Author Archives: Phil Paine
Image of the Month — Along the north shore of Lake Superior
FILMS — May 2023
(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
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
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
FILMS — APRIL 2023
(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
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
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]
FILMS — MARCH 2023
(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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