Blog: The Donnybrook Writing Academy

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To be a fly on the wall watching a conversation about music between Bob Geldof and Ted Leo is already exciting; then SXSW's Key Note Speaker Bobby G mentioned how he'd like to check out These United States play at SXSW! (It's around the 7 minute mark, but you should watch the whole thing). It's okay that he first calls them "Empire of the United States" or something. As their publicist, I still swelled with pride. Maybe this will spawn a glam collabo with Empire of the Sun . And if we're keeping tally here, which we're [...]

Follow the Bartender as he treasures another man's trash. #1 Charming Nativity Scene This is a meticulously handmade nativity scene that someone spent months making. It probably took them a week to paint the little plaster baby Jesus. Whoever made this fine piece of art died recently and their ungrateful, shit kids gave it away. Price: Not for sale - it’s mine forever. An older lady begged me to sell it to her, but I told her [...]

Histrionic diary entries, angsty yearbook scrawlings, and really bad poetry brought back from teenagerhood and the other side of cool. Dates may be omitted and names may have been changed, but rest assured these are legit. Diary Entry from 2001 (17 yrs old) Sometimes you get this feeling that you're going to die. At least I do. When I was in Littleton with my family, after I took some codeine pain killers for cramps, we were having this discussion about getting old and having to deal with health problems. My mom [...]

After Japan's terrible earthquake and tsunami, and the resulting (and brain-freezingly scary) nuclear crisis, I couldn't stop thinking about the Japan. Japan is a country whose culture I have admired from afar for as long as I can remember. Though it may seem trivial to trivial to focus on something so small, I wanted to write about Daruma, which are a traditional Japanese doll symbolizing perseverance, hope, and optimism, in order to add one happy, uplifting story to the thousands of tragic ones. Daruma have a [...]

Histrionic diary entries, angsty yearbook scrawlings, and really bad poetry brought back from teenagerhood and the other side of cool. Dates may be omitted and names may have been changed, but rest assured these are legit. Diary Entry from 2001 (17 yrs old) I drew a picture that lets me know how I'm feeling. If I want to deeply see what I'm feeling, all I hafta do is pick up a pencil and not even think about it. I'm not saying my artwork is a messenger for God for everyone, but [...]

I recently read KnightsEnd, the completion to the KnightSaga. For those of you unfamiliar with any of these terms, the story is as follows: Bruce Wayne, the Batman, comes under assault by a new villain, the steroid-enhanced Bane. After releasing the inmates of Arkham Asylum, Bane studies the Batman as he rounds up the various members of his rogues’ gallery. During this study, Bane learns Batman’s secret identity. After months of putting Arkham’s patients back behind bars and padded walls, Batman comes home from a hard day of crime-fighting, exhausted. All he wants is to put [...]

Histrionic diary entries, angsty yearbook scrawlings, and really bad poetry brought back from teenagerhood and the other side of cool. Dates may be omitted and names may have been changed, but rest assured these are legit. College Paper for Nutrition Class, 2006-ish "When I was driving to the Farmer's Market in Cherry Creek*, 'Perfect Day' by Lou Reed came into the shuffle on my iPod. Repeated, almost like a mantra, was the phrase 'You're Going to reap just what you sow.' It was grey and almost rainy but the [...]

What is it that makes a man? How do the individual grains of childhood memories and traumas falling through the hourglass of our lives merge into a single being? A being capable of the courage to sacrifice their life for another, or the disregard to enter a restaurant and ask for a burrito as big as their head. When do individual experiences assimilate into the collective life of yet another drunken asshole who passed out in my front yard last night? Our humanity is defined, not by the answers to these questions, but by the pursuit of those answers. [...]

Father Guido and Angora Holly Polo, recently engaged, are starting their new lives together by creating a non-profit musician’s hostel called Donnybrook Manor: a sanctuary for road-weary musicians and a palace for starving artists. Here they will share with you their research, dreams, and doodles of what they hope Donnybrook Manor will be. Donnybrook Manor's projected exterior We want to make sure that the musicians staying at our hostel aren't going to play "Sweet Home Alabama" over and over again in the middle of [...]

