I worked out the chords for the third verse of “L'araignée du soir” (The Spider of Night) by Boris Vian. There are two verses left.
I played my Martin acoustic for the last of two sessions and it went out of tune quite a bit. I think I need get it set up again. Tomorrow I’ll begin a four session stretch of playing my electric guitars.
I weighed 86.4 kilos before breakfast.
Around midday I finished applying the third and final coat of primer to all of the parts of the walls that require a chair to reach. Then I removed the temporary mirror and applied the final coat to the section to the right of the shelves. The only thing in that area that needs more primer is the metal light fixture, but I can do that without having to remove the mirror again. I painted the space between the underside of the upper shelves and the top of the lower shelf. My tray ran out of paint before I could finish. The shelf brackets definitely need more than three coats of primer and so when I return to painting on Sunday I’ll do them again. I think I might have the bathroom fully primed on Sunday.
I weighed 86.9 kilos before lunch at 14:00.
In the afternoon I took a bike ride downtown and back.
I weighed 86.55 kilos at 17:45.
I was caught up in my journal at 18:45.
In the Movie Maker project to create a video for the studio recording of my song “Paranoiac Utopia” I finished the second run-through of editing the video I shot on August 22. What had been a 63 minute video is now 7.5 minutes. I probably only need 2 minutes so tomorrow I’ll cut a little more.
In my “Élisa (Gibson electric)” Movie Maker project I found that the first take was the final take. I saved the project as “2024-09-29 Song Practice” just in case I need any of the other songs from that day to be synchronized. Then I went back to “Élisa (Gibson electric)” and isolated the song. I adjusted the audio balance to include a little more from the camera microphone. I added several effects: posterize, old film, span colour spectrum, dim, and sharpen. I published the movie and then made some screen shots. Tomorrow I’ll upload it to YouTube.
I had a potato with gravy and a chicken leg with skyr and dill while watching episode 6 of Checkmate.
A young woman is on a flight from Boston to San Francisco when she tells the white haired man in the seat next to her that she is being followed. She gets him to create a diversion so she can escape. He pretends to clumsily drop his briefcase at the exit door and then his glasses, while blocking the passage of her pursuer. She makes her way to Don Corey’s address and when he doesn’t answer the doorbell she pulls out a key ring with about fifty keys, selects one and lets herself in. Don comes home and goes straight to bed. The next day he wakes up to find a cup of coffee sitting on his nightstand. He appreciatively drinks some of it and then stops to wonder how it got there. Then the woman’s voice calls to him from the kitchen, asking him how he likes his eggs. Puzzled but intrigued, he tells her he likes them poached. Then he meets her. She apologizes for wearing his bathrobe but says she had to leave her luggage at the airport when she got away from the man who is trying to kill her. When she goes to work on breakfast he goes to the phone and calls his partner Jed, the ladies man because he thinks this is some sort of prank involving one of his girlfriends, but it isn’t. The young woman tells him she knows a lot about him because she studies detectives. She says her name is Mary Ann Milford and she’s a stenographer. She says she witnessed a murder in the Bronx and escaped to Boston but they followed her there. She’s very forward with Don in a semi-innocent sort of way and asks Don to help her. She’s too charming to refuse. Jed comes by and when Mary Ann is out of the room Don tells him he doubts her story. She wears very expensive clothes for a stenographer, there’s lots of money in her purse and a large collection of skeleton keys. Don sends Jed to pick up Mary’s luggage and the man from the plane sees him at the baggage check and follows him. When she gets her luggage back she discovers that her perfume bottle spilled in her suitcase and so she has to go and shop for more clothes. While in the dress shop she sees standing outside the man from the plane and goes out through a window in the dressing booth (I’ve never seen a window in a dressing booth for obvious reasons). Don goes to the police station where Captain Howard tells him about the runaway heiress Trudy Lombard. She has a trick of hiring private detectives and telling them the mob is after her for witnessing a murder and gets the detectives to help her run away. On top of that she’s only 17. Mary comes back to Don’s place but a man is waiting for her and knocks her out from behind. He’s the man who helped her on the plane. He is about to inject her with something when he hears Don’s car pull up. He slugs Don from behind and he is stunned but not out, then fights off his assailant, who runs away. When Mary wakes up he calls her Trudy and she confesses to having deceived him. She says she’s a prisoner of her grandmother who watches her every move. Don says he was going to take her back but now with the assault he’s not sure. Trudy goes to lie down and Dr. Hyatt arrives. He finds the hypodermic and upon analysis discovers that it contained nothing but air, which can be a deadly murder weapon because unless an autopsy is performed in two hours it’s not traceable. Augie Belner is a killer who uses such a method and they think he’s after Trudy. Meanwhile Trudy has broken a toaster, a frying pan, and a vacuum cleaner at Don’s place. Don comes home and notices a man watching his apartment from the parking lot. Don and Jed catch him and it turns out that he works for Trudy’s grandmother. He takes them to her. While she’s talking with the detectives Trudy escapes. She runs into the man who helped her on the plane and asks for him to help her again and so he gives her a ride. Don and Jed learn that Belner was seen nearby and conclude that he might have Trudy. Belner drives to the woods and they go walking to a place he says he knows where she can hide. But she figures out who he is before he has a chance to try to kill her. She knocks him out with judo she learned from a detective. Then Don arrives but she didn’t need to be rescued. She goes back to her grandmother but receives more respect and fewer restrictions from now on. Plus in three months she’ll be 18.
Trudy was played by Anna Maria Alberghetti, who was a singing prodigy at an early age with music professionals as parents who helped to guide her. She was singing with symphony orchestras at the age of 6 and debuted at Carnegie Hall at 14. She made her film debut at 15 in The Medium. She made her TV debut on Wagon Train. She was Red Skelton’s opening act in Las Vegas. She co-starred in The Stars Are Singing, The Last Command, 10,000 Bedrooms, She starred in Duel at Apache Wells, In the 1960s she abandoned films for Broadway. She won a Tony for Carnival. She sang 53 times on the Ed Sullivan Show. She was pictured twice on the cover of Life Magazine. In the 70s she became the face and voice of Good Seasons salad dressing. She has a popular one-person cabaret act.
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