Author Archives: Phil Paine

Image of the Month — Along the north shore of Lake Superior

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FILMS — May 2023

Posted by on May 31, 2023 No comments

(Brown­ing 1930) Out­side the Law
(Altieri 1992) Bat­man, the Ani­mat­ed Series: Ep.1 ― On Leather Wings
(Mankiewicz 1972) Sleuth
(Friend 1987) Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple: Ep.9 ― 4.50 from Paddington
(Petit 1989) Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple: Ep.10 ― A Caribbean Mystery
(Neg­ule­sco 1944) The Mask of Dimitrios
(Ban­gu­ra 2023) Mid­Somer Mur­ders: Ep.133 ― The Black­trees Prophecy
(Wil­son 2004) Marple: Ep.3 ― 4:50 from Paddington
(Wil­son 2004) Agatha Christie’s Marple: Ep.1 ― The Body In The Library
(DeBlois & Sanders 2010) How To Train Your Dragon
(But­ter­worh 1992) Bat­man, the Ani­mat­ed Series: Ep.2 ― Christ­mas with the Joker
(Slater 1985) Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple: Ep.4 ― A Pock­et­ful of Rye
(Cusack 2023) Aaron Carter: The Lit­tle Prince of Pop
(Volk-Weiss 2023) Gin­ger Minj: Bless Your Heart

First-time listening for May 2023

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26545. (Stan Rogers) North­west Passage
26546. (Dead South) Good Company
26547. (Etta James) Blues from the Big Apple
26548. (Stan Rogers) Foger­ty’s Cove
26549. (Kate & Anna McGar­rigle) Entre la jeunesse et la sagesse
26550. (Stan Rogers) From Fresh Water
26551. (Adolphe Charles Adam) Si j’é­tais Roi Overture
26552. (Olivi­er Berg­eron) “La voix que j’ai”
26553. (Pra­teek Kuhad) Best of Pra­teek Kuhad
26554. (Stan Rogers) The Very Best of Stan Rogers
26555. (Kate & Anna McGar­rigle) Love Over and Over
26556. (Neil Finn) Neil Finn 1979–2010
26557. (Johann Nepo­muk Fuchs) Trio for Clar­inet, Vio­la & Cello
26558. (Teeth of the Sea) Hypnoticon
26559. (Joonas Kokko­nen) Cel­lo Concerto
26560. (Stornoway) Bonxie
26561. (Enter the Hag­gis) Let the Wind Blow High
26562. (Lenny Breau) Last Sessions
26563. (John Coltrane) Black Pearls
26564. (Dovells) Cameo Park­way 1961–1965: The Best of the Dovells
26565. (Lev­on Helm) Lev­on Helm & the RCO All-Stars
26566. (Mor­ton Gould) Sym­phonette #2 [aka Sec­ond Amer­i­can Symphonette]

READING — MAY 2023

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25143. (Jean-Paul Gagnon & Emi­ly Beau­soleil) West By Not West: Comparative 
. . . . . Demo­c­ra­t­ic The­o­ry is Con­stel­la­tion­al [arti­cle]
25144. (Damon Knight) The Oth­er Foot [nov­el ver­sion; short sto­ry ver­sion read at 14153]
25145. (Fred­er­ic Charles Schaf­fer & Jean-Paul Gagnon) The Hege­mon­ic Con­cept of 
. . . . . Democ­ra­cy has Dis­solved, What Hap­pens Now? [arti­cle]
(Stephanie Dal­ley ‑ed. & –tr.) Myths From Mesopotamia:
. . . . 25146. [2] (Stephanie Dal­ley) Intro­duc­tion [pref­ace]
. . . . 25147. [2] (attr. Nur-Aya) Atra­ha­sis [c. 1700 BC]
. . . . 25148. [6] The Epic of Gil­gamesh, Stan­dard Akka­di­an Ver­sion from Nineveh
. . . . 25149. [7] The Epic of Gil­gamesh, Old Baby­lon­ian Version
. . . . . . . . . [see oth­er trans­la­tions at 1792, 1808, 14000, 20700–20705]
. . . . 25150. [3] The Descent of Ishtar to the Under­world [see Speis­er tr. in 1808]
. . . . 25151. [3] Ner­gal and Ereshki­gal, Stan­dard Version
. . . . 25152. [4] Ner­gal and Ereshki­gal, Amar­na Ver­sion [see Grayson tr. in 1809]
. . . . 25153. [3] Ada­pa [see Speis­er tr. 1808]
. . . . 25154. [2] (attr. Lu-Nan­na) Etana
. . . . 25155. [2] The Epic of Anzu, Stan­dard Version
. . . . 25156. [2] The Epic of Anzu, Old Baby­lon­ian Version 
. . . . 25157. [3] Enu­ma Elish, the Epic of Cre­ation [see Speis­er tr. in 1808 and 
. . . . . . . . . Addi­tion, Grayson tr., in 1809]
. . . . 25158. [3] Theoge­ny of Dun­nyu [see Grayson tr. in 1809]
. . . . 25159. [2] (attr. Kibti-ilani-Mar­duk of Dabibi) Erra and Ishum
. . . . 25160. (Desiree Simp­son) A Jour­ney Guid­ed by Grat­i­tude [arti­cle]
25161. (Mat­ti Charl­ton) A Frame­work for Drug Pol­i­cy Reform in the City of Toronto 
. . . . . [arti­cle]
25162. (Germ Lynn) What You Call
25163. (Bhagya M. Sub­rayan, et al) Scary Bar­bie: An Extreme­ly Ener­getic, Long-Duration 
. . . . . Tidal Dis­rup­tion Event Can­di­date With­out a Detect­ed Host Galaxy at 
. . . . . z = 0.995 [arti­cle]
25164. (Mat­ti Charl­ton) A Com­pre­hen­sive and Inno­v­a­tive Approach to Address 
. . . . . Home­less­ness in the City of Toron­to [arti­cle]
25165. (Ali Akbar & Ben­jamin Isakhan) The Islam­ic State, Shia Reli­gious Cler­ics and the 
. . . . . Mobil­i­sa­tion of Shia Mili­tias in Iraq and Syr­ia [arti­cle]
25166. (Mat­ti Charl­ton) Pro­pos­al for the City Peace Corps [arti­cle]
25167. (Umber­to Saba) Ernesto
25168. (Ter­ry Deary & Peter Hep­ple­white) The Awe­some Egyptians
25169. [2] (Gabrielle Roy) Rue Deschambault
25170. (Iain Thom­son) Frank Lloyd Wright Year By Year
25171. (George Hart) Ancient Egypt ― Eye­wit­ness Guide
25172. (Paul Duval) The Tan­gled Gar­den ― The Art of J. E. H. MacDonald

