I memorized the third verse of “Il est Rigolo mon gigolo” (He’s a Giggle Oh My Gigolo). That’s half the song.
I weighed 88.4 kilos before breakfast, which is the lightest I’ve been in the morning since April 17.
I played my Martin acoustic for song practice and it went out of tune during every song.
Around midday I painted the bottom half of the bathroom wire rack. Next I need to do some touch-ups while it’s still upside down and after it dries I’ll turn it upright and finished the touch-ups before mounting it on the wall. Tuesday is my next free day but I think I’ll be shopping for birthday candy for my daughter that day. I’ll have it mounted sometime in the next couple of weeks.
I weighed 89.55 kilos before lunch.
In the afternoon I took a bike ride downtown and back.
I weighed 89.15 kilos at 18:05.
I was caught up in my journal at 19:26.
I recorded from cassette through audio interface to Audacity and then exported to my hard drive the first Christian and the Lions concert featuring me on guitar and Brian Haddon on recorder and backup vocals. The previous Christian and the Lions band had a core of Tom Smarda on Stratocaster and Steve Lowe on acoustic guitar with me only singing. There’s still one more song from that concert on the flip side of the tape. I’ll digitize that tomorrow. While recording, I lost the waveform after the first song, then during “The Next State of Grace” and during “Me and Gravity” and so I had to start each song over once the interface was blinking green again.
I had a potato with gravy and half a pork tenderloin while watching season 5, episode 21 of The Carol Burnett Show.
During the audience warmup someone asks Carol who she would like to be stranded on a desert island with. She asks, “You mean besides my husband?” She says, since Burt Reynolds answered that question with “Carol Burnett” I might as well be with someone who wants me. She adds “Peter Ustinov” and “someone who can cook”.
Another person asks who was her favourite silent film actress. She says she hasn’t seen many silent films but she’d read that Mabel Normand was a great comedian.
The first skit is a re-enactment of one from season 3, episode 11. Carol has a bad cold but Roger has poker night at their place. She complains that every time his friends come over it takes her a week to clean up after them. The men are inconsiderate and she freaks out. The only thing different is that Tim Conway gets ketchup on Carol’s dress.
Eydie Gormé sings the 1964 song “A House is Not a Home” by Burt Bacharach and Hal David.
The next skit has Harvey playing a cop named Mullins at night in a park waiting for his new partner on a special assignment. The rookie Vergil Frisby arrives. He wants Mullins to prove his identity first. Vergil goes into the bushes to change while Mullins changes in the open. There have been several muggings of couples in the park followed by sexual assaults of the women. Vergil is cross dressed as a female (Tim’s mannerisms in drag crack Harvey and himself up). There’s a piece of false eyelash on Tim’s cheek through the whole skit. They have to behave as if they are intimate so Mullins has his arm around Vergil. Vergil starts to behave like they are a real couple. Lyle comes as the mugger and knows they are cops. He ties them to the bench with their own handcuffs.
There’s a parody of the James Bond film Dr. No with Tim as James Blonde and Harvey as Dr. Nose. There is an enemy agent disguised as a lamp in James’s apartment. James dials B-A-N-G on the phone and then points the phone to kill him. He used “Dial a Bullet”. “C” comes to tell him his mission and gives him a finger gun. James accidentally shoots “C” with it. Carol plays Nose’s agent Passion Plenty who comes to seduce him so he won’t go after Nose. James and Passion have a kiss-off to see who can land the most kisses on the other. James wins. James descends to Nose’s lab on a rope ladder from a helicopter. Vickie plays Nose’s moll. James tries to defeat her with a kiss but she’s wearing plastic lips. James is tied up with a laser slowly rising towards him. Passion arrives because she has fallen in love with James as a result of his kisses. She saves him from the laser. Nose still has his nose gun but Passion pretends she’s about to kiss him, bends his nose into his ear and then makes him sneeze with pepper to blow his brains out. James accidentally shoots Passion and himself with his finger gun.
The final segment is an operetta. Carol plays six year old Suzie on her birthday but no one has acknowledged her birthday because they are absorbed by the one week old baby boy who is now in the family. She thinks the infant is ugly but all the adults parade before him and call him an angel. Aunt Bubbles played by Eydie arrives to praise the baby. Suzy decides to run away but first chastises everyone for forgetting her birthday. Her mother says they didn’t forget and that her baby brother is their gift to her. Thinking they mean that literally Suzy gives he baby to Bubbles. Her aunt tells her that the baby looks like her. Suzy decides to keep the baby after all.
After Eydie signs the guest book Carol walks away without kissing her, which is the first time I’ve seen her do that. After kissing Tim though she comes back to kiss Eydie.
Eydie Gormé sang with big bands right after high school. She starred in the Spanish language radio program Cita con Eydie (A Date with Eydie). She had a hit with “Blame it on the Bossa Nova” in 1963, which was nominated for a Grammy. She joined the cast of The Tonight Show for 287 episodes. She met Steve Lawrence there and they got married. They were together for 56 years until she died. They won a Grammy together for the title song from their album We Got Us. They starred together in the Broadway musical The Golden Rainbow. They won an Emmy for their special Our Love is Here to Stay. They recorded a cover of Soundgarden’s “Black Hole Sun”. She won a Grammy for “If He Walked Into My Life”. She was more internationally famous for her Spanish language records. She was Neil Sedaka’s first cousin. She went to high school with Stanley Kubrick.
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