I downloaded from YouTube Zizi Jeanmaire’s Casino de Paris concert album, which features all songs by Serge Gainsbourg. I converted it to AVI and imported it to Movie Maker. I kept the concert as one project and then saved a copy as “Le rent' dedans”. I isolated and then published that song. I sang along with it twice while reading the lyrics and started working on memorizing the first verse.
I played my Kramer electric during song practice for the last of two sessions. Tomorrow I’ll begin a two session stretch of playing my Martin acoustic.
I weighed 88.85 kilos before breakfast, which is the heaviest I’ve been in the morning since October 21.
Around midday I’d planned on using my new stepladder for the first time and applying painters tape to the tops of the walls to prepare the ceiling for colour painting. But then I thought that it would make more sense to buy the paint first rather than having the tape just sitting up there for a few days. So I walked over to the hardware store. I think I only need a litre of paint for the ceiling since the walls and the shelves will be of different colours. I chose a pinkish hue called “Crazy in Love”. I think for the walls I’ll go with a darker purple hue but I’ll decide that later. I also bought a new brush and roller.
The Home Hardware employee told me he also chose Crazy in Love for his bathroom along with a darker shade of pink and he did it in stripes. He said he was living with his son and when they were picking a colour he went “one, two, three…” and they both shouted “pink!, surprising each other.
I weighed 89.85 kilos before lunch. That’s the most I’ve tipped the scale in the early afternoon in a long time. I’ve missed about three bike rides downtown in a row.
In the afternoon I took a bike ride downtown and back for the first time in three days.
I weighed 88.7 kilos at 18:00.
I was caught up in my journal at 18:56.
I reviewed one side of a cassette tape called BOOG Spoken Word that features various unnamed poets doing slam type lyrics probably in the United States. Some of it’s okay.
In my “I Love You. Neither Do I (Kramer)” Movie Maker project I partitioned the voices and added different effects to distinguish them, then published the song. I won’t be uploading it to YouTube until I make a better recording.
I reviewed the song practice video of my Gibson performance of “Laisses-en un peu pour les autres” on September 1, 2024. The take at 5:30 in part F had mistakes but I kept going and didn’t do any retakes.
I grilled a New Zealand grass fed beef boneless rib steak and a Canadian sirloin tip roast. I had the steak with a potato and gravy and a glass of Creemore (it was delicious) while watching episode 16 of Cain’s Hundred.
In this one, Cain’s vendetta is against pornography or “filth” as he calls it. It’s ridiculous how many lives were ruined and how many law enforcement resources were wasted in tracking down people who committed these so called crimes like porn, gambling and bootlegging. When you criminalize something, of course the people who engage in that thing will be criminals. The quality of porn suffers if criminal skills are required for it.
Milton Bonner is a successful publisher who secretly also produces pornographic books and magazines. He is able to maintain a pristine public image because he pays well for the services of Philip Colerane’s public relations firm. They not only spin the press but they also taught Bonner how to speak, dressed him and decorated his house. Cain goes to see printer George Harding with a warrant to search his files to see if he’s secretly printing porn. As Cain puts the heat on Bonner, Colerane begins a campaign to crucify Cain in the press and to let the public know about his past as a lawyer for the Organization. This will make the public less cooperative. Cain serves Harding a subpoena to appear before a grand jury. But the day of the hearing Harding disappeared after Bonner made a phone call. Cain confronts Colerane but he says he just follows the rules and if Cain wants him to do differently he has to change the rules. Laura Harding talks with Gloria Bonner about her missing husband. She says $5000 was deposited in her account the day George went missing and it wasn’t George’s signature on the deposit slip. She shocks Gloria by suggesting he might have been killed. Gloria confronts Milton and accuses him of dragging George into his slime. Bonner pulls a wad of money from his pocket and says that’s what dragged George and he’d take it now if he could. She stumbles over the words “If he could”. Gloria goes to see Cain and he confirms that they also think Harding is dead. He also confirms that he thinks her husband ordered Harding’s killing. Gloria tells Milton she’s leaving but he tells her she can’t. If she left he would drag her back because she is part of his public image. Later Bonner finds Gloria in her car in the closed garage with the engine running. She is semi-conscious when he turns off the ignition but then he thinks better of it and turns it back on. He leaves her there until she’s dead and then calls an ambulance. He burns her suicide note. At Gloria’s wake Cain comes to arrest Bonner. Colerane continues to spin for Bonner but he’s having guilt pangs at the end.
Gloria was played by Marsha Hunt, who started developing an interest in acting at the age of 3. After high school she became a model and began singing on the radio. At 17 she moved to Hollywood. She made her film debut in The Virginia Judge in 1935. She co-starred in Gentle Julia, Born to the West, Johnny Got His Gun, The Accusing Finger, Star Reporter, Blossoms in the Dust, The Penalty, Pilot #5, Thunder Trail, Murder Goes to College, Kid Glove Killer, Lost Angel, Smash Up, Raw Deal, and Back From the Dead. She starred in Easy to Take, The Affairs of Martha, and Carnegie Hall. She was a member of the Committee for the First Amendment and signed liberal petitions. This brought her to the attention of the publishers of Red Channels and as a result she was blacklisted. She made very few films from then on and turned to stage and television. She wrote a book on fashion called The Way We Wore in 1993. She played Anne Jameson in the Star Trek: the Next Generation episode “Too Short a Season”. She wrote 50 songs including Here’s to All We Love. She was active in many causes including UNICEF and work for the homeless. She died at the age of 104.
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