Patrick Freyne

(I’m posting this now because in the new year I plan to have a literary feud with Seamas for publicity reasons)

This by @seamas.bsky.social is out in April. it’s my favourite kind of book - a short book with loads of voices that feels like an epic. It’s all about buried trauma and how we commemorate stuff and it’s moving, angry and very funny. It’s brilliant really.

Can't believe our tax dollars are going to be spent settling the upcoming exorbitant defamation suit with Sabrina Carpenter, but maybe this is just how public arts funding is going to work now.

Thank you David

Patrick Freyne: Bye, folks. I’m off to Hollywood. Nepo baby or not, I’m an excellent actor My latest role is in Eternity. Having a voice like an earthbound angel is my curse, as you’ll hear

I wrote modestly about my Hollywood debut and being a nepo-baby (sadly they changed the original headline "Bye fuckos I'm off to Hollywood") www.irishtimes.com/culture/film...

Look guys, if the gays can boycott the Eurovision, the very very very least you can do is boycott FIFA

I've written a novel, Experts in a Dying Field. It's out on Penguin Sandycove in June. It's about about a band and a tragedy & art for art's sake & aging & loss & community & Dublin. There's a fox in it. & sheet music. The beautiful cover's by Jack Smyth. You can preorder: linktr.ee/expertsinady...

thanks Damian :)

It's Toy Show night so I can't wait for American blueskyers to get mad at us because there's someone in the administration called Glenn ToyShow and he's the deputy secretary of the department of crushing orphans or something.

Patrick Freyne: Bye, folks. I’m off to Hollywood. Nepo baby or not, I’m an excellent actor My latest role is in Eternity. Having a voice like an earthbound angel is my curse, as you’ll hear

I wrote modestly about my Hollywood debut and being a nepo-baby (sadly they changed the original headline "Bye fuckos I'm off to Hollywood") www.irishtimes.com/culture/film...

‘What’s Kevin the Carrot’s problem?’: Patrick Freyne on this year’s Christmas ads Plus Patrick Freyne on this year’s Boots, John Lewis, Argos, Tesco, Coca-Cola, Barbour and M&S Food commercials

My column this week is about Christmas ads: www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-r...

Elizabeth Olsen: ‘I’ve always wanted to be involved with an Irish mafia’ The actor discusses Marvel, shunning social media, and her role in David Freyne’s new romantic comedy, Eternity

Donald Clarke interviews Elizabeth Olsen about the excellent Eternity by David Freyne (apparently related to me) which is in cinemas from tomorrow www.irishtimes.com/culture/film...

"Nonetheless, the sentiment of this year’s John Lewis ad is clear: “You totally ruined my life, you little shit. I’d still be clubbing now if not for you. Rave 2 da grave!” Also, men would rather go back on the E than to therapy.

In the background, the women of the family are setting the table."

‘What’s Kevin the Carrot’s problem?’: Patrick Freyne on this year’s Christmas ads Plus Patrick Freyne on this year’s Boots, John Lewis, Argos, Tesco, Coca-Cola, Barbour and M&S Food commercials

My column this week is about Christmas ads: www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-r...

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thanks Una!

Patrick Freyne | The Blindboy Podcast I chat with the hilarious and kind Patrick Freyne, who is an author,musician and journalist

I did a very fun live event with the brilliant @blindboyboatclub.bsky.social YEARS ago just post lock down when everything felt very weird and we both forgot about it - and when he saw my novel being announced he remembered - it's out now shows.acast.com/9d5c107b-68d...

There’s a preview of David Freyne’s excellent Eternity on Thursday evening in the Lighthouse in Dublin followed by a Q&A with the man himself. & the film is out on Friday! www.lighthousecinema.ie/film/preview... m.media-amazon.com/images/S/pv-...

THE IMPACT OF AIDS ON THE ARTISTIC COMMUNITY (Published 1987)

This ran in the New York Times in September 1987. A link: www.nytimes.com/1987/09/13/a...

1. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that when a 36-year-old writer is asked on a network news show about the Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community particularly in regard to the Well-Known Preponderance of Homosexuals in the Arts she replies that if you removed all of the homosexuals and homosexual influence from what is generally regarded as American culture you would be pretty much left with ''Let's Make a Deal.'' The interviewer's lack of response compels her to conclude that he has no idea what she is talking about and she realizes that soon many of those who do know what she is talking about will be what is generally regarded as dead. 2. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that on New Year's Eve Day…

…a 36-year-old writer takes a 31-year-old photographer to get a chest X-ray and listens to him say with what can only be described as a certain guarded hope, ''Maybe I just have lung cancer.'' 3. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that a 36-year-old writer has a telephone conversation with a dying 41-year-old book editor whom even the most practiced verbal assassin has called the last of the Southern gentlemen and hears him say in a hoarse whisper, ''I'm sorry but I just hate old people. I look at them and think, 'Why don't you die?' '' 4. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that an aspiring little avant-garde movie director approaches a fairly famous actor in a restaurant and attempts to make social hay out of the fact that they met at Antonio's and will undoubtedly see each other at Charles's and Antonio's and Charles's are not parties and Antonio's and Charles's are not bars and Antonio's and Charles's are not summer houses in chic Tuscan towns - Antonio's and Charles's are funerals.

5. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that a 36-year-old writer is on the telephone with a 38-year-old art director making arrangements to go together the following morning to the funeral of a 27-year-old architect and the art director says to the writer, ''If you get there first sit near the front where we usually sit and save me the seat on the aisle.'' 6. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that a 24-year-old ballet dancer is in the hospital for 10 days following an emergency appendectomy and nobody goes to visit him because everyone is really busy and after all he's not dying or anything. 7. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that a 36-year-old writer takes time out at a memorial service for the world's pre-eminent makeup artist and a man worth any number of interesting new painters to get angry because the makeup artist's best friend and eulogist uses a story that she has for years been hoarding for her book which she can't write anymore anyway unless she writes it as a historical novel because it's about a world that in the last few years has disappeared almost entirely.

The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community, by Fran Lebowitz. For World AIDS Day. 1 of 2:

thanks Julia!

Opened my Instagram stories and there’s Willow Smith over in Los Angeles lip synching a middle aged Limerick mans experience of maintaining friendships while being autistic

this is true. it’s just always funny to me that this is an early adoption instinct.

"For millennia humankind has dreamt of creating godlike technology... AND HAVING SEX WITH IT"

(that's the current gist of Ai discussions on Twitter as far as I can gather)

Guardian hiring a China correspondent #journojobs workwithus.theguardian.com/job-search/e...

thanks Ruairi!

Hearing unsubstantiated unsubstantiated-rumours that Patrick Freyne has written a novel, Experts in a Dying Field, out on Penguin Sandycove in June. It's about a band & a tragedy & art for art's sake & aging & loss & community & Dublin. There's a fox in it. & sheet music. The cover's by Jack Smyth.

thank you June :)

Thanks Sylvia. I think of that EVERY TIME I'm at a petrol station still :)