There was an article in the Financial Times about Warner Bros. Discovery possibly selling off its music library as part of its post-merger debt restructuring. It’s now behind a paywall—sorry. And I read it a few weeks ago, so I forget the details. I don’t have any particular insight to add, though I do have the first-hand experience of navigating music rights to WB titles when we were doing the FSM catalog. It was a labor-intensive experience because Warner Bros. Pictures sol

An update on the CD orders from my personal collection: Over half of them went out as of Friday. I have those tracking numbers. The rest, including most of the international orders, will go out in the next day or two (most definitely by the end of this week). There is a lot more paperwork and handling involved for those. If you asked for the tracking number, I will send as soon as I have it from our good friends at Creature Features. If you want it, just email me: Lukas@films

I’m a couple of weeks late, but FSM’s longtime Joe Sikoryak told the story (circa 1997–98) when he came to the rescue and redesigned the FSM magazine. I was not exactly housebroken in those days, so I’m glad it’s not worse! Of course I knew my side of the tale (although I had forgotten some details), so it was fascinating to read Joe’s side of it. Also, Joe has been blogging about his recent trip to Scotland with Intrada as they record their new Herrmann album. Check it out!

I have yet to see The Fabelmans—I hear it’s great—but I did see the David Lynch cameo as John Ford near the end. Apparently this was a true story that happened to young Spielberg: As you can see, the real John Ford was, in contrast, a warm, talkative, delightful human being. I am kidding—he was a prick: On the other hand, I never thought David Lynch would become this pop culture icon, but I’m glad he has: He does a daily weather report, did you know? (I guess he does it when

Our good friends at Creature Features (and yours truly) are working hard to get all the CD orders out. The international ones take the longest due to the paperwork—and wow, have prices gone up since I last did this. Those empty jewel boxes are to swap out any we notice that are cracked/broken. Thank you all for your orders and patience!

I watched Glass Onion and enjoyed it—what a great cast!—but I did notice that it’s quite unconventional as a “whodunit.” A huge part of the premise is withheld from the audience until halfway. This article explains the “rules” of the genre and why this movie feels different.

So this is sort of funny: The kids and I have been watching Lost in Space every afternoon. Not the Netflix Lost in Space—the 1965, black-and-white original. (We have 8-year-old twin girls.) It started by accident over the holidays: I saw that the show is available on Prime (I think through Paramount+?) and thought, “Huh, I’ve never actually seen the pilot.” I put it on and they came over and watched it. They thought the Robot was hilarious. “THAT DOES NOT COMPUTE!” Then they

I started selling my personal CD collection one week ago and it’s gone better than I expected! We’ve sold around 550 items, and without getting into how much money it brought in, it has done exactly what I hoped: let me invest some money into budgets, concept art, etc. for my film productions. It is so exciting to be able to move those forward. THANK YOU! And the sale is still active! Here is a revised list omitting the sold items. And here is the same file, but in downloadab

UPDATE ON MY CD SALE: It continues! Here’s what’s left. Please refer to the day-one column for ordering instructions. P.S. I will soon make a new list, removing the SOLD items—stay tuned. So, “FSM at the Academy.” We certainly didn’t get an award! But last decade, when I was boxing up the FSM office, I called our friend Warren Sherk at the Motion Picture Academy, to see if anything from our CD production files might be of interest for their archive. Otherwise, I was going to

Some readers might know—because I’ve talked about it enough—I want to make an indie film on Martha’s Vineyard. So I was interested to see in our local paper that the NHL has produced a 17-minute mini-documentary about the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School’s varsity hockey team. I really enjoyed this—although not the ads that seem to pop up every three minutes—as it brought back a lot of memories: not only my hometown, but the experiences I had playing for the MVRHS baseb

I’ve been asked how long my personal CD sale will run. I don’t know yet! But it will stay open at least for the next week or two, so please check out what’s left. Ordering instructions are in the first day’s post. I just dropped the price of the Ennio Morricone Chronicles 10CD box set from Japan from $400 to $300. One copy available—a beautiful set. I sincerely believe that’s a more fair price. Otherwise, I have no plans to alter prices. Thanks!

Well, not entirely. Yesterday I went up to Creature Features to help prep the first wave of orders from my CD collection for shipment. Thank you to everybody who ordered; to Creature Features for taking on this packing and shipping for me; and to my own short-term memory—for somehow getting us through this with a minimum of mistakes! I was going to take a picture of all the CDs stacked up with the post-it notes on top, before being boxed, but I forgot. So never mind about tha

The above pic is, of course, from Danger: Diabolik. I am not sleeping in a bed of money! But it has been a very successful couple of days. Thank you everybody who bought from my sale of my CD collection! Here’s what’s left on the morning of day three. Please see the day one column for ordering instructions. We’ve sold around 400 items. I appreciate how direct, easy and forthright (almost) everybody has been when purchasing! I’m heading up to Creature Features to help with the

Thanks to everybody who bought CDs from my personal collection! We went live yesterday and had a big day. I have updated the list to include the SOLD items. LINK HERE. There’s still tons of great stuff, so check out the list and email me your requests! Please see yesterday’s column for all the instructions. I have to say it was sort of an overwhelming experience to start, but I figured out a workflow and got into the hang of it. I appreciate how easy and direct the vast major

UPDATE: Thanks for your orders! I am doing this manually and working out the best system to reserve people’s requests, ask for their shipping info, calculating total, etc. Please be patient. REST ASSURED, the first thing I am doing is HOLDING the items for the first person who requests it! So even if I don’t respond immediately, you will get what you asked for, if it’s available! The list of my CDs for sale via web page, sorted high–low by value. The list of CDs for sale, dow

Above: a page from the old “FSM Marketplace.” Tomorrow at 10AM Pacific I will post these ordering instructions again, along with the list (as a web page and sortable, downloadable spreadsheet, and non-sortable pdf) of my 1,661 CDs (and a few LPs and other items) for sale at set prices—first-come, first-served. POSTAGE RATES Good news! For U.S.A. customers ONLY—if you order $50 or more, SHIPPING IS FREE! I regret I can’t extend this to anybody outside the U.S. These rates toda

I am gearing up to start taking orders for items from my CD collection Tuesday morning at 10AM Pacific, 1/17/23. It has been a long time—almost 20 years—since I did hands-on mail order sales. I can’t say I am looking forward to it. I do like hearing from people, especially longtime FSM subscribers and customers. But I don’t like the sheer labor and management of it all. It’s not hard to imagine: you might have a perfectly reasonable request or inquiry. By all means, make it.

Above: My kids created this very accurate photo of me. I will start selling off most of my CD collection Tuesday, 1/17/23 at 10AM Pacific. I will post the link to the list (and ordering instructions) on this blog at that date and time. There will be many highly sought-after collectibles offered at fair prices, but only one copy of each—so if you want something popular, be here at 10AM and send your order (email to me) QUICK. I am doing first-come, first-served! In fact, you m

MARK YOUR CALENDARS! The Lukas Kendall personal CD collection sell-off will begin at exactly 10AM Pacific Standard Time, Tuesday, January 17, 2023. I have spent a lifetime acquiring soundtrack albums and have listed 1,661 items for sale. FIRST-COME, FIRST-SERVED! This will be particularly useful for people needing CDs from these two areas: 1) Those high-end, out-of-print, big-title CDs that people sell on eBay now for hundreds of dollars. I am not giving these away, but I hav

I have finished the pricing for my collection. More announcements to come! In the meantime, a heads-up that what’s left of the stash of FSM CDs from my dad’s basement is now listed at very reasonable prices at Screen Archives.