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David Berman Bot @davidbermanbot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Suburban kids with biblical names

Alex R. Johnson @haciendafilms.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Scrolling over my desktop dock trying to find the Final Draft icon feels like the digital version of me blowing dust off a tomb. #screenwriting

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Alex R. Johnson @haciendafilms.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I had been chasing David Lynch hair my entire life only to now realize Kyle Chandler hair was always the true goal.

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Alex R. Johnson @haciendafilms.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Text from my son when I am not in the living room exactly at 9PM on Sunday night. #lanterns

A screenshot of my lockscreen with a notification from my son that says “lanterns lanterns lanterns”

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Alex R. Johnson @haciendafilms.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Received a text from two different friends at exactly the same time today, about two different koozies I had made. Plumley later called it koozmet.

A screenshot of my lock screen. There are two texts showing from two different friends, each about two different koozies
I had made. They were sent separately but at the same exact time.

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Alex R. Johnson @haciendafilms.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is tonight! Myself and others reading. I'll be reading from my 1998 set NYC noir novel BROOKLYN MOTTO. Drafts are 2 for 1. Words are 1 for 1. #booksky #writersky #writingcommunity

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Alex R. Johnson @haciendafilms.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Bring back 1990s NYC set vampire flicks.

A black and white still of Elina Löwensohn from NADJA.

A black and white still of Lili Taylor from THE ADDICTION.

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Alex R. Johnson @haciendafilms.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

NYC coming to full power, aka light jacket season.

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Alex R. Johnson @haciendafilms.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I’ll be part of The Palace Reading Series at The Greenpoint Palace (206 Nassau Ave) on September 29th. Drafts are two for one, listening is free. Come on by - 7-9pm. #bookthreads #authorthreads

A photo of me against a composition notebook.

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Alex R. Johnson @haciendafilms.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I’ll be part of The Palace Reading Series at The Greenpoint Palace (206 Nassau Ave) on September 29th. Drafts are two for one, listening is free. Come on by - 7-9pm. #bookthreads #authorthreads

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Alex R. Johnson @haciendafilms.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Also, matinees at the Paris are becoming what MoMa matinees used to be in the 90s, namely people that are 50/50 on whether they are at the movies or standing on a platform waiting for the N train. Dunno what's going on but the vibe is off.

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Alex R. Johnson @haciendafilms.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Creativity doesn’t justify inflicting that amount of suffering on others when you’re shooting a commercial for Pledge, but goddamnit if these assholes didn’t try to justify their fucking vision for furniture wax.

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Alex R. Johnson @haciendafilms.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Rewatched ALL THAT JAZZ at the Paris yesterday. I love that film so so much, but this viewing had me realizing that 90% of the directors I used to produce for used Roy Scheider's character as an instruction manual for life.

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Alex R. Johnson @haciendafilms.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Today feels like we're still climbing. But not there yet.

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Alex R. Johnson @haciendafilms.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

But that morning after the blackout, when the power came back, when the lights came on, when folks could call each other and say they were okay… that felt like the first step up out of the attic we had all been trapped in since 9/11. That first step toward the light.

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Alex R. Johnson @haciendafilms.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Time is a weird thing. When the blackout happened two years later, there was such fear at first that we were being pulled back into the dark fugue we had just started to lift from.

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Alex R. Johnson @haciendafilms.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The next few years are so cloudy. Those weeks immediately after 9/11 when the city was so silent, except for the occasional F14 jets that would rip through the sky overhead making you flinch and wince. So empty, except for the armed to the teeth National Guard patrolling the bridges and subways.

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Alex R. Johnson @haciendafilms.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

They all used my phone to call parents, loved ones, friends, and eventually all slowly disappeared back to their own homes and apartments.

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Alex R. Johnson @haciendafilms.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Talking to the office, no one was sure what to do. Stay or go. Hunker down or get the fuck out. Cell phones weren’t working well. I had a landline at my apartment, so everyone walked together from Little Italy over to my place.

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Alex R. Johnson @haciendafilms.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I was in Williamsburg, in my apartment at Graham and Devoe. I went up to the roof to see what I could see just as the first tower fell.

