I worked out the chords for the first two verses of “Paris d’papa” (Papa’s Paris) by Serge Gainsbourg. Next there’s a bridge verse with different chords and then the last two should have the same chords as verses one and two.
I weighed 87.05 kilos before breakfast.
Around midday I glued the break in my bathroom mirror frame with some No More Nails and then secured it for the bonding process with lashing straps until tomorrow. Next I’ll use drywall compound to fill the cracks, then I’ll sand it and prime it.
I uploaded my Batgirl 19 video to YouTube but it was blocked because of copyright issues.
I weighed 86.95 kilos before lunch.
In the afternoon I took a bike ride downtown and back.
I weighed 86.5 kilos at 17:45, which is the lightest I’ve been in the evening since September 6.
In the Movie Maker project to create a video for the studio recording of my song “Paranoiac Utopia” I finished 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. I added a few more clips to the last segment of the Milky Way video before the finale and deleted other clips there that were the same size. I must not have been as careful as I’d thought I was because the synchronization of the finale got thrown off. So I added clips from the leftover footage until the concert video was lined up with the studio audio again. I added a fade to black effect to the concert finale and left a little more of the alley to recede silently until it fades to black. I’m happy with the video. Tomorrow I’ll publish it and then upload it to YouTube. After that I’m going to make another video that shows a complete tour of the Milky Way from Dufferin to Cowan. I’m going to try to loop the “doo doo doo” parts of Paranoiac Utopia as a soundtrack for the tour.
I reviewed the videos of my song practice performances of “I Love You Neither Do I” and “Je t’aime Moi non plus” from September 6 to 11. On September 6 and 10 I played “I Love You Neither Do I” on my Martin acoustic. On September 6 the take at 48:15 wasn’t bad. On September 10 the take at 56:45 was okay. On September 8 I played it on my Gibson Les Paul Studio but I only got through 2.5 minutes of the song before the camera shut off. On September 7 I played “Je t’aime Moi non plus” on the Gibson and the take at 1:02:45 was okay but the guitar sounded rattly. On September 9 and 11 I played it on my Martin. On September 9 the take at 57:30 was okay and on September 11 the take at 55:15 was not bad.
I had a potato with gravy and my last chicken leg with guacamole salsa while watching episode 17 of Checkmate.
Jed and Dr. Hyatt are working under cover as a chauffeur and a butler at the Kittering estate. They have been hired by an unknown client to save an unknown person from an unknown danger. The lady of the house is Felicia Royden but her Uncle Howard Kittering is in control of the money until she gets married again. Felicia has a daughter named Carol by her first husband who died by stumbling on the stairs and falling into the blade held by a suit of armour at the foot of the stairs. Her second husband just disappeared. Now there is a third prospect named Ed Matthews. Carol saw her father die and now she wakes up screaming from nightmares but she claims they are not nightmares. Carol is extremely precocious, imaginative and moody. When Jed meets her she is in the trunk of the car pretending to be a body. She puts a curse on him for not taking her into town when she demands it. Jed goes to the station to pick up Felicia’s new boyfriend. While waiting for the train he chats with the station agent. On the way back the car runs over a board with nails hammered into it that looks like it was deliberately placed in the way. The result is that the car almost goes over a cliff but Jed manages to stop in time. Hyatt has listening equipment set up to monitor Carol’s bedroom. Carol tells Jed that “They” told her about him almost going over the cliff. She gets Jed to take her to the woods to hunt for mushrooms but she really wants to show him the haunted lake. She says there is a glass house at the bottom where one can breathe and “They” told her about it. Suddenly she senses Jed doesn’t believe her and now she hates him and runs away. Jed and Hyatt eat in the kitchen and the cook is an ornery person named Flannery who has worked there for 30 years. One night through the microphone Jed and Hyatt hear a voice telling Carol about the glass house at the bottom of the lake and that she should go there. She leaves her bed and walks there, perhaps sleepwalking as Jed follows. When she jumps into the lake he dives in and rescues her. There is a locked and apparently unused room next to Carol’s and Hyatt asks Flannery about it under the pretense of having a place for his linens. She tells him where to find the key. Inside he finds the suit of armour. Jed decides to spend the night in Carol’s room and begins hearing the voice. He sees a ghostly face in the mirror and smashes it. It’s a two way mirror adjacent to the other room. Someone shoots at him and he fires back, hitting the person behind the mirror. He pulls the man’s mask off and it’s Howard. Jed learns that it was Howard who pushed Carol’s father down the stairs. He also drowned Felicia’s second husband in the lake. His motive for the killings was that if Felicia married he would lose control of the estate’s money. It turns out that Flannery hired Checkmate to protect Carol.
The station agent was played by Norman Leavitt, who made his stage debut on Broadway in 1932 in How Beautiful With Shoes. He made his film debut in The Harvey Girls in 1946. He made his TV debut in The Adventures of Kit Carson. He co-starred in the TV series Trackdown.
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