My Adventures in Underscore (a memoir)

Joe Sikoryak · **Posted:** Sat Jun 11, 2022 10:28 am

Hi Film Score friends,

Since I left the soundtrack business a few years ago, I’ve begun writing and drawing weekly essays and drawings—and now it’s time to write about the music that made me. Perhaps you’d like to check out how soundtracks changed my life.

I’ll post the latest link, and I’d welcome your comments on the board or on my site. I hope you have a little fun reading along. Thanks for checking it out!\

All stories can be found at this link: https://www.joesikoryak.com/blog/categories/music

Part 1: The Music That Made Me (early influences)
Part 2: Listen to What You Watch (cartoons and TV themes)
Part 3: Switching on Soundtracks (discovering synthesizers)
Part 4: "Strangers In Paradise," or Collecting on a Budget (when LPs were too expensive)
Part 5: "Monster-kid Melodies" (scoring super-8 movies)
Part 6: Learning the Classics, Easy as R-C-A (swashbucklers and sharks, oh my!)
Part 7: I Found It at the Movies (sex and scary movies)
Part 8: A Long Time Ago, In a City Far By the Bay (life in SF gets very Sci-Fi)
Part 9: It Was the Best of Times, It Was blah, blah, blah... (the early Eighties)
Part 10: Dark Days Are Made of This (MTV, Nuclear Winter and a New Hope)
Part 13: The Loneliness of the Soundtrack Listener (Fire in the hills)
Part 14: Connecting the Little Black Dots (at Intrada!)
Part 15: I Had It All Figured Out (meeting that kid from Martha's Vineyard)
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Joe Sikoryak was art director/designer/editor for 800 soundtrack CDs from 1997-2016. He’s worked with FSM, Intrada, Percepto and La-La Land as well as a number of composers. Joe is currently writing and drawing a graphic novel about the early days of genre conventions. You can follow him #Joesoundtrack on Instagram and at http://www.joesikoryak.com

Joe Sikoryak · **Posted:** Sat Jun 18, 2022 10:15 am

This week's entry is of a classical bent, with a little swashbuckling and great white sharks in the soundtrack mix. You can find all six quick reads here:

https://www.joesikoryak.com/blog/categories/music

Thanks for taking a look!

Joe Sikoryak · **Posted:** Fri Jul 01, 2022 6:50 am

Hi gang! This week explores sex and scary movies during the mid-seventies, with teenage awkwardness and lessons learned for good measure. As always, you can find it here:

https://www.joesikoryak.com/blog/categories/music

Perhaps you can relate... Thanks for reading!

Joe Sikoryak · **Posted:** Sat Jul 16, 2022 8:23 pm

This week's story is now up... recalling a time in he late 1970s when movies - and my life - got very sci-fi indeed.
https://www.joesikoryak.com/post/a-long ... by-the-bay

Joe Sikoryak · **Posted:** Fri Jul 29, 2022 7:14 am

This week’s Soundtrack Memoir is from a time in pop culture (the early eighties) that made a lot of people very happy—except me. But I had my reasons.
https://www.joesikoryak.com/post/it-was ... -blah-blah

Thanks for reading!

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Joe Sikoryak · **Posted:** Fri Aug 12, 2022 12:40 pm

I'm back with another installment of my Soundtrack memoir: This week's short read takes us back to an uneasy period in our history, and how the music I was listening to reflected that.

https://www.joesikoryak.com/post/dark-d ... de-of-this

Thanks for reading!

Joe Sikoryak · **Posted:** Fri Oct 28, 2022 9:36 pm

This week’s short read is from a time when a certain radio show was encouraging me to spend a lot of time and money at a particular record store in San Francisco. Check it out, along with the playlist…
https://www.joesikoryak.com/post/connec ... black-dots

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