FILMS – AUGUST 2016
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on August 31, 2016
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(Zemeckis 1985) Back to the Future
(Mayne 1974) Doctor Who: Ep.374 ― The Monster of Peladon, Part 5
(Mayne 1974) Doctor Who: Ep.375― The Monster of Peladon, Part 6
(Montagnon 1969) Civilisation, a Personal View by Kenneth Clark: Ep.6 ― Protest and
. . . Communication
(Carr 1952) The Adventures of Superman: Ep.15 ― Treasure of the Incas
(Fleming 1993) Agatha Christie’s Poirot: Ep.36 ― The Yellow Iris
(Carr 1952) The Adventures of Superman: Ep.16 ― Double Trouble
(Moxey 1960) The City of the Dead [aka Horror Hotel] [RiffTrax version]
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First-time listening for August 2016
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23738. (Leon Scott [Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville]) Au claire de la lune [first song
. . . . . recorded, April 9 1860 and reconstructed]
23739. (Leon Scott [Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville]) Chi crederia sotto forme umane e
. . . . . sotto queste pastorali spoglie fosse nascosto un Dio? Non mica un… from Tasso’s
. . . . . Aminta [first recorded spoken words, April or May 1860, reconstructed]
23740. (Leon Scott [Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville]) Complete sound recording
. . . . . experiments, 1853–1860 [reconstructed by Lawrence Berkeley National Labor-atory]
23741. (Constant Lambert) Concerto for Piano and Nine Instruments
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READING — AUGUST 2016
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23289. (Stefan Zweig) The Post-Office Girl [Rausch der Verwandlung, tr. Joel Rotenberg]
23290. (Krzysztof Nowicki) The Final Neolithic in Crete: Terminology and Chronology
. . . . . [article]
23291. (Ármann Jakobsson) The Specter of Old Age: Nasty Old Men in the Sagas of the
. . . . . Icelanders [article]
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Young Winwood
Posted by Phil Paine
on August 18, 2016
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Some of my earliest experiences of listening to the blues came from the blues-rock bands of the 1960s and 1970s, which unobtrusively shared the record bins with the chart-topping bands, but were not household words. I heard them long before I learned anything about classic blues. Among my favourites were Traffic, Blind Faith and the Spencer Davis Group. What these three bands shared was the amazing vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Steve Winwood.
Winwood is English, but he learned his trade from the American masters. The older blues singers toured in England alone, relying on local pickup bands for backing wherever they went, and the teenage Winwood, active since the age of 8 in Birmingham’s club scene, played with B.B. King, John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters, T‑Bone Walker, Chuck Berry, Howlin’ Wolf, Sonny Boy Williamson, and even Bo Diddley! Just how much he learned, and how quickly he learned it is demonstrated by this performance of the 1920s classic “Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out”, at the age of fifteen.
FILMS – JULY 2016
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on July 31, 2016
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(Davis 1981) Clash of the Titans
(Carr 1952) The Adventures of Superman: Ep.5 ― The Monkey Mystery
(McKissock 2005) Islands of Scotland: Ep.4 ― The Shetland Islands
(Iwerks 1930) Fiddlesticks [Flip the Frog Cartoon #1]
(Tuttle 1930) The Benson Murder Case
(Groening & Sandoval 2012) Futurama: Ep.106 ― Fun on a Bun
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First-time listening for July 2016
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on July 31, 2016
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23706. (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) La clemenza di Tito [complete opera; d. Davis;
. . . . . w. Constable, Burrows, Baker, Popp]
23707. (Courtney Barnett) Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit
23708. (The 1975) The 1975 [2 cd version]
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READING — JULY 2016
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23233. (Poul Anderson) The Dancer from Atlantis
23234. (Antonio Currais, et al) Amyloid Proteotoxicity Initiates an Inflammatory Response
. . . . . Blocked by Cannabinoids [article]
23235. (Richard Wilk) Towards an Anthropology of Bad Business [article]
23236. (Jesús Carrobles Santos, et al) Toletum. Configuración y evolución urbana de la capital
. . . . . visigoda: urbs et territorium [article]
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Wednesday, July 27, 2016 — Danger
Posted by Phil Paine
on July 27, 2016
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Things are getting very dangerous. There is now a serious possibility that the people of the United States will elect Caligula as President. The entire world is endangered by this folly.
I will repeat what I have said before. I consider any American who votes Republican in the coming election to be a traitor to his country. There is simply no excuse conceivable for an act so immoral, so disgusting, so vile, as to vote to make Donald Trump the most powerful person in the world. Furthermore, I count it a moral obligation for any American to act to prevent it. Nobody can claim to be a patriot unless they actively oppose this monster at least to the extent of going to the polls to vote against him. There can be no sitting this one out.