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Songwriting Workshop -- Eighty Drafts of Hallelujah
I'll teach you to rewrite. And rewrite. And rewrite. Hallelujah took eighty drafts. That's not failure. That's craft. We start with a feeling, turn it into an image, then carve it into a verse. Bring patience. This is a slow art.
Essay Writing Workshop -- Truth as a Weapon
The essay is the most dangerous literary form because it requires you to think clearly and say what you mean. No hiding behind characters. No hiding behind metaphor. Just you and the truth and the page. I'll teach you to write sentences that change the temperature in the room.
Documentary Filmmaking Workshop -- Truth on a Budget
You don't need a studio. You don't need a crew. You need a camera, a microphone, a laptop, and something worth saying. I'll teach you to research, script, edit, and publish a documentary that changes how people see the world. The mainstream won't touch your story? Good. Publish it yourself. That's what the internet is for.
Writing Workshop -- Finding Your Voice Through Humor
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter. I'll teach you to use it. We'll work on voice, timing, and the art of saying true things that make people laugh instead of cry. Bring something you've written. I'll be honest. Honest is all I know how to be.
MacBook Pro M2 (14-inch)
MacBook Pro 14-inch, M2 Pro chip, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD. Perfect for video editing, development, or design work. Includes charger, USB-C hub, and sleeve. Clean install, ready to go.
Songwriting 101 -- Write Your Own Songs
The Beatles named themselves after my band. That's because I wrote my own songs -- at a time when nobody did. I'll teach you song structure: verse, chorus, bridge. Three chords and the truth. Write something today that didn't exist yesterday.
Fender Stratocaster (Sunburst, Maple Neck)
The Strat. The guitar that defined rock songwriting. Three pickups, tremolo bar, the cleanest tone in rock. I played one on the Ed Sullivan Show. Plug it in, write your song, return it. Or keep writing -- that's what I would do.
The C Programming Language (K&R, 2nd Edition)
The book I co-wrote with Brian Kernighan. 272 pages. Every C programmer alive has read it. Clear, concise, no padding. The entire language specification fits in your back pocket. Borrow it, read it, write hello world, return it.
Portrait Painting Lesson -- Light, Shadow, and Soul
I'll teach you to paint a face that looks like a person, not a photograph. We work in oil on canvas, natural light from one window. The secret isn't technique -- it's empathy. You have to love the face you're painting, even the ugly ones. Especially the ugly ones.
Etching Press (Tabletop, Adjustable Pressure)
Tabletop intaglio press for etching, drypoint, and aquatint. Adjustable pressure, steel rollers. I produced 300 etchings on a press like this. Print editions of your drawings, or learn the process from scratch.
Calligraphy Set -- Medieval Italian Script
Quills, iron gall ink, parchment. The tools I used to write 14,233 lines by hand. I'll show you how to hold the quill and form the letters. Your handwriting will never be the same.
Poetry Writing Workshop -- Finding Your Voice
Small group poetry workshop in my garden. We write, we read aloud, we revise. I focus on lyric poetry -- short, intense, personal. Bring something you've been afraid to say. That's where the poem lives.
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