i'm in love...

...with "the lab" on kcrw. mario cotto spins some nice stuff. css, mew, death from above 1979, jamie lidell, sonic youth, aphex twin, just to mention a few. a good blend of dance and "indie" rock...pretty much my favorite blend.

he spins from 3:00 to 6:00 in the morning. i'd love to find out who are the people that are working, studying, or hanging out into the wee hours of the morning listening to him. i think it would be cool to round up all of those people and have them meet for breakfast when the show ends. it would be interesting to see if their personalities mesh.

i'd love to see a middle aged security guard who works the midnight shift befriend a SCI-Arc gradate student. they would meet randomly when the student was up all night in the studio and needed a break around the same time the security guard had their "lunch". they'd have sushi or go to that 24-hour drive through place that serves everything you could possibly want at 4:13 in the morning. they would talk briefly about heir lives but mostly about funny or interesting occurrences they'd had recently. it would be one of the first times they get the perspective from someone so different from them yet so in tune.

i love when shit like that happens. when we find friendship in people who appear to be very different from us. it doesn't happen often enough.