I worked out the chords for the second verse of “Le rent' dedans” (The Pick-Up) by Serge Gainsbourg. I think the first two verses set the pattern for the rest of the song so it should be easier from this point on. I found the chords while strumming very softly with my thumb so as not to disturb the guy upstairs who claims he can hear me play guitar at 5:00 even though I don’t start working out chords until 5:45.
I weighed 88.3 kilos before breakfast.
During song practice I played my Kramer electric for the second of four sessions. It didn’t stay in tune as well as yesterday.
Around midday I went over to the hardware store to buy paint. I needed a little more of the Crazy in Love colour but not as much as a liter. Unfortunately that was the smallest size they had. I also bought a 3.5 liter can of the hue Pink Parade, which is not even remotely pink but more of a lilac colour. This will be for my bathroom walls. For the shelves, the door, and most of the mirror frame I’ll probably use a turquoise hue called “Blue Bliss”. I couldn’t remember what the sheen was on the Crazy in Love and so I had to walk back home to find out that it’s eggshell.
It must have taken years of study to work out how to mix the colours and to develop a machine that does it so precisely.
My upstairs neighbour David mopped the hallway and the stairs today. He was standing outside when I was on my way to the hardware store. He agreed that our new neighbour Jacob is nuts.
I weighed 88.9 kilos before lunch, the same as last Friday.
In the afternoon I took a bike ride downtown and back.
I weighed 88.3 kilos at 18:20, which is the heaviest I’ve been in the evening since November 6.
I was behind on my journal because I dozed off again last night at the computer. I didn’t get caught up until well after supper and was in danger of falling behind again.
I cut up a whole chicken and grilled the parts. I was out of potatoes and gravy and so I had a leg with potato chips and yogourt while watching the final episode of Cain’s Hundred.
Police Captain Ernest Lemoyne and a third of the police force have been on the take to mobster Ned Falco for years. Lemoyne’s wife died a couple of years ago and now he has lost his 13 year old daughter. This tragedy has made him feel repentant and so now he wants to bring Falco down. Holly Baker is a lifestyle reporter for a newspaper. She has just completed a recipe in the kitchen and presents the result to her assistant Grace Newberg in the newsroom: banana slices rolled in curry powder, wrapped in bacon, and broiled. She says it’s from India but I doubt that bacon is a common ingredient over there. A reporter named Peter Fleming is in a troubled romance with Holly. She has feelings for him but he is not dependable. He says he’ll be at her place at 19:00. Grace thinks she should dump him but Holly says he’s inside of her. Suddenly Holly’s old friend Nicholas Cain shows up and asks her out. Apparently he’s not there to take down Falco but just to see her because he wants some sweetness in his life. He asks Holly out and Grace accepts on her behalf because she thinks this is her friend’s chance to get free of Peter. Meanwhile we learn that Peter is also on the take with Falco and has been for four years. He asks Falco to let him go so he can marry Holly. Falco tells Peter he owes him too much to be set free. Holly and Cain’s date goes well and they are relaxing at her place when she gets a call that Peter is drunk in a bar. They go there and find Peter being beaten up by a teenager so Cain saves him and they take him back to Holly’s place. She tells Cain she wishes she could forget Peter and fall in love with someone like him. The next day Peter goes to see Lemoyne who says his office is bugged but whispers to Peter that he wants to give him the name of every corrupt cop on the force. They arrange to meet later at Brown’s restaurant so Lemoyne can give him the names. Peter goes immediately to Falco to offer to sell out Lemoyne in exchange for his own freedom. Falco agrees but thinks it’s funny that he’s the one Peter wants to be free of when Peter is willing to betray his best friend. Peter calls Cain and disguising his voice tells him he can save Lemoyne’s life. Now that Peter feels free he goes and asks Holly to marry him. She joyously accepts his proposal. Cain goes to see Lemoyne who asks for his help to beat Falco. He says from the beat cops to the captains there are cops on the take. Lemoyne says he’s been the one collecting the pay offs from Falco to dole out to his officers. He started taking payoffs from Falco to pay for his daughter’s medical bills but once he started he couldn’t stop. Meanwhile a party is going on for Holly and Peter at the newspaper office but Peter gets a call from Falco who orders him to come to see him. Falco kicks Peter a few times in the shin and then forces him to call Lemoyne to meet him at 14th and Front. Lemoyne knows it’s a trap and Cain arranges for Lemoyne to have a full time bodyguard. Cain goes to see Holly and she invites him to the party. He says he’ll come but looks serious. At the party the editor gets a call that Lemoyne is dead. They learn that Lemoyne took a bath and a radio “accidentally” fell into the tub to electrocute him. It’s pretty obvious from the looks on the officers’ faces that this wasn’t an accident. Peter and Holly are supposed to fly to Mexico City in an hour but Cain tells Peter they all need to talk. They go back to Holly’s place and she realizes the wedding is off. Peter tells Holly that he fingered Lemoyne and he’s dead because of him. Cain warns peter he’s probably next but Peter says he can handle Falco and he walks away from Holly. Falco picks up Peter who tells him if he kills him he’s just got another corpse but if he doesn’t he’s got a talented slave for life. Holly tells Cain to go away and maybe come back in a year when she’s recovered and can fall in love with him without a broken heart. Cain finds Peter at his desk and invites him to come to Washington with him to expose Falco. He says he can’t.
Holly was played by Pat Crowley, who made her stage debut at the age of ten in a musical in which her 14 year old sister Ann was performing. She became a model at age 11 and attended the High School of Performing Arts in New York. She made her Broadway debut in Southern Exposure in 1950. She made her TV debut in the title role of the Saturday morning sitcom A Date With Judy in 1951 but when the show switched to prime time another actor was cast as Judy. . She made her film debut in Money From Home in 1953. For her supporting role in Forever Female she won the Golden Globe for Most Promising Female Newcomer. She co-starred in The Square Jungle, Hollywood or Bust, Key Witness, To Trap a Spy, and The Biscuit Eater. She starred in the hit sitcom Please Don’t Eat the Daisies. She had regular roles on the soap operas generations, Port Charles, The Bold and the Beautiful, and Dynasty.
This series improved in the second half when they stopped having Cain pretend to be Elliot Ness. It was ridiculous to have a lawyer suddenly having the skills of a super cop.
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