Aparna endures. Like a bad perfume in a crowded boardroom. Or a fart in yoga class. Or a misplaced olive in a sandwich. She also knows you saw her doing that thing she did last week. May you and she be ever bonded through secrecy, lies, and deception all topped with a thin layer of ingratiating superficial affection. Hugs!
Credits include:
Last Comic Standing 6 (NYC)
NBC Stand Up for Diversity National Finalist 2007/NBC Stand Up for Diversity College Tour 2008
2009 NACA Mid-Atlantic Conference
Various Festivals (Bentzen Ball ’09, Laugh Your Asheville Off ’09, Bridgetown ’09, North Carolina Comedy Arts ’09, Hysterical Festival ’08, DC Comedy Fest ’07/’08)
Places I Have Been Seen/Heard: Slate V/XM Radio/Comcast/YouTube/My Blog/My Room
College kids humor me by letting me humor them!!!
Website
innerlimits.blogspot.com
Influences
Snoopy, Grover, Gonzo, most muppets, Home Movies AND Home Alone, the cute aesthetic (laughing babies, confused kittens, etc.), old ladies who don’t give a flip, catty teenagers, dreamboats, flamboyence in all forms, bouncers from Bah-stan who like to pahty hahdkor, inanimate blobjects, bread pudding, a little speck of the human experience.
Also, TV shows make many appearances in my living room. Oh, it doesn’t work the other way around? Well, son of a rapscallion!
Films
I was in a selfmade Bollywood film at the tender age of 10. It’s not on IMDB. It’s obscure. I prefer to keep it that way.
Other work TBD.
Albums
I have many books full of family and friend photos (also some still-life samples). It would be vain to title and date them, and share this information with disinterested voyeurs (no matter how vicarious or vicurious they may be).
Aparna Nancherla's Interests
General
snoopy laugh, standing waist deep in streams while wildlife paddles by, giggling, chuckling, musing, laughing, heehawing, overcoming seesaw phobia, blogging, wading, evading, conspiring, admiring, jealousy, saying "why me?" immediately followed by "why not?", browsing, perusing, using, losing, crunking, fighting shadows, being a fake newscaster, pretending, mending, surrendering, winning, sinning, grinning, making faces of faux- and real disgust, bread pudding
Music
hiphop -- the good, the bad, the oogly -- esp. wicked lyricists and sick djs; male solo folky/interesting acts (isaak, wainwright, johnson, dylan); dashboard confessional (ay carrabba), the weepies, juana molina, jose gonzales, eric hutchinson, postal service, imogen heap, the shins, spinto band, system of a down, johnny cash, bob marley, shakira, MASHUPS involving weezer, bad pop, 90s hit songs, oldies, beck music videos, catchy commercial jingles (eastern motors...i'm looking at you).
Movies
ones that make you tilt your head -- either sideways, or backwards and then forwards.
Television
anything off the cutting room floor.
mr. bean is a hoot and a half, too.
Books
the giant baby, the house on mango street, breakfast of champions, catch-22, the things they carried, a barrel of laughs, a vale of tears, encyclopedia of an ordinary life, interpreter of maladies, the phantom tollbooth, everybody poops;
Heroes
Alice; people who live in less fortunate circumstances;
About me: These shows were a real swell time, hoo boy. Love Godzilla's childbearing hips!
i am a frosted marshmallow in an all-bran world. get constipated. or get out.
also thank you, ladies and gentleman of the press (always good with the backhands, oochie):
To be nobody-but-yourself—in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else—means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting. ~e.e. cummings