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Patton Oswalt is an avid reader. When he thinks about his ideal Sunday in the Valley, where he has lived for more than a decade, bookstores come up more than a few times, particularly ones like the neighborhood staple the Iliad, which encourages patrons to sit and read for hours.<\/p>\n
Currently, the 57-year-old comedian says he is rereading Mo Daviau\u2019s 2016 time-travel\/rock-nerd novel \u201cEvery Anxious Wave,\u201d the plot to which he \u201ctruly can\u2019t describe,\u201d adding: \u201cIt\u2019s about, especially for me, how does Gen X grow old? And how do they try to dodge growing old? It\u2019s pretty f\u2014 brilliant. Imagine a day just killing two or three hours in the Iliad just reading it. Oh, it\u2019s the best.\u201d<\/p>\n
In Sunday Funday, L.A. people give us a play-by-play of their ideal Sunday around town. Find ideas and inspiration on where to go, what to eat and how to enjoy life on the weekends.<\/p>\n Not that Oswalt always has time to sprawl out with a novel. Like any touring comedian of his caliber, he admits that his schedule is constantly in flux. Not only did he spend last summer and fall promoting his 10th stand-up hour, \u201cBlack Coffee and Ice Water\u201d (out now on Audible<\/a>), but he is constantly at work on new material. On June 9, he\u2019s launching \u201cTea & Scotch\u201d on YouTube, which delves into more observational comedy subjects such as ghost-seeing cats, AI paranoia and parenting a teenager. (Oswalt tells The Times that his daughter usually does her own thing on weekends, but sometimes they\u2019ll journey to Burbank and hit the vintage shops on Magnolia, followed by poke for lunch.)<\/p>\n When he\u2019s not earmarking time in his perfect Sunday for reading, Oswalt also delights in frequenting Valley small businesses that fully embrace the indie and oddball. \u201cI like where the Valley\u2019s going. I like how its residents are aging,\u201d says Oswalt. \u201cBecause they\u2019re aging into weirdness rather than safety, which is what I will always go for. Instead of just, \u2018I want the nice, reliable chain restaurant, the nice, big book chain,\u2019 I prefer smaller shops that take risks. They\u2019re more quirky, an actual person works here, and the imperfections are what makes it amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n Below, Oswalt shares his ideal Sunday in L.A., which sometimes begins later than he\u2019d like it to.<\/p>\n 7 a.m.: Enjoy a quiet breakfast at home<\/p>\n I try to be an early riser. Today I got up at 8:30, but a great day for me is getting up at 7, because I have that hour of quiet to have my breakfast, sip some tea, do some reading, and then start my day.<\/p>\n But it\u2019s hard to have a lot of those mornings in a row, because unfortunately, I also have those nights where I\u2019m just, like, lying awake thinking. I have those crash-out days where I\u2019m like, \u201cSleep until noon today! Need it! Gotta catch up.\u201d Anyone who says that they consistently wake up at 7 a.m., for the most part, they\u2019re probably lying.<\/p>\n 9 a.m.: Morning coffee with a side of people watching <\/p>\n What\u2019s critical about the Valley, especially Studio City, is a lot of hipsters who have aged out of Los Feliz and Silver Lake have all moved here, and they brought the good sushi, the good bookstores and the good coffee with them. So, my perfect Sunday starts at the Studio City Farmers Market<\/a>. You do this kind of roaming breakfast. Where they do the farmers market, there\u2019s an amazing tamale stand that does these chicken and green chile tamales. You get one of those, and then you go over to Joan\u2019s on Third, and you get yourself a really strong cup of coffee, because Joan\u2019s is right there, part of the farmers market.