Lynn Carlin

            On Monday morning my left arm was still quite sore. I finished memorizing “L'année à lenvers” (The Year in Reverse) by Boris Vian. Tomorrow I’ll look for the chords. 

            I ran through playing and singing “Notre Derniere Chance” (Our Final Chance) by Serge Gainsbourg. Then I worked on finishing my translation. I still have the final verse to figure out. I have to discern between expressions and the names of French magazines. I might do an extra translation using the names of newspapers and magazines that are more familiar to an English speaking listener.

            I played my Martin acoustic guitar during song practice for the last of two sessions and it stayed in tune for the whole 90 minutes. Tomorrow I’ll begin a four session stretch of playing my electric guitars.

            I weighed 88.05 kilos before breakfast, which is the heaviest I’ve been in the morning since June 6. 

            Around midday I worked on my Batgirl 21 video, editing season 3, episode 21 of Batman so it shows only the scenes featuring Batgirl.

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

            I weighed 87.5 kilos at 18:00. June 30 was the last time I tipped the scale that far in the evening.

            I was caught up with my journal at 19:10. 

            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 “thing as not”, and “giving a shit”. In the second chorus I lined them up for “wo wo”, “whoever” and “doesn’t share”. 

            I uploaded the video of my acoustic version of “Comment te dire adieu” to YouTube.
                        

            I had a potato with gravy and my last three pork ribs while watching the penultimate episode of The Bold Ones: The Protectors. 

            A priest named Carl Hayes is sheltering in his church a conscientiously objecting army private named Chuck Kelly who has deserted his company. Sergeant Chapman and Private Earle enter the church and Kelly greets them as friends but they say they are taking him back. Hayes hears a struggle and enters the church. He tries to stop them and is severely beaten. He struggles after them just as Sister Marie Theresa, who teaches at the adjacent school comes out to see what’s going on. Hayes wants to drive after them but Marie tells him to give her the keys. She takes him to the police station. District Attorney Bill Washburn thinks that this is the army’s case but Deputy Chief of Police Sam Danforth says it’s a police matter because there is suspicion of assault and of kidnapping. Hayes succumbs to his injuries and is taken to the hospital in critical condition. Chapman and Earle take Kelley to a hotel and try to change his mind. Chapman wants to take Kelley to the gate of the base and let him walk through on his own. Kelley says he won’t walk through. Sam’s men apprehend Chapman and Earle and an MP takes Kelley into custody. Hayes is about to go into surgery and asks Marie to visit Kelley. She is reluctant because she doesn’t support his cause but she goes although nothing comes of it as she doesn’t provide any support. At this point whoever uploaded this video fast-forwarded several minutes of it. When it comes back to normal speed we find that Kelley has hung himself in his cell and Marie feels like she is losing god. Bill had wanted a dismissal of the charges against Chapman and Earle but now he reverses his decision. He knows he will lose but thinks it’s the right thing to do. A large number of anti-war protestors set up a demonstration around the courthouse. Hayes is transferred to another parish. Another priest takes over and another conscientious objector takes shelter in the church but this time Marie helps him. 

            Marie was played by Lynn Carlin, who was Robert Altman’s secretary when John Cassavetes was working on Faces. He had her read lines for him and then gave her a co-starring role in the film (for which she was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award). She was the first untrained actor to receive an Oscar nomination. Her TV debut was on Marcus Welby M.D. She starred in Milos Forman’s Taking Off, for which she was nominated for a BAFTA. She made her stage debut in The Women. She co-starred in Death Dream (aka Dead of Night), and Superstition.