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 but so far I only have three.
I weighed 88.65 kilos before breakfast.
I played my old Epi acoustic during song practice for the last of two sessions. Tomorrow I’ll start a two session stretch of playing my Kramer electric.
Around midday I applied painter’s tape to the edges of the bathroom ceiling in preparation for painting the walls. For some unknown reason the tape didn’t stick very well to the west side of the ceiling and kept falling off. I kept pressing it back and it seems to be okay now but when I pressed some of the tape it wasn’t lined up like before. Tomorrow I’ll try to fix it and then I’ll apply more tape to the edges of the shelves. My plan is to start painting the walls on Friday. If I manage to get one coat everywhere then I’ll finish with the second coat on Sunday.
I weighed 88.3 kilos before lunch, which is the lightest I’ve been in the early afternoon since October 29.
In the afternoon I took a bike ride downtown and back.
I weighed 88.75 kilos at 18:00.
I was caught up in my journal at 18:55.
I re-digitized the cassette of my rehearsal with Brian Haddon because there was skipping on the first one but there is a lot of static so I’ll have to do it a third time to see if it’s cleaner. I think I might need a better converter. There seems to be less static depending how I set the converter down. I tried it upright rather than lying on its side and it sounds better.
I compared the video of my October 13, 2024 acoustic song practice performance of “Laisses-en un peu pour les autres” to that of September 9 of the same year. If I upload an acoustic version of that song to YouTube it will be the one from September 9.
I compared the videos of my song practice performances of “Leave Some for Everyone Else” on September 4 and 16 of 2024 and found September 4 to look better, plus I look more relaxed. I compared September 22 to September 4 and September 4 looks better. I compared September 26 to September 4 and it was close but September 4 is still ahead. I compared September 28 to September 4 and found September 4 is still the best. I compared October 2 to September 4 and September 4 stayed on top. I compared October 8 to September 4 and it was a tight race but we have a new winner in October 8. There is one left to compare.
I had two small potatoes with gravy and a chicken breast while watching season 1, episode 4 of Car 54 Where Are You?.
Police headquarters has learned that the average duration of a patrol car partnership in New York is 16 months but at the 53rd precinct in The Bronx there is a team that has been together for nine years. The chief of police wonders if it’s an error and calls the 53rd to find that the partners in car 54 have indeed been together for nine years. He tells Captain Block he’s coming to investigate and Block thinks there’s something wrong so he tries to convince Toody and Muldoon to change partners. They insist on staying together but Block’s suggestion has made each partner think that maybe the other has secretly put in for a transfer and so they begin to resent each other and argue. But when Block learns that Chief Bradley wants to find out how to copy the formula of Toody and Muldoon’s long partnership he tells them and they are relieved. Then Bradley interviews Toody and Muldoon separately to ask if there’s anything that bothers each officer about the other. When pressed Toody says Muldoon has a habit of pulling on his ear; and Muldoon says Toody is always saying “ooh ooh!” These things never really bothered them but now that they have been brought to the surface they begin to annoy them and they start to argue until they each want a transfer. They are each given new partners that keep quitting because no one can stand that Toody never shuts up and it drives Muldoon’s partners nuts that he never speaks. Finally Captain Block decides they’ve got to get Toody and Muldoon back together because they are the only ones that can stand each other. So when there is a traffic accident the two cars that Toody and Muldoon are in plus car 54 are called. While Toody is interviewing one driver and Muldoon the other, the two other patrol cars sneak away, leaving Toody and Muldoon with car 54. They get in and within seconds Toody is singing “Beautiful Dreamer” while Muldoon sings the bass, and they are happily together again.
Muldoon was played by Fred Gwynne, who attended an exclusive prep school where he first began acting in Shakespeare plays. He attended Harvard and was president of and cartoonist for the Harvard Lampoon. He performed in the Hasty Pudding Club drag reviews of 1949 and 1950. After graduating in 1951 he worked in New York as a musician, a copywriter and a commercial artist. He created the first cereal mascot: Sunny Jim for Force cereal. He made his Broadway debut in “Mrs. McThing” in 1952. His TV debut was in The Repertory Theatre in 1952. His film debut was in 1954 as a thug in On The Waterfront. He played Private Honigan on The Phil Silvers Show. He published “Best In Show” in 1958. After car 54 Where Are you? He was cast as Herman Munster in The Munsters, which also lasted two seasons. After that, in order to avoid type casting as Herman Munster he returned to the theatre. In 1981 he was asked to reprise the role of Herman Munster for a TV movie but he didn’t want to do it. His wife suggested he turn them down by asking for a large paycheque but they accepted his fee. He also performed in 83 episodes of CBS Radio Mystery Theatre. He co-starred in Pet Sematary, and My Cousin Vinny. He avoided Hollywood and lived a quiet life in Bedford, New York and Taneytown, Maryland. He wrote and illustrated The King Who Rained, A Chocolate Moose for Dinner, and A Little Pigeon Toad.
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