I worked out the chords for the fifth verse of “Flashback” by Serge Gainsbourg. There is just one verse left and I may have that finished tomorrow.
I played my Martin acoustic during song practice for the last of four sessions and it actually stayed in tune sometimes for five songs in a row. I think it likes humidity. Tomorrow I’ll begin a two session stretch of playing my electrics.
I weighed 89.2 kilos before breakfast.
Around midday I took an early bike ride and stopped to pee at Long and McQuade. I rode to Perfect Leather at 555 King Street West to pick up my motorcycle jacket, which I dropped off to be repaired three and a half weeks ago. It seemed the right shoulder was a little bunched up now but Maria said she didn’t touch that part. She’d put a yoke across the back from the back of the right shoulder to the back of the left shoulder so I thought maybe it had tightened the right shoulder. I guess I may have been wrong. It generally feels okay so I paid the $150 cash and wore it home.
I stopped at a market around Palmerston and Queen to buy two packs of local raspberries.
I weighed 88.5 kilos before lunch at 15:00.
I took a siesta from 15:30 to 17:30.
I weighed 88.7 kilos at 17:45.
I was caught up in my journal at 18:25.
In the Movie Maker project to create a video for the studio recording of my song “Insisting On Angels” I added a sharpening effect to all of the parts with the 1999 video of my performance of that song. I then added an edge detection effect, which made the old video look like a cartoon. I tried to add a posterizing effect on top of that but it didn’t change the visual at all. I decided to apply edge detection to the parts with my Parkdale video and the clips from the movie Wings of Desire. I think the whole video looks better when everything looks like an animated drawing. Tomorrow I’ll probably publish the movie.
I compared the song practice video of my September 14, 2024 performance of “I Love You. Neither Do I” to that of September 2. September 14 looks and sounds better. I compared September 18 to September 14 and saw that September 14 looks better. I compared September 20 to September 14 and found that September 20 looks at least as good but sounds better. I compared September 24 to September 20 and September 20 is a better looking and better sounding video. I compared October 6 to September 20 and October 6 sounds better because I’m playing the Kramer but I think I’ll make a movie of my Gibson performance on September 20 to archive and another with the Kramer. I compared October 10 to October 6 and they are close but I think October 10 looks and sounds a little better. So I’ll make movies of September 20 and October 10.
I opened the Movie Maker project for my “2024-10-07 Song Practice” and deleted the song that comes before “Je t’aime. Moi non plus”. Tomorrow I delete all the takes before the final one.
I cut a small whole chicken into legs, breasts, wings, and spine. I grilled them and had two legs with a small potato while watching season 3, episode 2 of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
Nurse Chapel has gone away to study for three months with Dr. Roger Corby and she is now returning. Spock has been anticipating her return in hopes that they will resume their romantic relationship. He’s been taking lessons from La’an so he can dance with Chapel during the Federation centennial celebrations. He goes to the transport station to greet her but she arrives with Roger Corby and they are quite obviously now romantically involved. Later at the bar Christine tells the story of how their romance began and Spock can’t take it. He goes to the bar where what Spock sees as a Vulcan bartender addresses him but it is Trelane, who will appear in an original Star Trek episode. He gives Spock a drink and Spock wakes up in bed with Christine on their wedding day. Everyone believes it is the day of Spock and Christine’s wedding. Reality has been altered for everyone but Roger. He confronts Spock in his quarters to try to tell him that something is wrong. He begins to give Spock details of his romance with Christine and Spock punches him. But after doing so Spock suddenly returns to reality. After that both he and Roger are trying to convince the crew that reality has been altered but no one will listen. Trelane is the Wedding Planner. On the day of the wedding he forces Roger to be the bride’s maid. Trelane is officiating as Spock and Christine are about to exchange their vows but Spock repeats instead the details of how she and Roger began their romance. He recites the Pablo Neruda poem that Roger had recited to her and the meaning of the bracelet that Roger gave her. Suddenly Christine returns to reality as well. Trelane is angry and threatens to kill everyone. His father arrives in the form of a ball of light and his voice is that of John de Lancie, who played Q in later Star Trek series. The implication seems to be that Trelane is an infant Q. Dad forces Trelane to return everyone to reality and they leave in two balls of light.
Later everyone including Spock and La’an dance to Wham’s “Wake Me Up Before You Go Go”. Ortegas is upset and goes to punch a bag. Then she looks in the window and we see behind her the reflection of a Gorn.
Trelane was played by Rhys Darby, who after he left the New Zealand Army attended the University of Canterbury. He formed a comedy duo with Grant Lobban. He performed his first solo comedy gig at the Edinburgh Festival in 2002. His comedy style consists of physical humour, mime, storytelling and sound effects. Flight of the Conchords began as a BBC radio show and he was cast as the band’s manager. He reprised that role when the show transferred to television. He co-starred in the sitcom How to be a Gentleman. He starred in the sitcom Our Flag Means Death for which he was nominated for a Peabody. He starred in the films Love Birds, and Relax I’m from the Future. He co-starred in Guns Akimbo, Mosely, and Uproar. He wrote an autobiographical space novel entitled This Way to Space Ship.
I uploaded my Batgirl 24 video to YouTube and it wasn't blocked.
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