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Alex R. Johnson @haciendafilms.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

But my sister worked for me. And friends. And they were in the office downtown. They were close to where it happened and they had a clear view of everything. And I felt awful that they were there and I wasn’t.

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Alex R. Johnson @haciendafilms.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

At the time I was the executive producer of documentary production company that was downtown - on Grand Street between Mott and Mulberry. It was the top floor of the Ferrara Bakery building. But I wasn’t there. An EP privilege of getting to come in late when I stayed out late the night before.

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Alex R. Johnson @haciendafilms.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

She told me about the first plane and I turned on the news. I was hungover, cloudy headed and unsure what was going on.

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Alex R. Johnson @haciendafilms.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I remember that morning on 9/11, woken up by a phone call from my girlfriend at the time. I had been out late the night before at Tonic on the Lower East Side with friends. We saw Dave Pajo and Pullman. We all got too drunk and stayed out too late.

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Alex R. Johnson @haciendafilms.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Sun is moving back to its fall and winter setting spot. Gonna be dark and cold soon enough. #nyc #brooklyn

The sun setting in the bottom right hand corner of the frame. The orange glow bleeding into blue from right to left. A silhouette of a brooklyn block below. Clouds are thick on the left side of the frame and dissipate as they stretch right.

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Writers Guild of America West @wgawest.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Use the Free Work Reporting Form to assist the Guild in identifying the sources of free work requests and violations: vist.ly/5hmaz #NoFreeWork

Poster with text about reporting free work by the Writers Guild of America.

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Alex R. Johnson @haciendafilms.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

God, I love this shit. From THE HOT ROCK by Donald Westlake. #books #noir

Highlighted text from a book that reads: “Me too. That’s a geometric figure, that bird, he can’t exist without an angle.”

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Alex R. Johnson @haciendafilms.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Also, this just fell out of my copy of THE HOT ROCK that I’m reading at the bar. I love old pieces of paper in used books.

A ticket for something called the conservatory of flowers in san francisco from 2009.

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Alex R. Johnson @haciendafilms.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

In Pensacola, FLA for not a fun reason. I dunno if the martini I just had was spectacular or if my need for it was spectacular. Either way, tip your bartender.

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Alex R. Johnson @haciendafilms.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Shout out to the guy at VERG emergency vet a few days ago in Brooklyn who came in with their cat named Antifa. Loved hearing the staff ask, "anyone here for Antifa" whenever they needed to chat with you. I hope Antifa is doing well and ready to fight another day.

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/08/2026

[Exit Queen.]

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Alex R. Johnson @haciendafilms.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I remember calling this the "new" Sebadoh record.

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Alex R. Johnson @haciendafilms.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

New MISTAKES WERE MADE: Ecuador, immigration, death beds, beauty pageants and broken hearts. Please read, share, and enjoy: hacienda-films-inc.ghost.io/the-vanishin...

A black and white passport photo of my grandfather with Barbara Kruger-esque font across his eyes reading Mistakes Were Made.

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Alex R. Johnson @haciendafilms.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

The tone of me saying “Who are these Mets?” has gone from disgusted anger to pleasant surprise as of late. Baseball is weird.

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Alex R. Johnson @haciendafilms.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I have advanced to the next level of becoming my parents, where I can’t watch a movie more than 20 years old without involuntary saying, “they look so young!” Or “oh my god, he/she’s just a baby.”

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Alex R. Johnson @haciendafilms.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Good work should matter more. Good words, ordered well, pulling your heart and turning your pages.

A black and white photo looking west in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn. The silhouetted top of an apartment building lines the bottom of the frame, a water tower is in the bottom left corner. Foreboding clouds above asking the question “how is an artistic life viable?”

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Alex R. Johnson @haciendafilms.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I can still hear the sound of pulling a vhs tape out of that oversized foam lined box.

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Alex R. Johnson @haciendafilms.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

A Burlington, Vermont respite during the college tour. Walks, World Cup, maple creemees, and dinner at Hen of the Wood.

Looking towards the sunsetting over lallLake Champlain in Burlington

The ceiling of Hen of the Wood restaurant.

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