First-time listening for July 2021

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26157. (Alexan­der Goehr) Piano Sonata, Op.2
26158. (Black Lodge Singers) Enter the Circle
26159. (Pan­ic! at the Dis­co) Too Weird To Live, Too Rare To Die!
26160. (Ali­cia Keys) Songs In A Minor
26161. (XX) I See You
26162. (Loy­set Com­père) Alons Fere Nos Barbes
26163. (Ry Cood­er) Ry Cooder
26164. (Georg Christoph Wagen­seil) Cel­lo Con­cer­to in A, WV348
26165. (Soft Machine) The Land Of Cocayne

READING — JULY 2021

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24598. (Steven Muhlberg­er) Intro­duc­tion to The Chron­i­cle of the Good Duke Louis II 
. . . . . of Bour­bon [pref­ace]
24599. (Jean Cabaret d’Orville) The Chron­i­cle of the Good Duke Louis II of Bourbon 
. . . . . [tr. Steven Muhlberg­er] [see also 26027, 26028]
24600. (Sila Tri­pati) Ancient Mar­itime Trade of the East­ern Indi­an Lit­toral [arti­cle]
24601. (Steven Muhlberg­er) [in blog Muhlberg­er’s Ear­ly His­to­ry] Time for a Papal
. . . . . Apol­o­gy ― Or Not [arti­cle]
24602. (Matthew Browne) George Eliot as a Poet [arti­cle]
24603. (George Eliot) Com­plete Poems [verse]
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FILMS — JUNE 2021

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(Stone 2021) The Dig
(Haas 1956) The Hardy Boys: The Mys­tery of the Apple­gate Trea­sure: Ep.16 ― The
. . . Tower’s Secret
(Haas 1956) The Hardy Boys: The Mys­tery of the Apple­gate Trea­sure: Ep.17 ― Never
. . . Say Die
(Haas 1956) The Hardy Boys: The Mys­tery of the Apple­gate Trea­sure: Ep.18 ― Boys
. . . In Danger
(Haas 1956) The Hardy Boys: The Mys­tery of the Apple­gate Trea­sure: Ep.19 ― The
. . . Tow­er Treasure
(Kalmanow­icz 1980) The Children
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First-time listening for June 2021

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26145. (Mia­mi Hor­ror) Illumination
26146. (John Stain­er) God So Loved the World
26147. (Jami­la Woods) Heavn
26148. (Soft Boys [Robyn Hitch­cock]) A Can of Bees
26149. (Atom­ic Roost­er) I Can’t Take No More [Live at Beat Club, 1971]
26150. (Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach) Über die Fin­stern­iss kurz vor dem Tode Jesu,
. . . . . Wq.197 #29 [s. Fis­ch­er Dieskau][s. Fis­ch­er Dieskau]
26151. (Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach) Prü­fung am Abend, WQ.194 #7 [s. Fis­ch­er Dieskau]
26152. (Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach) Trost der Erlö­sung, Wq.194 #30 [s. Fis­ch­er Dieskau]
26153. (Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach) Paßion­slied: Erforsche mich, erfahr mein Herz,
. . . . . Wq.194 #14 [s. Fis­ch­er Dieskau]
26154. (Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach) Abend­lied: Herr, der du mir das Leben, Wq.194 #32
. . . . . [s. Fis­ch­er Dieskau]
26155. (Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach) Bußlied, Wq.194 #46 [s. Meyn]
26156. (Elec­tric Mud) Elec­tric Mud

READING — JUNE 2021

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24584. (Bri­an D. Fields, et al) Super­no­va Trig­ger for End-Devon­ian Extinc­tions [arti­cle]
24585. (Thom Hart­mann) The Hid­den His­to­ry of Amer­i­can Oligarchy
24586. (Mikheil Abramishvili) In Search of the Ori­gins of Met­al­lur­gy – An Overview of
. . . . . South Cau­casian Evi­dence [arti­cle]
24587. (Gio­van­ni Gugg) The Tow­er Is Burn­ing ― Real and Sym­bol­ic Vio­lence between
. . . . . Techno­pho­bics and Techn-rebels of 5G Tech­nol­o­gy dur­ing the COVID-19
. . . . . Pan­dem­ic [arti­cle]
24588. (David Alt­man) Check­ing Exec­u­tive Per­son­al­ism: Col­le­gial Gov­ern­ments and the
. . . . . Lev­el of Democ­ra­cy [arti­cle]
24589. (Sar­fraz Khan & Sajid Mah­mood Awan) Case Study of Irreg­u­lar Migra­tion from 
. . . . . Pak­istan to Europe: Reflec­tions on the Con­tem­po­rary Trends [arti­cle]
24590. (Jean-Paul Gagnon) Words of Democ­ra­cy: Res­cu­ing an Aban­doned Science
. . . . . [arti­cle]
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FILMS — MAY 2021

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(Trelfer 2021) Drac­u­la vs. Span­ish Drac­u­la ― A Tale of Two Visions
(Bern­stein 2006) 30 Rock: Ep.1 ― Pilot 
(Adreon 1953) Cana­di­an Moun­ties vs Atom­ic Invaders: Ep.1 ― Arc­tic Intrigue
(Adreon 1953) Cana­di­an Moun­ties vs Atom­ic Invaders: Ep.2 ― Mur­der or Accident?
(Adreon 1953) Cana­di­an Moun­ties vs Atom­ic Invaders: Ep.3 ― Fangs of Death
(Adreon 1953) Cana­di­an Moun­ties vs Atom­ic Invaders: Ep.4 ― Under­ground Inferno
(Pol­lock 1961) Mur­der, She Said
(Nal­luri 2014) The 100: Ep.1 ― Pilot
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First-time listening for May, 2021

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26135. (Mekong Pirates) Roulette
26136. (Mastodon) Remission
26137. (Willis “Gator” Jack­son) The Good Life
26138. (Takashi Yoshi­mat­su) Cel­lo Con­cer­to Cen­tau­rus Unit for Cel­lo and Orchestra
26139. (Adobo Con­spir­a­cy) Live at Equinox, Sept.12, 2014 
26140. (30 Sec­onds to Mars) Love, Lust, Faith and Dreams
26141. (Vítězsla­va Kaprálová) Mil­i­tary Sinfonietta
26142. (Bacano) Live at Equinox, March 27, 2015
26143. (Atom­ic Roost­er) Mas­ters From the Vault
26144. (Johann Nepo­muk Hum­mel) Piano Sonata #5 in F‑sharp Minor

READING — MAY 2021

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24531. (L. Frank Baum) The Won­der­ful Wiz­ard of Oz
24532. (Matthew Simon­ton) Clas­si­cal Greek Oligarchy
(Spike Mil­li­gan, et al) Spike Mil­li­gan ― A Cel­e­bra­tion [com­piled by Roger Sawyer]:
. . . . 24533. (Nor­ma Frances) Intro­duc­tion [pref­ace]
. . . . 24534. (Spike Mil­li­gan) The Singing Foot [sto­ry]
. . . . 24535. (Spike Mil­li­gan) Over­ture [film script excerpt]
. . . . 24536. (Spike Mil­li­gan) Terns; The Flea; The ABC [verse]
. . . . 24537. (Har­ry Sec­ombe) Sir Har­ry Sec­ombe, CBE [arti­cle]
. . . . 24538. (Spike Mil­li­gan, et al) Goon Show #254: The Call of the West [radio play]
. . . . 24539. (Spike Mil­li­gan) Puck­oon [sto­ry]
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