Derek Johnson
@derekjjohnson
music lover, liberal, data scientist, community owner Minnesota Aurora FC, Itasca Society Minnesota United FC; find me left of the dial - usually at First Avenue or a soccer match
Some days can only be fixed by freshly baked bread. Today is one of those days. 🥖
Hey Minnesota I just voted How about you? For the big DFL race, I voted for and support Peggy Flanagan for Senate
I love the song so much I have both the original b-side single (to Go Your Own Way) and the single they cut from that live show
Listening to Television’s Marquee Moon now feels like discovering Cameron Winter’s origin story.
If today were winter instead of summer, we’d be looking at 12-18 inches of new snow right now. Le Sueur would be under 4-6 feet of snow. 😬
We know faithfulness is not a trait for Appalachian Trail Mark Sanford, so this “American” flag in his Senate ad with a blue field across its entire span and stripes that are both vertical AND horizontal is par for the course. AI slop can’t get the most basic thing about America right. What a joke.
This is a pretty sweet set of one-off shows I’ve been fortunate enough to see of @boniverwi.bsky.social through the years.
Received my White Stripes Live in Tasmania vinyl from @thirdmanrecords.bsky.social. Gorgeous trifold cover (top of 1st photo shows outer, bottom of it shows inner). It came with a pack of trading cards, reminding me of these KISS cards I collected as a kid (and my mom saved for some reason 😂)
I love my new Wilco shirt with Oscar the Grouch on it “I hate it here when you’re gone”
First record I paid for myself: 9 year old me tutored an older kid on fractions in exchange for his AC/DC Back in Black cassette. He got an A. I got the start of my record collection. And don’t get me started on why I don’t have that cassette any more. 😡
It’s a bit beat up, but I’m enamored with this Robert Indiana print. The original Dayton’s Gallery 12 price tag is still on it!
For some reason my timeline is frozen on the point in time Malik Tillman hit that free kick against Belgium. We were soooo innocent back then… back before we knew Belgium would slap our uniquely American optimism right off our smiling faces and make us apologize to them for the trouble.
Nick Drake and Radiohead are gateway drugs to each other. Your entry point is dependent on either your age or someone’s really cool older sister or brother.
Aishvarya Kavi may have just described the narrative arc to everything Trump touches
Zlatan just said Qatar would need god to win, “but I’m here, so no” 😂
I can’t wait to add the visual proof to my collage of Trump’s name being scraped off buildings
Decided I needed to do a rewatch of 2001 myself, and let me tell you I’m a little obsessed with the lighting in this scene that adds devil horns to the Kubrick Stare.
Hi, US Soccer here! We’ve teamed up with FIFA to have the most expensive tickets in World Cup history by a factor of 7. Won’t you consider a $10,000 donation and we’ll send you an iron-on patch!