I memorized the fourth verse of “Flashback” by Serge Gainsbourg and translated two lines. There are two verses left to nail down.
I played my Gibson Les Paul Studio during song practice for the first of two sessions. Alex Wood’s raising the action took the rattle away but the B string still goes out of tune constantly. I need to get it refretted.
I weighed 86.7 kilos before breakfast, which is the lightest I’ve been in the morning since September 7.
Around midday I added a second coat of primer to my round mirror that I’ll eventually hang in the bathroom. It’s definitely going to need a third coat. I also applied the first coat of primer to the top and edges of the lazy Susan that I keep on the top bathroom shelf.
I weighed 87.1 kilos before lunch.
In the afternoon I took a bike ride downtown and back.
I weighed 86.75 kilos at 17:55.
I was caught up in my journal at 18:37.
In the Movie Maker project to create a video for the studio recording of my song “Divorce the Weather” I reviewed the video sections that I’d slowed down in order to let the audio catch up. The shorter sections were okay but a couple were too long and the frozen frames didn’t look good. Also the section of the concert video that was focused on Peter Fruchter playing recorder while I was still singing didn’t fit. I added a warping and an edge detection effect to make it more interesting. I decided to look for some outside video to replace the frozen frames and found a time delay video of a storm. I downloaded and converted it to AVI and tomorrow I’ll import it to Movie Maker.
I compared the video of my song practice performance of “Je t’aime Moi non plus” on September 25, 2024 to that of September 15. September 15 is more expressive and looks and sounds better. I compared September 27 to September 15 and found that September 15 is still the most expressive. I compared October 7 to September 15 and although September 15 is more expressive, October 7 looks a lot better, plus it’s in Movie Maker already. I compared October 13 to October 7 and October 7 looks better. If I upload this song to YouTube it will be the October 7 version.
I compared the videos of my song practice performances of “I Love You. Neither Do I” on September 4, 2024 with that of September 6, and saw that September 4 looks better and is more expressive.
I had a potato with gravy and the rest of my leg of lamb, including the leg bone while watching episode 27 of Checkmate.
A woman is running as she is being chased at night by two men in a car. She runs into a building to escape and knocks on Don Corey’s door. He lets her in and sees she is being pursued and so he speaks loudly as if he is on the phone with the police describing three men outside his door. The men run away just as Jed Sills arrives and one of the men loses his glasses. The woman is deaf and dumb but she can read lips and writes them notes. She writes that her name is Joan Emerson and asks them to call Dr. Hyatt as they are friends. As she was being chased she recognized the building where Hyatt told her Checkmate is located, which also seems to be where Don lives. After Hyatt arrives she begins signing and he interprets as she explains that she was in a restaurant where the three men were at a nearby table. One of them noticed she was deaf and reading their lips. She didn’t catch all they said because the main message was spoken by a man sometimes holding a coffee cup to his mouth. What she got was “Sin… Antonio…have…cube…seventeenth…meat…fly”. When she left they followed her. Don decides she needs protection. She teaches at a school for the deaf and lives there as well. He poses as a journalist writing an article about the school and gets a room next to hers. On the very first day he has lunch with Joan in her room and they find a man fixing her toaster. Don asks the man to try it out himself but he hits Don and runs. Later a man comes to demonstrate visual teaching tools. He opens her window curtains and suddenly a bullet almost hits her. Don captures the guy but it seems to have been a coincidence that he opened the window before the gun was fired and he really was demonstrating a slide projector. Hyatt analyzes the angle of the bullet and figures out the precise apartment from which the bullet had to have come. Jed goes there with Hyatt and they meet the quirky woman who lives there. She is standing on her head when she tells them to come in and she constantly does some TV version of yoga, which she calls “yogi” while they talk with her. Her name is Verne and she’s a bit of a free spirit and a beatnik with a heavy Brooklyn accent. She saw this guy sitting on a trumpet case outside of her apartment and she invited him in to play, although he never did. She went out for a while, leaving him there and it was while she was out that he shot at Joan. Jed gets the police to check Verne’s number for any calls that were made between 14:00 and 16:00 while she was out. He finds there was a call to the Hercules Athletic Club. Jed goes there and questions some guys in the steam room saying he saw them at Verne’s apartment. They knock him out and leave. When he comes to he gets the address of one of the guys who is called “Ox”. He goes to his home and finds him dead. Hyatt finds that frames of the glasses one of the thugs lost were made in Cuba. Suddenly they realize that the word “cube” that Joan read may have been “Cuba”. They guess that “have” might be half of “Havana”. “Antonio” may be the exiled gangster Antonio Lucas who used to run the syndicate. Maybe the message was to meet him when he flies in from Cuba. Meanwhile two of the men follow a school bus from the deaf school and when Joan’s student Tommy is dropped off they go to his house. The director of the school receives a call from Tommy’s mother saying he is sick and needs Joan to come to interpret. We see that the gunmen have forced Tommy’s mother to make the call. Don goes there with Joan, dropped off by Jed and Hyatt, then Don and Joan are captured. Jed and Hyatt are driving away but then Hyatt thinks it’s odd that Tommy’s mother wouldn’t be able to sign and understand her own child so they double back. One of the gunmen takes Joan as a hostage but after putting her in his car he is shot by Jed. When the other gunman is distracted by the gunshot, Don fights with him and finally overwhelms him.
Verne was played by Hope Holiday, whose father was a burlesque comedian who pushed her and her sister into show business. She studied ballet, tap, and modern dance and made her debut as a child singer in a kiddie show on a local New York station. She dropped out of high school to sing at the Copacabana. She sang with some big bands but got fired because she couldn’t sing. She made her Broadway debut as a teenager in the chorus of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. She danced in the film L’il Abner. She started to become known to the public after playing a scene stealing role in The Apartment. She played the flamboyant sex worker Lolita in Irma La Douce. She had a contract to appear in Jerry Lewis films but lost it when she slapped him too hard in The Ladies Man. She said she did it because he masturbated in front of her in his office. In the 80s she produced several low budget films such as Texas Lightning, Raw Force, Kill Point, Low Blow, Code Name Vengeance, Space Mutiny and Rage to Kill.
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