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
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READINGMAY 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:
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Image of the Month — In the Hoggar, middle of the Sahara

FILMSAPRIL 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’

READINGAPRIL 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]

Image of the Month

FILMSMARCH 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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First-time listening for March 2023

26517. (Mike Old­field) Amarok
26518. (Jon Batiste) Hol­ly­wood Africans
26519. (Carl Nielsen) String Quar­tet in G, FS5, op.5
26520. (Frank Zap­pa) Just Anoth­er Band From L.A.
26521. (Tove Lo) Queen of the Clouds
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READINGMARCH 2023

25104. (Kirsti Mäki­nen) The Kale­vala: Tales of Mag­ic and Adventure 
. . . . . [ill. Pirkko-Liisa Suro­je­gin] [tr. Kaa­ri­na Brooks] [prose re-telling of 
. . . . . Elias Lön­nrot’s Kale­vala with verse samples] 
. . . . . [see oth­er trans­la­tions: Bosley at 27 & 8563; Kir­by at 391; 
. . . . . Friberg at 18426]
25105. (Mat­ti Charl­ton) The Dark Woods ― A Very Light Bed­time Children’s 
. . . . . Story 
(William M. Brei­d­ing ‑ed.) Portable Stor­age Nine:
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