Must ... finish ... al-bom. Completion is in sight! We'll have 14-15 tracks finished and recorded within a day or two.

Qoöl was a beast last week. Really fun but a bit out of control. The art chairs constantly falling off the wall was perfectly symbolic of the night in general. Up until about 9 it was just the usual, people going out the in door (illiterates? there are six signs up saying "NOT AN EXIT"), overcrowding in all the key thoroughfares, and rampant deck bumping, but a bit later the weirdness reports started rolling in. Apparently some girl took a dump on the bathroom floor (consensus reaction: "eeewwww!"), another girl got kicked in the shoulder on the dancefloor when some yahoos decided to lift their friend in the air and spin him around, and five or six people got escorted for rudeness/unruliness/staggering about incoherently/other probably legitimate reasons. About ten people tried to fake their way onto the Q-List with already punched qards (sharp-eyed Jackie ferreted out the fools by consulting the original signup lists the next day), when all they had to do was write us a convincing essay. Illiteracy (again), I suppose.

But, except for the above, the vibe was fantastic and the music was even better. I went home with Kia and Spesh did the out of town DJ duties with Tim Skinner (wine, steak, more wine). It's a good thing he loaded up on the meat though because apparently last night he had to eat at a raw-food restaurant - aack! Initial report: tasty but fart inducing.