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So Many Spines
I am almost done with the data entry. I think I am hallucinating. Here is one of our sentry cats, diligently guarding the house from CD...
Lukas Kendall
Mar 26, 20251 min read


How Many Soundtracks
Something I’ve been wondering as I type up thousands of CD listings for sales is— how many soundtracks are there, anyway? I have a...
Lukas Kendall
Mar 25, 20251 min read


Behold Zulu Dawn
I will soon reach the end of the alphabet in the Doug Fake CD listings. The last title in all these sales? It’s inevitably Zulu Dawn by...
Lukas Kendall
Mar 23, 20251 min read


Under Seige sic
Here’s something I never noticed: Varèse Sarabande spelled “Siege” wrong on the spine of the original Under Siege CD. I have been typing...
Lukas Kendall
Mar 22, 20251 min read


Zimmer Doc
I’ve been so busy with CDs I didn’t know that Hans Zimmer’s concert film/doc is premiering. He’s doing lots of press. Great piece at...
Lukas Kendall
Mar 20, 20251 min read


Customer Service
We’ve been busy of late—and we’re about to get busier—and one of the things that inevitably happens with more orders are more problems to...
Lukas Kendall
Mar 19, 20251 min read


Morricone Mania
Just a short note to say I have never seen so many Morricone CDs! Stay tuned...
Lukas Kendall
Mar 18, 20251 min read


Stay on Target
We are processing Doug Fake’s CD collection and on target for our March 31st sale date. We’re hitting the I and L titles which are full...
Lukas Kendall
Mar 17, 20251 min read


Digipaks Are Terrible
I recently ranted about a pet peeve: upside-down CD spines . Here’s another one: digipaks! I don’t get it. Jewel boxes are a pain when...
Lukas Kendall
Mar 16, 20251 min read


Get on the Bus FYC
I was working through the G titles of Doug Fake’s collection yesterday and got to a For Your Consideration promo of the Spike Lee movie,...
Lukas Kendall
Mar 15, 20251 min read


Soundtrack Magazine Archive
I have been researching the best way to make a proper archive of FSM’s legacy content, and came across the latest version of a fantastic...
Lukas Kendall
Mar 14, 20251 min read


Cold Fusion
I’ve had introductory calls with web programming companies about overhauling the FSM site, but the biggest problem is that it’s built on...
Lukas Kendall
Mar 13, 20251 min read


Spelling Bee 2500
In between typing thousands of CD listings I was doing my morning ritual with tea of the NY Times spelling bee, and like all the other...
Lukas Kendall
Mar 12, 20251 min read


Mark Your Calendars!
We’ve made enough progress processing the Douglass Fake collection to commit to a sale date on the calendar: Monday, March 31, 2025, 10AM...
Lukas Kendall
Mar 11, 20252 min read


35 Years
I hadn’t realized that June (or maybe May?) will be the 35th anniversary of the newsletter that became Film Score Monthly. I was in high...
Lukas Kendall
Mar 10, 20251 min read


Six Boxes a Day
That’s my goal the next three weeks. If I type up the listings for six of these white boxes a day (each box has around 100 CDs) we should...
Lukas Kendall
Mar 9, 20251 min read


Fired Up
I appreciate all the reads and responses to yesterday’s column about a new FSM site . I am fired up and ready to do this. I have a call...
Lukas Kendall
Mar 8, 20251 min read


New FSM Site
Well, the time has come! The website that was built over 20 years ago for www.filmscoremonthly.com is completely obsolete and our...
Lukas Kendall
Mar 7, 20251 min read


Typing
I am about to start the massive project of typing over 8,000 listings for the Douglass Fake collection. The process will go way faster...
Lukas Kendall
Mar 6, 20251 min read


Progress
We have received all but the last 500-600 CDs from the Douglass Fake collection from Intrada. Check out the state of our living room!...
Lukas Kendall
Mar 5, 20251 min read
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