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Anthony

Paler Than You

About Me

This really is the real Anthony Rapp, I promise. I'm flattered by the folks on myspace claiming to be me, but this is the real one.

My Interests

Movies, music, politics, baseball (especially the Cubs), queer politics, theatre, books, poker, the usual.

Music:

Superchunk, Death Cab for Cutie, New Order, Peter Gabriel, The Decemberists, The Postal Service, Rilo Kiley, The Shins, The Cure, R.E.M., Elvis Costello, The Beatles, Radiohead, Talking Heads, Arcade Fire, Keane, Kate Bush, Trashcan Sinatras, Wheat, The Killers, The New Pornographers, Broken Social Scene, Portastatic, Yo La Tengo, Ida, The Doves, Franz Ferdinand, etc etc etc...

Movies:

8 1/2, The Silence of the Lambs, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Election, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Brokeback Mountain, Caché, Code Unknown, The Incredibles, Finding Nemo, Kundun, Fargo, Magnolia, Jackie Brown, Syriana, Fireworks, King Kong, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Godfather I & II, The Misfits, Rear Window, and many many more...

Television:

Lost, Project Runway, 24, Sex and the City, The Sopranos, Six Feet Under, The Simpsons, Futurama, The Larry Sanders Show, The X-Files, My So-Called Life, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Absolutely Fabulous, The Office, Oz, Twin Peaks

Books:

Disgrace, Doomsday Book, The Corrections, Best American Short Stories series, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Anna Karenina, The Feast of Love, The Sandman series, A Home at the End of the World, Winter Birds, Lemony Snicket, Harry Potter, Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy, etc etc

My Blog

My new play, Some Americans Abroad

Hey everyone --I wanted to let you know about the new off-Broadway play I'm doing this summer at Second Stage Theatre! I will be in Some Americans Abroad through August 3, 2008 - And the folks at the ...
Posted by Anthony on Tue, 24 Jun 2008 08:08:00 PST

2009 Rent tour

Hey everyone --As promised, here's a post about next year's Rent tour. For those of you who may not have heard, Adam Pascal and I are going all over the country next year with the show. We had such ...
Posted by Anthony on Tue, 15 Apr 2008 08:48:00 PST

Gig on Saturday April 19

Hey everybody --I have a gig coming up this Saturday the 19th at Queens Theatre in the Park at 8:00. Details and tickets can be found at their website, http://queenstheatre.org/I realize that Saturday...
Posted by Anthony on Tue, 15 Apr 2008 08:33:00 PST

Yes We Can

I feel I should have done this sooner, but I wanted to publicly declare I'll be voting in the Super Tuesday primary in New York for Senator Barack Obama. I've never been more inspired by a politician...
Posted by Anthony on Tue, 05 Feb 2008 12:31:00 PST

Friends In Deed

Hello there --In this holiday season, I wanted to ask you all to consider making a donation -- however small it might be -- to an organization that is incredibly dear to me: Friends In Deed.If everyon...
Posted by Anthony on Tue, 25 Dec 2007 08:38:00 PST

sneak preview reading of Without You one-man show

Hello all --I just posted a bulletin about this as well...I'm doing a sneak preview reading of a one-man show adapted from my book this coming Monday night. It's important to get it up in front of peo...
Posted by Anthony on Thu, 13 Dec 2007 03:12:00 PST

wowza

Hey all --Well, we had our first night back last night, and it was WILD. I mean, I sort of expected that we would get something of a warm welcome, but the screaming and ovation that hit us from the m...
Posted by Anthony on Tue, 31 Jul 2007 07:52:00 PST

Meow

So this morning I went into a National Park on what they call a "game drive" looking for wild animals, and I can safely say that I no longer feel like I'm in some version of California. I am definite...
Posted by Anthony on Sun, 17 Jun 2007 03:30:00 PST

Africa

Hey all --I wanted to say hello from sunny but chilly (it's winter in the southern hemisphere) Johannesburg, South Africa, where I've been for a little over a week now. I wasn't sure what to expect o...
Posted by Anthony on Wed, 13 Jun 2007 11:00:00 PST

But wait, there's more

Hey all --Thanks to the many of you who've already posted happy responses to my previous blog entry. It's going to be wild, for sure. I hope my knees aren't too creaky to jump up and down on those t...
Posted by Anthony on Thu, 03 May 2007 01:19:00 PST