How come all the interesting things happen when I don’t have a recording app handy? Tonight four or five houses down from me a man is playing an electric guitar badly and singing off key. The song apparently goes “llama llama llama, I like llama. Llama love. Oh yeah!” This has excited my neighbors tiny poodle and he is barking opinionatedly about it. And across the street the pool is full of preteens doing something that requires a good deal of screaming and splashing. It’s a hell of a summer soundscape. If only I had some stereo microphones out here.