Darragh McManus
My blogs
| Introduction | I'm a journalist and published author from Tipperary in Ireland. My first book, 'GAA Confidential', a humorous polemic and miscellany on Irish sports, was published by Hodder in 2007. I’ve got an agent in New York, a collection of satirical pieces on pop culture with a bunch of London publishers, and two novels, a collection of short stories, a play and three film scripts in my computer. Honestly. To make a living I write for the Irish Independent and Guardian, and hope to move towards doing more satirical/humorous stuff. Think a mixture of Woody Allen, Flann O’Brien, www.theonion.com, a less misanthropic Charlie Brooker, and Jeremy Clarkson without so much testosterone. I agree that beauty is truth and vice versa. My ambition is to graciously refuse an Oscar for Best Director. |
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| Interests | Films, literature, sport, conversation, music, philosophy, daydreaming, smoking cigarettes, listening to the way French women speak in any language |
| Favorite Movies | Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, The Godfather trilogy, Lord of the Rings trilogy, La Dolce Vita, Il Conformista, Se7en, Point Break, LA Confidential, Bram Stoker's Dracula, My Own Private Idaho, Goodfellas, Apocalypse Now, Mulholland Drive, Rumblefish, Brotherhood of the Wolf, Three Kings, 28 Days Later, Terminator II, Aliens |
| Favorite Music | David Bowie, Pearl Jam, Massive Attack, Suede, Depeche Mode, Foo Fighters, U2, Nouvelle Vague, Hole, The Doors, Air, 'Farinelli' soundtrack, Blur, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Cypress Hill, Nirvana, Kraftwerk, Handel, Queens of the Stone Age, funk stuff with heavy bass lines |
| Favorite Books | A Clockwork Orange, Darkness at Noon, 1984, Oryx and Crake, The Handmaid’s Tale, The Tin Drum, Underworld, Song of Solomon, Foucault’s Pendulum, Los Alamos, Cloud Atlas, The Big Nowhere, Los Angeles Without a Map, The Butcher Boy, If on a winter’s night a traveller…, Resurrection Man, Neuromancer, The Official Slacker Handbook |