I continued to try to figure out if the lyrics that I got Sonix to transcribe yesterday are really for the song “Chaussures noires et pompes funèbres” (Black Shoes and Funeral Parlours) by Serge Gainsbourg. On the album “Zizi je t’aime” these lyrics are just listed as “Finale” but also that they are written by Gainsbourg. There’s no song with the title “Finale” by Gainsbourg. I listened to the song a few times and organized the lyrics into verses and then used a search engine to see what comes up for each verse. The third verse revealed that the song is actually “Dessous mon pull” by Serge Gainsbourg, which I have never learned. I’ll work on that but I still want to find out if “Chaussures noires et pompes funèbres” is available in any form. I’ll try one more search tomorrow and if nothing turns up I’ll just work on “Dessous mon pull”.
I weighed 87.75 kilos before breakfast.
I played my Gibson Les Paul Studio during song practice and it went out of tune about three times. An old man with a walker crossed the street wearing an old boot on his right foot and a worn out sneaker on his left.
I deleted several images from my hard drive.
I weighed 88.35 kilos before lunch, which is the lightest I’ve been in the early afternoon since March 31.
In the afternoon I took a bike ride downtown and didn’t need to wear a scarf or gloves. On the way back I stopped at Freshco where I bought four bags of grapes, two packs of raspberries, some bananas, two packs of Full City Dark coffee, and out of curiosity a bottle of cherry tomato sauce.
I weighed 88.45 kilos at 18:30.
I was caught up in my journal at 19:26.
I tried for a fifth day to record from the cassette tape two poems that I chanted at Fat Albert’s, one of them being “Watching Mom and Dad Make Love”. It has come through distorted every time and with extreme fluctuations in volume and my first couple of tries tonight were no exception. But then I tried it with the gain knob fairly low with its white line directly left and didn’t try to adjust the gain through the whole recording. The digitization had to be played at plus 12 but there wasn’t much distortion. I tried recording again with the gain slightly higher and this time there was some distortion so I think I’m satisfied with the low gain recording and so I can move on to side 2 of the tape, which I think is a Christian and the Lions concert for Sedated Sunday at the El Mocambo. I’ll find out tomorrow if I need to record at low gain for this one as well.
I had a potato with gravy and four pork ribs while watching episode 6 of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy.
Caleb and Tarima have become lovers and their connection results in the two going to her safe place, which is a field of flowers in her mind. But this also automatically connects her to Caleb’s mind and when she touches a toy among the flowers she accesses his trauma when at the age of 6 he saw his mother taken from him. He is upset that she accessed his mind without his permission and it puts a rift between them.
The Starfleet cadets join the War College cadets in a training exercise in a starship graveyard. One team consisting of Caleb, SAM, and Kraag from the Academy; and B’Avi and Kyle from the War College board the derelict USS Miyazaki to try to power the ship. Meanwhile Genesis and Darem are assisting from the bridge. Caleb is able to power up life support systems in record time using programmable matter.
Suddenly thirty power signals begin circling the Miyazaki followed by ten transporter signals boarding the ship. They reveal themselves to be Furies and they capture the cadets, threatening to eat Caleb if a ransom is not paid. Led by War College commander Tomov, the cadets break free of the Furies and make their way to the bridge while Tomov holds the Furies back. The cadets take command of the bridge but Tomov is jettisoned into space. The Furies try to force their way onto the bridge while the cadets try to wake up the Miyazaki’s security systems in order to activate a force field. But the ship’s computer sees the cadets as invaders. SAM is able to directly access the computer with her Photonic abilities and begins to try to reassemble the broken code.
Meanwhile Admiral Vance suggests to Captain Nahla Ake that her enemy the pirate Braka has a weapon that has in the past successfully defeated the Furies. Nahla is reluctant but gives in and Braka is contacted. He makes several demands before agreeing to help.
B’Avi has a comic book about the death of the crew of the Miyazaki and teaches the ship’s computer the fate of her crew, then convinces the computer that the cadets are its new crew. The computer then puts up a force field to temporarily keep the Furies out.
The Furies are blocking the Athena from communicating with the cadets. But because of her connection with Caleb, Tarima can appear to him on the Miyazaki and speak with him. But it’s temporary. With the Doctor’s help she is able to turn off her psionic inhibitor so she can communicate directly with Caleb.
The Furies are highly sensitive to sound and Braka previously used a sonic weapon to subdue them. Starfleet has a ship called The Sargasso that is experimenting with sonic disruptions and so they send for it.
Tarima is instructed on guiding Caleb to get the Singularity Drive on the Miyazaki online. She connects with him and tells him he can access engineering from the bridge. He does this and then brings B’avi to help activate the singularity drive because it was the War College cadets that created the program but never had time to finish. Tarima tells Caleb to wait for her signal.
The Sargasso arrives.
The bridge crew decrypt a message to the Furies vessel that reads, “They took the bait”. The vessel uncloaks and it’s not a Furies vessel after all. It’s a Braka’s Vanari Ral ship and they realize that Braka has been working with the Furies the whole time. The Sargasso is disabled.
Tarima gives the signal and the singularity drive is activated. The Furies break through the force field. Tarima rips out her inhibitor and her physical body goes into convulsions but her mind is even stronger as she reaches to help Caleb. B’avi is killed by one of the Furies and SAM is damaged. Braka steals the Singularity Drive. Tarima takes Caleb to her safe place and then she begin screaming. Her screams destroy the Furies.
SAM is repaired but Tarima is now in a coma.
Braka is played by Paul Giamati, who earned a Masters Degree in Fine Arts Drama from Yale. He made his TV debut in She’ll Take Romance in 1990. He made his Broadway debut in Arcadia in 1995. He starred in American Splendour, Sideways, Win Win, Private Life, Barney’s Version (for which he won a Golden Globe), John Adams (for which he won an Emmy), The Hawk is Dying, The Holdovers (Oscar nominated), and Lady in the Water. He co-starred in Past Midnight, Man On the Moon, Duets, Shoot em Up, The Nanny Diaries, Ironclad, John Dies at the End (which he produced), Cosmopolis, Turbo, The Illusionist, Fred Clause, Cinderella Man (for which he was nominated for an Oscar), Winchell, Big Fat Liar, Pretty Bird, and Jungle Cruise. He co-starred in Too Big to Fail for which he was nominated for an Emmy. He won an Emmy for guesting on Downton Abbey.
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