In Sunday Funday, The people of Los Angeles tell us play by play of 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.
It's hard to imagine what Travis Bennett's life would be like, on or off screen, without Los Angeles in the background.
He has spent most of his 29 years here, first in the Mid-City neighborhood where he grew up and then in the east end of Beverly Hills, where he now lives. Additionally, the high-profile roles she's landed since she transitioned from music (as a member of the Los Angeles rap collective Odd Future) to acting seem to have the city as a supporting character.
First, there's the Los Angeles-set FX series “Dave” (in which he plays Dave Burd's long-suffering friend, aka Lil Dicky) and, more recently, the Jonah Hill and Kenya Barris-penned film “You People.” . Bennett says even a Coca-Cola Zero Sugar commercial in which he appears alongside Burd at a restaurant hasn't taken him very far from the City of Angels because it was filmed at Bob's Big Boy in Burbank. (Ironically, the next movie he will appear in, “California King,” was filmed in and around Provo, Utah.)
That super-L.A.-centric convergence of personal and professional life means that when it comes to crafting the perfect Sunday in the Southland, Bennett shows up to his interview (which took place before the SAG-AFTRA strike) with a plan. He describes the epic 22+ hour day as going something like this.
5:30 a.m.: Get up early for the Rose Bowl
If he Vase [Flea Market] is happening, that changes everything. I wake up at 5:30 in the morning. I shower and leave the house at 5:45, 6am and get to the Rose Bowl at 6:30, I shop there until 9:30, 10am As soon as people start coming in and piling in and the sun really starts to go out and warm up, I come back and prepare breakfast at Winery Park in Lake Plata. That's my favorite place right now.
[At the Rose Bowl,] there's a guy named Artem in vintage world with whom I buy a lot. He's my main source for vintage right now in LA, so I'll go to him and then talk to some other people. …I'm always looking for Lakers stuff and old LAFD stuff. On my first trip to the Rose Bowl years ago, I was there at 6 in the morning and found this random LAFD t-shirt with a bulldog on the back. It is in tatters and the collar is open and hanging in the wind. And I just love it. It's one of those things you'll never find unless you go.
11:30 am: Lemonade and Lakers game
From Bodega Park I would go to Community assets for a sparkling yuzu lemonade and seeing my boy Pedro who bought [the space] and I opened it a few months ago. It's a place where I meet a lot of my friends all the time. I would probably stay there for about an hour. So, if the grace of God is on my side, there would be a Lakers game, so I would watch a game.
12:30 pm: Relax and laugh
In the afternoon I would stay at my house (or at one of my friends') for a few hours. We just sat around making jokes. It's a pretty tight circle of friends that has been the same since [we were] 15 or 16 [years old]. I see them relatively frequently, sometimes daily, whether planned or not. Tyler, Lionel, Jasper, they're my team. Then we would make some jokes and then probably eat again.
1:30 pm: Jon & Vinny's and lunch
Maybe we would go to Taqueria School either My 2 cents either Jon and Vinny in Fairfax. If we went to Jon & Vinny's, I would choose some pasta with heirloom tomato, no parmesan, and start with the gorgeous lettuce salad. If I were going to put meat in there, I'd probably get a chicken cutlet. And then I would also have broccolini and maybe corn agnolotti. After that, we usually stand outside where we ate and prank each other for an hour, just cracking jokes and showing each other random things on our phones.
15:30: Card games with the crew.
From there we would probably go to my house. My house has become the ideal place recently because I am so central to everything. Everyone else is in West Los Angeles, Bel-Air, Beverly Hills or West Hollywood, so my place is center stage. I usually just invite people over and see what happens. Sometimes we draw Uno cards. I wish casinos had Uno because I would bet a lot of money and I don't think I would lose money. I'm good at it. Let's play I'm sorry! recently. That's a very intense game to play with three other adult men.
From 7 to 9 pm: Have a potluck with Postmates
For the ideal Sunday night dinner, we would all go to one of my friends' house and eat together; There are usually six to eight of us, but no more than 10. We do something fun where we all order something from somewhere. different, so it's a surprise, kind of like asking for a co-mail colleagues probability. mine is always Din Tai Fung because who is going to say no to those chicken rice pancakes?
9 pm: Turn on “Succession”
The calmest end to a Sunday is watching “Succession” or any “Game of Thrones” [show]and I'm at peace, smoking a joint at home.
10:30 p.m.: Video games and space marijuana
Around 10:30 I start playing video games and smoking a certain amount of marijuana. Well, sometimes a combination of video games (I'm playing a lot of “NBA 2K” right now, as well as “Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order”) and watching YouTube videos. [Weed-wise] Luigi is my problem. Although he doesn't sell in dispensaries. Rappers meet Luigi. I have friends who call it space grass. They come up and say, “Hell no! I'm not going to smoke that…”
3:45 am: Couch crash
When the night ends depends on what I have to do the next day. Even then, there are always times when I check my phone and it will be 1am. And I'll say, “I have another 20 [minutes] in me,” and then I check again and it’s 3:45 am. Sometimes I fall asleep on my couch. I sleep on my couch more than my bed, which is strange.
