On Monday morning I looked at the chords that I found yesterday for “La complainte de Bonnot” by Boris Vian and they were the same as what I found when I transcribed the lyrics a few years ago, except that there were chords for the intro among the new set. I copied those down but then I worked out the intro on my own. Tomorrow I’ll start on the first verse and see if I agree with the uploader’s chord choices.
I revised some more of my translation of “Ça” (That), a parody of the Serge Gainsbourg song “Je t’aime. Moi non plus (I Love You. Neither Do I)” based on the separation of the two voices that I got from the audio yesterday.
I weighed 89.15 kilos before breakfast.
I called P. Carito Plumbing and Heating about my leaking toilet. The guy said someone would come by at 11:00. Later though he left a message that his helper was having a very busy morning so he gave me his number and told me to call him in the early afternoon.
I played my Martin during song practice for the second of four sessions and it always went out of tune.
I called the number Carito gave me and the guy said to call him at 13:30.
I shaved and showered and then called him. He said he’d be over soon.
I weighed 89.9 kilos before lunch.
Alfredo came at around 14:00. I recognized him from when he bled my radiators a year and a half ago. He’s still huffing and puffing even though he’s the same age as I am. When he walked into my place he said, “Your landlord doesn’t do any maintenance”. He tightened something up on the toilet pipe at the back but said it’s mostly condensation caused by warm summer air hitting cold pipes. Whatever he did seems to have fixed the problem and he only charged me $30.
In the afternoon I took a bike ride downtown and back.
I weighed 89.3 kilos at 17:50.
I was caught up in my journal at 19:29.
I digitized side 2 of Tom Smarda’s home recorded cassette tape of his songs. I played the cassette with my Sony stereo cassette deck through my Scarlett audio interface to Audacity and then extracted it to my hard drive. Tomorrow I’ll digitize my tape of Rob Siciliano’s Heckle Night.
I had a potato with gravy and a strip of finger beef while watching season 10, episode 6 of The Carol Burnett Show.
During the audience warmup an 11 year old boy asks Carol what specials she’ll be having this year. She reminds him that he’s not supposed to be there if he’s under 14. She mentions her special with Beverly Sills at the Met.
Someone asks Carol to name her favourite actress. She says Glenda Jackson and Shirley MacLaine.
Someone asks how’s yoga? The woman says her sister has a class with Carol’s yoga teacher Susanne. This would be Suzanne Stern and some of her classes were held for a small group in Carol’s home. Suzanne was trained by Clara Spring, who co-wrote a book in 1959 called Yoga for Today with Madeleine Goss. Spring studied under Blanche Devries (a former showgirl). Blanche studied under her husband Pierre Bernard (Born Perry Baker) who came to be known as the Great Oom, the Omnipotent Oom, and the Magnificent Oom. He trained in yoga for 18 years under a wandering yogi from Calcutta named Sylvais Hamati who he met in Nebraska at the age of 13. They travelled to San Francisco and started The Tantrik Order. I’m assuming that Hamati died and Bernard took control of the Tantrik Order because there is no information about his teacher after that. He was essentially kicked out of San Francisco and relocated in a 120 acre compound in Nyack, New York where nighttime baseball games were played in drag. His students tended to be rich women (including some Vanderbilts) and his fees were high. He spent three months in prison for abduction of 18 year old Gertrude Leo who he told he was a god. There were accusations that he was running a white slave ring and rumours of ritualistic sex and opium use. His reputation as a rascal was perhaps tempered by his marriage to Blanche. He passed on his yoga empire to her when he died and she eventually relocated to New York City where she started The Living Arts Center.
Someone asks Carol if she plans to do another cameo appearance on All My Children. Carol played Verla Grubbs, the long lost and secret daughter of Langley Wallingford. She says she’d love to but they shoot the show in New York and she would have to have an occasion to travel there from LA. Carol announces that they are going to find out that Kitty’s mother isn’t her real one but an actor whose been hired to keep Kitty away from Link.
Someone asks how many brothers does Eunice have. So far there have been three: One was Philip played by Roddy McDowell, another was Jack played by Tommy Smothers, and a third was played by Alan Alda.
In the Mr. Tudball-Mrs. Wiggins sketch, Mr. Tudball has a buzzer to unlock his office placed under Mrs. Wiggins’s desk. He shows her a yellow badge and says for her not to buzz anybody in unless they are wearing one. He buzzes her into his office to show her how it works and after she goes in she closes the door and sits at his desk. He tries to buzz himself in but it has to be buzzing when it’s opened and he can’t reach the buzzer and the door at the same time. Finally shouts for her to open the door. He pretends he’s a salesman coming in to see Tudball without a badge and asks if he can see Mr. Tudball. She looks through the window at Tudball’s office and tells him Tudball isn’t in. He tries it again and pretends he’s both the salesman and Tudball and Tudball says he can come in so she buzzes him in. He tries to explain that she’s not supposed to do that but says it’s like trying to teach a mermaid to do the splits. He makes it clear he doesn’t want anyone to come in without a badge then, no longer pretending to be a salesman he asks her to open the door. She asks to see his badge but his badge is in his office so she refuses to buzz him in. He tells her to go get him a coffee and while she’s gone her opens her office window to go out on the ledge to his office window to get into his office and get his badge but his window is locked. Wiggins comes back and closes the window and locks it. She sees Tudball is gone so she goes to lunch, leaving Tudball stuck on the ledge.
Ted plays Mr. Kramer who is the patient in an operating room with Vicki as the nurse. Harvey is the doctor and he arrives with Roddy who plays a filmmaker wanting to shoot the operation. Kramer is given knockout gas with a mask and a bubble bag that expands and contracts when he breathes. Roddy tells Kramer to take quicker breaths to make it more dramatic. After several changes Roddy wants to make the surgery more exciting Harvey says they are now going in for the gallstones. Roddy says that’s not an interesting enough surgery. So Harvey says to Kramer, “Your first name is Harry isn’t it? Have you ever thought of changing it to Harriet?” Kramer runs out the door.
Vicki sings a very depressing song called “Hollywood Seven” by Gloria Sklerov and Harry Lloyd about a person who moves to Hollywood to be a star and puts herself in a hotel while waiting for the call. She starts to run out of money and begins to turn tricks until one of them murders her. It was an Australian top 20 hit for Australian singer John English in 1976.
In London, Carol and Roddy enter an elevator together. They plays the same characters they played in a previous sketch in which their dialogue consists of single words for each person. They recognize each other and he reminds her that they already had an affair and even though they are both married they decide they would like to meet for another picnic but their schedules conflict.
Carol and Harvey play a couple with wicked hangovers after a party they don’t remember. But Harvey finds a bra and realizes he must have had sex with someone at the party. He confesses to Carol that he was with someone but recalls she was a dog. Vicki comes in without a hangover and tells Carol she remembers everything that happened and tells her that she and Harvey had sex. Now Carol is relieved but not so happy about the “dog” part.
Carol, Harvey, and Roddy do a musical tribute to silent films that is very similar to one that was done in season 5, episode 3 with Steve Lawrence instead of Roddy. Carol plays Buster Keaton and Roddy and Harvey play Laurel and Hardy in competing ice cream businesses, with each sabotaging the other’s and with the Keystone cops played by the Ernie Flatt Dancers.
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