Image of the Month — In the Hoggar, middle of the Sahara

Posted by on May 1, 2023 No comments

FILMS — APRIL 2023

Posted by on April 30, 2023 No comments

(Jen­nings 2007) Son of Rambow
(Fleis­ch­er 1952) The Hap­py Time
(Forbes 1966) The Wrong Box
(Mazin 2023) The Last of Us: Ep.1 ― When You’re Lost in the Darkness
(Mata­las 2023) Star Trek: Picard: Ep.29 ― Võx
(Shin 1986) The Trans­form­ers: The Movie
(Mata­las 2023) Star Trek: Picard: Ep.30 ― The Last Generation
(Cur­tiz 1954) The Egyptian
(Smith 2003) Mid­Somer Mur­ders: Ep.27 — A Tale of Two Hamlets
(Gaghan 2020) Dolittle

First-time listening for April 2023

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26534. (Carl Maria von Weber) 7 Vari­a­tions for Piano on “Vien quà, Dori­na bella,” 
. . . . . Op.7, J. 53
26535. (Neil Finn) One Nil [aka One All in U.S.]
26536. (Heitor Vil­la-Lobos) Asso­bio a Jato [The Jet Whis­tle] for Flute and Cello
26537. (My Chem­i­cal Romance) Like Phan­toms, For­ev­er EP
26538. (Orange Wedge) Wedge
26539. (Takashi Yoshi­mat­su) Ain­o­la Lyri­cal Bal­lads for Piano Left Hand, Op.95: Romance 
. . . . . & Mozartino
26540. (Pra­teek Kuhad) The Way That Lover Do
26541. (Black Lodge Singers) Live at Fort Duschesne
26542. (Ry Cood­er) Into the Pur­ple Valley
26543. (Christoph Graup­n­er) Can­ta­ta “Also hat Gott die Welt geliebt” Bwv. 1139/30
26544. (Miles Davis) Walkin’

READING — APRIL 2023

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25131. (Dmit­ry Dubrovsky) Escape from Free­dom. The Russ­ian Aca­d­e­m­ic Community 
. . . . . and the Prob­lem of Aca­d­e­m­ic Righst and Free­doms [arti­cle]
25132. (David K. Wright) Impact of Farm­ing on African Land­scapes [arti­cle]
25133. (Joseph Kel­ly) Amer­i­ca’s Longest Siege ― Charleston, Slav­ery, and the Slow 
. . . . . March to Civ­il War
25134. (Clau­dia Chang, Sergei S. Ivanov & Per­ry A. Tourtel­lotte) Land­scape and 
. . . . . Set­tle­ment over 4 Mil­len­nia on the South Side of Lake Issyk Kul, Kyrgysztan: 
. . . . . Pre­lim­i­nary Results of Sur­vey Research in 2019–2021 [arti­cle]
25135. (Mat­ti Charl­ton) Dendrome
25136. (Meh­di Hasan) Win Every Argument
25137. (Pavla Peter­le Udi­vič & Miran Erič) Log­boat from Ižan­s­ka I {SI-81} from 
. . . . . Ljubl­jana: New Evi­dence for Iron Age Trans­porta­tion on the Ljubljana 
. . . . . Marsh­es, Slove­nia [arti­cle]
25138. (James Ker-Lind­say & Miku­las Fab­ry) Suc­ces­sion and State Creation
25139. (Tris­tan Carter) Obsid­i­an Con­sump­tion in the Late Pleis­tocene ― Early 
. . . . . Holocene Aegean: Con­tex­tu­al­is­ing New Data from Meolith­ic Crete [arti­cle]
25140. (Michael R. Waters, Thomas W. Stafford Jr. & David L. Carl­son) The Age of 
. . . . . Clo­vis ― 13,050 to 12,750 cal yr B.P. [arti­cle]
25141. (Mike Park­er Pear­son, et al) The Stone­henge River­side Project: Explor­ing the 
. . . . . Neolith­ic Land­scape of Stone­henge [arti­cle]
25142. (Tomas Lars­son & Stithorn Thananithi­chot) Who Votes for Virtue? Reli­gion and 
. . . . . Par­ty Choice in Thai­land’s 2019 Elec­tion [arti­cle]

Image of the Month

Posted by on April 1, 2023 No comments

FILMS — MARCH 2023

Posted by on March 31, 2023 No comments

(Tau­rog 1965) Dr. Gold­foot and the Biki­ni Machine
(Tenold 2023) Bran­don’s Cult Movie Review: Dr. Gold­foot and the Bikini 
. . . Machine
(Nyby 1951) The Thing [from Anoth­er World]
(Paper Will 2021) Enter­tain­ment Made by Cults
(Cass 1952) Cas­tle in the Air
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