I have a little sister who’s about to graduate from pre-school, so my mom has seen the whole spectrum of kiddie TV shows. When I asked her to describe Yo Gabba Gabba in one sentence, this is what she said: “It’s what I imagine LSD flashbacks must be like.” The surreal Nickelodeon show is about…
This is part 8 of the Relient K retrospective (I wrote a review of Forget and Not Slow Down about a week ago. Since then, I’ve been doing some research on the album’s origins, and I believe the results make it much more interesting.) I generally like to keep my nose out of other people’s business,…
The Spider-Man reboot is currently casting, and director Marc Webb is on record as going for an actor much lower profile than Tobey Maguire to take the titular, masked role. Sci-fi blog io9 suggested that the next Spidey be a non-caucasian. Some commenters threw out the name Donald Glover from the TV show Community and…
Parks and Rec has been the most consistent and reliable of NBC’s comedies this year. So, did the finale hold up the show’s standard of greatness, or did it crack under the finale pressure? Read my take after the break.
Spoilerific reviews of the finale of one of my favorite seasons of television in awhile after the jump
I’ll be completely honest: Most of the reasons I write for Earn This or any other publication are selfish reasons: I love being able to express myself and see my writing out there and get comments and feel like an expert. But there are moments when I feel like at least a small portion of…
This is a a reflection on Relient K’s career so far. It’s broken down in to eight parts. The Top 50 Relient K Songs Relient K (2000) – 2 stars The Anatomy of the Tongue in Cheek (2001) – 3 stars Two Lefts Don’t Make a Right (2003) – 5 stars Mmhmm (2004) – 4.5…
This is part 7 of the Relient K retrospective Rating: 4 stars (out of 5) A lot happened to Relient K between Five Score and its follow-up LP, Forget and Not Slow Down. Along with some personnel changes, their contract with both Gotee Records and Columbia expired. But Gotee offered the band creative control of one of…
This is part 6 of the Relient K retrospective Rating: 3 and a half stars (out of 5) Relient K has consistently released one limited-print EP alongside — usually a few months before or after — each album. But they’ve never done anything quite like The Bird and the Bee Sides, a 26-track double-EP that serves both…
This is part 5 of the Relient K retrospective Rating: 4 stars (out of 5) Sorry, Relient K. Five Score and Seven Years Ago is just an awful title for an album — which, aside from the name, is quite good and another creative leap forward for the band. The most striking element of Five Score is…