On Tuesday morning I ran through singing and playing “À poil ou à plumes” by Serge Gainsbourg and my translation “Naked or in Feathers”. Tomorrow I’ll upload them to my Christian’s Translations blog to begin preparing them for publication. I might even have them done tomorrow as well.
I played my Gibson Les Paul Studio electric during song practice for the first of two sessions and it went out of tune a lot but stayed in tune a little longer during the second half.
Around midday I walked over to Home Hardware to look at their stepladders. The closest they have to what I need is $100. If the Mastercraft one at Canadian Tire is still on sale for $75 I’ll get that. I’ll ride there with my bike trailer tomorrow.
I weighed 89.1 kilos before lunch.
I took a siesta and slept 41 minutes longer than I intended. It was too late to take a bike ride downtown so I decided I’d ride to Ossington and Bloor. But on Brock just south of Dundas I saw a nice looking Bombay wooden step stool. I stuffed it halfway into a recyclable shopping bag and rode home with it. I can use it for reaching for things on the overhead shelf in the bedroom but I’ll keep it on top of the two drawer filing cabinet in the kitchen. By the time I brought it back it was too late to go back out and continue riding.
I weighed 88.8 kilos at 17:50.
I was caught up in my journal at 19:02.
I finished listening to the Willie P. Bennett cassette and decided I don’t need to keep it. He was a good musician and had a good voice but his lyrics were not particularly interesting.
I started listening to another old Christian and the Lions tape. So far this is mostly a rehearsal at my place with Steve Lowe and Arjan. This must be one of the first rehearsals if not the first with Arjan. Steve is teaching Arjan how to play bass for my song “Me and Gravity”. We do it like it’s a country song and it sounds weird.
In my “2024-09-20 Song Practice” Movie Maker project I managed to almost synchronize the interface audio with the video. I was about a second behind when I stopped for supper.
I had a potato with gravy and a chicken leg while watching episode 13 of Cain’s Hundred.
All but one of the city’s garment manufacturers are forced to use the Organization’s trucks. Louis Speckter has refused the mob’s intervention and has used his own trucks. It appears that Louis is heroic to resist in that manner but in reality the Alliance has backed off for all these years because Alexander Marish “The Judge”, their member in charge of the garment industry is a friend and former partner with Louis. Before he became a mobster the Judge killed one of their collectors and disposed of the body, with Louis as a witness. Although the Judge could get a murder charge for his actions, Louis has never said anything. Lately however the Organization has begun to pressure Marish to compel Louis to use Alliance trucks. Louis is about to retire and leave the business to his son Danny. Danny thinks all he has to do is hold out like his father, not realizing that his dad had something on the mob that he doesn’t. Danny is run over and killed by a car driven by one of Marish’s men but Louis continues to refuse the Alliance trucks. Nicholas Cain offers Louis protection but he turns it down. He continues to take a steam bath with Marish as he has done every Thursday for thirty years. Danny’s girlfriend Lynn calls Cain to tell him where Louis has gone. Marish can no longer allow Louis to get away with not using Alliance trucks because the Organization is pressuring him. Marish asks Louis one more time to use Alliance trucks and when he refuses Marish tries to strangle him. Cain arrives to save Louis just in time.
Lynn was played by Evans Evans, who co-starred in the original 1957 Broadway production of The Dark at the Top of the Stairs. She played Barrow gang member Velma Davis in Bonnie and Clyde. She co-starred in All Fall Down and Impossible Object. She was married to film director John Frankenheimer for 39 years.
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