A face transplant is disturbing in a way that a kidney or heart transplant is not. Is it because our face is so key to our identity? Nobody has thought more about this than surgeon Eduardo Rodriguez, an authority on the procedure. Plus music from Solange Prat and Gregorio Uribe. Surgery and song.

• •  PERSON: John Marquis Converse
  •  PLACE: the Tunnel, a nightclub
  •  THING: a grain of rice
  •  RANDY’S THING: the Visible Horse