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First-time listening for October 2023

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26622. (James) The Best of James
26623. (George Butts) Breakin’ Out the Past
Hip Hop: The Col­lec­tion ― The Clas­sics, Vol.1, Disk 2:
. . . 26624. (Pret­ty Ricky) “Nev­er Let Go”
. . . 26625. (Puff Did­dy) “I Will Be Miss­ing You”
. . . 26626. (Gwen Ste­fani) “Wind It Up”
. . . 26627. (Mis­sy Elliott) “Get Your Freak On”
. . . 26628. (50 Cent) “This Is How We Do”
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READING — OCTOBER 2023

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25257. (Samir Baig) Why We Don’t Care… and How to Get Us To [arti­cle]
25258. (Maria Isabel Puer­ta Rivera) Demo­c­ra­t­ic Back­slid­ing and Autocratization: 
. . . . . The Polit­i­cal Effects of the COVID-19 Pan­dem­ic in Nicaragua and Venuzuela 
25259. (Iain Reid) I’m Think­ing of End­ing Things
25260. (Mar­tin Bru­sis) Con­di­tions and Con­se­quences of Pop­ulism and Democratic 
. . . . . Backsliding
25261. (John Lacy) The Old Troop; or, Mon­sieur Rag­gou [play]
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Image of the Month — The Party Crasher

Posted by on October 1, 2023 No comments

Her­nan Bas, “The Par­ty Crash­er” (2014)

FILMS — SEPTEMBER 2023

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(Grou 2017) Car­di­nal: Ep.1 ― Forty Words for Sor­row: Cardinal
(Grou 2017) Car­di­nal: Ep.2 ― Forty Words for Sor­row: Delorme
(Hitch­cock 1937) Young and Inno­cent [aka The Girl Was Young]
(Lee 1940) The Door with Sev­en Locks
(Jaco­by 1968) Snow Treasure
(Lumet 1957) 12 Angry Men
(Wright 2010) Scott Pil­grim vs. The World

First-time listening for September 2023

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26608. (Leonard Cohen) Var­i­ous Positions
26609. (Annie Blan­chard) Annie Blanchard
26610. (Fer­nan­do Sor) Intro­duc­tion and Var­ied Theme for Gui­tar, Op.20
26611. (Leonard Cohen) You Want It Darker
26612. (Rahul Shar­ma) Native Signs
26613. (Kon­duku) Kiran
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READING — SEPTEMBER 2023

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25245. (Robert S. Allen) His Majesty’s Indi­an Allies ― British Indi­an Pol­i­cy in the 
. . . . . the Defence of Cana­da 1774–1815
25246. (Paul Howe) Erod­ing Norms and Demo­c­ra­t­ic Decon­sol­i­da­tion [arti­cle]
25247. (Ceren Civlan) A Brief Overview of the Effects of Mediter­ranean Pol­i­tics and 
. . . . . Ottoman-Haps­burg Con­flict on the Mod­ern Euro­pean Iden­ti­ty [arti­cle]
25248. (Jeff Good­ell) The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet
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Image of the Month

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FILMS — AUGUST 2023

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(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

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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

READING — AUGUST 2023

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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
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