Jon-Jon is making a concept album. It's a tribute to all the male literary figures who have been important to him, and it uses hundreds of riffs and quotes from well-known popular music of the last fifty years. The track dedicated to Lionel Trilling alone quotes Biggie, Jay-Z, Queen, and the Steve Miller Band. I stop by the studio where a South Indian woman is mixing down one of the tracks. I ask her how they deal with copyright: are they just tweaking the material a little bit and hoping it will be considered fair use? No, she says: they just go ahead and finish the track, and if they have any problems with rights, they go back and edit out the forbidden material. My friend Wayne is recording the conversation with a handheld DAT machine. As he looks back at her, we discover that she is also recording the conversation, with a huge reel-to-reel tape recorder and an eight-foot boom mike with several foam cones. These people are onto something, I think, as I drive back to the hotel with a duffel bag containing three tuna fish sandwich halves and an unfinished beet smoothie.