I don't believe in paradise, you know, or heaven, but I do believe in beauty and beauty requires

a dark underbelly for it to be really beautiful to me.

This is death, sex, and money.

You are already dead, you didn't have a post.

The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot,

Grandma said I could use this money to buy whatever I want,

and need to talk about more.

A 26th my academic career was over.

I had never kissed her boy, and I was still sleeping with mom.

I'm Anna Seale.

My conversation with John Cameron Mitchell

started with him cleaning out his freezer.

Let me just take this ice out, because I actually don't need it anymore.

It was forming injured legs.

He took out two large packs of ice.

For the leg he injured on stage in Hedwig and the angry inch, the off-Broadway musical turned movie, turned Broadway revival that he created and is starring in now.

We were sitting on the couch in his living room, which is also his kitchen.

It's a small apartment. So I'd asked him to turn off his refrigerator for the quiet.

Phones off?

Phones off. off.

Since we're here, can you describe the apartment that we're sitting in?

It's encrusted in the 90s when I got it.

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