Margaret Cho

* The comedian’s concert film, “Notorious C.H.O.,” opens Friday at the Nuart Theatre.

The ‘Burbs: I just bought my first house [in Glendale] and I’m so into it. There’s a store called the Great Outdoors in Burbank; it’s this huge, kind of upscale Home Depot, where they have less of the nuts and bolts and more of the fun stuff like fixtures and accents. I go there so often it’s really sick. Home improvement is totally like a drug. You start it and then you think, “Oh I can handle this,” but you have to get more and more involved.

Buddha Hunting: I buy a lot of my furniture and artwork from Koan Collection on Melrose. I collect sacred art from all over the world and they specialize in sacred art from Asia, Southeast Asia, India and my favorite place, Tibet. I try to represent every type of Buddha there is. I have almost the whole set.

Get Physical: On the weekends I like to go to the early-morning yoga class, preferably Bikram yoga. They heat the room up to 104 degrees and you do 26 postures, which are very intense and difficult and you sweat like crazy. I go to a studio in Pasadena, Bikram’s Yoga College of India.

Night Out: I really love music. Saturday night I might go see a show, something at Largo. I just went to see Elvis Costello, which was totally amazing, at the Kodak Theatre. I’ve become such an adult now, when I go see rock shows I just can’t stand in the pit anymore, I have to sit down.

Spiritual Hunger: Sunday I would probably meet with my Sangha group. We get together and do these spiritual things, like hiring mediums, visiting channelers and all this really crazy New Age stuff. It’s a lot of fun. The whole point of doing yoga and for going to all these different churches or meditating or whatever, is to divert all the energy I was using up as an anorexic/bulimic. I’ve kind of transformed this hunger for food and for nurturance with a search for spiritual knowledge and for this kind of greater hunger.

Laurie K. Schenden