Now that he has a child, Kyle Mooney doesn’t go away a sure L.A. radius a lot if he doesn’t should. And he’s content material with that. The “Saturday Night Live” alum spends most of his time in Pasadena, Glendale, Highland Park and, most of all, Eagle Rock, the place he lives along with his spouse and their toddler daughter. “I felt like the ‘artsiness’ of it was something I could relate to,” says Mooney, explaining why he was drawn to the neighborhood. “Highland Park 1734700219 feels a little bit like what Silver Lake did when I was in my 20s, but we were really struck by the neighborhood in Eagle Rock. I think it’s pretty special and quaint in an awesome way.”
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Mooney has been revisiting the previous recently, each on and off the display. The actor and comic made his directorial debut with “Y2K,” an early aughts set horror film that imagines a world the place machines really do stand up towards humanity as feared on the flip of the millennium. The movie, in theaters now, will arrive obtainable to observe at dwelling on Dec. 24.
Outdoors of labor, Mooney has been revisiting the previous recently. He lately reinstated a love for baseball that was born throughout his childhood days in Little League. “It’s such a nerdy sport but for some reason it does something for me, it’s something that tickles my brain,” he says.
Mooney’s ultimate Sunday contains baseball trivia, the most well liked of scorching sauces and a number of walks across the neighborhood. “Sundays have a very special place in my heart because when I worked on ‘SNL,’ that was my only day off,” he mentioned. “So we would really take advantage of it and try to get as much fun stuff in as possible.”
This interview has been calmly edited and condensed for size and readability.
8:30 a.m.: “Late” morning get up
All through my 20s, I used to attempt to sleep in as late as doable in order that if I awakened at 4 p.m., I may get away with solely having to pay for dinner. After which after I was on “SNL,” the schedule is constructed for late night time so that you’re fairly used to sleeping in as late as you may simply so you may deal with [working] into the early morning.
Our schedule now could be just about primarily based across the child. My spouse and I swap off each couple days who wakes up along with her. She will get up usually round 6-ish, typically as early as 5:30 a.m. So if I may sleep in till 9 a.m. or 9:30 a.m., that may be rad.
8:35 a.m.: Baseball trivia video games in mattress
Once I get up, I at all times play this [mobile] sport known as Immaculate Grid that’s a baseball stats sport. It’s simply recollecting stats that gamers have had and [recalling] the historical past of baseball. When baseball season’s going, I’ve like three different pals [who also play] and we ship one another our scores. So I’ll play that after which I’ll dangle with the child.
I cherished baseball as a child. I bought actually into gathering playing cards and the historical past of it. There’s a Ken Burns documentary on baseball and so they produced this huge outdated ebook that my dad would learn with me at bedtime after I was in fourth or fifth grade.
I actually bought again into baseball within the final couple years — I’m from San Diego and I’m a Padres fan — and it was a humorous feeling because the Dodgers have been amid a World Sequence run to be sporting a San Diego baseball cap. By no means earlier than had I felt like a foul man. This 12 months was the primary 12 months the place I used to be like “You know, I’m actually not going to wear my hat [in public].”
10 a.m.: Me-time whereas child naps
I attempt to go to the health club after I can, but when not, I wish to jog across the neighborhood. With the ability to say that I jogged a mile or a mile and a half seems like a win.
Once I’m on my jog, I’ll at all times hearken to music and typically attempt to edit a playlist. That’s one thing that relaxes me. I turned 40 this previous 12 months and my spouse and I had a shared party so there was a whole lot of prep for constructing the playlist. Round that point, on these jogs I used to be including songs to an enormous playlist that was like 14 hours lengthy after which making cuts, dwindling it down till it was like six hours of music that we may move off to the DJ to drag from. The music I like essentially the most for a celebration surroundings is ’80s R&B and funk, possibly Italo disco and yacht rock.
11 a.m.: Enterprise outdoor for brunch and margaritas
One of many locations down the road from us is named Relentless, they’re nice. They’ve an amazing margarita. And we virtually each time get the cauliflower wings. Additionally they often have pure wine, which is one thing that each my spouse and I are actually into. They’re at all times good about making a scrambled egg for our child that typically she’ll eat, which is a serious win.
