I opened my “Zizi” Movie Maker project and isolated the Serge Gainsbourg song “Les Millionaires”. I created a “Les Millionaires” project, added a fade-out effect at the end of the audio and published it. I uploaded “Les Millionaires” to Sonix and got a transcription of the French text, then copied and pasted it below the lyrics I already have. The text pasted in one big block and so I started reshaping it into verse form. I’ll finish that tomorrow and then start memorizing the song.
I weighed 87.15 kilos before breakfast, which is the lightest I’ve been in the morning since October 23.
I played my Kramer electric during song practice and it stayed in tune the whole 90 minutes.
At around midday I called AMI Electronics and asked if they could fix my Sony Dolby double cassette player. The guy said he could fix pretty much anything. I wrapped it in a blanket and placed it in the lower bag of my bike trailer. I took the Bloor bike lane to Yonge and went a couple of blocks south to the Sweet Brittania candy store where I bought some items for my daughter: various assorted candies (including aniseed balls, which I hadn’t seen there before and found out they were new), coconut and cappuccino jelly bellies, Simpkins Hangover Drops, Bubs Black Licorice, Bubs Sour Skulls, Sour Punch Gummies, a Bailey’s chocolate caramel whirl, sour punch lollipops, and a blackberry Dr. Pepper soda.
I rode south to Yonge and Dundas and then went into Eaton Centre to get Astrid some candy at Ricardo’s. One of the staff warned me to be careful not to knock anything over with my backpack. There were other customers with backpacks shopping there. Did he think I looked particularly clumsy? I got her a few more candies, including hot gumballs, smiley face gumballs, and a lollipop with a cricket inside.
Then I rode east on Dundas to Parliament, south to Shuter, and east to AMI Electronics at 379 Shuter Street. The place looked closed and the door was locked but the guy had assured me over the phone that they were open until midnight and it was only around 15:00. I pushed the buzzer and when he came to the door to let me in it was obvious why the door was locked. The entryway is a very narrow corridor of precariously stacked big screen TVs. I had to leave my bike trailer in front of the door and carefully handed him the tape player from there. I had to be very careful how I turned around while wearing my backpack. The place is wall to wall electronics consisting of mostly TVs but pretty much everything else as well. He gave me a tag for my Sony player. He handed me his business card on which he calls himself Dr. Oscar Moz. Oscar Moz would be a Latin American name but according to another source in his case it’s short for Mozafarri, which sounds Italian but again Oscar is more common in Latin American countries. I don’t know if he has an actual PHD in something to call himself a doctor or if it’s just part of the medical schtick that’s part of his business presentation. There’s the image of an ambulance on the card and in the place of the list that would follow “we repair” it says “we heal”. Two curious items that he says he heals are “medical equipments” and “”dentist equipments”. It seems odd to me that dentists and doctors would get their equipment refurbished rather than having them be state of the art. When I looked this up though I found that it’s actually quite common. Oscar was alone but if he did all the repairs himself to all the stuff I could see then I wouldn’t be seeing my Sony tape player in my lifetime. I assume there is a workshop in the back with other employees. He also must have drivers because the card says they do free pickup and delivery and do repairs in customers’ home and businesses. He said he’d call me with an assessment next week.
I stopped at Bagels On Fire to get a dozen sesame seed bagels but they didn’t have that many. So I got seven whole wheat sesame seed bagels, two regular sesame seed bagels, and three rosemary salt bagels.
I stopped at Freshco to get some grapes. I was sorting through the grapes on display when a produce stocker offered me to look through what he had on his cart. That was nice. I also bought a bottle of Brio di Chinotto and also a Brio lemon soda. I haven’t had Brio in a long time.
I went out to the liquor store and bought three six-packs of Creemore.
I weighed 86.95 kilos at 17:24. It was too late to take a siesta and so I just had a late lunch and hoped I’d be able to stay awake. I had an untoasted sesame seed bagel with peanut butter, five-year-old cheddar and a glass of iced tea.
I was behind on my journal so I worked on that before supper.
I made pizza on a sesame seed bagel with oven fries, marinara sauce, tomato pesto and five-year-old cheddar. I had it with a glass of Creemore while watching season 2, episode 3 of Car 54 Where Are You?
Toody and Muldoon always get sick at the same time. The police surgeon has come to investigate this time because it has been like this for years and the doctor suspects they are goofing off. Dr. Meisner examines Toody and is about to take his temperature when Toody says Muldoon called him and told him it’s 101.6 and a half. Meisner is shocked that is exactly Toody’s temperature. Both Toody and Muldoon say they can’t take penicillin because their lift ears blow up. Meisner believes this is the first human occurrence of monobiopsychosis in which two bodies behave as if they have one mind. He remembers a study of two oxen named Sultan and Raja in India. He asks his boss for permission to examine Toody and Muldoon more closely but does so without telling them his real purpose. He just claims it’s a follow-up to their medical exams. He sits behind them in the patrol car and watches as they turn their heads to watch cars go by, yawn, look at their watches, scratch, and sing “Beautiful Dreamer” at the exact same time. Captain Block tells Toody and Muldoon they have to work late and while Toody is at the phone calling Lucille he sees the Sultan and Raja study sitting on the table and picks it up. Hr reads about the oxen and then sees Meisner’s notes in the margin comparing Toody and Muldoon to the oxen. A few minutes later Muldoon is calling his mother when he reads the same study. From that point on both of them set out to do the opposite of what the other would do but no matter what they do or say their choices always come out exactly the same. It causes them both frustration to think they have no individuality. Meisner tries to explain it to both of them but they continue to try to second guess each other. When they both think the other is having corned beef and cabbage for dinner they each try to divert from that and order Chinese food. They each decide not to watch TV but to read a book but try to think of an extreme way of reading the book that the other would not think of but both end up reading while standing on their heads. When Lucille sees how her husband is behaving she begins shouting out the window that she Lucille Hathelwaite, a Hunter College graduate who had the choice of any man married a kook. The next day they try to deviate from how they think the other will dress but show up wearing berets and horizontally striped shirts. When they see each other they are frightened and decide they have to call Meisner. Meisner tells Captain Block they must split up Toody and Muldoon. Meisner’s boss Dr. Metz says the only way to break up two friends is for them both to be married. Block says a cousin of Nicholson’s wife from Bismark, North Dakota is coming to the banquet that night (suddenly Nicholson is married when he was single in the previous episode). They expect Lucille to hate Muldoon’s date but when she shows up she looks exactly like Lucille except for being taller and having different hair and of course Lucille loves her.
Meisner was played by Ned Wertimer, who was a navy pilot during WWII. He earned a Bachelor of Business Administration degree. He started his theatrical career as an assistant stage manager. He began performing on Broadway in the 1940s. He was a regular guest on the Shari Lewis Show. He played Ralph Hart the doorman on The Jeffersons. He was a member of the Screen Actors Guild. He was a voting member for the Emmy Awards.
No comments:
Post a Comment