I ran through singing and playing “Your Parents’ Paris”, my translation of “Paris d’papa” by Serge Gainsbourg. I uploaded it to my Christian’s Translations blog and started preparing it for publication. I’ll probably have that done tomorrow.
I played my Kramer electric during song practice and it mostly stayed in tune the whole time. For the last few months I’ve been getting crackling from the amp when I move the guitar cable where it plugs into the guitar. My amp has also been picking up radio signals that increase when I use the volume pedal, especially with distortion. Near the end of practice I tried an experiment and switched the guitar cable with the cable that runs from the volume pedal to the amp and it fixed the problem. But now I have a much shorter guitar cable and so I need to buy a new one.
I weighed 86.85 kilos before breakfast, which is the lightest I’ve been in the morning since last Friday.
Around midday I took my round mirror out to the deck and sanded the parts of the frame where I’d filled the cracks with drywall compound. It looks like I had successfully filled all the holes and my sanding smoothed the surfaces. Plus it’s even hard to tell now where I glued the break. On Sunday I’ll prime it and if I have time I might also prime the lazy Susan that sits on the top bathroom shelf.
I weighed 87.65 kilos before lunch.
In the afternoon I took a bike ride downtown and back.
I weighed 86.95 kilos at 17:50.
I was caught up in my journal at 18:26.
In my “Milky Way” Movie Maker project I managed fairly easily to loop the “doo doo doo…” of the intro of “Paranoiac Utopia” a few times and then linked it with the “doo doo doo…” of the finale. I kept the street sounds as well and I think they sound good in conjunction with the music. I published the movie and tomorrow I’ll upload it to YouTube.
I reviewed the song practice videos of my performances of “Je t’aime. Moi non plus” and “I Love You. Neither Do I” from September 19 to September 27. On September 19 and 23 I played “Je t’aime. Moi non plus” on my Gibson Les Paul Studio. On both days the final takes were not horrible. On September 21, 25, and 27 I played it on my Martin Road Series. On September 21 and 25 the final takes were not bad. On September 27 the last take was okay. I played “I Love You. Neither Do I” on the Gibson on September 20 and 24. On both days the final takes were okay. I played it on the Martin on September 22 and 26 and on both days the final takes were okay.
I had a potato with the last of my gravy and some leg of lamb slices while watching episode 20 of Checkmate.
Ernie Stone has been in prison for twenty years. When he was 18 he was involved in an armed robbery in which one man was killed and another crippled. Dr. Hyatt has a side line of assessing prisoners eligibility for parole and he has become friends with Ernie. As a result of his assessment Ernie will be released soon. Just before that Ernie receives a visit from Chuck Ellis, the son of the man he crippled. Although his father lived in a wheelchair for many years, now that he’s dead, Ellis considers Ernie to be his father’s murderer. The purpose of his visit is to tell him he’s going to pay in full. I’m pretty sure one can’t just visit people in prisons without being approved by both the prison and the prisoner. It’s hard enough just to write a letter to a convict. The very day Ernie is released, seconds after he walks through the gate a car drives by and he is shot in the arm. Don from Checkmate confronts Ellis about the attack. He’s glad it happened but says he knows nothing about it. He says he doesn’t plan on killing Ernie but he will make sure that he breaks his parole in some way so he ends up back in prison for the rest of his life. Hyatt gets Ernie a job in a book store. On his lunch break Chuck and his friend Sid stop Ernie on the street and start pushing him around until the store owner stops them. Jed begins investigating Chuck. Chuck is a drummer for a jazz combo in a night club. A gangster named Steve Krell tells Chuck to stop messing around like a schoolboy and gives him a gun for killing Ernie. Jed becomes acquainted with Chuck under cover and probes him to see about his connections but he seems to be pretty straight. Don and Hyatt analyze the details of the robbery that the young Ernie was involved with. Don thinks it odd that it was such a well planned caper and yet there was no getaway car. Chuck’s father’s store had been robbed several times before that and he’d collected insurance. The only people involved directly with committing the robbery were Ernie and one other even younger teenager. Don suspects a third person did the planning. He interviews the now retired arresting officer who tells him that Ernie could have gotten away but seemed glad to be arrested. He thought he saw a car driving away in the alley. On the first day of trial Ernie’s mother came but didn’t visit him for the twenty years he was in prison. Don and Hyatt track down Ernie’s mother who has changed her last name to Stevens. At first she denies knowing Ernie but then admits she’s his mother. She says Ernie’s brother Bill came home at 21:00 to tell her that Ernie had been arrested. Bill now has a business in Reno. Ernie’s mother comes to see Ernie at work and they have an emotional reunion. She says Bill didn’t want her to contact him. Steve Krell is found dead by gunshots in an alley. Don tells Ernie that his brother Bill killed Krell and he’s been trying to kill him. He’s the one who engineered the robbery. Bill came home at 21:00 to tell his mother of Ernie’s arrest but Ernie wasn’t arrested until 22:15. He’d been in the alley with the getaway car but drove away when he heard the shots. Ernie denies his brother’s involvement because he doesn’t want any more hurt for his mother. Ernie goes home and Bill is waiting for him. He thinks Checkmate has been investigating him from the start and that’s why he got parole. He doesn’t think he’s safe as long as Ernie’s around. He knocks Ernie out and turns on the gas. Jed sees Chuck going to Ernie’s place. He says he wants to apologize. They go in together and smell the gas. They break the door down. Jed fights with Bill while Chuck helps Ernie. The struggle continues on the fire escape until Bill falls to his death.
Bill was played by Bruce Gordon, who made his Broadway debut in The Fireman’s Flame in 1937. He made his TV debut in The Naked City. He made his film debut in The Street with No Name. He starred in the 1958 TV series Behind Closed Doors. He became typecast as a gangster and is best known for playing Frank Nitti on The Untouchables. He co-starred in the sitcom Run Buddy Run. He produced the films Feds: the Betrayal and Warriors of Virtue.
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