FILMS — AUGUST 2020

(Ippoli­to 1980) Alien 2: On Earth [Alien 2 — Sul­la Terra]
(Trelfer 2020) Dark Cor­ners Review: (433) Alien 2: On Earth
(Price 1973) The Tomor­row Peo­ple: Ep.6 ― The Medusa Strain, Part 1: The Pow­er of Fear
(Price 1973) The Tomor­row Peo­ple: Ep.7 ― The Medusa Strain, Part 2: The Curse of Kaavan
(Jann 2019) Day­break: Ep.3 ― The Slime Queen­pin of Glen­dale, CA
(Wood 1939) Good­bye Mr. Chips
(Sul­li­van 1993) Sher­lock Holmes: Ep.34 ― The Last Vampyre [= “The Adven­ture of the
. . . Sus­sex Vampire”]
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First-time listening for August 2020

26011. (Pietro Mascagni) Iris [com­plete opera; d. Ques­ta; Oliv­ero, Neri, Puma]
26012. (Dimash Qudaiber­gen) “SOS d’un ter­rien en détresse” [live in Hunan, 2017]
26013. (Toshio Hosokawa) Nocturne
26014. (Dimash Qudaiber­gen) “Sin­ful Pas­sion” [live, New Wave Hall, Sochi, 2018]
26015. (Ed Sheer­an) Loose Change EP
26016. (Pro­col Harum) Home
26017. (Johannes Ock­egham) Mis­sa Annun­cia­cion a Maria
26018. (Tom­my Guer­rero) Perpetual
26019. (Otmar Mácha) Three Toc­catas for Organ
26020. (Twen­ty One Pilots) Trench

READING — AUGUST 2020

24340. (Yoshi­ta­ka Amano) The Tale of Gen­ji [art­book; text by Anri Ito & Junichi Imura]
24341. (Sören Stark, et al) The Uzbek-Amer­i­can Expe­di­tion in Bukhara. Pre­lim­i­nary Report on 
. . . . . the Third Sea­son, 2017 [arti­cle]
24342. (André-Yves Bourgès) Sur deux textes en vers du dossier hagiographique de Tugdual 
. . . . . [arti­cle]
24343. (J. A. Kegerreis, et al) Atmos­pher­ic Ero­sion by Giant Impacts onto Ter­res­tri­al Planets:
. . . . . A Scal­ing Law for any Speed, Angle, Mass, and Den­si­ty [arti­cle]
24344. (Kei­ichi Wada, Yusuke Tsukamo­to & Eiichi­ro Kokubo) For­ma­tion of “Blan­ets” from 
. . . . . Dust Grains around the Super­mas­sive Black Holes in Galax­ies [arti­cle]
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FILMS — JULY 2020

(Shi­lati 2019) Day­break: Ep.5 ― Home­com­ing Redux or My So Called Stunt Dou­ble Life
(Rogell 1941) The Black Cat
(Pey­ton 2019) Day­break: Ep.2 ― Schmuck Bait!
(Lau 1982) Leg­endary Weapons of China
(Orme 1992) The Black­heath Poi­son­ings [minis­eries]
(Hodges 1994) Dan­de­lion Dead [minis­eries]
(Bech­er & Phe­lan 2019) A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon
(Trelfer 2020) Dark Cor­ners Review: (427) Far­maged­don: A Shaun the Sheep Movie
(Sig­ur­b­jörns­son 2018) Him [Hann]
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First-time listening for July 2020

26001. (Trans­glob­al Under­ground) Inter­plan­e­tary Meltdown
26002. (Haver­gal Bri­an) Sym­pho­ny #6 “Sin­fo­nia Tragica”
26003. (Tame Impala) The Slow Rush
26004. (Rober­ta Flack) Chap­ter Two
26005. (Mia­mi Hor­ror & Beni) Mashed 5
26006. (Christoph Willibald Gluck) Flute Con­cer­to in G [attr. doubful]
26007. (John Coltrane & Miles Davis) The Com­plete Colum­bia Record­ings 1955–61, CD2
26008. (Blue Cheer) Outsideinside
26009. (Boy Harsh­er) Careful
26010. (Vítězsla­va Kaprálová) Piano Con­cer­to in D Minor, Op.7

READING — JULY 2020

24324. (Juli­et Clut­ton Brock) Ani­mals as Domes­ti­cate ― A World View through History
24325. (Andrew Gar­rard, et al) Pre­his­toric Envi­ron­ment and Set­tle­ment in the Azraq Basin: 
. . . . . Inter­im Report on the 1987 and 1988 Exca­va­tion [report]
24326. (Adam Gry­de­høj, Ilan Kel­man & Ping Su) Island Geo­gra­phies of Sep­a­ra­tion and 
. . . . . Cohe­sion: The Coro­n­avirus Pan­dem­ic and the Geopol­i­tics of Kalaal­lit Nunaat [arti­cle]
24327. (Chris Fox & Paul Wiegert) Exo­moon Can­di­dates from Tran­sit Trim­ing Vari­a­tions ― Six
. . . . . Kepler Sys­tems with TTVs Explain­able by Pho­to­met­ri­cal­ly Unseen Exo­moons [arti­cle]
24328. (Alun M. Ander­son) After the Ice ― Life, Death, and Geopol­i­tics in the New Arctic
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FILMS — JUNE 2020

(Juran 1957) 20 Mil­lion Miles to Earth
(Gates 2013) Bates Motel: Ep.1 ― First You Dream, Then You Die
(Grif­fith 1910) An Arca­di­an Maid
(Fish­er 1953) Four Sided Triangle
(Fukasaku 1978) Mes­sage from Space [宇宙からのメッセージ; Uchū kara no Messēji]
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First-time listening for June 2020

25987. (Bassek­ou Kouy­ate & Ngo­ni Ba) Segu Blue
25988. (Domeni­co Scar­lat­ti) Sonata in E minor, K.198 [tr. guitar]
25989. (Domeni­co Scar­lat­ti) Sonata in A, K.208 [tr. guitar]
25990. (Domeni­co Scar­lat­ti) Sonata in A, K.533 [tr. guitar]
25991. (Domeni­co Scar­lat­ti) Sonata in C, K.11 [tr. guitar]
25992. (Domeni­co Scar­lat­ti) Sonata in E “Cortège”, K.380 [tr. guitar]
25993. (Domeni­co Scar­lat­ti) Sonata in D, K.178 [tr. guitar]
25994. (Domeni­co Scar­lat­ti) Sonata in D minor, K.77 [tr. guitar]
25995. (Domeni­co Scar­lat­ti) Sonata in D minor, K.32 [tr. guitar]
25996. (Ter­ry Riley) Music for The Gift
25997. (Sam­sara Blues Exper­i­ment) Rev­e­la­tion & Mystery
25998. (Adolphe Charles Adam) Le Cor­saire, Bal­let in Three Acts
25999. (Imag­ine Drag­ons) Hell and Silence EP
26000. (Aztec Cam­era) BBC Rock Around the Clock, 1984