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Keiko Nobumoto, Michael Nesmith
A couple of passings came across the news yesterday. First, Keiko Nobumoto, the screenwriter for the original Cowboy Bebop, as well as...
Lukas Kendall
Dec 11, 20212 min read


See You, Space Cowboy
Netflix has canceled the live-action Cowboy Bebop, which debuted only three weeks ago. I found the show disappointing and am not...
Lukas Kendall
Dec 10, 20213 min read


George Pérez
I was very sad to learn that the great comic book artist George Pérez announced a pancreatic cancer diagnosis. He is truly one of the...
Lukas Kendall
Dec 8, 20211 min read


The Dead Spot of ST:TMP
Star Trek: The Motion Picture was released 42 years ago yesterday. Like most Trekkies I have a lot of fascination with this film: the...
Lukas Kendall
Dec 8, 20213 min read


Thirty Years of Star Trek VI
Yesterday was the thirtieth anniversary of Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. Wow! I don’t really pay attention to movie...
Lukas Kendall
Dec 7, 20214 min read


The Written Scores
This is a large topic that I’ve been meaning to tackle, but don’t have too much time to spend on it now. I studied music in college,...
Lukas Kendall
Dec 6, 20212 min read


We Go Full Menorah
Happy final (eighth) night of Hanukah. Here we are rocking TWO tabletop menorahs—plus a third Lego menorah!
Lukas Kendall
Dec 5, 20211 min read


Remembering William Marshall
William Marshall was a distinguished actor of film, television and the stage. He performed Shakespeare, including the lead in Othello six...
Lukas Kendall
Dec 4, 20213 min read


Screenplay Contest FAIL
The above screen cap was posted on twitter by a writer named Dave Crosman. It looks to me like it was written by an A.I. I loosely follow...
Lukas Kendall
Dec 3, 20216 min read


FSM CD Low Quantity Alert
I’m glad people seemed to enjoy the story yesterday about the unreleased Predator/Die Hard CD from 1994. I’m glad to provide some insight...
Lukas Kendall
Dec 2, 20211 min read


The Abandoned Predator/Die Hard CD
I went into my box of old cassettes looking for a story to tell. Here’s one! The last quarter-century (or more) of soundtrack releases...
Lukas Kendall
Dec 1, 20216 min read


Scott Saslow Art
Scott Saslow is a terrific graphic designer who followed Film Score Monthly for years as a passionate soundtrack collector. When I was...
Lukas Kendall
Nov 30, 20212 min read


Happy Hanukah
Hanukah is when Jewish kids learn they’re not like the other kids. No Christmas! We do Hanukah. But it is eight nights, which is fun....
Lukas Kendall
Nov 29, 20211 min read


Directing Mistakes
I am almost finished watching season one of Cowboy Bebop on Netflix. Sorry to say, I am having a lot of problems with it. I have a policy...
Lukas Kendall
Nov 28, 20217 min read


My Arne Starr Anecdote
Arne Starr is a comic book inker—and a very good one—and also an actor, which I didn’t realize until I just looked him up: IMDB, Memory...
Lukas Kendall
Nov 27, 20213 min read


Happy Black Friday—Get Your Shots!
Here I am on Wednesday after my Covid booster shot. I got a flu shot in the other arm at the same time. They gave me the cool red...
Lukas Kendall
Nov 26, 20211 min read


Happy Thanksgiving
Happy Thanksgiving, everybody! Here is Vince Guaraldi’s “Thanksgiving Theme” from the Peanuts specials.
Lukas Kendall
Nov 25, 20211 min read


The Star Wars 4CD Anthology
Yesterday was November 23rd. And it fell on a Tuesday. This rang a bell because it was on a Tuesday, November 23, 1993—28 years...
Lukas Kendall
Nov 24, 20213 min read


Michael Myers’ House
Last night I picked up dinner from a very good Indian restaurant here in South Pasadena, Radhika—which happens to be across the street...
Lukas Kendall
Nov 23, 20212 min read


Succession
I love this demented show. I love the cast, the glamour, the sick humor. I actually didn’t watch it at first. It looked annoying. Done by...
Lukas Kendall
Nov 22, 20212 min read


Pizza Squirrel
Hi folks, don’t be alarmed, but apparently our neighborhood squirrels have learned how to pick a slice of pizza out of the trash and...
Lukas Kendall
Nov 21, 20211 min read


Cowboy Bebop Goes Netflix
I have been looking forward to the new Cowboy Bebop live-action series possibly more than any other show in recent memory. I love the...
Lukas Kendall
Nov 20, 20216 min read


FSM Low Quantities
Yesterday I wrote about The Split (Quincy Jones) being down to the last ten (now eight) copies. It is very strange to be talking about...
Lukas Kendall
Nov 19, 20212 min read


The Split (Q!) Is About to Split
One of the coolest scores we ever released at Film Score Monthly is down to the last 10 copies at Screen Archives. If you love 1960s/’70s...
Lukas Kendall
Nov 18, 20211 min read
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