STANDING IN LINE is an unpleasant reality of going out anywhere in L.A. We don’t dwell on it, but we’ll spend hours standing around on the street in our hoochie-best waiting for some chump to give us permission to enter. They are the static moments we try to skip, that purgatorial buffer between going out and getting in. In these serials, we present the unorganized fragments of strangers’ conversations– it may seem like a pastiche portrait of strangers in a liminal nether-space, or maybe just a bunch of noise. Hopefully it’s better than standing in line.
STANDING IN LINE: Kogi Food Truck
–Awesome, the Kogi Truck’s here!
–I know, I know. I follow them wherever they go.
–Follow, as in…
–How big are they? Like… two twenty-five seems like a lot for a taco. Maybe we should just share a couple.
–I couldn’t eat more than a few irregardless…
–Oooo look, it’s only eight for four of them!
–Did you say irregardless?!?
–Did they tweet about coming here tonight?
–Everybody follows them on twitter. I mean that I follow them between stops so that we can find them at the secret stops.
–I hear that they sometimes have special test kitchen specials in hidden alleys on their routes.
–No way. That stuff only happens in commercials and music videos.
–Speaking of– apparently Ron Jeremy did a Food Truck porn… I haven’t seen it.
–Kogi and Frysmith are my favorites. I have to try to figure out how to get them to come to my art opening next month. You would think there would be, like, an eight-hundred number or something.
–Kogi is everywhere. You have to try the Viking Food truck.
–Is kimchi gluten-free?
–It smells so good. I don’t even know if I want to get food, the smell might be all I need.
–…it’s not that I’m allergic to gluten, I’m just trying to lower my daily caloric intake, you know?
–…I would perfume my entire house with this smell– imbue it in the walls and my sheets. I would use it as a fragrance for first dates and romantic evenings.
–All these food trucks are so hip right now. There’s like a new one every week.
–Dude, we should start one! We just need a niche that hasn’t been done yet.
–How about a Comfort-Food Food Truck?! With like grilled cheese and… oh, that’s already been done.
–This is taking so long. I could eat a whole pig myself. Screw the spicy pork burrito, I’d take a bite out of a living squealing porker right now.
–Pig’s a filthy animal.
–I’d be all up in that swine.
–Is that what gluten is?
–Asian-fusion seems really popular. How about Dim Sum? Mixed with…I don’t know… fondue or something.
–There are definitely a couple of those already. Don’t be such a bandwaggoner.
–Ew, why is my kimchi-taco cold?! It tastes like a soggy pickle sandwich.
–Haven’t you been to Korean Barbeque before? The cold appetizers and boiling hot soup that you drop an egg into? There’s this awesome place that I usually go to on Sawtelle.
–Oh. Kimchi is pickled…. I guess warm pickled vegetables would be more disgusting…?
–The Margarita Truck!! Yeah! That’d be brilliant. I wonder why no one’s already…
–Cash only!? Not even debit cards?
–This is SO good, totally worth the wait… I just wish they served beer here, man.