s Mine in 1961. Her feature film debut was in The Party’s Over in 1965. She played Rayna in the Star Trek episode Requiem for Methuselah. She played the wife of Don Rickles in the short-lived Don Rickles Show (which Rickles said was canceled because it was funny). She starred in the soap opera Santa Barbara as the villain Augusta Lockridge. In 1992 she joined the cast of Days of Our Lives as the manipulative Vivian Alamain and became a star for the eight years she played the part, winning five Soap Opera Digest awards. She has played Emily Tanner on Beacon Hill since 2014.