Author Archives: Phil Paine

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FILMSAUGUST 2023

(Cor­man 1960) The Fall of the House of Usher
(Cor­man 1961) The Pit and the Pendulum
(Cor­man 1962) The Pre­ma­ture Burial
(Craven 1986) Dead­ly Friend
(Cor­man 1962) Tales of Terror
(Atluri 2023) Vaathi
(Rawl­ins 1942) Ara­bi­an Nights

First-time listening for August 2023

26598. (Edi­tors) In This Light and On This Evening
26599. (Eivør [Eivør Páls­dót­tir]) Live in Tórshavn
26600. (Roy Clark) Great­est Hits
26601. (Eugène Ysaÿe) Vio­lin Con­cer­to in E Minor
26602. (DeVotch­Ka) A Mad & Faith­ful Telling
26603. (Lenny Breau) Lenny Breau on CBC Radio, 1983
26604. (George Enes­cu) Sym­pho­ny #3 in C, Op.21
26605. (George Enes­cu) Roman­ian Poem for Orches­tra, Op.1
26606. (Ian Tyson) Carnero Vaquero
26607. (Kan­tele Song and Dance Ensem­ble) Best of Kantele

READINGAUGUST 2023

25227. (Bri­an Klaas) The Despot’s Accom­plice ― How the West is Aid­ing and 
. . . . . Abet­ting the Decline of Democracy
25228. (K. P. Dial, A. M. Heers & T. R. Dial) Onto­genic and Evolutionary 
. . . . . Trans­for­ma­tions: Eco­log­i­cal Sig­nif­i­cance of Rudi­men­ta­ry Structures 
. . . . . [arti­cle]
25229. (Stephen M. Gatesy & David M. Baier) Skele­tons in Motion: An Animator’s 
. . . . . Per­spec­tive on Ver­te­brate Evo­lu­tion [arti­cle]
25230. (Daniel Z. Lieber­man & Michael E. Long) The Mol­e­cule of More
25231. (Vic­tor D. Thomp­son, et al) The Ear­ly Mate­ri­al­iza­tion of Democratic 
. . . . . Insti­tu­tions among the Ances­tral Musko­gean of the Amer­i­can Southeast 
. . . . . [arti­cle]
(Vitalii Ogi­ienko ‑ed.) The Holodomor and the Ori­gins of the Sovi­et Man ― Reading 
. . the Tes­ti­mo­ny of Anas­ta­sia Lysyvets:
. . . . 25232. (Natal­ka Bilot­serkivets) An Unfor­got­ten Life ― On My Mother’s 
. . . . . . . . . Memoirs 
. . . . 25233. (Ser­hy Yekelchyk) If Mon­u­ments Could Speak 
. . . . 25234. (Anas­ta­sia Lysyvets) Speak­ing the Hap­py Life 
. . . . 25235. (Vitalii Ogi­ienko) Secrets of Death, Life, and Sur­vival dur­ing the 
. . . . . . . . . Holodomor 
25236. (Kevin Padi­an & Hans-Dieter Sues) The Age of Trans­for­ma­tion: The Triassic 
. . . . . Peri­od and the Rise of Today’s Land Ver­te­brate Fau­na [arti­cle]
25237. (Sean McFate) The Mod­ern Mer­ce­nary ― Pri­vate Armies and What They 
. . . . . Mean for World Order
25238. (Anon.) Hiawatha på bjørne­jagt [Hiawatha’s Bear Hunt]
25239. (David K. Wright) Pale­oe­col­o­gy in Stud­ies of the Pleis­tocene Archae­ol­o­gy of 
. . . . . Africa [arti­cle]
25240. (Philip D. Gin­gerich) Evo­lu­tion of Whales from Land to Sea [arti­cle]
25241. (Dou­glas Rushkoff) Sur­vival of the Rich­est ― Escape Fan­tasies of the Tech 
. . . . . Billionaires
25242. (Rana Özbal) Tra­jec­to­ries of Com­plex­i­ty in the Fifth Mil­le­ni­um BC
. . . . . A Com­par­a­tive Approach [arti­cle]
25243. (Louis Hen­nepin) A New Dis­cov­ery of a Vast Coun­try in Amer­i­ca, Extending 
. . . . . above Four Thou­sand Miles between New France and Mex­i­co, Vol­ume 1 
. . . . . [Eng­lish tr. of 1698]
25244. (Tris­tan Carter) Noth­ing to See Here! The Chal­lenges of Pub­lic Archae­ol­o­gy at 
. . . . . Pale­olith­ic Stél­i­da, Nax­os [arti­cle]

Image of the Month — Storm on the Canadian Prairies

FILMSJULY 2023

(Lantz 1930) Not So Qui­et [Oswald the Lucky Rab­bit cartoon]
(McCarthy 1930) The Okla­homa Cyclone
(Wilkin­son 2023) Mid­Somer Mur­ders: Ep.134 ― The Dept of Lies
(Ishii & Itô 2016) Erased: Ep.2 ― Palm of the Hand
(Green 1945) A Thou­sand and One Nights
(Losey 1948) The Boy with Green Hair
(Davis 2003) Holes

First-time listening for July 2023

26584. (Edi­tors) Black Gold: Best of Editors
26585. (Gabriel Fau­ré) Les Djinns for Cho­rus & Piano, Op.12
26586. (Dead South) Illu­sion & Doubt
26587. (Stam­ped­ers) Against the Grain
26588. (Mis­sis­sip­pi John Hurt & Buk­ka White) Shake ‘Em On Down
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READINGJULY 2023

25218. (Sher­man Hol­lar) Ancient Egypt
25219. (John Flana­gan) Ranger’s Appren­tice: The Ruins of Gorlan
25220. (Ben­jamin D. San­ter, et al) Excep­tion­al Stratos­pher­ic Con­tri­bu­tion to Human 
. . . . . Fin­ger On Atmos­pher­ic Tem­per­a­ture [arti­cle]
25221. (Rebec­ca Gib­lin & Cory Doc­torow) Choke­point Cap­i­tal­ism ― How Big Tech and
. . . . . Big Con­tent Cap­tured Cre­ative Labor Mar­kets and How We’ll Win Them Back
25222. (L. Sprague de Camp) The Great Fetish
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FILMSJUNE 2023

(Hitch­cock 1935) The 39 Steps
(Cav­al­can­ti 1947) The Life and Adven­tures of Nicholas Nickleby
(Hellings 2007) Mid­Somer Mur­ders: Ep.56 ― Death and Dust
(DeBlois & Sanders 2010) How to Train Your Dragon
(Tsut­su­mi & Oh 2022) Oni: Thun­der God’s Tale: Ep.1 ― Onar­i’s Kushi Power
(Gor­rie 1976) The Pic­ture of Dori­an Gray
(Ford 1941) How Green Was My Valley
(Oshii 1996) Ghost in the Shell [攻殻機動隊]
(Frow 2019) Mid­Somer Mur­ders: Ep.119 ― Draw­ing Dead