The anemic shade under the canopy of Simon L.A.’s Mexican seafood truck was no match for the 95-degree heat radiating from Sunset Boulevard’s black asphalt on the hottest day of the year this past weekend.
Yet, 24-year-old Marcos Crespo, known as Markusiano, the founder and frontman of Depresión Sonora, was unfazed as he turned his head 90 degrees to take the biggest bite of chef Francisco Aguilar’s “Ceviche Taco.”
One of the truck’s best sellers, it's a battered piece of basa fish topped with shrimp ceviche as a garnish. It was loaded generously with Aguilar’s habanero salsa and salsa macha. Nonetheless, the rising post-punk star, wearing all-black and using a cement k-rail as a table, smiled, swooned, and took the double dose of heat like a champ.