#2576
Posted: 2/3/06 at 6:07pm
I haven't actually seen a spork in quite a while...like 4th grade.
Welcome, Anthony Rapp! (part two) — Page 104
#2577
Posted: 2/3/06 at 6:09pm
Rogue I know EXACTLY what you mean. The best feeling though is waking up early on a weekend by accident and then you're looking at the clock like ughhh I have to go to school soon! But then you realize you don't have to. That's one of the best things in the world.
#2578
Posted: 2/3/06 at 6:19pm
Rach, when you realize that you don't have to get it, it's just a wave of relief. It's a great feeling. 
Shari Lewis: Did you ever wish upon a star?
Lamb Chop: I once asked Mr. Rogers for his autograph.
#2579
Posted: 2/3/06 at 6:41pm
Hey you guys. I was wondering if 'Mamma Mia' is a good show because it's coming to Nebraska and I want to know if it worth spending $190 on.
#2580
Posted: 2/3/06 at 6:45pm
I loved Mamma Mia. Try getting the music first just to see if you like it.
#2581
Posted: 2/3/06 at 6:51pm
I don't know if this was posted earlier.
http://community.livejournal.com/rent/1788961.html#cutid1
For those who can't make it out:
This “Memoir of Love, Loss and the Musical Rent” definitely demands an avid interest in the 1996 rock opera. But Rapp’s book is no roar-of-the-crowd, smell-of-the-greasepaint scrapbook; it’s a sprawling, tear-streaked life story and unabashedly sentimental ode to his mother (she died of adrenal cancer in 1997). Rapp’s personal and professional lives were like warped mirror images: As Rent went from workshop to Tony-winning theatrical sensation (Rapp played cynical filmmaker Mark), the actor watched his mother waste away. “I wanted desperately, selfishly, to be there…for her final moments. To live that dramatic deathbed scene from so many movies,” he writes. His prose can be clunky and overwrought, but his voice is unpretentious and unfailingly honest. A rare (and refreshing) occurrence in a showbiz memoir.
And they gave the book a B.
http://community.livejournal.com/rent/1788961.html#cutid1
For those who can't make it out:
This “Memoir of Love, Loss and the Musical Rent” definitely demands an avid interest in the 1996 rock opera. But Rapp’s book is no roar-of-the-crowd, smell-of-the-greasepaint scrapbook; it’s a sprawling, tear-streaked life story and unabashedly sentimental ode to his mother (she died of adrenal cancer in 1997). Rapp’s personal and professional lives were like warped mirror images: As Rent went from workshop to Tony-winning theatrical sensation (Rapp played cynical filmmaker Mark), the actor watched his mother waste away. “I wanted desperately, selfishly, to be there…for her final moments. To live that dramatic deathbed scene from so many movies,” he writes. His prose can be clunky and overwrought, but his voice is unpretentious and unfailingly honest. A rare (and refreshing) occurrence in a showbiz memoir.
And they gave the book a B.
I recognize the addiction to being alive.
Updated On: 2/3/06 at 06:51 PM
#2583
Posted: 2/3/06 at 7:53pm
I JUST GOT IT!!! I really wasn't expecting my book store to carry it but low and behold they did. I'm going to wait for my family to go to sleep though because my brother has 2 friends over and I kind of want to have peace and quiet while I'm reading. 3 third grade boys = not very quiet. I can' wait!
#2584
Posted: 2/3/06 at 8:21pm
I got it too!
Back to reading...
Back to reading...
"I feel god in this chili's..."
#2585
Posted: 2/3/06 at 9:15pm
holy crap.
i tried to buy david searching on dvd at borders (someone barrowed my vhs two years ago and never gave it back grrrr...)
so anyway i ask the guy (maybe 18 or 19) to look it up and i can see him try to hide a laugh/smile and he says sorry we're all out, but we do have some other PORN ON THE SHELVES!
IT'S LISTED AS AN ADULT VIDEO! O_O
not mature audiences, or rated r, ADULT VIDEO.
al i could think was GREAT! now thay think i'm a pervert!
i tried to buy david searching on dvd at borders (someone barrowed my vhs two years ago and never gave it back grrrr...)
so anyway i ask the guy (maybe 18 or 19) to look it up and i can see him try to hide a laugh/smile and he says sorry we're all out, but we do have some other PORN ON THE SHELVES!
IT'S LISTED AS AN ADULT VIDEO! O_O
not mature audiences, or rated r, ADULT VIDEO.
al i could think was GREAT! now thay think i'm a pervert!
Less is more
Ugly is beautiful
"My brother plays a drag queen... and I'm surprised he looks as good as he does in drag." - Adam Rapp
"thanks, abba. now i'll forever have an image of you as a tattoed hardcore straightedge grrl savaging people in the mosh pit." - papalovesmambo
"Yeah Abba. All the filthy crap you spew out there on those boards. I for one, am equally shocked. :-P" - AnnaK
Ugly is beautiful
"My brother plays a drag queen... and I'm surprised he looks as good as he does in drag." - Adam Rapp
"thanks, abba. now i'll forever have an image of you as a tattoed hardcore straightedge grrl savaging people in the mosh pit." - papalovesmambo
"Yeah Abba. All the filthy crap you spew out there on those boards. I for one, am equally shocked. :-P" - AnnaK
Updated On: 2/3/06 at 09:15 PM
#2586
Posted: 2/3/06 at 9:16pm
That's really odd. I mean...I guess some parts were kind of sexual, but really compared to some movies I've seen it wasn't that bad at all.
