I worked out the chords for almost half of the second verse of “Le rent' dedans” (The Pick-Up) by Serge Gainsbourg.
I weighed 88.6 kilos before breakfast.
I played my Martin during song practice for the second of two sessions and there were only two or three songs after which the guitar was still in tune for the next one.
I was near the end of song practice when there was a loud knock on my door and my upstairs neighbour Jacob started shouting at me. He told me to stop singing songs about rape and being a paedophile or else he’d call the police. I tried to tell him that he must have misinterpreted something since I have absolutely no songs that advocate or even mention rape or paedophilia. I wonder if he’s misinterpreting my song “Do Me Bad Johnny”? Johnny is referred to as a “cutie” and he’s said to be shorter than the speaker. But if “cutie” represents a child what does “baby” represent in a billion other songs? I knocked on his door later to try to reason with him but he just told me never to knock on his door and closed it. Later still I got an email from the landlady that had a copy of his complaint to her and it also said that I’ve been playing my guitar at 5:00. I don’t play guitar until 10:00 based on Jacob’s prior request. I do yoga at 5:00 and I do have classical music on but at minus 26 volume. I can certainly lower it some more if he wants. It was very upsetting to have him loudly accusing me of being a paedophile in the hallway. He also made the cryptic statement, “I know who you are!” It’s very hurtful to make those kinds of accusations in the hallway of one’s home where one’s neighbours can overhear.
After song practice I was flustered while packing up my Martin acoustic and my Gibson electric to take to Alex Wood of Wood Instruments. I got there around 13:00. I got my Epi back from Alex and it sounds good. He put the original saddle from my Martin onto the Epi. It hadn’t fit the Martin properly and he’d replaced it with a bone saddle. But since then he discovered that the original saddle on the Martin was bone when he’d thought it was plastic, so now it’s back in the family. I paid him $400 cash for the work he did on the Epi. He said the frets on my Gibson are high enough that he doesn’t have to replace them and so the job will be cheaper at $250. He’s going to set up my Martin and also grind down some of the frets but that will only cost $90 and he’ll have it back to me sooner than the Gibson.
I weighed 90.4 kilos at 14:30.
I took a siesta from 15:30 to 17:00. It was too late to take a bike ride.
I weighed 89.1 kilos at 17:30, that’s the heaviest I’ve been in the early afternoon for several months and definitely before the summer.
I was caught up in my journal at 18:18.
I reviewed my digitization of the cassette recording of the Christian and the Lions concert at the Rivoli and there was skipping and so I digitized it again. I didn’t check to see how it turned out.
I reviewed the videos of my song practice performances of “Leave Some for Everyone Else” and “Laisses-en un peu pour les autres” from October 2 to 9. I played “Leave Some for Everyone Else” on my Martin acoustic on October 2 and October 8. On October 2 the take at 9:30 in part B wasn’t bad and looked good. On October 8 the take at 11:45 in part B was not bad but I forgot that one of the lyrics is the name “Steven” and I substituted it with “Raymond”. On October 4 I played it on my Gibson Les Paul Studio but the camera shut off before that song. On October 6 I played it on my Kramer electric and the take at 1:06:15 was okay. I played “Laisses-en un peu pour les autres” on October 3, 5, 7, and 9. On October 3 the camera battery charge ran out before this song and on October 5 and 7 it ran out before I could finish the song. On October 9 I played it on my Kramer electric and the take at 8:45 in part B sounded okay.
I made pizza on a slice of multigrain sandwich bread with marinara sauce, tomato pesto, a chopped up burger made from New Zealand grass fed beef, and five-year-old cheddar. I had it with a beer while watching episode 28 of Cain’s Hundred.
Mike Colonni is a mobster who was deported to his native Corsica. He has appealed his exile and wants to return to the United States and so Nicholas Cain travels there to assess whether Colonni has gone straight. Colonni is there with his wife Margarita who is also from Corsica but was given to Colonni by her father in the States. She doesn’t love Colonni. Nico works for Colonni and so did his cousin who recently died after falling from a cliff. Nina is the girlfriend of the deceased and she says Colonni killed him. Margarita and Nico were lovers when they were 15 before she moved to the States and they still have feelings for each other. Cain connects with a French undercover cop named Douvain who says Colonni is smuggling heroin inside of bars of soap manufactured in his distillery. But before they can investigate, the distillery burns down. Margarita and Nico reaffirm their love and Margarita convinces Nico that Colonni killed his cousin. Colonni catches them together and Nico challenges him about the murder. Colonni beats him and throws him out. He runs and Margarita runs after him. He goes to his cousin’s grave and stabs himself to death with Margarita just arriving as he does so. Cain can’t prove anything but decides to not let Colonni back into the States. Colonni says he can still go to Paris but Douvain issues an order that restricts him only to that village in Corsica under the threat of imprisonment. The women of the town are lamenting having to live with Colonni but Margarita tells them how to defeat him. She tells them not to engage with him and treat him like he does not exist. The whole village begins to ignore Colonni and so it’s almost like an episode of the Twilight Zone in the end. Margarita leaves him and goes to Marseilles.
Colonni was played by Jack Klugman, who worked as a street peddler as a child. In college his drama teacher told him he was better suited to be a truck driver than an actor. As a young actor in New York he was roommates with Charles Bronson. He made his TV debut in an episode of The Actors Studio. He made his Broadway debut in Golden Boy. He co-starred in the soap opera The Greatest Gift. He co-starred in 12 Angry Men. He was nominated for a Tony for his performance in Gypsy. He won an Emmy for his guest appearance on The Defenders. He had 10% ownership in The Odd Couple in which he co-starred for 5 seasons and won two Emmys. He then starred in Quincey ME for 8 seasons for which he won four Emmys. He co-starred in Goodbye Columbus, When Do We Eat?, and Two Minute Warning. He starred in Who Says I Can’t Ride Rainbows?
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