Author Archives: Phil Paine
Image of the Month
FILMS — DECEMBER 2023
(Mankiewicz 1950) All About Eve
(Hitchcock 1946) Notorious
(Corman 1963) The Raven
(Schenkel 2001) Murder on the Orient Express
(Brooks 1974) Blazing Saddles
(Hitchcock 1954) Dial M for Murder
(Capra 1946) It’s a Wonderful Life
*(Yamazaki 2023) Godzilla Minus One [black & white version]
(Landers 1935) The Raven
(Curtiz 1942) Casablanca
(Huston 1941) The Maltese Falcon
First-time listening for DECEMBER 2023
26657. (Heart) The Essential Heart
26658. (Laura Pausini) Best of Laura Pausini: E ritorno da te
26659. (Belinda Carlisle) Her Greatest Hits
26660. (Bananarama) The Greatest Hits Collection
26661. (DMX) Year of the Dog … Again
26662. (Gwen Stafani) The Sweet Escape
26663. (Edward Elgar) Seven Lieder [s. Pitt, Wilde & Savidge; p. Norris]
26664. (Edward Elgar) A War Song, Op.5
26665. (Edward Elgar) Song: “Is She Not Passing Fair?”
26666. (Edward Elgar) Song: “As I Laye A‑Thynkynge”
26667. (Edward Elgar) Salut d’Amour, Op.12
26668. (Edward Elgar) Song: “The Wind at Dawn”
26669. (Edward Elgar) Song: “After”, Op. 31 #1
26670. (Edward Elgar) Woodland Interlude from the Oratoria Caractacus, Op.35
26671. (Edward Elgar) Song: “Dry Those Fair, Those Crystal Eyes”
26672. (Edward Elgar) Song: “The Pipes of Pan”
26673. (Edward Elgar) Sea Pictures, Song Cycle for Soprano and Piano, Op.37 [see 5549]
26674. (Fergie) The Duchess
READING — DECEMBER 2023
25274. (Jeff Lemire) Tales from the Farm [graphic novel]
25275. (Joseph Campbell) The Flight of the Wild Gander
25276. (Trevor Watkins) Architecture and “Theatres of Memory” in the Neolithic of
. . . . . Southwest Asia [article]
25277. (William Cranston Lawton) The Successors of Homer
25278. (Tulasi Srinivas) Wondering About Wonder [article]
25279. (Chad Orzel) How to Teach Relativity to Your Dog
25280. (Justin A. Holcomb, et al) Frost Action during the Younger Dryas Inferred from
. . . . . Soil Micromorphology at Connley Cave 5, Oregon [article]
25281. [2] (Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons) Watchmen #4 [comix]
25282. (Bahattin Çelik & Orhan Ayaz) Rise of Göbekli Tepe Culture: “Hunting Ground
. . . . . Economy” and the Role of Speculative “Knowledge” [article]
25283. (John Dryden) Marriage à la Mode [play]
Image of the Month — Mt. Logan, Canada’s Highest Peak
FILMS — NOVEMBER 2023
(Carpenter 1986) Big Trouble in Little China
(Bettendorf 2022) Not a Tame Lion
(Zemeckis 1985) Back to the Future
(Rogers 2023) The Magician’s Elephant
(Brooks 1974) Young Frankenstein
(Hitchcock 1960) Psycho
(Mossanen 2018) You Are Here: A Come from Away Story
(Reiner 1987) The Princess Bride
(Jewison 1967) In the Heat of the Night
(Reed 1949) The Third Man
(Zemeckis 1997) Contact
(Brooks 1993) Robin Hood: Men in Tights
First-time listening for NOVEMBER 2023
Hip Hop: The Collection ― The Classics, Vol.1, Disk 3:
. . . . 26642. (Pussycat Dolls) “Don’t Cha”
. . . . 26643. (Snoop Doggy Dogg) “Drop It Like It’s Hot” [w. Pharrell]
. . . . 26644. (Rihanna) “We Ride”
. . . . 26645. (Pretty Ricky) ” I Want You”
. . . . 26646. (The Game) “It’s Ok”
. . . . 26647. (Black Eyed Peas) “Bebot”
. . . . [5790] (Eminem) “Guilty Conscience” [w. Dr. Dre]
. . . . 26648. (Jurassic 5) “Concrete School Yard”
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READING – NOVEMBER 2023
25266. (Zephyr Teachout) Corruption in America from Benjamin Franklin’s Snuff Box to
. . . . . Citizens United
25267. (Alisha B. Adams) We’re All In This Together: Accessing the Maternal-infant
. . . . . Relationship in Prehistoric Vietnam [article]
25268. (Jacob Holland Lulewicz) Americas, North: Indigenous Political Institutions
. . . . . [article]
25269. (Heather Cox Richardson) Wounded Knee ― Party Politics and the Road to an
. . . . . American Massacre
25270. (Daniel Levitin) A Field Guide to Lies
25271. (Nile Green) Matteo Ricci as an Islamicate Informant. Two Moments of
. . . . . Connection in the Persian Afterlives of a Latin Account [article]
25272. (Daniel T. Potts) Uruk and the Origins of the Sacred Economy [article]
25273. (Chad Oliver) Shadows in the Sun
FILMS — OCTOBER 2023
(La Cava 1936) My Man Godfrey
(Sekely & Francis 1963) The Day of the Triffids
(Schenkel 2001) Murder on the Orient Express
(Morse 1954) Manhunt in Space [MST3K version]
(Humbertsone 1936) Charlie Chan at the Opera
(Wakabayashi 1959) Prince of Space [遊星王子] [MST3K version]