I played my Gibson Les Paul Studio during song practice for the last of two sessions and the B string went constantly out of tune. Tomorrow I’ll begin a two session stretch of playing my Kramer electric and it will probably stay in tune.
I weighed 87.1 kilos before breakfast.
Around midday I rode down to No Frills where I bought five bags of green grapes, a pack of raspberries, some bananas, a strawberry-rhubarb pie, cinnamon-raisin bread, two containers of 4% skyr, and a bag of Miss Vickie’s chips. A kid who’d just gotten some Marvel stamps from the cashier wanted more. She told him to wait and she would give him mine, but he left.
I weighed 87.8 kilos at 14:12. I had saltines with five-year-old cheddar and a glass of iced tea.
In the afternoon I took a bike ride downtown. On the way back I was at the light and shielding my eyes from the sun with my hand when a guy behind me on the sidewalk went into a dramatic bit saying, “Is the coast clear John? What do you see John? Please tell us John!”
I weighed 87.25 kilos at 18:00.
I was caught up in my journal at 19:13.
In the Movie Maker project to create a video for the studio recording of my song “Divorce the Weather” I imported the time delayed storm video and copied it to the end of the timeline. I measured two sections to replace two parts of a frozen frame of the same length and pasted them in. I deleted the frozen frames. I added an Old Film effect and a Grey Scale effect to the two storm clips. I published the movie. Tomorrow I’ll take some screen shots and then upload it to YouTube.
I compared the song practice video of my September 10, 2024 performance of “I Love You. Neither Do I” to that of September 4. September 10 is fine except for a glitch in which part of a word is skipped. The lyric is “I’m the naked island washed by your tide” but “island” is not fully heard; only the “d” sound. I compared September 16 to September 4 and September 16 looks good but September 4 is more expressive. There are five more to compare.
I made pizza on a slice of multigrain sandwich bread with marinara sauce, basil pesto, a cubed slice of ham, and five-year-old cheddar. I had it with a beer while watching episode 28 of Checkmate.
Griff Nolan is an ex-con with a tendency to fly off the handle. He’s also an old friend of Don Corey. Don worries that Griff may fall back into his old ways. He has a low paying job but his wife Libby is a magazine editor and can afford an expensive car and apartment. It makes Griff feel like a failure. On top of that he knows that her boss Lewis Bates is trying to seduce her. She goes from editor, to publisher, to partner over the process of the story. Griff quits his job. Bates receives a death threat and is sure that Griff wrote it. Dr. Hyatt says it isn’t Griff’s style to give warnings because he is impulsive. The type matches Libby’s typewriter in her apartment but anyone could have used it. Griff tells Libby he’s leaving her but she promises to give up her career for him. However the next day she tells Bates she just told Griff that to make him feel better in the moment and that she doesn’t even love him. Bates has just made Libby his partner. Libby packs and leaves a note for Griff. He finds it and grabs Libby’s gun, then heads for Bates’s office. He says he’s going to kill him in ten minutes. Meanwhile Libby is waiting in the hallway for Bates to be killed, because with him out of the way she will own the magazine. Don arrives and Libby tries to seduce him. He forces Libby into the office. He tells Griff what Libby has been planning all along. Don, Griff, and Bates all leave Libby behind.
Libby was played by Julie London, who was still in high school when her agent changed her surname from Peck to London and she made her film debut in Nabonga. She was a pin-up girl during WWII at the age of 17. She signed with Liberty Records in 1955 and turned it into a successful label. She was married to Jack Webb from 1947 to 1954. From 1955 to 1957 she was the most popular female vocalist in the United States. She recorded 32 albums during her career. Her most popular song at number 1 for 4 months was “Cry Me a River” from her debut album “Her Name is Julie London”.
Years later she observed that Barbara Streisand did the song better than her.
She co-starred in The Fat Man, Saddle the Wind, Man of the West, The Wonderful Country, The Red House, The Return of the Frontiersman, The Fighting Chance, Crime Against Joe, The Girl Can’t Help It (in which she sang three songs), and Drango. She co-starred in the TV series Emergency.
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