Latest Episode: 029 – From the Vaults – LoCo Brewfest 2015 The Earn This Podcast (aka the ETCast) is EarnThis.Net in podcast form: Discussions about art, entertainment, and whatever else is on our mind. Sometimes thoughtful, sometimes silly. We’re all friends who talk about these things even when the mic is off, so the result is…
Me and Will are huge Streetlight Manifesto fans, so for the third episode of the ETCast, we sat down to rank our ten favorite songs by each band. (We also opened the cast with a brief review of the new Me First and the Gimme Gimmes album). Download link (you may have to right click and…
Okay. Here’s the lowdown, ladies and gents. I know you haven’t heard from me in a while. My TV countdown is currently ongoing over at my Brian Terrill Movie Night page, but even there posts have been sporadic. The pace should pick up a bit come June. But I didn’t want the good readers of EarnThis to…
For the second episode of the ETCast, Grant and I sat down to reflect on the remarkable first season The OC ten years after it first aired. We discussed some of the highlights and lowlights, and tried to decode what made this show so memorable and original. Download link (you may have to right click and “Save…
In the past, I’ve demonstrated that I am no stranger to weird music nor to things beyond music. While my exploration has always been as a student and fan, Beth McDonald is a participant on the front lines of invention. May 2014 saw the release of Still, the first album recorded under McDonald’s name as…
Dan: While I was searching for images for a post I was writing for this site, I stumbled upon a blog called Taestful Reviews. I read through several of the reviews on the site, which focuses on animation, and really liked the voice of the writer, Kevin Tae. I reached out to him to see…
The Little Mermaid (1989) Kevin: Frozen is largely credited for creatively twisting Disney princess tropes, but for me, The Little Mermaid did it better. Although it returned to the animation Disney was known for in the golden days, The Little Mermaid should be known for innovating the Disney fairytale formula. Eric and Ariel fall in…
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Hello all – Colton and I recently sat down to record Earn This’s first ever podcast (Earn This PodCast = ETCast). We’re still working out the kinks of the format, but we’re excited to brave this new frontier. We make no guarantees about how frequently we post new episodes, but we’re going to give this a try…
If you’ve been reading Earn This, you’ve known from the start that I have a minor obsession with this trio from La Crescenta-Montrose. The second article I ever wrote for Earn This was a (poorly written) review of It’s All In Your Head, which is still one of my ten or fifteen favorite albums in…