News: My flight to LA for GRAMMY week leaves in a few hours, just enough time for me to ruin my brand new manicure (“charcoal dust”) before the big events. Studio build update: we bought windows! My studio will have windows! Demo starts next month, hopefully, after the rains. Mastering update: some phenomenal projects announced that I had the honor & pleasure to work on, including a reissue of jazz guitarist Gabor Szabo’s 1969 (Ebalunga!), two new singles - “Fudge” and “Heels Over Head” - by Occurrence, in advance of a forthcoming firestorm of an album, an album of wild percussion and piano by Ira Kamin and PC Muñoz, aka St. Anne’s Band, and a project that brought out an enormous range of emotions for me, Blacklips Bar: Androgyns and Deviants - Industrial Romance for Bruised and Battered Angels, 1992–1995, which documents a collective of underground performers, artists and drag queens so fully and with such grace and respect; it’s remarkable and worth the deep dive.