iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Mark Berman from Fully Involved @fullyinvolvedmark.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Genuinely society if everybody living/visiting here had the experience of Freddy from Germany

020

Mark Berman from Fully Involved @fullyinvolvedmark.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

You: [makes a Goose/Geese joke] Me, an intellectual:

Records by Spoon and another band called Spoons.

040

Mark Berman from Fully Involved @fullyinvolvedmark.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

"SELL THEIR HOUSES TO WHO, BEN?" ass album cover

060

Mark Berman from Fully Involved @fullyinvolvedmark.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Who is the whimsical ass mf causing this warning in August

Sign outside airport.

"Travel Advisory, Not permitted:

Due to current restrictions on liquids, snow
globes of any size are not allowed to be carried through the airport security checkpoint. Please pack in checked luggage."

010

Mark Berman from Fully Involved @fullyinvolvedmark.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Inside you is a Lodge on the border of Anaheim & Garden Grove. And inside that lodge is 4 wolves.

1162

Mark Berman from Fully Involved @fullyinvolvedmark.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

You think that's an uphill battle, try being an advocate for the Bob Welch/Danny Kirwan era

160

Mark Berman from Fully Involved @fullyinvolvedmark.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

And finally: updated tier list including all 7! Make no mistake from the positions btw, I love that these came out. It's sidequests & alt timelines that add a lot to one of the most infodumpable catalogs in rock. (dammit RYM why can't you have all these listed individually)

020

Mark Berman from Fully Involved @fullyinvolvedmark.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

1) LA GARAGE SESSIONS (1983) Too long? Perhaps. But with this, we have the proto-Bandcamp bridge album from Nebraska to Born in the USA that recontextualizes a LOT of how we talk about both. Much was bootlegged before, but it's a better world when "The Kl*nsman" is on streaming.

My 1LP version:
A1) Follow That Dream
A2) Johnny Bye Bye
A3) Sugarland
A4) Seven Tears
A5) Black Mountain Ballad
A6) County Fair
B1) One Love
B2) Richfield Whistle
B3) The Kl*nsman
B4) Unsatisfied Heart
B5) Fugitive’s Dream (Ballad)

120

Mark Berman from Fully Involved @fullyinvolvedmark.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

2) STREETS OF PHILADELPHIA SESSIONS (1994) The best standalone Album™️ here. May vault to my top 10 of his. May even make a casual care about this period. Take the moody synths, marital existential dread & horny undertones of Tunnel of Love & go way deeper on all 3. Might be even better??

131

Mark Berman from Fully Involved @fullyinvolvedmark.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

3) TWILIGHT HOURS (2018) More like Bruce Bacharach amirite?? Fun companion piece to Western Stars where he goes full crooner mode. Think Sinatra circa Watertown. Bit long & not sure every song needs that orchestral swell, but a sad bastard detour I can respect. Shoutout "Sunday Love"/"High Sierra."

120

Mark Berman from Fully Involved @fullyinvolvedmark.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

4) INYO (1997) This however, entirely on track w/ Tom Joad. Doubles down way harder on the Mexican settings, to the point this is half folk, half MARIACHI. (I am not kidding.) An admirable act of cultural exchange, even if some general "semester abroad" energy can hold it back. Shoutout "Adelita."

120

Mark Berman from Fully Involved @fullyinvolvedmark.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

5) SOMEWHERE NORTH OF NASHVILLE (1995) Light 90s country-rock done simultaneously w/ Ghost of Tom Joad to blow off steam from the serious stuff. Some lovely cuts when he chills out, but largely pretty obnoxious. Three songs called "___ Man." Shoutout "Under a Big Sky" & the redo of "Janey" though.

120

Mark Berman from Fully Involved @fullyinvolvedmark.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

6) FAITHLESS (2006) Bruce was commissioned to soundtrack a western. He slapped this together in a couple weeks. The movie never got made. What's left is half ambient interludes & half gestures to gospel, neither of which go anywhere. Fun alternate timeline to think about though.

120

Mark Berman from Fully Involved @fullyinvolvedmark.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

7) PERFECT WORLD (1994-2011) Doesn't even meet the box set's concept. Just a set of loosies cut from every mainline E Street album post-Rising. Adds no new angles to his catalog. Bit of an off-putting doomer streak in the first half too. For completionists only.

120

Mark Berman from Fully Involved @fullyinvolvedmark.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Every "lost album" from Bruce Springsteen's Tracks II, ranked by how much it matters for you to hear it:

130

Mark Berman from Fully Involved @fullyinvolvedmark.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Special thanks @athenap.bsky.social for roping me into one piece of what's sure to be some god-tier Wolf content 🙏

0141

Mark Berman from Fully Involved @fullyinvolvedmark.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

omg it's the grocery store guy from Smartypants

000

Mark Berman from Fully Involved @fullyinvolvedmark.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Double feature of Love & Mercy and Norbit tonight?

030

Mark Berman from Fully Involved @fullyinvolvedmark.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Charlie patio shots, followed by insane thing I saw on a downtown walk. Hope this helps.

010

Mark Berman from Fully Involved @fullyinvolvedmark.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

I mean fuck, I like Jack, I like Meg White I like Hardest Button to Button & Ball & Biscuit I like Lazaretto, Boarding House Reach & No Name I like that garage rock shit, deserves the Hall of Fame

0301

Mark Berman from Fully Involved @fullyinvolvedmark.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

TikTok can't go away because where else am I gonna be mutuals with The B-52s :(

0131

Mark Berman from Fully Involved @fullyinvolvedmark.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

(2/3) You do have to follow the page you're saving from another account. So I made a throwaway, attached myfaveTT to that, followed myself & 👍 (NOTE: go into Settings beforehand & raise the max for how many videos back to go / the length a vid it'll do, so nothing's overlooked)

110

Mark Berman from Fully Involved @fullyinvolvedmark.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Heads up to anyone who wants to archive their TikTok backlog before next week: the Chrome extension "myfaveTT" is an absolute godsend rn You can mass-save all videos from a person you follow (or your likes/favs), AND it creates a local webpage w/ sortable metadata! Insane! (1/3)

120

Mark Berman from Fully Involved @fullyinvolvedmark.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

My 5 favorite albums from each year having some multiple of 10th anniversary in 2025:

120

Mark Berman from Fully Involved @fullyinvolvedmark.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Bang bang & a happy ending :) (First 2 rows ranked, bottom 4 arranged by visuals. Top 10 got TikToks about them. Would love for that place to stick around!)

020

Mark Berman from Fully Involved @fullyinvolvedmark.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

My best first listens to non-2024 stuff of 2024, sorted by year:

010

Mark Berman from Fully Involved @fullyinvolvedmark.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

TikTok can't go away because where else will I get new follower notifications like this

040

Mark Berman from Fully Involved @fullyinvolvedmark.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Me getting into 1989 Laurie Anderson material like:

The Scooby Doo "I think Coolsville sucks!" thing but with the 1989 Laurie Anderson song called "Coolsville" and the the end of the caption crudely changed to "doesn't suck!"

030