Roddenberry Archive
Trekkies: You gotta check out the newly launched Roddenberry Archive. I’m still figuring out the controls, but there are these tour-able...
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Lukas Kendall
Apr 29, 20231 min read
Superman Helicopter Rescue
Holy moly. Check out this new YouTube analysis by Patrick Suiter on the “Helicopter Rescue” from John Williams’ score to Superman: The...
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Lukas Kendall
Apr 28, 20231 min read
Support PanCan
I am raising money to fight pancreatic cancer in the name of my stepfather, Herb Putnam. The charity is PanCan and they are fantastic....
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Lukas Kendall
Apr 27, 20233 min read
Watching Titanic With Our Kids
I wrote about Titanic a week or two ago, because I watched it with our twin girls (they’re almost nine). They have friends who are...
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Lukas Kendall
Apr 26, 20231 min read
Star Trek Music Analysis Videos by David Page
Now this is my kind of YouTube channel! Musician David Page has created a series of deep-dive videos about the classic Star Trek...
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Lukas Kendall
Apr 25, 20231 min read
Farewell Warner Bros. Ranch
Aw, man...this is painful. The famous Warner Bros. Ranch, with its iconic Midwest street, is slated to be torn down this summer, to make...
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Lukas Kendall
Apr 24, 20232 min read
Peter Knight, the Great British Orchestrator-Arranger
I generally find that fans make too much of an orchestrator’s contribution to a film score. The really great, A-list composers either...
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Lukas Kendall
Apr 23, 20231 min read
Are CDs Coming Back?
Above: the FSM office in Culver City circa 2004. I reconnected with some friends from the soundtrack specialty labels this past week. I...
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Lukas Kendall
Apr 22, 20231 min read
Robotech on Local Access (1986 Documentary)
I’ve written before about Robotech, one of my favorite shows as a kid. I was delighted to discover on the wormhole that is YouTube this...
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Lukas Kendall
Apr 21, 20231 min read
Who Jackie
Here’s a funny deep-dive from Vulture on a legendary story behind the scenes of Roseanne. I had never heard of this, but it sounds funny...
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Lukas Kendall
Apr 20, 20233 min read
Does Anybody Else Remember Push (2009)?
One of the things that literary managers tell new screenwriters is to be prepared to name some of your favorite movies—and specifically,...
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Lukas Kendall
Apr 19, 20231 min read
FSM CD Low Quantities
Hello friends! Time for one of those periodic notices about FSM CDs that are almost sold out. It’s hard to believe most of these were...
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Lukas Kendall
Apr 18, 20231 min read
Back to the Future Ride
I was wondering how long I could keep doing a daily blog post. Fortunately, the Internet wormhole helps facilitate short posts, like this...
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Lukas Kendall
Apr 17, 20231 min read
Fight Against Pancreatic Cancer
Hello Friends. I am raising money to fight pancreatic cancer, which took my stepfather, HERB PUTNAM, in 2008. He was only 59. Herb was...
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Lukas Kendall
Apr 16, 20231 min read
This Week in Baseball
I used to love This Week in Baseball. Before ESPN, Sportscenter and a million cable channels with their overpriced sports packages, it...
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Lukas Kendall
Apr 15, 20232 min read
New Star Wars Movies
Like everybody else I saw the announcement earlier this week about new Star Wars films. There have been so many of these announced, and...
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Lukas Kendall
Apr 14, 20231 min read
Empire Strikes Back Bespin Dirge
Whoa! Another one of my all-time favorite cues: “Luke Pursues the Captives” by John Williams from The Empire Strikes Back. The harmony to...
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Lukas Kendall
Apr 13, 20232 min read
Titanic Script Coverage
My twin girls wanted to watch Titanic. They are almost nine and they have friends (girls) at school who are crazy for it. So we started...
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Lukas Kendall
Apr 12, 20231 min read
The Original Wilhelm Scream
I love this: an audio engineer has located and uploaded the original take of the famous “Wilhelm scream,” a sound effect created for the...
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Lukas Kendall
Apr 11, 20231 min read
One Hit Wonders
Here’s an interesting article from The Atlantic (paywall) about one-hit wonders. Somebody figured out the pattern with them—it’s in the...
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