Taylor Tomlinson, the comic and author who has hosted the CBS speak and selection present “After Midnight” for 2 seasons, has lived in Los Angeles for 9 years. However due to a strong stand-up schedule (her now-in-progress “The Save Me Tour” has 76 dates booked throughout North America and Europe by way of January, together with an L.A. hometown present scheduled for Aug. 10 on the Greek Theatre), she’s solely round L.A. for about 20 Sundays a 12 months.
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“I try to do two weekends on the road a month,” Tomlinson stated. “But sometimes it ends up being three. Usually my Sundays are spent flying home, and I’m doing my leisurely things on a Tuesday at noon.”
She was more than pleased to plot out a Sunday plan that doesn’t contain “a layover sitting in a coffee shop in the Phoenix airport.” It will begin with making some matcha and head towards a detailed with sushi and a film. In between, she’d hit a flea market, a bookstore (to attain some spiral-ring notebooks) and the outside areas on the Huntington.
This interview has been evenly edited and condensed for size and readability.
9 a.m.: Whisk up some morning matchaIn my excellent world, I’d go to sleep at midnight and get 9 hours of sleep, which might be excellent. I’m not anyone who can deal with espresso as a result of I get complications. So I often make matcha at dwelling with unsweetened almond milk, and I add cinnamon and often use just a little little bit of vanilla protein shake as creamer in it. And I do it iced.
I’m going to quite a lot of espresso outlets once I’m on the highway and at all times need to ask if their matcha is presweetened, as a result of quite a lot of locations make it with honey or sugar already in it. However extra mainstream locations are getting unsweetened, ceremonial-grade matcha, and that’s what I exploit. I’ve bought a type of bamboo whisks, and I like the entire routine of boiling water after which whisking within the matcha powder. I actually really feel like I’m doing one thing.
9:30 a.m.: Again to mattress with a bookThen I’d carry my matcha again to the mattress and I’d learn for a bit. I actually wrestle with letting myself learn for enjoyable, as a result of, for a very long time, I wouldn’t learn something that wasn’t educating me one thing or had some type of self-improvement aspect to it or was about comedy or enterprise.
I’m engaged on a e book of my very own proper now, so I’m at present studying Chuck Palahniuk‘s “Consider This: Moments in My Writing Life after Which Everything Was Different,” and for fun I’m studying “The Dragon Republic,” the second e book in R. F. Kuang’s “The Poppy War” collection.
10:15 a.m.: Self-scramble some breakfastI like going out to breakfast once I’m on the highway however, once I’m dwelling, I wish to prepare dinner for myself. So I’ll do a scramble with some eggs, turkey, zucchini, spinach and bell pepper after which prime it with some avocado.
11:45 a.m.: Make for the Melrose Buying and selling PostThis may [sound like] a very fundamental Sunday, however I’m not in L.A. very a lot. So I might go to the Melrose Buying and selling Put up [flea market] over at Fairfax Excessive College with some mates of mine as a result of it’s a option to socialize. Zach Noe Towers and Sophie Buddle and I do [stand-up comedy on] the highway quite a bit collectively, and once we’re dwelling on a weekend, that is one thing we do collectively.
I’ve purchased quite a lot of leather-based jackets there. I’ve method too many jackets — an insane assortment of jackets. It’s an actual drawback. I purchased a bizarre lamp there. I believe the very last thing I purchased there was this wardrobe [from J. Martin Furniture] that was inexperienced, and so they stated they might paint it any shade I wished and have it delivered. So I had them paint it a dusty rose that matches the flowers on these classic pillows I had simply gotten for my mattress. The wardrobe fills out the one clean wall I had left within the bed room. It’s actually cute and makes me actually joyful.
They’ve meals and music and stuff to drink too. Final time we went we bought some Thai meals from a truck and frolicked for a bit.
2 p.m.: Vroom over to Vroman’sFrom there I’d head to Vroman’s Bookstore in Pasadena, which I hadn’t been to till very not too long ago. It’s an enormous impartial bookstore, and so they have actually the whole lot there — books, items [and] stationery — so I’d most likely purchase a pocket book. I’ve bought so many notebooks. The 2 issues I overbuy essentially the most are classic jackets and notebooks. I exploit various kinds of notebooks for various [purposes], however they’ve all bought to be spiral-ring.
I like [notebooks] which can be lengthy and thin for my set lists. I like stenographer’s notebooks for brand new jokes as a result of [the pages] have a line down the center; I exploit one facet for jokes I do know work and one facet for jokes I’m unsure about but. And I like a very massive pocket book to journal in. Then there are the sort I discover at flea market distributors once I’m on the highway the place they flip outdated youngsters’s books into notebooks and go away a part of the [original book] textual content in between the [blank] pages. This one [she holds aloft a spiral-ring notebook with the title “Peter Pan” on the cover] is by Pink Barn Collections. I believe I picked it up at a flea market in Salt Lake Metropolis.
3 p.m.: Head to the HuntingtonIf I didn’t sit and write within the cafe at Vroman’s, I’d head to the Huntington. I’ve been a member there for years, and generally when I’ve a complete time without work, I’ll go there for awhile. I’d both go to the facet space the place there are just a few chairs and sit and skim or go to one of many benches that overlook the Japanese backyard. If I used to be writing, I’d try this within the cafe.
5:30 p.m.: Sushi in Studio CitySince the Huntington closes at 5 p.m., I’d head to this sushi place in Studio Metropolis that I like referred to as Sushi Tomoki that opens at 5:30. I wish to get there proper when it opens as a result of it fills up so quick. And it’s so good, and the service is quick even after they’re packed.
7 p.m.: Soak up a film at Common CityWalkSince I’m in Studio Metropolis and my group of mates and I are all AMC Stubs A-Record members, I’d go to Common CityWalk to catch a film. CityWalk is what it’s, but it surely’s near the sushi place. And the AMC theater there may be actually good. Should you go along with a bunch of mates, you may break up the price of parking. I like to speak in regards to the film afterward, so as a substitute of simply standing by the automotive speaking about it, we are able to stroll round [CityWalk] and speak about it. The very last thing I noticed there was “Paddington in Peru.”
10:30 p.m.: Tea time earlier than bedtimeAt this level it’s most likely fairly late once I get dwelling, so I’d most likely drink some tea — I do a licorice or a ginger tea at evening — bathe after which learn for awhile. Or perhaps do some journaling or doomscrolling in mattress, relying on what my temper is. And hopefully go to sleep by midnight.