I finished editing “Une Fille à la mer” (Woman Overboard) by Serge Gainsbourg on my Christian’s Translations blog and published it. Then I posted my translation, “Sailor Overboard” on Facebook. Tomorrow I’ll search for the lyrics for the 1971 Gainsbourg song “Paris d’papa” or use a transcription app to get the lyrics from the YouTube audio.
I played my Gibson Les Paul Studio during song practice but first had to change the high E string I broke last time and had forgotten about. The lightest string I had was an 11 but that's the same gage as my B string. I had no choice but to use it.
I weighed 87.15 kilos before breakfast, which is the heaviest I’ve been in the morning since August 25.
Around midday I prepared to continue applying the third and final coat of primer to my ceiling and upper walls. I went out to the deck to get the stepladder and my next door neighbour Benji had unlocked the padlock that chains the big ladder to the railing and then used the chain to lock the stepladder to the big ladder. What an asshole! Just because he doesn’t like the sound of the stepladder in the early afternoon when he’s trying to take his nap. This isn’t a seniors home. I take a siesta in the afternoon too but I don’t expect the world around me to be quiet while I’m doing so.
I was able to stand on the bathroom sink and paint the southeast corner of the ceiling and the upper walls. Then I put a chair in the bathtub with a milk crate on top and placed the paint tray on a stool nearby. I climbed up onto that precarious structure and almost fell a few times but I managed to paint the northwest corner of the ceiling and upper walls. When I was done I realized that when I paint on Wednesday I will be much more secure if I put my concrete block on the chair and stand on that. Tomorrow I’ll be able to finish the ceiling and upper walls and start painting the parts of the walls I only need the chair to reach and maybe even some of the lower walls. I think I might need to buy my own stepladder though for when I want to carefully apply the painter’s tape before colouring the ceiling.
I weighed 87.95 kilos before lunch. August 3 was the last time I tipped the scales that much in the early afternoon.
In the afternoon I took a bike ride downtown and back.
I weighed 87.25 kilos at 17:40.
I was behind on my journal and so I worked to get caught up.
I meant to start grilling four chicken legs at 19:00 but I forgot until 19:50 and so I had to have a later dinner.
I was caught up in my journal at 20:35.
In the Movie Maker project to create a video for the studio recording of my song “Paranoiac Utopia” I continued to edit the video that I shot on August 22. I cut out most of my trip west on the north sidewalk of Queen and then covered the trip west on the south side from Dunn to the Sun Fa tavern, only keeping the footage of street people. When I stopped for supper there were about 19 minutes left in what was originally a 63 minute video.
I had a potato with gravy and a chicken leg while watching episode 3 of Checkmate.
At a frat party Roddy Stevenson’s friend Eddy askes if he can give his girlfriend Judy a ride in his new car. But when they’re approaching the vehicle Eddy sees two men stealing it. He runs towards them but they speed towards him, hit him and drive away. Eddy dies and Roddy says he saw the guys as they passed. The next day when Dr. Hyatt gets the news he is concerned because Roddy is one of his Criminology students. he’s brilliant but also highly emotional and Hyatt is worries Roddy might be bent on revenge. He asks Don and Jed of Checkmate to watch him. Jed attends Hyatt’s class and Roddy is indeed feeling emotional. Roddy is asked to go to the police to identify two men they have in custody. He confirms that those are the men who stole his car. But Lieutenant Brand tells him those men are just chicken feed and the real killer is Larry Forbes, their boss. He owns a chain of warehouses but he’s also a big time fence. Roddy says he should be killed in the gas chamber. Don realizes that Roddy is going to try to be a vigilante. Roddy has two frat brothers who seem to do whatever he tells them and he wants to see the Forbes warehouse. He tells them he wants to create his own gas chamber for Forbes with cyanide pellets and potassium sulphate to create hydrocyanic acid. Roddy goes to talk with Forbes and tells him he has six cases. Forbes tells him he needs a closet and not a warehouse. Roddy says he doesn’t want to store them but to sell them. He tells Forbes they are cases of steroids and quite valuable at $1400 a case (so the six cases would be worth $100,000 now). he wants to sell the cases to Forbes at one third wholesale. Forbes sees their frat pins and thinks this is some kind of initiation gag. Forbes tells Roddy to stick to the books because crime doesn’t pay. Roddy asks, “Doesn’t it?” Forbes has one of his men follow Roddy because he knows Roddy is of the same fraternity as the kid that died. Jed has also been following Roddy as he carries a package from the chemistry lab and buys safety belts from the Army Navy Store. Roddy and his friends steal the steroids from Roddy’s father’s company, National Pharmaceuticals while Forbes’s man watches and reports to him. The theft looks impressive because he doesn’t realize Roddy is the owner’s son. Roddy brings the cases to Forbes and again offers to sell them. Forbes reminds him that he can store them but he’s not in the business of buying stolen merchandize. Roddy tells him he can also sell him a box of diamonds. Forbes says, “You’re quite a boy!” Then Forbes learns who Roddy is and decides he’s going to have an accident. Roddy catches Don searching his dorm room and looking at the things he purchased. Roddy calmly tells him what he plans to do to Forbes. Don tells him it’s really his negligent father he wants to punish. Roddy says he used to but he’s worked through all that. He says, “I’m the best adjusted psychotic in this whole fraternity house”. He assures Don he’ll give up his plan of vengeance. Forbes calls Roddy about the diamonds and Roddy takes him for a ride in his sports car while Don follows. Roddy starts driving very fast and tells Forbes he didn’t think he’d fall for it. Forbes pulls a gun but Roddy calmly tells him he’s going to do the killing. They’re driving in the mountains at high speeds on winding roads with long drops off the road. Roddy says if he shoots him he won’t be able to get control of the car in time. Then he screeches to a sudden stop in a playground and knocks Forbes out when he lurches forward. Roddy’s friends are there and they tie Forbes up. They suspend Forbes head down on a child’s slide and Roddy sets up the chemicals at the bottom. A cyanide pellet is suspended on a string over a bucket of potassium sulphate. Some acid is used to slowly eat through the string in two minutes. Roddy’s friend Tumbler will slowly lower Forbes down the slide. Roddy gives him two minutes to confess with the tape recorder on. In the last few seconds Forbes confesses. Don arrives and says that he’s learned the cyanide tablets are fakes and Roddy had no intention of killing Forbes.
Don Corey is played by Anthony George, who started with small roles in movies and on TV. His film debut was in Black Hand in 1950. He co-starred in Gunfire at Indian Gap. He found shooting films nerve-wracking and had a nervous breakdown. Television was more his pace. He played Cam Allison on The Untouchables. Then he got the starring role on Checkmate. he played Burke Devlin and Jeremiah Collin on 49 episodes of Dark Shadows. He played Tony Vincente on Search for Tomorrow and Will Vernon on One Life to Live. His longtime partner was Earl Holliman.
I went to bed without updating my journal. It’s harder when I watch a 45 minute show instead of a half hour show.
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