Martha Greenhouse

            On Wednesday morning I translated the first couple of verses of “Ballade de la chnoufe” (Ballad of the Snuff) by Boris Vian. 

            I published “Le rent' dedans” (The Pick-Up) by Serge Gainsbourg on my Christian’s Translations blog and posted my translation on Facebook. The next Gainsbourg song on my list is “Tout l’monde est musician” (All of Us Are Musicians). I have the text but may have to extract the song from the Zizi Jeanmaire concert I downloaded. I’ll figure it out on Thursday. 

            I weighed 88.85 kilos before breakfast. 

            I played my Kramer electric during song practice for the last of two sessions and I had to retune the B a lot. 

            Today was laundry day but I got started later than usual because I had to sew up the cuff of a pair of pants. I was loading Loonies into the washer slot when at $3.50 it stopped accepting them. I thought one was stuck and another would push it down but that got stuck as well and there is hardly ever an attendant in that place. I had to push the return over and over every which way before I got my coins back. I had to finish paying for the washer with a shitload of quarters. It was after 15:00 when I got my dry laundry home. 

             I weighed 88.8 kilos at 15:55. I had saltines with peanut butter, five-year-old cheddar and a glass of iced tea. 

             I took a siesta from 16:30 to 18:00 so it was obviously too late for a bike ride. 

             I weighed 89.1 kilos at 18:20. I was caught up in my journal at 19:00. 

             I reviewed the next cassette tape on the pile and it was my CKLN radio DJ audition tape. I proposed a show called “Dancing to the Words” featuring song lyrics. I remember recording it at CKLN by myself late at night with no one there to help me. Some of the equipment broke down but I somehow fixed it. The programming director thought it was interesting enough to ask me to submit a second tape but I couldn’t be bothered. I digitized the cassette twice as usual and of course it will skip in places. I need to either get my old Sony tape player hooked up to my computer or else get a better converter. 

            In my “2024-09-09 Song Practice” Movie Maker project I isolated the final take of “Laisses-en un peu pour les autres”. I copied it to a new Movie Maker project with that name. I added fade to black, film grain effect, grey scale, and span the colour spectrum effects. I published it and made some screen shots. 

            I made pizza on a slice of multigrain sandwich bread with marinara sauce, tomato pesto, a chopped slice of ham, and five-year-old cheddar. I had it with a glass of Creemore while watching season 1, episode 12 of Car 54 Where Are You? 

            Lucille has lately been dominating Toody and he’s tired of it. Lucille’s sister Rose is the opposite. She’s married to Al Henderson who has a domineering personality and not only has control over Rose but also Lucille and Toody. When Rose is talking all he has to do is say, “That’s all Rose!” and she shuts up immediately. Toody and Muldoon are sent to provide security for Shakespeare in the park and the play is The Taming of the Shrew. Toody is inspired by the play and is determined to tame Lucille in the same way. But while Toody is watching the play, Lucille and Rose are watching a TV play called “Crain’s Wife” in which a wife is dominating her husband until he finally leaves her. Lucille begins to cry because now she is worried that she’s driving Gunther away. So when Toody comes home he is determined to assert himself while she has already set her mind to be submissive. She does whatever he tells her, including calling Tuesday “Fim Flam Floom Day”. He says he’s going to stay out until 2:00 every night but he gets bored and miserable and really wants to come home to Lucille but can’t because he thinks he'll disappoint her. Muldoon helps by visiting Lucille and planting the idea that Toody’s with a burlesque performer named Trixie Latush who calls him Hot Lips. He calls the burlesque palace and pretends to learn that Toody is in the show. When Toody comes home Lucille begins to take charge again and tells him he’s not going out anymore. He’s very happy to have Lucille back. 

            Rose was played by Martha Greenhouse who was a member of the Screen Actors Guild from 1955. She was president of her New York local actors union for five years. She co-starred in Tomorrow Night.