Taylor Tomlinson, the comedian and writer who has been the host of the CBS variety program “After Midnight” for two seasons, has lived in Los Angeles for nine years. But thanks to a robust stand-up schedule (his now in Progreso “The Save Me Tour” has 76 dates reserved in North America and Europe until January, including a show of the hometown of Los Angeles scheduled for August 10 at the Greek theater), it is only around the angels for about 20 Sundays a year.
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“I try to make two weekends on the road per month,” Tomlinson said. “But sometimes it ends up being three. Usually, my Sundays fly home, and I am doing my things quiet on a Tuesday at noon.”
I was more than happy to draw a Sunday plan that does not imply “a scale in a cafeteria at Phoenix airport.” He would start doing a little matcha and went to a closure with Sushi and a movie. In the middle, he had reached a flea market, a bookstore (to obtain some spiral rings notebooks) and outdoor spaces in Huntington.
This interview has been slightly edited and condensed by length and clarity.
9 AM: Beat some morning matcha
In my perfect world, I fell asleep at midnight and slept nine hours, which would be perfect. I am not someone who can handle coffee because I have headaches. Therefore, I usually make matcha at home with almond milk without sugar, and add cinnamon and generally use some vanilla protein milkshake as cream. And I do it frozen.
I go to many coffee shops when I am on the road and I always have to ask if your matcha is challenge, because many places do it with honey or sugar that is already in it. But more main places are becoming without sugar, ceremonial grade matcha, and that is what I use. I have one of those bamboo milkshakes, and I like all the boiling water routine and then beat in the matcha dust. I really feel that I am doing something.
9:30 am: Back to bed with a book
Then I would bring my matcha back to bed and read a little. I really find it to let myself be read for fun, because, for a long time, I did not read anything that was not teaching me something or had some type of personal improvement element or outside the comedy or businesses.
I am working in my own book at this time, so I am currently reading “I consider this: moments in my writing life after which everything was different”, and for fun I am reading “The Dragon Republic”, the second book of the series “The Poppy War” by RF Kuang.
10:15 am: Auto-Crefulle a little breakfast
I like to go to breakfast when I'm on the way, but when I'm at home, I like to cook for me. So I will make a fight with some eggs, turkey, zucchini, spinach and pepper and then cover it with a little avocado.
11:45 am: Make for Melrose Trading Post
This could [sound like] A really basic Sunday, but I'm not in Los Angeles. Then I would go to Melrose trade post [flea market] In Fairfax High School with some friends of mine because it is a way of socializing. Zach Noe Towers and Sophie Buddle and I do it [stand-up comedy on] The road meets a lot, and when we are at home in a weekend, this is something we do together.
I bought many leather jackets there. I have too many jackets: a crazy collection of jackets. It is a real problem. I bought a strange lamp there. I think the last thing I bought there was this wardrobe. [from J. Martin Furniture] That was green, and they said they would paint him of any color he wanted and deliver it. So I made them paint a dusty rose that combines with the flowers of these vintage pillows that I had just achieved for my bed. The closet fills the only blank wall he had left in the bedroom. It's really cute and makes me very happy.
They have food, music and things to drink too. The last time we got some Thai food from a truck and hung a little.
2 PM: VROOM A VROMAN'S
From there I would go to VROMAN Bookstore In Pasadena, she had not been very recently. It is a great independent library, and they literally have everything there: books, gifts [and] Stationery, so I would probably buy a notebook. I have so many notebooks. The two things that surpass the most are the old jackets and notebooks. I use different types of notebooks for different [purposes]But everyone has to be a spiral ring.
I like [notebooks] which are long and thin for my established lists. I like Stenographer's notebooks for new jokes because [the pages] have a line in the middle; I use a joke side that I know and one side for jokes that I am still sure. And I like a really big notebook for the newspaper. Then there are the guy I find in flea market vendors when I am on the way where they turn the books of old children into notebooks and leave part of the [original book] text between him [blank] pages. This [she holds aloft a spiral-ring notebook with the title “Peter Pan” on the cover] It is for red barn collections. I think I picked it up in a flea market in Salt Lake City.
3 PM: Go to Huntington
If I did not sit and write in the coffee in Vroman's, I would lead me to Huntington. I have been a member there for years, and sometimes, when I have a day off, I will go there for a while. I would go to the lateral area where there are some chairs and sit, read or go to one of the banks that give to the Japanese garden. If I were writing, I would do it in the coffee.
5:30 pm: sushi in Studio City
Since Huntington closes at 5 pm, I would go to this Sushi place in Studio City that I love to call Sushi Tomoki That opens at 5:30. I like to arrive correctly when it opens because it fills very fast. And it is very good, and the service is fast even when they are full.
7 PM: Take a movie at Universal Citywalk
As I am in Studio City and my group of friends and I are members of AMC Stub list, I would go to Universal Citywalk to watch a movie. Citywalk is what it is, but it is close to the place of Sushi. And the AMC Theater There is really good. If you go with a lot of friends, you can divide the cost of parking. I love talking about the movie later, so instead of standing next to the car talking about it, we can walk [CityWalk] And talk about it. The last thing I saw there was “Paddington in Peru.”
10:30 pm: Tea time before bedtime
At this point, it is probably quite late when I get home, so I would probably have a tea, I make a licorice or ginger tea at night, shower and then read for a while. Or maybe do a newspaper or make a dinner in bed, depending on what my mood is. And I hope he falls asleep at midnight.
