Los Angeles is not a Christmas city. Matt Rogers blames the weather.
“You go to any cold place like Chicago, a big Christmas town, Boston, New York… you see Christmas and you feel that Christmas feeling in the air and everyone becomes a little friendlier, a little brighter and a little happier.” “, said. . “Not here: Los Angeles is just Los Angeles every day.”
In Sunday Funday, the people of Los Angeles tell us step by step their ideal Sunday in the city. Find ideas and inspiration on where to go, what to eat and how to enjoy life on the weekends.
What the writer, actor and co-host of the podcast “Las Culturistas” observes is that Los Angeles is a city for hoarding celebrity money. Mariah Carey probably sleeps on a mattress full of residual checks from “All I Want For Christmas Is You,” which is currently blasting from the speakers in every shopping mall in America. In the 29 years since that song debuted, countless celebrities have attempted to decipher the complicated Christmas music genre.
“Let's face it, not all of these pop stars really have a passion for Christmas,” Rogers said. “Everyone hopes to write that classic song that gets played every year so they can make dollars and cents every year from streams, sales, everything. “I just thought it was really funny.”
The intersection of opportunistic Christmas records and seasonal awareness (or lack thereof) gave rise to “Have You Heard of Christmas?”, her dance-pop comedy album out Friday. If Mariah Carey (who, to be clear, genuinely loves Christmas) is the queen of the holidays, Rogers aspires to be her prince. Or maybe he's the prankster. The song “Also It's Christmas” is about the specific sexy but solemn vibe at the club on December 25th. “Hottest Female Up in Whoville” explores the perspective of Christine Baranski's character: a single woman who is sexually charged but hungry for friendships. in Rogers' story of “How the Grinch Stole Christmas.”
“My album celebrates and celebrates Christmas at the same time,” he said.
The message “Have you heard of Christmas?” The album tour makes snow fall (i.e. touch down) at the Ace Hotel on December 21.
When Rogers is not touring or recording, he divides his time between his studio in Long Island City, New York, and his apartment in Hollywood's Franklin Village. This is how you would spend your perfect Sunday in Los Angeles
9:30 am: Wake up and Doomscroll
Let's say we wake up between 9:30 and 10. You have to spend 45 minutes to an hour being on your phone. Like, face up, on the phone. It is Sunday. I'm scrolling through Instagram, depending on what's happening in the world.
11 a.m.: Brunch at Clark Street Diner
Around 11 I'm already arriving at the Clark Street Restaurant. I'll go out with whoever the girls are that weekend. The gays from last night are probably not awake yet, which is fine.
I make my typical order of three scrambled eggs, smoked salmon, grapefruit, and breakfast sausage. There are no carbs on the plate because I'll probably get high later and eat carbs.
2 p.m.: Walk through Griffith Park and catch up on podcasts
After I'm nice and full at Clark Street Diner, I'll head back and get ready for a hike. I really enjoy Griffith Park. It's actually not very far from me.
So probably around, let's call it 2 to 3:30, I'm doing a little sweaty hike. I usually walk alone, which I know people say is not a great thing to do. I like to take a walk and then listen “The newspaper”. I don't listen to “The Daily” every day. I'll just do it as a marathon session on Sunday.
So Michael Barbaro provides the soundtrack to my Sundays when I'm hiking. I hear a lot of “hmmm!” I don't know if you've ever heard “The Daily,” but Michael Barbaro, out of nowhere, will just say “hmmm!” when someone does something, which I think is very characteristic of him.
4 pm: Get high and write
I don't want to be that kind of person who lies to you and says, “Now I'm starting to read!” No. Sunday is a day off. So I've stocked up on MedMen and get high on Sundays. I try not to do it Monday through Friday, because we are trying to grow. Sunday is a marijuana day.
In the end I write very well when I'm high. Sometimes. When I allow myself. In fact, it was on a Sunday this year that I wrote a song on my album called “Rum Pum Pum,” which is, without being too specific, it's kind of a nasty female pop song on my album. I wrote that when I was high. And I think when people hear it, they'll understand that this has to come from an important person. It's basically about young kids in the club through the lens of Little Drummer Boy.
7:15 p.m.: Order carbs on Postmates
This is a carb-loaded night, especially after smoking some marijuana. So I'll make a big pasta moment on Sunday. Let's call it like 7:15 because I hope it arrives just before 8 and then I don't have to feel so bad about eating dinner after 8 pm Because I'm also the kind of person who likes to lie to myself and say I'm fasting intermittently or eat healthy, but does that really count when you eat a pound of pasta? Not precisely.
I'm going to go to my Postmates right now and tell them exactly what the deal is. I really love meat sauce. I'm a meat sauce person. I would say my top three foods that I would order, if Italian, would be pasta and a meat sauce, like bolognese. Osteria La Buca. That is my place.
If it's not Italian food, it will be sushi. I can absolutely nail a spicy tuna roll. I love miso soup. I've been really into miso ramen lately. starfish sushi In Los Feliz they have a seafood soup with real crab claws.
Or if I'm being really bad, I'll go ahead and order Burger King. And I'll make two double cheeseburgers. Or the nine pieces of fried chicken. I really wish this wasn't about Sunday, because you're going to see me at my most teenage.
9 p.m.: Set the dial to Bravo
Sunday is of course the Lord's day. I absolutely don't go to church. The only religious thing I do on Sundays is watch “The Real Housewives of New York” and “Watch What Happens Live.” I don't want to give Andy Cohen a god complex, but he certainly is the only man in my life that I see every Sunday night.
11 p.m.: Skin care routine, soundscape application and sleep.
I will try to take care of my skin a little and go to bed at 11 at night. I've also gotten really into the Endel app. You turn it on and it creates a soundscape and they make a certain melody; It's supposed to be like you listen to it every night and once you hear the melody, it's supposed to almost hypnotize you. I've really gotten into it.
1:30 am: Return home after Hot Dog at El Cid
On Sunday night I hope we can go to bed at a reasonable time. Unless the gays convince me to go to hot dogwhich is a party that ends in El Cid. It's one of those parties where you see all the gay men in Los Angeles and I usually get sick of them on Friday and Saturday nights, so I try to avoid that. But sometimes they can take me there and that's a good time. In which case, I'll probably go to bed around 1:30.
I really try to be an adult on Sunday. I really do. I don't always get it.
