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Mark Berman from Fully Involved @fullyinvolvedmark.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

"Folks at long last, Choosin' Texas has been tossed back into recurrency, and it's all thanks to... 'O Valencia!' from 2006's The Crane Wife :)"

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Mark Berman from Fully Involved @fullyinvolvedmark.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I don't really have investment in the movie beyond who's involved w it, I'm just imagining a new fandom spiking, digging back & now we have 5 Decemberists songs sprouting up on the Hot 100 just before the Christmas rush

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Mark Berman from Fully Involved @fullyinvolvedmark.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I remember as a kid not knowing a second Europe song (like most people), seeing "Carrie" at like 2am on VH1 Classic & my brain breaking a little from the level of corn in front of me

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Mark Berman from Fully Involved @fullyinvolvedmark.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I will agree that I felt bait & switched as hell when I checked out Surrealistic Pillow expecting Grace to be at least the *main* vocalist...

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Mark Berman from Fully Involved @fullyinvolvedmark.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I was just surprised at the Volunteers shade, a lot of that album's writing is compact as hell

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Mark Berman from Fully Involved @fullyinvolvedmark.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I see both of these & raise you the one in between: Fear of Music

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Mark Berman from Fully Involved @fullyinvolvedmark.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I do think once you remember this comes from weirdos on *that site* & it's about *that guy*'s daughter that doesn't like him, this becomes a somewhat open & shut case I find hard to give much weight. Anyway stream Smartypants :)

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Mark Berman from Fully Involved @fullyinvolvedmark.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Oh my god... this whole album's arc is "you're killing independent George"...

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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

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Mark Berman from Fully Involved @fullyinvolvedmark.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

The same trip again but tierlisting every waterslide (by speed, comfort & diseases acquired)

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Mark Berman from Fully Involved @fullyinvolvedmark.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Also I hope you're prepared for a decade+ of mid-to-horrific Elton songs we just kinda forget because I'm Still Standing was also there

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Mark Berman from Fully Involved @fullyinvolvedmark.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

I don't know if Abracadabra is the worst #1 of all time, but it's certainly the most unfinished-sounding

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Mark Berman from Fully Involved @fullyinvolvedmark.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Finishing it now - this was goddamn delightful & I say this as someone who wrote a college paper about how this movie predicted DIY internet content creators brushing up against traditional media (it was a whole thing)

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Mark Berman from Fully Involved @fullyinvolvedmark.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

I noped out at Views & tbh even that was a slog to end all slogs for me, so I may not be the best judge here

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Mark Berman from Fully Involved @fullyinvolvedmark.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

With respect to my fellow pop music dorks, I can't fathom someone dedicating their finite listening time on this planet to this

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Mark Berman from Fully Involved @fullyinvolvedmark.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

I'm already locked in & get a weird sick curiosity out of being dragged through the bubble of the year for a week, but yeah I ain't judging anyone for bailing at this 🫠

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Mark Berman from Fully Involved @fullyinvolvedmark.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Another disheartening one was Pulp's "Spike Island," where Jarvis rang in their comeback single by putting old photos thru a crappy AI movement filter. He explained it as being intentionally bad to show the limitations of the thing, but it's like... my guy, you're still using it for official stuff

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Mark Berman from Fully Involved @fullyinvolvedmark.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

I promise to only use this green screen filter for good

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Mark Berman from Fully Involved @fullyinvolvedmark.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Yeah... haha... who would do that... nerds all of em...

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Mark Berman from Fully Involved @fullyinvolvedmark.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Nah this is a Bethany Cosentino appreciation moment & anyone keeping that from happening can go away &/or not come back

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Mark Berman from Fully Involved @fullyinvolvedmark.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

What makes The Mike & Stamos Experience even sadder is that meanwhile you got Al Jardine playing The Beach Boys Love You with Brian's solo band & absolutely killing it. He may not have the branding rights, but that's the show you leave feeling good about yourself

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Mark Berman from Fully Involved @fullyinvolvedmark.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Slightly diminish a band The World Is a Solid Place & I Am Ambivalent About Dying

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Mark Berman from Fully Involved @fullyinvolvedmark.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

I went on my first & so far only Sheetz trips on a 2021 visit to my parents & every gas station since has felt like a lie

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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.

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Mark Berman from Fully Involved @fullyinvolvedmark.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

smh, the real fake Zevon would've asked for lawyers & guns in addition to money

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Mark Berman from Fully Involved @fullyinvolvedmark.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Our next story: "AITA for not wanting to go on the roof?"

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Mark Berman from Fully Involved @fullyinvolvedmark.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

I wonder if we've just wrapped back around to a decade ago, where it's gone from "sponsors are bad because sellout" to "sponsors are good, hell yeah get that bag" to "sponsors are bad because I don't wanna trust any of them"

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Mark Berman from Fully Involved @fullyinvolvedmark.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Because it's an adaptation of a specifically-focused book & sadly Warren Zanes didn't name it "BORN RUNNING IN THE USA: THE BOSSY BOY BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN STORY"

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Mark Berman from Fully Involved @fullyinvolvedmark.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Unless they include a bibliography to an article that won a goddamn Pulitzer, it's just the laziest kind of doomerism

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

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

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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."

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

We still hadn't gone over the waterpark yet 👀

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

I only guest in a minute chunk of this, but if you (like me) have had a void left in your heart by Rainforest Cafe/Margaritaville content, all 2 hours is *mandatory* viewing.

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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.

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