#2587
Posted: 2/3/06 at 9:20pm
i know there's some sexual stuff in it, but to put it on the same shelf as porn...
Less is more
Ugly is beautiful
"My brother plays a drag queen... and I'm surprised he looks as good as he does in drag." - Adam Rapp
"thanks, abba. now i'll forever have an image of you as a tattoed hardcore straightedge grrl savaging people in the mosh pit." - papalovesmambo
"Yeah Abba. All the filthy crap you spew out there on those boards. I for one, am equally shocked. :-P" - AnnaK
Ugly is beautiful
"My brother plays a drag queen... and I'm surprised he looks as good as he does in drag." - Adam Rapp
"thanks, abba. now i'll forever have an image of you as a tattoed hardcore straightedge grrl savaging people in the mosh pit." - papalovesmambo
"Yeah Abba. All the filthy crap you spew out there on those boards. I for one, am equally shocked. :-P" - AnnaK
#2588
Posted: 2/3/06 at 9:55pm
Heh- I've been on hiatus from the computer (yes, I do consider a day hiatus), because my mom has completely grounded me from it on weekdays. Why? I failed Calculus. *sigh* I tried arguing a little (it's not as if I wasn't trying) but then she told me that it was either this or I couldn't go to the book-signing, so I shut up.
Um...going back a few pages to the discussion on how everybody's going to react to meeting him, I'm going to be the completely silent, maybe stuttering out a sentance if I'm lucky. And it's not because I'm afraid of him, or anything. It's because I'm extremely painfully shy with new people, especially adults. And to combine that with it being someone I admire greatly- not going to be pretty.
Um...going back a few pages to the discussion on how everybody's going to react to meeting him, I'm going to be the completely silent, maybe stuttering out a sentance if I'm lucky. And it's not because I'm afraid of him, or anything. It's because I'm extremely painfully shy with new people, especially adults. And to combine that with it being someone I admire greatly- not going to be pretty.
Grief does not expire like a candle or the beacon on a lighthouse. It simply changes temperature. -Nocturne
#2589
Posted: 2/3/06 at 10:06pm
...I'd have to agree with everyone who has been saying that he's just a person. He happens to have a job that makes him more in the eye of the media/public than the rest of us, and he happens to be EXTREMELY talented, but he's just a person who goes to work every day like most adults do.
Updated On: 2/3/06 at 10:06 PM
#2590
Posted: 2/3/06 at 10:25pm
His book kind of humanizes him. I'm only on page 60-ish but one thing I've noticed is that I'm not looking at him as "Rent-star Anthony Rapp" but more of "average person with normal problems Anthony Rapp." It's refreshing to see him in a whole new light.
And the book so far is nothing less of amazing. I'm engrossed.
And the book so far is nothing less of amazing. I'm engrossed.
#2591
Posted: 2/3/06 at 10:31pm
Again, how did some people get it already? I ordered it on Amazon and it says that it's coming between Feb. 15th-17th.
I think Amazon hates me.
I think Amazon hates me.
"A little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing." - Thomas Jefferson
#2592
Posted: 2/3/06 at 10:34pm
Amazon, for me, says the 9th to the 11th.
I mean, can't it at least be consistant?
I mean, can't it at least be consistant?
Shari Lewis: Did you ever wish upon a star?
Lamb Chop: I once asked Mr. Rogers for his autograph.
#2593
Posted: 2/3/06 at 11:02pm
Amazon can be fickle. I looove Strand, though.
I definitely have to agree that his book humanizes him. Not that I didn't know he was a person, just like everyone else, before, but the book really put it in perspective for me. *nods*
Only 14 days until vacation starts- 18 until the Rent movie/Anthony's booksigning.
I definitely have to agree that his book humanizes him. Not that I didn't know he was a person, just like everyone else, before, but the book really put it in perspective for me. *nods*
Only 14 days until vacation starts- 18 until the Rent movie/Anthony's booksigning.
Grief does not expire like a candle or the beacon on a lighthouse. It simply changes temperature. -Nocturne
#2594
Posted: 2/4/06 at 1:35am
*Dragging up from the bottom for no real reason.*
No Strand here. No credit card. No Anthony book. I'll have to go searching once it comes out.
No Strand here. No credit card. No Anthony book. I'll have to go searching once it comes out.
#2595
Posted: 2/4/06 at 1:41am
Awww, poor CS.
Awww, poor dying thread.
Awww, poor dying thread.
Grief does not expire like a candle or the beacon on a lighthouse. It simply changes temperature. -Nocturne
#2596
Posted: 2/4/06 at 1:44am
It's not dying, it's just...it's late at night.
Shari Lewis: Did you ever wish upon a star?
Lamb Chop: I once asked Mr. Rogers for his autograph.
#2597
Posted: 2/4/06 at 1:48am
Pssh. Sleep is for the weak. 
Grief does not expire like a candle or the beacon on a lighthouse. It simply changes temperature. -Nocturne
#2598
Posted: 2/4/06 at 2:04am
*grins*
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Updated On: 2/4/06 at 02:04 AM
#2599
Posted: 2/4/06 at 2:14am
Yay
Literal tacos! Sheesh. Y'all are nasty....
Updated On: 2/4/06 at 02:14 AM
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