<\/p>\n It\u2019s almost like Joan\u2019s is the motor on a sailboat. If you can\u2019t find the food that you like roaming around the farmers market, you can hop into Joan\u2019s and grab something, but that\u2019s where the good coffee is. Then you get a thing of berries from one of the sellers, and you sit. There are musicians everywhere, and it is a really good opportunity to not start your day looking at a screen and instead actually look at beautiful and flawed and imperfect and awesome people moving around and interacting. For a comedian or writer, that is gold.<\/p>\n 11 a.m.: Worm into a book<\/p>\n From there, I would go up to the Last Bookstore<\/a>, which just opened a location on Lankershim Boulevard in NoHo. It\u2019s a work in progress; you can see the beginnings of the cool building that they\u2019re doing on the interior. It\u2019s almost like when you watch the Talking Heads\u2019 \u201cStop Making Sense\u201d and you see them assemble the stage as the concert goes on. It\u2019s kind of amazing. So I always drop by there and spend way too much money on a book.<\/p>\n 1 p.m.: Catch a matinee (and a matcha)<\/p>\n One of my favorite things is to see a movie in the afternoon. The Laemmle NoHo 7<\/a> on Lankershim is my little \u201990s throwback Sunset 5, but in the Valley. They show very cool first-run indie movies, and then they will just randomly throw in [a classic], \u201cOh yeah, we\u2019re showing \u2018Jules and Jim.\u2019\u201d I just check my Fandango, to see what they\u2019re showing in the afternoon, then I go see a movie.<\/p>\n I don\u2019t really eat lunch these days, but across the street from the NoHo 7 is a place called Horror Vibes Coffee<\/a>. It\u2019s all based around horror movies. It\u2019s weirdly popular. All these goth kids go in there, and they make really good matchas. So I\u2019ll go in there, I\u2019ll get a matcha, and then take that into the movie theater, see a flick. The Laemmle NoHo 7 does make really good chicken nuggets, and they do make a really, really bad for you \u2014 but delicious \u2014 bagel dog. Listen, a bagel dog with a recent indie movie? That\u2019s mwah. [Gestures a chef\u2019s kiss.] <\/p>\n 4 p.m.: Head back to the bookstore <\/p>\n When I\u2019m done at the movies, I will take whatever book I\u2019ve gotten and go back down to the Last Bookstore and just sit and read. Or if you really want to go goblin-mode reading, you go to the Iliad Bookshop<\/a> on Cahuenga. They encourage you just to go in there, sit, read. There are store cats everywhere that are hanging around, and the store kitties are very friendly. The Iliad has these big, overstuffed couches and chairs with blown springs. You are encouraged to sit and lounge and read. They have no problem with you doing that. A big thing for me now is having two to three uninterrupted hours of just reading. No phone, no nothing. Don\u2019t gotta go anywhere. Don\u2019t do anything. [Editor\u2019s note: The Iliad is closed Sundays.]<\/p>\n 6 p.m.: Sit down for some sushi<\/p>\n I\u2019m very spoiled living in the Valley, because I live near amazing sushi. If I really want to splurge out and have what I think is the best sushi in the Valley, then I visit Sushi Tomoki<\/a>, which is on Cahuenga. I just cannot rave about this place enough. They have a black cod sushi, and the black cod is slightly seared. It\u2019s not cold, but it\u2019s not totally cooked. There is something about cold rice and then this slightly seared, slightly burned black cod. The flavor is so perfect, I love it.<\/p>\n Right now, in the Valley, I\u2019m kind of spoiled for good restaurants. There\u2019s OyBar<\/a> on Moorpark that I could go to. I go there right at 5. Otherwise there\u2019s a line. I go right when they open. And then there\u2019s a place called Wood & Water<\/a>, further up Ventura, kind of closer to Sherman Oaks. That place is just solid, good. Everything on the menu is great, great wine list, you know. But the word is out \u2014 it\u2019s getting crowded. Not to be a snot rag, but I go to Wood & Water so much that they kind of know me there, and they can usually get me a table. Not that I\u2019m a big celeb, it\u2019s just I go there a lot because their food is so good.<\/p>\n <\/a> <\/p>\n
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