AmeriCamera Recording Session: Billy Cioffi December 21, 2009

Billy tunes because he cares. No, really.

AmeriCamera Recording Session: Paul Darrow December 21, 2009

The wild man. He has the biggest ears in Phoenix, as you can see: the earphones don’t cover them.

AmeriCamera Recording Session: Mickey McGee December 21, 2009

Mickey is ready to go. He’s a machine! And yet human. All too human.

AmeriCamera Recording Session: Setup December 21, 2009

Billy and Olivier get things ready.

AmeriCamera Recording: Electric Lotus Music Mission Control December 21, 2009

Olivier Zahm, owner of Electric Lotus Music, session engineer, and bassist. And he’s French. Voila!

AmeriCamera Recording Supplies December 21, 2009

I don’t really need to comment, do I?

AmeriCamera Recording Session Day #1 December 21, 2009

Getting started at Electric Lotus Music, Scottsdale, AZ. Billy Cioffi, foreground (guitar), Mickey McGee on drums. This week: rhythm tracks.

And sallied from the gate December 10, 2009

Captain Carpenter got up on his roan And sallied from the gate in hell’s despite I heard him asking in the grimmest tone If any enemy yet there was to fight? —John Crowe Ransom

the presentiment of its end December 7, 2009

Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak. —August Strindberg

the last romance December 3, 2009

The romance of your child’s childhood may be the last romance you can give up. — Adam Gopnik