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John Williams on CNN
One benefit of John Williams being Oscar-nominated for the score to The Fabelmans is that he’s doing a lot of media—more than I can ever...
Lukas Kendall
Mar 6, 20231 min read


City in the Clouds
Whoa! Another one of my all-time favorite cues comes to YouTube: Dominic Sewell is going through the entire John Williams Empire Strikes...
Lukas Kendall
Mar 5, 20231 min read


La-La Land Out of Print CDs
Many thanks to those who showed up yesterday for the first day of the big Creature Features CD sale! There’s tons of stuff available at...
Lukas Kendall
Mar 4, 20232 min read


Creature Features CD Sale
Here is the list! 2,028 items. Go here for the web page. Go here for a downloadable (sortable) excel spreadsheet. Go here for...
Lukas Kendall
Mar 3, 20232 min read


Mandalorian Season 3
Is the consensus that The Mandalorian season 3 is a letdown? I saw a few reviews to that effect. I watched the season premiere with the...
Lukas Kendall
Mar 2, 20232 min read


Black Dynamite
I caught up with the 2009 blaxploitation spoof, Black Dynamite. Actually I saw this several months ago and I put a note in my “blog ideas...
Lukas Kendall
Mar 1, 20231 min read


Dr. Crusher Wants to Know (1983 Enquirer Ad)
See Gates McFadden in this 1983 National Enquirer ad: I don’t remember this particular ad, but I do remember the campaign!
Lukas Kendall
Feb 28, 20231 min read


Creature Features CD Sale Coming Friday 3/3/23
Mark your calendars! If you’ve been following my selling of my CD collection, you know that Creature Features has been kindly handling...
Lukas Kendall
Feb 27, 20231 min read


What Is Wrong With People, Dilbert Edition
I was a big comic-strip fan as a kid. When I was in grade school, I wanted to be a comic artist when I grew up. The first strip I was...
Lukas Kendall
Feb 26, 20233 min read


Power Outage
When I was a kid growing up on Martha’s Vineyard, we lived at the end of a long dirt road in the woods. So a few times a year, when there...
Lukas Kendall
Feb 25, 20232 min read


In the 25th Century...
I am enjoying the new season of Picard. The first episode opens with the above card, which is an homage, of course, to Star Trek II: The...
Lukas Kendall
Feb 24, 20231 min read


Composer Assistants in The Guardian
There’s a new piece in The Guardian getting spread around on social about composer assistants and the terrible working conditions. Check...
Lukas Kendall
Feb 23, 20231 min read


My Project With Jonathan Frakes
Here is something I’ve had cooking that is super exciting! Normally I would not say anything, but Jonathan Frakes briefly mentioned it on...
Lukas Kendall
Feb 22, 20232 min read


My CD Sale Continues!
A few people have written to ask if I’m still selling CDs from my personal collection. Yes! We had a very busy couple of weeks when the...
Lukas Kendall
Feb 21, 20231 min read


I Wrote a Logan’s Run TV Pilot
Greetings, friends! So I did something that you’re probably not supposed to do, and has no point other than I was interested in doing it....
Lukas Kendall
Feb 20, 20232 min read


Thoughts About The Menu
I caught up with The Menu and really enjoyed it. It’s a wicked send-up of fine dining and snooty rich people (something that’s definitely...
Lukas Kendall
Feb 19, 20232 min read


Remembering Gerald Fried
I woke up this morning to the sad news that Gerald Fried died on Friday, February 17. He had just turned 95 on the 13th. Please see Jon...
Lukas Kendall
Feb 18, 20232 min read


Rózsa Rocks
My thanks to my pal Frank DeWald who shared these metal versions of classic Rózsa themes. I think it’s cool!
Lukas Kendall
Feb 17, 20231 min read


Star Trek TOS Enterprise Comparison Chart
My thanks to Mark Farinas at TrekComic.com for making the above—outstanding! I am looking forward to watching the Picard season three...
Lukas Kendall
Feb 16, 20231 min read


Vague Post
I can’t blog about anything because I’m doing something at my computer that takes hours, if not days. I hate these “vague tweet” like...
Lukas Kendall
Feb 15, 20231 min read


The Empire Strikes Back: “The Magic Tree”
Whoa! Dominic Sewell Music on YouTube is going through the entire John Williams score for The Empire Strikes Back with reductions and...
Lukas Kendall
Feb 14, 20231 min read


My Dumb Sports Opinion
I know nobody comes here for my take on sports—but yeah, what a lame finish to what was heading to the climax of a terrific Super Bowl...
Lukas Kendall
Feb 13, 20231 min read


Miklós Rózsa: Daniel Robbins Interview
Miklós Rózsa fans will want to check out this interview with Daniel Robbins, who has written his memoirs (yet to be published), Memoirs...
Lukas Kendall
Feb 12, 20231 min read


Why Do We Like Film Music?
During summers in the early to mid 1990s, I worked at a grocery store on Martha’s Vineyard while also doing the earliest newsletter...
Lukas Kendall
Feb 11, 20232 min read
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