A friend once saw my wedding photos and asked if I had been flung into a pool-you know, one of those weddings. My skin rests atop a roiling sea of sweat. I like saying “on the Sony lot.” I’m on the Sony lot, in a studio, and it’s freezing cold.

I am in a freezing-cold studio on the Sony lot. on a Friday in late January, in Los Angeles-specifically, Culver City.