I had only heard of a few of these guys when I first got within earshot of this project, but no lie, Star Persons are on some next level. As much as I hate that phrase, it's entirely accurate for this set, because nobody is doing anything like them. Luckily I had one of their producer's info in my rolodex and he was kind enough to do an interview with me. And yeah, you heard me right - these guys have multiple producers. In fact, their extended role call is pretty deep, so that's where I started my questioning. [...]

It happens each year, around this time: the SXSW panic sets in. As people hurriedly and secretly circulate their homemade Excel docs filled to the brim with crazy parties to RSVP to (FREE Kool Aide and circus clowns!), and each RSVP forces you to do some strange thing (click three times, say 'Bob's your uncle' and then read this message which will hypnotize you into posting our flier on your Facebook), the sheer multitude of possibility that exists in such a small space with so very very many people can be debilitating. So many hipsters! So much free [...]

WIRED 's bookcase secret door This article is from way back in 2007, but it's becoming more relevant to us now as we furiously daydream about Donnybrook Manor design. Put this one on the list of renovations: a bookcase that swivels to reveal a secret room! Should we make our secret room a panic room, a private getaway, or bondage dungeon? I personally like the idea of an indoor grotto with a hot tub filled with champagne, but for a more useful practice, we could let bands keep their expensive gear here. [...]

With the first quarter of the young year nigh on end, no doubt you’re beginning to hear grumblings among those you employ, or among those who pass by you on the way to your place of business, about the ranking, placement, and entrance of certain athletic clubs of academic institutions into some sort of base taxonomy, pitted against one another in matches, perhaps to the death. No doubt you are also hearing about a dreadful condition permeating in your lower dwellings, something called a “Madness of March,” which could result in the afflicted becoming falsely confident in predicting [...]

The year 2000. There we were, here we are, but what doth the spirit? Kid A : Became Bradford Cox. Kid B : Is into Sun O))) and smokes weed in really dramatic ways. Kid C : Runs an architecture firm in a third-tier notable city such as St. Paul or Washington DC. Kid D : Got too into west coast punk and is currently too old to be riding a longboard. Kid E : Joined [...]

This weekend, come celebrate the release of Joie De Vivre , the new Jim McTurnan &� �The Kids That Killed The Man record which they've spent much of the past year recording. The release party is this Saturday, March 12th at the Hi Dive. Playing with them will be Joshua Novak and also the Family Band from Brooklyn, New York. Doors are at 9pm.  18+ show. The record is now available for free download at  jimmcturnan.com and also at  jimmcturnan.bandcamp.com . They're going all digital with this record, so there [...]

I came across a rather disturbing letter in my fan mail this week from a loyal reader asking for help. It seems, no matter how hard he tries, his game time has been dropping to dangerously unacceptable levels. Like so many others, this epic warrior's mind has been incarcerated by the trappings of a growing corporate world. A world where heroes quest to make their car payments and the masses fall in line behind great political showman called "lobbyists" who wield their power through mindless henchman from the great bankers guild of "Congress." But, as this [...]

Histrionic diary entries, angsty yearbook scrawlings, and really bad poetry brought back from teenagerhood and the other side of cool. Dates may be omitted and names may have been changed, but rest assured these are legit. Diary entry from 2001 (17 years old) "If you want to see some of the saddest people, go to the Monkey Lovin' Karaoke night at the Starlight. All these old, fucked up, cracked out people*, some trying to to sing, some trying to get laid. I was in the girls bathroom and this [...]

People of the world of Donnybrook…for the past two weeks I’ve been held captive by a group of rogue ninja. I was beaten, sleep deprived, and forced to watch endless videos of Justin Bieber . Torture! The story is an interesting one filled with desperation, romantic encounters and of course…the Swiss. I get the girl, blah blah blah. But, that’s not what I’m here to talk about. In my absence, the world of How I Met Your Mother has continued and now that I am back, I shall continue my mindless ranting. Garbage [...]