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Patrick Stoakes @patrickstoakes.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

And 9 albums- but note they don’t have Night March of the Chrysanthemums by Labor Exchange Band on file which would be on though not sure what I’d sacrifice

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Patrick Stoakes @patrickstoakes.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

My nine books- with the fake DFW corrected

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Patrick Stoakes @patrickstoakes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I’m not sure why The Algorithm has decided that I’m German now, specifically Bavarian and I want lots of options on where to buy my lederhosen for Oktoberfest. And I want see AI cats telling jokes in German, mostly about Oktoberfest but sometimes just the weekend and stuff.

One of apparently thousands of reels advertising Bavaria’s finest lederhosen suppliers

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Patrick Stoakes @patrickstoakes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If you see this, recommend a short book

The cover of Rock Crystal by Adalbert Stifter

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Patrick Stoakes @patrickstoakes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Another great Dublin Theatre Festival. Animals at the Abbey, Zinc by Dead Centre (consistently the best theatre company this decade) Brokentalkers’ Heroes of Tomorrow and Druid’s Moon for the Misbegotten.

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Patrick Stoakes @patrickstoakes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The Usher’s Island lads reunited for our annual Dublin Theatre Festival blowout. The Abbey last night, Project Arts this afternoon, Dead Centre tonight, Druid tomorrow!

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Patrick Stoakes @patrickstoakes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Back in the IFI for a couple of films; my Lourdes.

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Patrick Stoakes @patrickstoakes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Back in the best city in the world.

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Patrick Stoakes @patrickstoakes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#NowPlaying Leaning into the Ballardian dystopianism of Heathrow airport with some Hans Werner Henze

The cover of Hans Werne Henze’s symphonies 1-6

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Patrick Stoakes @patrickstoakes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched The best Shakespearean adaptation, a formal exercise in creating a simulacrum of a late-90s aesthetic, juste fine, and good enough to get me to buy a jazz album. #FilmSky

Film posters for Throne of Blood, Practical Magic 2, Juste and Illusion, Everbody Digs Bill Evans

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Patrick Stoakes @patrickstoakes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

What scene makes you emotional no matter how many times you’ e seen it? “Mine was.”

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Patrick Stoakes @patrickstoakes.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Just out of a rewatch of Throne of Blood. Incredible that Isuzu Yamada did this and Tokyo Twilight in the same year; the height of stylisation and the subtlest naturalism.

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Patrick Stoakes @patrickstoakes.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Will look out for Dark Passage, really enjoyed the book.

Library of America copy of David Goodis novels.

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Patrick Stoakes @patrickstoakes.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

#NowPlaying Just saw Bouncing Off the Satellites is 40 years old. Way to make me feel ancient. Very much associated with my own first Summer of love as a fresh faced vanilla kid in the big city. Bliss it was in that dawn to be alive. We all braked for rainbows that summer. #MusicSky

The B-52s album Bouncing Off the Satellites

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Patrick Stoakes @patrickstoakes.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I reminded of this photo way too often

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Patrick Stoakes @patrickstoakes.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched Only three new films seen this week, Greta Lee sings Surabaya Johnny- I’m in! An interesting failure, and another one in the very long list of “the extraordinary lengths straight men will go to to not f**k each other” films. #FilmSky

Film posters for Late Fame, &Sons and The North

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Patrick Stoakes @patrickstoakes.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

For a long time this picture of Wendell Berry was my computer screen saver. Sad to hear of his passing. A great novelist and clearly a mensch.

Wendell Berry with his feet on his desk, looking out of a window

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Patrick Stoakes @patrickstoakes.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

For fellow theatre queens (and P&P fans) picked up a charity shop copy of Valmouth, turned out to be signed by the cast and Sandy Wilson and Sir Robert f***ing Helpmann! Told the shop they’d underpriced and was happy to pay more but they said it was my lucky find. Indeed.

