I continued to collect images for a photo video of the song “Le rent' dedans” (The Pick-Up) by Serge Gainsbourg to upload to YouTube. I now have eleven and I think I need about fifty.
I weighed 88.45 kilos before breakfast.
I played my Kramer electric during song practice for the first of two sessions. It was very hot even after I switched the heat off and I had both living room windows wide open.
Around midday I applied painter’s tape to the area around the bathroom fan and then to the edges of the top of the upper shelves where they meet the wall. I taped most of the edges of underside of the upper shelves where they meet the wall but it was tricky figuring where to place the tape for the bend in the shelf brackets. I thought I would have the taping finished today and start painting on Friday but I still need to finish taping the underside of the upper shelf, the edge of the top and bottom of the lower shelf where it meets the wall, and maybe the outer edge of the bathroom door frame. I think I’ll be able to start painting the walls on Sunday, apply the second coat on Tuesday, and pull the tape off and do touch-ups on Wednesday. After that I’ll need to buy the shelf paint, which will be a different colour than the ceiling and walls.
I weighed 89.15 kilos before lunch. I had peanut butter and five-year-old cheddar on saltines with a glass of iced tea.
In the afternoon I took a bike ride downtown and on the way back stopped at Queen Fresh to buy two baskets of raspberries.
I weighed 88.85 kilos at 18:30.
I almost forgot to buy beer but made it out to get a six-pack of Creemore.
I was caught up in my journal at 19:20.
I reviewed my last digitization of the cassette recording of my rehearsal with Brian Haddon. This one still skips but it’s fairly clean.
I started listening to my cassette “Best Songs #2”, which is a mixed tape I made of the next best songs after the 14 I listed in “Best Songs 1”. I’ll copy the list tomorrow.
I compared the song practice video of my acoustic performance of “Leave Some for Everyone Else” on October 14, 2024 to that of October 8 of that year and October 8 is the winner. If I upload an acoustic version of this song to YouTube it’ll be the one from October 8, which would be easy because that session is already a Movie Maker project.
I compared my electric performance of “Laisses-en un peu pour les autres” on September 23, 2024 to that of September 29 of the same year and although September 29 sounds a bit cleaner, September 23 is a better looking video. There’s one session left to compare.
I made pizza on a slice of multigrain sandwich bread with marinara sauce, tomato pesto, wedge fries, and five-year-old cheddar. I had it with a beer while watching season 1, episode 5 of Car 54 Where Are you?
Mrs. Bronson is the only tenant left in a condemned building. People from the city keep coming to serve her notices and she keeps serving them tea and cake. She continues to complain that the landlord never does anything for the building while the city officials keep trying to tell her that there is no landlord because the city now owns her building. The city calls the Highway Commission but their rep fails; the highway commission calls Public Works but their man gets nothing but cake. Finally the police are called and Toody and Muldoon go there. Toody gives her a dispossess, an eviction order, a building code violation, a court order to quit premises, and a removal of public nuisance order. She collects them all and has a place for every one. While Toody enjoys cake, Muldoon tries very hard to convince her to move out. The building is standing in the way of the new approach to the George Washington Bridge. She says it’s just because some guy in Bermuda shorts wants to save ten minutes to get to New Jersey and play golf that she has to move from her home of 40 years. She says let him get up ten minutes earlier. She finds out Muldoon isn’t married and says better he should think of an approach to a nice girl than an approach to a bridge. Muldoon gives her a sheriff’s order and she files that as well. He warns her the sheriff is going to throw her out. She says she knows it’s an election year and they won’t put a grandmother on the street. They end up fixing her sink. She finally says maybe she’ll say maybe she’ll move. Toody and Muldoon go back to Captain Block and he says he'll handle it but ends up fixing her doorbell. They send Miss Henderson from the health department but Bronson says she’s found in her a girl for Muldoon. Toody and Muldoon come back to Bronson and she says she doesn’t have time to look for a place what with baking cakes and making tea for city officials. Finally Al Spencer the man in charge of demolishing her building moves in and rents a room from her. He says he thinks her building will be the last one standing in New York and so he feels secure. Bronson confesses that she doesn’t move because of Queenie her dog. She always goes away for exactly three months and now it’s only been two and a half weeks. She doesn’t want Queenie to come home and not find her there. Muldoon decides they are going to find Queenie. She gives them a picture of the shaggy dog and they look all over town. Finally they give up and return to the station only to see an identical dog sitting with a little boy in the police station. They call, “Queenie” and it comes to them but the boy calls “Prince” and it comes to him. The boy’s grandfather says he has the dog’s papers but says Prince has a strange habit of running away from home for three months at a time. Muldoon learns the grandfather has a room for rent and arrangements are made. Mrs. Bronson and the grandfather are thinking of getting married.
Al Spencer was played by Al Lewis, who was a circus performer before earning a PHD in Child Psychology. That’s what he said but Columbia University has no record of him earning such a degree and there is no record anywhere of even a high school diploma. He taught school and wrote two children’s books (which among many other claims may also be false) before joining the Paul Mann Actors Workshop in New York. He performed in burlesque, vaudeville and finally Broadway. His film debut was in Lust of the Vampire. His TV debut was in The Big Story. After this guest spot on Car 54 Where Are You?, he eventually returned as Officer Leo Schnauser. Then he played Grandpa Sam Dracula on the Munsters. He co-starred in Pretty Boy Floyd. From 1987 to 1989 he hosted Super Scary Saturday on TBS in his grandpa Dracula costume. He starred in the video game Midnight Mutants in the same costume. He opened a restaurant called Grampa’s in Greenwich Village. In 1998 he was the Green Party candidate for governor of New York. In 2003 he had to have his right leg amputated.
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