Oh baby. Bear McCreary is joining the production of Agents of SHIELD, bringing his compositional wizardry to the show. McCreary was the composer for Battlestar Galactica, which stands somewhere between “My favorite show of all time” and “My favorite thing of all time.” These balls tighten.

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That’s all she wrote, ladies and gentlemen.The curtain closed on America’s greatest achievement yesterday with the final shuttle launch in U.S. history. I was about 11-10 miles away and it was hard not to get emotional as the Atlantis disappeared behind the cloud line; leaving behind an enormous trail of exhaust and history in its wake. And my god, the sound wave. It took about one minute for the sound wave to hit and once it did, it shook me something fierce. But what I wish I was hearing at the time of launch was Bear McCreary’s “Fanfare for STS-135.”

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