I uploaded my photo-video of “Les millionaires” to YouTube. Then I uploaded the lyrics to my Christian’s Translations blog and started preparing it for publication.
I weighed 88.6 kilos before breakfast, which is the heaviest I’ve been in the morning since March 8.
I played my Gibson Les Paul Studio during song practice and it stayed in tune about half the time.
When I went out to lock my bike before bringing my trailer down I noticed that downstairs the Pope yes restaurant has been closed. There is an article in Toronto Life that says my landlord has locked them out because they owe him $14,000. Raja would lock them out if they owed him 36 cents.
My name is Raja I’m just a poor poor poor millionaire
My name is Raja I’m just a poor poor poor millionaire
I’m gonna sue ya if ya don’t pay me all your subway fare
My name is Raja I’m just a poor wealthy slum lord
My name is Raja I’m just a poor wealthy slum lord
My rent will gouge ya while my bedbugs get free room and board
At around midday I went over to Vina Pharmacy and picked up my Betaderm prescription.
I rode to No Frills were I bought five bags of mostly green grapes, two packs of raspberries, a pack of strawberries, two packs of five-year-old cheddar, three bags of skim milk, pickling vinegar, olive oil, two containers of skyr, and a bag of wedge fries. Winta the cashier, who I think is from Africa, asked me what the 0% on the skim milk means. I explained that the fat has been removed.
I weighed 88.75 kilos at 14:45. I had a slice of toasted seven grain bread with peanut butter and a glass of iced tea.
I took a siesta from 15:30 to about 17:15.
I weighed 89.05 kilos at 17:35. March 14 was the last evening when I tortured the scale that far.
I was caught up in my journal at 18:59.
I recorded from cassette tape through audio interface to Audacity the recording of the first Christian and the Lions performance at the El Mocambo in 1994. Our line-up at the time was me on vocals, Tom Smarda on Stratocaster, Steve Lowe on acoustic guitar, Mike Martin on drums, and Beverly Ross on bass. I think that was the only time Beverly played with us. I don’t know what happened to her. She played with a band called The Jazz Bitches but they don’t seem to exist anymore. She studied music at Humber College. We played “Megaphor”, “Hungry Hippunk Goes to Work”, “Calendar Girl”, “Me and Gravity”, “Tropic of Ulcer”, and “Angeline”. yesterday when I tried to digitize this tape it came out distorted but this time I shut down Chrome and Bit Torrent first so they wouldn’t tax the memory and it worked.
I created more folders for photos in my SSD and deleted several images from my hard drive.
I made oven fries and had them with a slice of seven grain bread with hummus and a glass of Creemore while watching the first episode of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy.
Anisha Mir is a single mother with a 6 year old son named Caleb. They fell in with a pirate named Braka and Anisha joined him in a mission to steal food. But a Federation officer was killed during the mission and so after she is captured Anisha is sentenced to 15 years in a rehabilitation facility separate from Caleb who is made a ward of the Federation. But Caleb escapes by stealing a com badge to try to find his mother.
Captain Nahla Ake resigns from Starfleet over having been forced to separate a child from his mother. Fifteen years later she is approached by Admiral Vance who tells her that Starfleet Academy will be starting up again after 100 years and he wants her to be chancellor. She refuses but then he tells her they’ve found Caleb who has been captured and placed in a high security prison. Anisha escaped from confinement a year ago. That seems stupid since she only had a year left in her sentence.
Nahla tells Caleb she can get him released and will help him find his mother if he agrees to join Star Fleet Academy. The actual Academy is in San Francisco on Earth but the classroom is the USS Athena of which Nahla is captain.
The first officer and the cadet master is a half Klingon named Thok. Caleb refuses to wear a uniform and Thok immediately orders him to do 200 push-ups. It’s not likely that just because she barks the order so forcefully that he would do it but he does. Ironically Thok doesn’t look like she could do one push up. Thok appears as if she is just wearing a cheap Klingon mask over the front of her face.
Caleb steps through a regulation Appearance Arch and automatically has his long hair gone and he’s wearing a uniform. That’s fucked up given that a male Klingon cadet named Kraag gets to keep his long hair as do the long haired female cadets. On top of that the captain has a pretty messy looking head of hair for a Starfleet officer.
Cadet Sam is a hologram or Photonic as her people prefer to be called. She is desperate to make friends but is ignored until she meets the confident Genesis, who is an admiral’s daughter and has never set foot on a planet as they make their way to Earth.
Caleb hacks an instructor’s console and looks for messages from his mother in their secret code. He sends her a message on that frequency. Genesis catches him and teases him with turning him in but they make friends.
The Athena is attacked by 12 drones that cause programmable matter to engulf the ship and disable all weapons and transport ability. A Vanari Ral ship assembles and tethers the Athena. Thok has a large piece of shrapnel in her abdomen and the cadets take her to a bio training facility. The cadets are cut off from the bridge and are on their own. The lights fail but Sam has the ability to illuminate the bulkhead by touching it. It looks like she’s Rudolph the red nosed reindeer. Like him she's until her abilities are needed.
It turns out that Braka is behind the attack. He found the Athena by tracking Caleb’s message to his mother. He appears as a hologram on the bridge and tells Nahla he wants the Athena’s warp drive in exchange for their lives.
Caleb communicates to Nahla that he thinks he can break the frequency isolation coefficient of the programmable matter. But they need a sample from the hull and no cadets have access to space suits. However Cadette Darem is a Khionian with the ability to survive in space for 8 minutes. He goes out and gets the needed analysis but he can’t make it back. Genesis gets clearance from the holographic doctor from Voyager who is now the medical officer for the Academy. She releases Darem’s magnetic boots and then brings him into the ship with a tractor beam.
Braka and his men board Athena and Caleb has a fist fight with him. During the fight Caleb is able to initiate the disruption of the programmable matter and the bridge regains control of Athena. They immediately destroy Braka’s ship but he gets away in an escape pod.
They arrive in San Francisco to the soundtrack of “If You’re Going to San Francisco” as sung well but horribly by Rufus Wainwright. It’s a strange choice of song since not a single one of them is wearing flowers in their hair as the song instructs them to do.
Nahla Ake is played by Holly Hunter, who started playing piano at age 9. She earned a degree in Drama in 1980. When she moved to New York her roommate was Frances McDormand. She made her Broadway debut in Crimes of the Heart. She made her film debut in The Burning. Her first starring role was in Raising Arizona. She co-starred in Swing Shift, Always, Once Around, Broadcast News, The Firm (for which she was nominated for an Academy Award), Copycat, Crash, A Life Less Ordinary, Living Out Loud, Jesus’ Son, Woman Wanted, O Brother Where Art Thou, Moonlight Mile, Little Black Book, The Incredibles 1 and 2, Thirteen (also Oscar nominated), The Big White, She starred in Miss Firecracker, The Piano (for which she won an Oscar and really played the piano in the film), Home for the Holidays, She starred in the TV series Saving Grace for which she received an Emmy nomination. She co-starred in the sitcom Mr. Mayor. She was nominated for two Emmys for Roe vs Wade and The Absolutely True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader Murdering Mom.
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