Mike Lookinland

            On Tuesday morning my left arm was still quite sore but maybe a little less than the day before.

            I worked out the chords for verse 12 of “L'année à lenvers” (The Year in Reverse) by Boris Vian and the repetition of verse 12. All that’s left is the final line, which is repeated three times. I should have it done tomorrow. 

            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. I’ll probably have almost a hundred images when I’m done. 

            I played my Kramer electric during song practice and it didn’t go out of tune until the end. I changed the battery on my tuner because it was getting hard to see. Tomorrow I’ll begin a four session stretch of playing my Martin acoustic. 

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

            Around midday I cleaned the tub and swept all the floors. Tomorrow I’ll mop them and may have time to go to the hardware store to buy primer. 

            I weighed 86.95 kilos before lunch, which is the same as on August 2. 

            In the afternoon I took a bike ride downtown and back. It was raining and I was going to ride only as far as Ossington and Bloor but it let up just before I got there so I continued downtown. Around St. George I passed a guy who was riding with about five bicycle tires over his shoulder. As I passed I said, “You look tired!” He laughed and said, “That’s pretty good!” It started raining again harder than before on the home stretch but stopped again before I got home. 

            I weighed 87.4 kilos at 17:30. August 4 was the last time I was that heavy in the evening. 

            I was caught up with my journal at 18:24. 

            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 “A”, “breeze”, “is blowing”, “the” “sunlight”, “through”, the”, and “slow motion”. I should have the last verse done tomorrow and then there’ll just be the extended chorus. The audio and video tend to be less out of sync in the choruses than in the verses. 

            I reviewed my song practice performances of “Eliza” and “Coiffure by Eliza” from September 9 to 20. On September 9, 11, and 15 I played “Eliza” on my Martin acoustic. On September 9 the final take was okay; on September 11 it wasn’t bad; and on September 15 it was good. On September 13, 17, and 19 I played it on my Gibson Les Paul Studio. On September 13 the final take was not great because the Gibson sounded rattly; September 17 the last take was okay; and on September 19 it didn’t sound horrible. I played “Coiffure by Eliza” with the Martin on September 10, 12, and 16. On September 10 and 16 the final takes were okay; on September 12 the recording was corrupted. On September 14, 18, and 20 I played it on the Gibson and all the final takes were okay but the Gibson sounded rattly. 

            The rain cooled things down enough so I could cook. I had a potato with gravy and a re-heated steak while watching episode 7 of The Brady Bunch. 

            Cindy treats her Kitty Karry-All doll like it’s a real baby. When Bobby enters the room playing his kazoo she tells him to be quiet so he doesn’t wake Kitty. He argues that it’s not a real baby. She leaves the room to get Kitty’s bottle but when she returns the doll has disappeared. She accuses Bobby of taking it and he denies responsibility. The other girls side with Cindy and the boys side with Bobby. But when the boys learn that Bobby hated the doll they side with Cindy. Mike orders all the kids to join in a search of the house but Kitty is not found. They still blame Bobby but Mike tells Marcia and Greg about people being innocent until proven guilty. Marcia says they’ll give Bobby a fair trial and then hang him. They get Alice to be the judge with Marcia as the prosecutor and Greg acting as Bobby’s defender and Jan and Peter as the jury. After Jan and Peter hear Bobby’s testimony they switch sides and so now Marcia is mad at Jan and Greg is mad at Peter. Later Bobby’s kazoo disappears and he blames Cindy at first and then gets over it. Bobby takes all his savings from his piggy bank and buys Cindy a new Kitty doll but she says it’s not the same. Then the dog Tiger carries the new doll away and Mike and Carol follow him to his doghouse where they find the two Kitty dolls and Bobby’s kazoo. It was boringly obvious that the dog was the thief within the first few minutes of this episode. 

            Bobby was played by Mike Lookinland, who started acting in toy, Cheerios and Band-Aid commercials at the age of 7. He was a Deadhead and attended more than 100 Grateful Dead concerts. He became an alcoholic in adulthood until he had a car accident and was arrested for drunk driving in 1997 and it compelled him to overcome his addiction. He became a TV cameraman and worked on the show Everdale. He started a decorative concrete business in Salt Lake City. His son Scott played him in the movie Growing Up Brady.