I ran through singing and playing “Paris d’papa” (Papa’s Paris) by Serge Gainsbourg. I finished translating the song and tomorrow I’ll run through it in English.
I played my Gibson Les Paul Studio during song practice and it went out of tune a frustrating amount of times. Almost always the B string. I think it needs some major work to get it to sound right again.
I weighed 87.1 kilos before breakfast.
At 13:00 I went for lunch with my upstairs neighbour David and he paid this time. I had the potato dahl puree roti with a ginger beer and he had the oxtail stew with rice. He’s returning to work on Monday after several months off on sick leave. He doesn’t look very strong these days.
I uploaded my Batgirl 20 video to YouTube but that was blocked like Batgirl 19.
In the afternoon I took a bike ride downtown and stopped at Freshco on the way back. There were no Canadian cherries, grapes, peaches, nectarines or watermelons and so I gave in and bought seven bags of grapes from the US. I also got three packs of raspberries, some bananas, a loaf of multigrain sandwich bread, a box of spoon sized shredded wheat, a pack of Full City Dark coffee, artichoke spread, and basil pesto. I did a price match on the grapes with the No Frills price of $3.28 a kilo.
I weighed 86 kilos at 18:50, which is the lightest I’ve been in the evening since August 11.
I was caught up in my journal at 19:37.
I uploaded my “Paranoiac Utopia” video to YouTube.
I started another Movie Maker project using the video I shot of the Milky Way graffiti alley with a soundtrack looping the “doot doot doot” parts of Paranoiac Utopia. I didn’t quite get the first loop right so far.
I reviewed the song practice video of my Gibson Les Paul Studio electric performance of “Je t’aime. Moi non plus” on September 17, 2024 and the camera shut off two minutes into the song. I used the same guitar for “I Love You. Neither Do I” on September 18 and the take at 10:30 in part B was not bad.
I roasted a New Zealand leg of lamb and had a slice with a potato and gravy while watching episode 19 of Checkmate.
This is the most cleverly written of all the episodes so far. Joe Farrell and his gang have simultaneously taken hostage of Don, Jed and Dr. Hyatt, each in their respective homes. In each place they set up two-way radios so the thugs supervising each member of Checkmate can kill them if any member at either location tries to get out of line. The lives of Don’s friends depends on him completing a task for Joe. He has to go to Reno to pick up Joe’s ex-wife Jean and $300,000 that he’s hidden in her apartment. Joe can’t go himself because he stole the money from a much larger criminal organization and they are watching Jean. He also can’t go himself to get Jean because he knows she would refuse him. But Checkmate once saved Jean’s life and he knows Don can persuade her to come. Joe plans to leave the country by yacht with Jean and the money and he figures that once he is alone at sea with Jean, she’ll come around and start loving him again. But Joe’s right hand man Trenner also wants the money and has some of Joe’s dismissed thugs working for him. Stapler follows Don on the plane to Reno. Don goes to the casino where Jean works and convinces her to come with him. They go to her apartment to find the money that she’d known nothing about but Stapler follows them there. They fight but Don knocks him out and he and Jean get away with the money in Jean’s car. When Stapler comes to he alerts Trenner’s other man Carson of the license plate number on Jean’s car. Carson and another man intercept them and make them toss out the money. Carson tells them to either drive over the cliff or be shot. Don starts driving but opens the door and knocks out Carson as he fires. Don retrieves the money but Carson’s bullet damaged the car. The other thug is coming after them and they run into the woods. Don throws the suitcase and the thug goes after it only to find it’s the suitcase carrying Jean’s clothes. Meanwhile Don and Jean double back to Carson’s car and escape with it. Meanwhile Jed successfully overwhelms Joe and gets his gun but his men in Hyatt’s place threaten to kill the doctor and so Jed gives up. When Jed arrives at Joe’s boat with Jean and the money he calls Joe to make the rendezvous but tells him not to bring Trenner, knowing he will do the opposite. Joe gets there and when Trenner arrives Don begins to play them against each other. He shows Joe the registration to prove he drove there in Carson’s car. Meanwhile Hyatt gets a call from the police chief saying that if he’s not going to complete the chemical analysis of the evidence they gave him they want to pick it up. Since Joe’s men don’t want the cops coming they let Hyatt do the lab work. His lab seems to be right there in the same room they have been holding him. He ends up making a smoke bomb and under the cover of it sneaks away. A little later Jed’s bell rings and when the thug answers it Hyatt pushes him, allowing Jed to overwhelm him. Jed heads for the dock to help Don. By this time Joe and Trenner are struggling. The gun goes off and Joe is hit and dies. Jean mourns for him.
Jean was played by Beverly Garland, who studied drama under Anita Arliss. She worked in radio and played a sex kitten in a few film shorts before making her feature film debut in D.O.A. in 1949. She co-starred in The Desperado, Two Guns and a Badge, Curucu Beast of the Amazon, Gunslinger, Swamp Diamonds, and It Conquered the World. In the 1957 show Decoy she was the first female to star in a drama series on television and at the same time the first TV policewoman. She co-starred as Fred MacMurray’s wife for the last three seasons of My Three Sons. She co-starred on the sitcom The Bing Crosby Show. She played Ginger Jackson on 7th Heaven. She co-starred in the TV series Scarecrow and Mrs. King. She played Lois Lane’s mother on Lois and Clark. Her husband of 39 years, Filmore Crank was a real estate tycoon who named two hotels after her. When he died in 1999 she continued to operate the 255 room Beverly Garland Holiday Inn with the help of her two children. Her great grandfather was Abraham Lincoln’s secretary of the treasury.
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