We additionally wish to go to the Hermosillo, which is a bar in Highland Park that has nice meals. I like their cheeseburger, scorching canine and fried pickles. They’ve an amazing outside space the place you may dangle with children and there’s a whole lot of households so that you don’t really feel such as you’re spoiling anybody’s time by having a loud little one. We additionally typically go to Mijares in Pasadena for margaritas, chips and salsa and that basic, old-school Mexican delicacies.
11 a.m.: Alternate plan? Have a burning meal
We additionally go typically to the Greyhound, which is a bar and restaurant in Highland Park and Glendale. Nowadays they’ve an amazing collection of wings and varied sauces. The final time I bought the most well liked one. I like attempting regardless of the “fire, extreme danger, high voltage” wing is, particularly if I’m at a brand new place. After we order takeout, if we’re getting Indian meals or Thai meals, I’ll put in a notice like “Please make this as spicy as possible.” One of many spiciest dishes I’ve ever tasted was at Jitlada and so they have a contest surrounding it. That was one which I in all probability had possibly 4 or 5 bites and was like “I actually can’t handle it.” I feel it’s solely occurred possibly twice in my life the place I’m like, “I can’t go any further.”
I did a Sizzling Ones Versus lately with Fred Durst, who’s in our film. He was struggling. They declare we had their spiciest wing. I used to be grabbing them after I didn’t even should, simply having fun with them. I’m like “it’s not that spicy” however I appeared like a clown with a giant crimson ring round my lips.
3 p.m.: Second stroll of the day
Each within the morning and [before dinner] within the night, we’ll work in a stroll with the entire household. I put her within the Child Bjorn and we’ll stroll across the neighborhood and take a look at birds and doggies and squirrels. One of many actually superior elements about Eagle Rock is that it’s stuffed with good folks, so we see a whole lot of acquainted faces and know a whole lot of the oldsters that we run into. And my spouse and I can compensate for gossip if we need to.
4:30 p.m.: Dinnertime
Going out to eat twice in a day, I don’t understand how typically we do it. A spot we like to go to rather a lot is Colombo’s down the road from us. It’s positively walkable however we usually drive simply because it’s fairly hilly. I like Colombo’s, we’ve simply discovered our order: I just like the sausage and peppers dish, the steak, the fried mozzarella. My spouse tends to do a make-your-own pasta with angel hair, garlic and butter. After which if I can deal with it, I’ll get a cocktail martini.
6 p.m.: Gradual wind-down again dwelling
Hopefully child’s had meals at dinner. If not, we’ll make her a bit of one thing. Perhaps we’ll enable ourselves to observe a bit of TV, all of us collectively. Proper now she’s actually into the “Mickey Mouse Clubhouse,” she will even watch “Ms. Rachel.” After which we’ll get her prepared for mattress and browse some tales and sing some songs. After which relying on our degree of exhaustion, typically we’ll have pals come over and play Quiplash or one thing like that.
Normally we are going to simply attempt to watch a film on demand or lease one. We’re very unhealthy at ending them the identical night time. It virtually at all times takes two days to the purpose that typically we’re paying twice to observe it.
Proper now we’re in Christmas zone, so we’ll in all probability begin revisiting the Christmas classics: There’s this animated film from the ’70s that Rankin/Bass did known as “’Twas the Night Before Christmas” that’s a few damaged clock, basically. And I like “A Garfield Christmas.” I’m a “Love, Actually” fan as properly. And there’s at all times a black-and-white Christmas film that I’ve by no means seen so typically we’ll discover one thing that’s outdated however new to us.
8 p.m.: YouTube rabbit gap earlier than mattress
I wish to bathe [before bed] and typically I’ll go on baseballreference.com and study some baseball gamers. It’s simply one thing to consistently be finding out for the competitors with my pals.
I really can entertain myself on the web for a number of hours. One latest YouTube search was “’80s Christmas specials.” I’m actually obsessive about the concept there are all these specials that aired on TV that simply grew to become misplaced media, they’re not on DVD or streaming or something like that. “Flash Beagle” was a Charlie Brown cartoon from the early ’80s that was a spoof of the film “Flash Dance.” Snoopy’s in a scarf dancing and for some purpose I’m obsessed.