perfidy

I've been posting a few music reviews over at blogcritics.org that I haven't put up here assuming that you wouldn't care.

Ha! Of course you care!!

DVD- Poncho Sanchez: Live at Montreux

CD- Poncho Sanchez: Instant Party!

Trifecta- The Prestige Recordings Best of Coleman Hawkins, Sonny Rollins, and Red Garland.

CD- Antler

Play safe, kids! The Ministry homunculi are hard at work converting ones into zeroes and zeroes into nullsets in preparation for the Great Software Migration. The trek will be long and arduous. Morale would be lower but for the regular electric shocks administered to each minion. We cannot fail.

In the meantime children, be good to each other.

[wik] A word on onanism. One of my projects in graduate school was researching the intellectual history of Mason Locke Weems' Life of Washington, the book in which the whole cherry tree/cannot tell a lie thingy got started. It's a worthy project that touches on the very origins of what it means to be a citizen of the United States; indeed Weems' Washington was more than anything else a Primer For The Young American With Attention To The Virtues, Duties, and Benefits Which Are His To Bear. Weems was also a huckster, an itinerant bookseller whose livelihood pre-Washington (which was the number two bestseller in the nation after the Bible from about 1800 to 1850) who wrote a great many other books aimed at a mass market. Among these titles were: Hymen's Recruiting Sergeant (1799); God's Revenge Against Murder (1807); God's Revenge Against Gambling (1810); The Drunkard's Looking Glass (1812); God's Revenge Against Adultery (1815); The Bad Wife's Looking Glass (1823), and The Sin Of Onan (~1795), the last of which I desperately want to read though no copies are known to have survived. Onan!