aubrey plaza

“I realized two things from an early age – I was insane and had some kind of comedic thing going on. My brain was wired to think about things in terms of how funny they were.”  - Aubrey Plaza

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April threatens an intern ~>[ x ]

“Ben told you to finish the web site and if you don’t do it I swear to God I’m going to murder you in your sleep. I know where you live ..14th street, right? I’m going to get a melon-baller and scoop your eyes out and eat them. And your congressman uncle’s going to have to buy you a dog to drive your eye-less face around. Do you understand me ..?”

the gag reel

I know memory isn't a passive record of events.  It's more like a re-construction. When this happens, I consistently get the order of things wrong.  I often confuse what happened at one time for something that happened at another time.  Last night I was watching a gag reel from season five of Parks and Recreation. In an early scene, Andy asks his young wife April if she's pregnant. April responds saying: "Nooo, we've talked about this ..and what do I always tell you? I wanna' wait till we're 50 and adopt creepy adult twins from Armenia ..!"  In another scene, Andy and April are giving Ben advice for a successful marriage. When Andy asks April what other thing she's always telling him, April replies: "Um, don't take it out till I scream!" Now, at the end of the reel, what do I remember?  In the first scene where they talk about having children ..I remember April saying: "Nooo, we've talked about this ..and what do I always tell you? 'Don't take it out till I scream'!" I put the dialogue from the other scene  here. It wasn't until I replayed the gag reel that I realized my mistake. Although my recollection didn't follow the actual order of events ..it still made sense and even retained some of it's humor.  Perhaps we remember pragmatic-sense better than chronological order.

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The millennials

Mia Wasikowska in the movie 'Tracks'

I've been following a group of actors and actresses who represent the Millennial generation. These are kids who came of age in the 2000's (Anna Kendrick, Brie Larson, Jake Johnson). Many of them don't have big studio contracts (if those even exist anymore) so they appear mostly in independent films (Breathe in, Drinking Buddies, Safety Not Guaranteed). Independent films rarely make it to 'wide release' in the U.S. Sometimes they go directly to DVD ..which leads me to my question: if the actors and actresses in these films represent the Millennial generation ..why don't they make it to 'wide release' more often? I have a theory. I think it has something to do with the narrative-expectation of this generation. They're the target audience for film distributors (between the ages of 16 and 30) and they're the one's who determine which films go from 'limited' to 'wide release' (the industry looks at their twitter posts from theaters during the first week). I don't believe Independent films always follow the 'video game' narrative they we're raised with.

Aubrey Plaza

Aubrey Plaza

April's goals for management training class: "I will pit Ron and Chris against each other. They'll argue about dumb stuff that doesn't matter, and I will bail. Then I'll steal $20 from Chris's wallet and buy pizza with Andy. Oh, and I'll also steal Ron's watch, just for fun."

"It's my favorite kind of battle"

( x )

platha

Father John Misty

Hollywood Forever Cemetery Sings

rouse yourself

with Aubrey Plaza and Jake Johnson

Audrey Plaza

                    Years                    Education/Experience

 (2002-2006)        NYU/NBC intern

 (2006-2007)        Improv (NY)

 (2007)                 Jeannie Tate Show

 (2008)                 Funny People (LA) 

 (2008-2009)        Stand-up (LA) 

 (Jan 2009)           Mystery Team

 (2009 - 2014)      Parks and Recreation 

 (Aug 2010)          Scott Pilgrim vs. the World 

 (Sep 2011)          10 Years

 (Sep 2011)           Damsels in Distress 

 (Nov 2011)          Someday This Pain

 (Jan 2012)           The End of Love
 (Jan 2012)           Safety Not Guaranteed
 (Nov 2012)          Charles Swan III
 (July 2013)          The To Do List
 (Jan 2014)           Life After Beth
 (Apr 2014)           About Alex

Aubrey Plaza

Aubrey Plaza talks about her comedy background 

Aubrey Plaza

“I'm not super comfortable in my skin. I have to make it work for me, and that usually amounts to making it uncomfortable for everyone else. I don't let myself 'surf' on the Web, or I would probably drown. I'm totally an anxious mess all the time. There's a constant dialogue going on in my brain, and it's just reminding me of all the failures that I have had, and all of the things I need to do, and all of the things I'm not doing good enough.”

Safety not guaranteed

 
“It’s that time, and that place, and that song. And you remember what it was like when you were in that place.”