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Patrick Stoakes @patrickstoakes.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Saw a great Love’s Labour’s Lost yesterday, putting it into the list of plays I’ve seen 4 or more productions of- alongside, by frequency A Midsummer Night’s Dream As You Like It Twelfth Night Three Sisters Much Ado About Nothing The Master Builder Othello Macbeth Romeo & Juliet Measure for Measure

Shakespeare’s Globe production of Love’s Labour’s Lost

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Patrick Stoakes @patrickstoakes.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

A day late #LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched The best film performance ever that’s not given by Shelley Duvall, Cooper Hoffman being so gorgeous it’s embarrassing, an OK comedy with its heart in the right place, and I’ll evoke the Thumper doctrine and pass on the Almodovar. #FilmSky

Film posters for Brief Encounter, Bitter Christmas, I Want Your Sex, and Stop!That! Train!

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Patrick Stoakes @patrickstoakes.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

For weeks me and my husband have been mystified what has been causing the garlic smell in our kitchen. We’ve looked under and behind the fridge, cleaned the oven, hoovered under the larder. Weeks. Only today did I consider the smell might be in coming from THE ACTUAL GARLIC. Being gay can be hard

Decorative garlic hanging
from a Belgian enamel kitchen tidy, alongside
a Marrimekko oven glove, red colander, Estonian wooden ladle.

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Patrick Stoakes @patrickstoakes.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Someone should bring back The Emotionist Group

Photo of two masked artists promoting an exhibition by The Emotionist Group in the 1930s. London, Chelsea

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Patrick Stoakes @patrickstoakes.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

At the rather impressive Towner cinema

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Patrick Stoakes @patrickstoakes.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Heading into town for a Kalatozov, Antonioni and Kieslowski triple bill. A bit of Gasparini for the train ride. #CinemaSunday #FilmSky #NowPlaying

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Patrick Stoakes @patrickstoakes.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Repost with your earliest childhood crush from film/tv

Alan Arkin looking hot as fuck as Freud in The Seven Percent Solution

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Patrick Stoakes @patrickstoakes.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

If I’d read this 15 years ago I’m not sure it would have registered too much with me. Now, as a devoted rescue cat host, I found this book to be terrifying and devastating.

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Patrick Stoakes @patrickstoakes.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

The annual family gathering to see the musical at Chichester Festival Theatre. My Fair Lady this year and a total joy.

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Patrick Stoakes @patrickstoakes.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Weird. My current and coincidental playlist as I read this.

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Patrick Stoakes @patrickstoakes.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Ahead of Women in Translation Month, four short reads I’d recommend to anyone. Sarashina: As I Crossed A Bridge of Dreams. Sigrid Undset: Gunnar”s Daughter Tove Jansson:The True Deceiver Banana Yoshimoto: Goodbye Tsugumi. #BookSky #WITM

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Patrick Stoakes @patrickstoakes.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

All those progressive Labour MPs who’d been welcoming in a new era under Burnham right now

Maura at the moment she realized she’d been betrayed on a programme called The Traitors

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Patrick Stoakes @patrickstoakes.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Post two movies from one director to show their range. William Wyler

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Patrick Stoakes @patrickstoakes.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Now playing: I-Village by Sheng Xiang and Band #MusicSky

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Patrick Stoakes @patrickstoakes.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

If your local cinema is showing Singin’ in the Rain, you go see Singin’ in the Rain. Thems the rules. Here we are, Sunset and Camden! #CinemsSunday

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Patrick Stoakes @patrickstoakes.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Day of divas. This morning met up with my sister and we Marlene Dietrich, Jean Harlow and Claudette Colbert movies. Now onto Sandra Oh at the theatre. Happy happy joy joy.

Poster of the Misanthrope with Sandra Oh

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Patrick Stoakes @patrickstoakes.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Husband’s book now in Arabic! Loving the typography.

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Patrick Stoakes @patrickstoakes.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

A model of Milton Court, long demolished, where I used to live

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