Phyllis Love

            On Sunday morning I memorized the second verse of “À poil ou à plumes” (Naked or in Feathers) by Serge Gainsbourg and revised some of my translation. There are three verses left to squeeze into my head. 

            I weighed 88.3 kilos before breakfast. 

            Around midday I applied some more primer to the bathroom door. I painted the white tiles again of the checkerboard pattern on my kitchen floor in front of the counter. I was very careful this time to only step on the black tiles but before it was fully dry I absent mindedly stepped on one of the white tiles with my black socks. There’s still some primer left and maybe I’ll finish it on Friday. 

            I weighed 89.5 kilos before lunch, which is the heaviest I’ve been in the early afternoon in a long time. Hard to believe I ate a kilo for breakfast though. 

            I took a siesta from 14:30 to 16:00 and when I got up it was raining heavily. I decided to finish washing the large bookshelf that I hauled down from Brock and Bloor with my bike trailer a couple of weeks ago. When I have time I’m going to place it to the left of my computer and move the smaller shelf on top of the shelf that’s to the right of my kitchen table. 

            I weighed 88.4 kilos at 17:08. 

            I was caught up in my journal at 18:23. 

            I reviewed my digitization of the cassette of the February 6, 1995 Christian and the Lions concert at Lee’s Palace. The machine didn’t shut itself off after recording and so it recorded it twice by the time I stopped it. That worked out okay because it had skipped in a few places during the first recording. 

            I reviewed the next tape on the pile and it turned out to be a recording of the session Tom Smarda and I did in the recording studio in the east end for Rocco (Rocky) Capano on August 4, 1994. It was my first time in a professional recording studio. Rocco wanted me to sing a song he wrote but he only handed me a lyric sheet. So I just started making up the music as I sang while a session drummer and a session guitarist played along. I don’t remember if Tom played on that song but if he did it was just rhythm. Then I got to sing my song “Me and Gravity” with professionals backing me up. It was a fun session and I hadn’t remembered that I had a recording of it. The other side of the tape was a Christian and the Lions rehearsal, I assume it was in my living room on Wineva in the Beaches. I digitized the tape at least twice. 

            In my “2024-10-08 Song Practice” Movie Maker project reached the final take of “I Love You. Neither Do I”. I saved the project as “I Love You. Neither Do I” and isolated the song. I started separating the different voices with colour effects. 

            I made pizza on a slice of Bavarian sandwich bread with marinara sauce, tomato pesto, the rest of the scalloped potatoes that I made on Thanksgiving, and five-year-old cheddar. I had it with a Creemore while watching episode 4 of Cain’s Hundred. 

            The mob owns a piece of a big produce market and it also owns the foreman Herbert Lorgan who is a bit of a bully. The merchants are forced to pay protection money. One of them is Vincent Orlatti. His daughter Cele works in the office and is having an affair with Herb. Vincent’s partner is Dave Michaels and he was on his way to talk with Nicholas Cain when he was jumped and beaten on the street and so now he won’t talk at all. The real boss is Lenny Bircher who lives a lavish life in the suburbs. He feels untouchable as Herb is not appointed by the Syndicate but elected by the Merchants Association. It turns out that Cele let it slip to Herb that Dave was going to see Cain. She didn’t know he would be beaten. Vincent tells Herb to stay away from his daughter. Later Cele tells her father she’s pregnant. She tells Herb and he asks her to come over to his office but he’s drunk. He says he’ll marry her but isn’t romantic about it. He keeps drinking and she leaves in anger. She decides to go and see Cain and says she’ll testify. She’s placed into protective custody at a certain hotel but Lenny learns the place and the room number and tells Herb to take care of (meaning kill) her. Herb picks her up but changes his mind. He almost runs over Lenny’s men and takes her back to protective custody. Herb goes back to the market, takes on Lenny’s thugs and challenges Lenny. He shouts to the merchants that he’s going to testify and encourages them to do it too. They are all cheering. Lenny is arrested. 

            Cele was played by Phyllis Love, who was friends in high school with Cloris Leachman. She studied at the Actors Studio in New York and her TV debut was in the Actors Studio TV series. Her film debut was in So Young So Bad in 1950. She co-starred in Friendly Persuasion and The Young Doctors. She had her greatest successes on Broadway, appearing in 8 shows. She starred in the original production of The Rose Tattoo. She changed her first name to Osanna after retiring from acting in the 70s.

            I uploaded Batgirl 26, edited from season 3, episode 26 of Batman, featuring only the scenes with Batgirl. This one wasn't blocked, which is good because it was the last one.