I worked out the chords for the eighth verse of “Au revoir mon enfance” (Goodbye My Childhood) by Boris Vian. There is only one verse left, plus a finale and so I might have the song finished tomorrow.
I worked out the chords for the intro and the first two lines of “Le rent' dedans” (The Pick-Up) by Serge Gainsbourg.
I weighed 88.85 kilos before breakfast.
I played my Gibson Les Paul Studio during song practice and it went out of tune on every song during the first half but stayed in tune quite a bit during the second.
Around midday I removed the painter’s tape from my upper bathroom wall. Three quarters of it came off in one strip so I didn’t have to move the ladder. I was dreading pulling some of my ceiling paint job off but it came off clean. There are a few areas that need touching up because I didn’t apply the tape exactly straight but it generally looks pretty good. I don’t think it makes sense to do the touch-ups until after I paint the walls with the other colour. Then I’ll be able to discern more clearly the white spaces that need filling.
I weighed 89.6 kilos before lunch. I had saltines with peanut butter and five-year-old cheddar with a glass of iced tea.
In the afternoon I ventured out for a bike ride. It was still snowing and there was snow in my path as I rode along O’Hara, Seaforth, and Brock. I decided I wouldn’t ride any further than Ossington and Bloor in that mess. But when I got to Bloor the bike lane was not cleared and it was slippery and so I only rode half a block before turning around and heading home. My winter riding motto these days is “With the least slip I end the trip”. I managed to get through last winter without wiping out and I plan to keep that record growing. I’m too old to deal with those injuries anymore.
I weighed 89.55 kilos at 17:30, which is the heaviest I’ve been in the evening since October 27.
I was caught up in my journal at 19:07.
I finished listening to the cassette containing Rage Against the Machine and Operation Ivy. At the end there was a repetitive mechanical skipping sound that didn’t sound caused by the cassette player but sounded like it was from a CD player. Whoever recorded the cassette seems to have also recorded the glitch.
I skimmed the next cassette on my pile and it was a recording of my band’s first performance at Fat Albert’s probably in 1994. It had Tom Smarda on Stratocaster, Steve Lowe on acoustic, Mike Martin on bongos, and Arjan on bass. After the music stopped I fast forwarded it with the intention of flipping to hear if there was anything on the other side, but the tape broke. That’s a bummer because this was one I really wanted to digitize. So now so far I have three cassettes that need to be spliced or reconnected.
I reviewed the videos of my song practice performances of “Laisses-en un peu pour les autres” and “Leave Some For Everyone Else” from September 23 to 26. On September 23 I played “Laisses-en un peu pour les autres” on my Gibson Les Paul Studio and the take at 1:11:30 was not horrible. On September 25 I played it on my Martin Road Series and the take at 1:00:15 was not bad. On September 24 I played “Leave Some For Everyone Else” on the Gibson and the take at 1:01:30 was OK. On September 26 I played it on the Martin and the take at 51:15 was okay.
I made pizza on a slice of multigrain sandwich bread with marinara sauce, tomato pesto, a cut up beef burger, and five-year-old cheddar. I had it with a beer while watching episode 25 of Cain’s Hundred.
Hank Shannon is a saloon singer and his friend Marcus “Jack” Jackson is a saloon owner who is also high up with the Organization. Jack’s wife has been withdrawing from drug addiction and has tried to commit suicide by slitting her wrists with a broken China saucer. Jack’s daughter Lucinda is home from college and about to turn 18. She knows what her father does and hates him for it. She is in love with Hank while he tries to maintain the kind of relationship he’s had with her since she was a child as her “Uncle Hank”. Hank is an old friend of Nicholas Cain and runs into him after many years. Jack also knows Cain from when he was a mob lawyer and now that he has become a Federal investigator targeting the Mob. Hank invites Cain to a party where many Organization members are also in attendance as well as Lucinda. Hank’s assistant is Big Joe, who is tending bar at the party and Hank gives him specific instructions not to serve alcohol to Lucinda. But she has brought a flask and gets drunk. She then talks with Cain and loudly starts to point out all the gangsters in the room to him. Cain warns Hank he’d better get Lucinda out of there. She goes into the bedroom but is followed by one of the mob henchmen who tries to find out what she said to Cain. Hank beats him up and throws him out then tells Big Joe to take her home. She insists on driving and Joe sits in the passenger seat. One of the bosses sends a thug after them and there is an “accident” resulting in a fiery crash. Big Joe is badly burned yet will be okay but Lucinda is a lot worse and if she survives she will need extreme plastic surgery. Hank is angry and wants to expose the Syndicate conference. As the meeting room is being swept for bugs Hank comes in after the check and gums a cigarette case that is really a tape recorder under the boardroom table. During the meeting the gum gives way and it falls to the floor. Someone picks it up and hands it to Jack, not realizing what it is. Jack opens it and realizes it is a recorder but says nothing to the others. Meanwhile Hank gets a call from the hospital that Lucinda has died. After the meeting Hank goes to retrieve the tape recorder but Jack confronts him with it. Hank informs Jack that his daughter is dead and he is devastated. He realizes that it was really the Organization and himself that killed her and he hands Hank the recorder.
Hank was played by Robert Culp, who also wrote the story.
Lucinda was played by Zina Bethune, who trained in ballet from the age of 6 and as a teenager performed with the New York City Ballet even though she had scoliosis, lymphedema, and hip dysplasia but became a prima ballerina. She made her Broadway debut in The Most Happy Fella in 1956 at the age of 11. She created the role of Robin Lang from 1956 to 1958 on the Guiding Light soap opera. She starred in the 1958 TV adaptation of Little Women. Her film debut was in Sunrise at Campobello. She starred in Who’s That Knocking at My Door. She co-starred in The Doctors and the Nurses from 1962 to 1965. She was then in the cast of Love of Life from 1965 to 1971. She later had a recurring role on Santa Barbara. She formed her own dance company in 1969 and also became a choreographer. She also organized Dance Outreach to teach dance as therapy to children with disabilities. She was killed by a hit and run driver while trying to rescue a possum from the road.
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