I worked out the chords for all but three quarters of the last line of the first verse of “Paris d’papa” (Papa’s Paris) by Serge Gainsbourg. I think once I have them established for the first verse, the rest of the verses will probably be the same.
I played my Martin acoustic during song practice for the second of four sessions. It went out of tune a bit but not as much as yesterday and even then it wasn’t too bad.
I weighed 87.5 kilos before breakfast, which is the heaviest I’ve been in the morning since August 14.
I made some screen shots of my Batgirl 19 video, edited from season 3, episode 19 of Batman, and featuring only the scenes with Batgirl. I’ll upload it to YouTube soon and hopefully this one won’t be blocked.
I weighed 87.2 kilos before lunch.
In the afternoon I took a bike ride downtown and stopped at Queen Fresh on the way back where I bought two packs of Ontario raspberries.
I weighed 87.05 kilos at 18:00. That’s the least I’ve pushed the scale in the evening since September 7.
I was caught up in my journal at 18:47.
In the Movie Maker project to create a video for the studio recording of my song “Paranoiac Utopia” I continued editing the ending in order to include better clips of the Milky Way graffiti alley from the video I shot on August 22. I deleted some of the first clips I’d added and replaced them with other clips of the exact same duration from a later section. Then I replaced those with the same size clips from the leftover footage. There’s still lots more to do with 24 seconds of leftover video.
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 1 to 5. On September 1 I played “Je t’aime Moi non plus” on my Gibson Les Paul Studio and the take at 9:15 in part E and continuing into part F got fumbled but I kept going without a retake. On September 3 and 5 I played it on my Martin. On September 3 the take at 44:00 was okay but I momentarily switched languages. On September 5 the take at 1:00:30 wasn’t bad but I fumbled a bit on the instrumental. On September 2 I played “I Love You Neither Do I” on the Gibson and the take at 8:30 in part B was okay. On September 4 I played it on my Martin and the take at 56:00 wasn’t bad.
I had a potato with gravy and a chicken leg with guacamole salsa while watching episode 16 of Checkmate.
Judge Ralph Addison receives a note promising him that he will die at the exact time that the innocent Johnny Messico, who he sentenced to death, is executed. He hires Checkmate to protect him. He doesn’t want to involve the police because then his thirty something pregnant wife would find out and become stressed in her delicate condition. Jed is given the task of posing as a painter preparing the nursery in order to keep watch over the home. Dr. Hyatt works on analyzing the threatening note that is made from pasted magazine and newspaper letters. Don investigates by interviewing people involved with the murder of Faith Harbour. She was a singer in a dive and was bludgeoned to death with a bronze Buddha. Faith and Johnny were in somewhat of a relationship and they had an argument at the club. Later he followed her home and was the last person seen with her. Johnny’s social worker Matt Coleman saw Johnny the day after that trying to pawn Faith’s jewellery. He claimed Faith gave the stuff to him the day before the murder, asking him to pawn it. Johnny claims that at the time of the murder he was driving around with a girl named Barbara but there was no last name and she was never found to corroborate his alibi. There was a scarf that she left in his car but it seems to have been lost. Johnny’s lawyer tried to get him to plead guilty to perhaps save his life but he refused. Don goes to see Coleman who served as a character witness. Don visits Johnny in prison who tells him he gave the scarf to his lawyer Leo Cox to see if he could track down Barbara with it but he said he couldn’t. Johnny wasn’t Faith’s only boyfriend and she dumped him for a guy with money but the cash must have stopped or else she wouldn’t have given Johnny the jewellery to pawn. There’s just 12 hours left before Johnny’s execution. Don goes to see Cox, who says he never saw the scarf. Jed is in the bedroom talking with Ralph’s pregnant wife Abbie and her sister in law Ethyl when Johnny’s brother Paul confronts them with a gun. He knocks out Jed and says he’s waiting for Ralph to come home. When he arrives Paul says he will serve as judge now. He says he followed Johnny on the night of the murder and saw Johnny leave before Addison came to Faith’s door. He saw her open it and let him in and then Paul left. He tried to tell the police about it but they didn’t believe him. Jed comes to and asks for a cigarette. Paul gives him one but Jed uses the match to light his paint rag on fire and throw it at Paul. While he’s startled Jed overwhelms him and takes his gun. Later Ralph confesses that he did go to see Faith but swears he didn’t kill her. His sister Ethyl suddenly confesses that she killed Faith. She followed her brother there and after he left she confronted her. She asked her to stop seeing him and she laughed. Ethyl started hitting her in the head with the Buddha when she wouldn’t stop laughing but she kept on laughing until she was dead. She paid Cox for the scarf. Ralph calls the governor to get him to stop Johnny’s execution.
Ralph Addison was played by James Gregory, who was president of the drama club in high school. He went from a career as a stockbroker to acting in summer stock. He made his Broadway debut in Key Largo in 1939 and went on to perform in at least 25 other productions. He made his TV debut in The Naked City in 1948. He made his film debut in The Frogmen in 1951. He co-starred in the pilot episodes of The Twilight Zone and Hawaii 50. He starred in The Lawless Years from 1959 to 1961. He co-starred in Clambake. He played Matt Helm’s boss in three of the Dean Martin films. He guest starred in the Star Trek episode Dagger of the Mind. He played Luger on Barney Miller.
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