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Tuesday January 17 10AM!
MARK YOUR CALENDARS! The Lukas Kendall personal CD collection sell-off will begin at exactly 10AM Pacific Standard Time, Tuesday, January...
Lukas Kendall
Jan 13, 20232 min read


A Few Remaining FSM CDs
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...
Lukas Kendall
Jan 12, 20231 min read


Hans Zimmer on 60 Minutes
Hans Zimmer was the subject of a 60 Minutes segment last Sunday. Even my mom was like, “Did you see Hans Zimmer on 60 Minutes?” It’s a...
Lukas Kendall
Jan 11, 20231 min read


Pricing
I am now going through my spreadsheet of 1,661 CD (and a few LP) listings and trying to come up with fair prices. I am starting by...
Lukas Kendall
Jan 10, 20231 min read


Behold Mount CD
I have packed up my collection and listed 1,661 items in a spreadsheet to sell. Next is pricing. I’m not sure how to do this except to...
Lukas Kendall
Jan 9, 20231 min read


Data Entry for My CDs
I have spent the past 24 hours entering some 1,300 items into a Google sheet to sell my CD collection. There will probably be over 1,500...
Lukas Kendall
Jan 8, 20231 min read


Joe Sikoryak and FSM
My friend and longtime FSM art director Joe Sikoryak has been blogging his memoirs which I’ve been enjoying—and have anticipated the...
Lukas Kendall
Jan 7, 20232 min read


Redecorating the Place
I am facing the challenge of organizing my CD collection to offer most of it for sale. There are still some things I want to keep, like...
Lukas Kendall
Jan 6, 20231 min read


Farewell, My Lovelies
I am organizing my CD collection to prep it for sale and having many emotions. I thought of the expression, “Farewell, my lovelies”—which...
Lukas Kendall
Jan 5, 20231 min read


Star Trek 1960s Promos
I am organizing my CD collection. Wow, this is a lot. In the meantime, here is a vintage, cleaned-up 1960s Star Trek promo from NBC: I...
Lukas Kendall
Jan 4, 20231 min read


So Many Boxes
I was overwhelmed by the interest and support for my announcement yesterday of selling my CD collection to finance my film projects. And...
Lukas Kendall
Jan 3, 20231 min read


It Begins! The 2023 Lukas Sell-Off
Happy New Year! My goal this year is simple: I want to make movies! Also television, but that’s harder (you need a “showrunner” and they...
Lukas Kendall
Jan 2, 20233 min read


Happy 2023! And My Sheila Mathews Allen Story
Happy new year! Wow, 2023! Last night I was reminded by various social media posts of that New Year’s Eve classic, Irwin Allen’s The...
Lukas Kendall
Jan 1, 20232 min read


Goodbye 2022
Hard to believe 2022 is coming to a close. I was born in 1974, and our twin girls were born in 2014, so I’ve been mentally tracking their...
Lukas Kendall
Dec 31, 20221 min read


Top Gun: Maverick
Top Gun: Maverick has landed on Paramount+ (where it’s predictably a big hit), so having heard how great it is the past six months, I...
Lukas Kendall
Dec 30, 20223 min read


Alien$
Empire has published an interview with James Cameron—maybe you’ve heard, his Avatar sequel is now in theaters—but with a twist: the...
Lukas Kendall
Dec 29, 20221 min read


The End of VFX
It’s the end of the year, so it’s the time for the retrospectives on the state of the film business—such as it is. Here’s a good one from...
Lukas Kendall
Dec 28, 20222 min read


Confess, Fletch
I watched Confess, Fletch on Showtime last night. Like the rest of the world, I missed it upon release earlier this year. It was very...
Lukas Kendall
Dec 27, 20223 min read


The Empire Strikes Back Score Analysis
YouTube user Dominic Sewell is apparently analyzing every cue in The Empire Strikes Back—after doing the entirety of The Phantom Menace....
Lukas Kendall
Dec 26, 20221 min read


Merry Christmas 2022
Merry Christmas, everyone! Hope you have a great day. It’s also the first time that I can remember when the last night of Hanukkah has...
Lukas Kendall
Dec 25, 20221 min read


Star Trek: The Next Generation’s Third Season Triumph
The cable channel Heroes & Icons—aka “every old show from the CBS library, around the clock”—has rolled around to the top of Star Trek:...
Lukas Kendall
Dec 24, 20221 min read


Charles Cornell YouTube Music Education Videos
Charles Cornell is a YouTuber who does music education videos involving a lot of pop and geek culture. Here’s one, “The Chord That SAVED...
Lukas Kendall
Dec 23, 20221 min read


After Yang
I watched After Yang on Showtime last night. I had come across it in channel listings and thought—like most people, I suppose—what an odd...
Lukas Kendall
Dec 22, 20222 min read


Howard Shore’s 9 Favorite Songs
Last month, The Line of Best Fit ran a piece in their “Nine Songs” series on Howard Shore. Naturally, I set aside the link to take time...
Lukas Kendall
Dec 21, 20221 min read
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