611 Fridays!

611 had it's annual sale last night, and it was a fun little party with free food, drinks, and fatty deals on everything in the store. Wally took to the decks, lots of people showed... And the usual people were there, Chris Kaos, Devant, Nigel, Mike Panik (of course), Bones, Kevin... It was the first of 611's Friday nights, where all the resident DJs and special guests will be spinning all the vinyl for sale in the store! Frankie Bones is spinning next week. It sounds fun and challenging to me, to try spinning new records I don't have, and good for the people in the store, because they can hear all the new stuff we have! I can't wait to play at one. After the sale, we headed home where I dealt with a rather messy dog issue. I won't go into detail here, you really don't wanna know. Let's just say he had a bath today.

After the cleaning up, we headed down to to Fluid for "Freak," a monthly electro/techno/wave party. This month Nigel was their special guest, and it was a Costume Party, so it was people-watchin' fun! I thought the pick for the winners was well deserved, as the two Ghostbusters were completely decked out in the jumpsuits, the backpack guns, "Egon" even had the goggle contraption. It was great! I also rather liked the "Elle" costume (from Kill Bill). Nigel played lots of fun songs by Depeche Mode and Vitalic, and some other really rockin' tracks. He finally told me the name of this song I love that I never knew the name of... (It's called "What We Sell" by Komtron). Kevin Kong, who was quite drunk on scotch, I found out later, asked me while we were on stage to push some buttons on this electronic doo-hickey I didn't recognize. Having had the cosmo and a rum & coke, I was already feeling a little buzz, so I just started pushing random buttons, not really knowing what I was doing. Finally I realized I was controlling the colored lights in the room to do certain patterns. I found this to be pretty fun as buzzed as I was. We stayed until the last record played.