Dan’s Top 100 Everything: #45 Back to the Future

Today’s entry into my Top 100 Everything is the second in a trio of beloved, somewhat geeky trilogies — and all nine films have been discussed by in depth by Brian in his 100 Film Favorites. Like that entry and the next one, I’m going to keep the post pretty short, listing ten things I…

The Top 100 Ska-Punk Songs: #60-51

This is part 5 of Will’s countdown of the top 100 ska-punk songs 60. Status – Rx Bandits The Rx Bandits started off as a mediocre ska band before becoming a much better alternative/hard rock band. Status, which is a song on their second album, is their strongest ska song, boasting a fantastic drum part,…

10 Things Brian Likes – #4: Rhett & Link

Chances are good you’ve at least SEEN these dudes before. Even if you haven’t, you’ve almost certainly witnessed some of their handiwork. Rhett McLauglin and Charles “Link” Neal were two of the first “YouTubers” to rise to prominence and successfully make careers out of what they call “Internetainment.” Best known as a musically-inclined comedy duo,…

Mixtape: Chorus is Better/Worse than the Verses

    This is an Earn This Mixtape For the sixth entry in the Earn This Mixtape Series, Grant and I came up with twenty songs that give us serious cognitive dissonance. The first half of this mixtape is a list of songs where the chorus overpowers the rest of the song. The second half…

Edge of Success: Sam Behymer on The Voice

Tonight, at 8/7c, I will be watching The Voice. NBC probably expects to net a fair number of 25-to-35-year-old males every week with their elaborate talent show, even if their ideal viewer is younger with longer hair.  But how can any self-respecting independent music blogger be caught tuning into such a commercialized, pop-centric circus of…

10 Things Brian Likes – #3: Books

We here at EarnThis are no strangers to the power of books. Of all the media we consume, books rely most heavily on our creative faculties: Each reader is charged with conjuring the sights and sounds suggested by the written words. The book serves as our blueprint as we construct a story’s world in our…

Dan’s Top 100 Everything: #46 Indiana Jones

Up next on the countdown are a trio of legendary film trilogies. All three are at least somewhat in the “geeky” realm, and all nine of the movies have been previously reviewed by Brian on his 100 Film Favorites series. For that reason, I’m gonna keep these relatively brief when necessary, and link to more…

10 Things Brian Likes

To keep pace with Dan’s Top 100 Everything and tide everyone over until my inevitable Top TV Countdown rolls around, I present “10 Things Brian Likes,” a series of vaguely Buzzfeed-esque list articles centered around things I like which might not fit into our standard Earn This categories. 1. YouTube Remixes 2. Hot Cinnamon-Flavored Things…

Dan’s Top 100 Everything: #47 Peggle

Whoa! Bet you didn’t expect a PopCap casual game to crack the top fifty, did you? But here it is. And frankly, it deserves it. Three times I’ve gotten sucked into Peggle, become totally obsessed, and emerged about a week later wondering if I’m what’s wrong with America. Can you really blame me, though? Peggle…