Always happy to shout out one of our own! Congrats to composer Timothy Schmalz who has a movie out with his score, Sticky, a satirical thriller about a murderer in the Hollywood hills. The score got a good notice in Film Threat. Soundtrack album links here.

This A.I. stuff is wild. It seems like the cat is totally out of the bag.

I was sorry to hear of the passing of Tom Skerritt, at 93. What a great career. Alien will always be my favorite. “That’s a bunch of horseshit. We can take off without that.” RIP.

I enjoyed the new Norm Macdonald documentary by Judd Apatow on Netflix. I always thought he was hilarious and as people mention in the documentary, I’ve enjoyed going down the YouTube wormhole of his various talk show appearances. The doc is a little...I don’t know what the best word is, opaque? It is truthful to the artist who seemed to enjoy scrambling people’s perceptions of him—not only keeping his illness secret, but flat-out lying about his age and biography. We never a

Reading the sad news recently of George Fenton’s passing, I was reminded of his unused score to Interview With the Vampire. He was very proud of it, and I was always curious to hear it. So I thought, wait, it’s 2026, can’t we hear everything now? And I found the above YouTube link of 15 minutes performed in concert in 2002. Interesting!

I’ve been watching a few Deep Space Nine episodes on the nightly Star Trek lineup from the Heroes & Icons channel. I still have not seen the majority of DS9 or Voyager episodes, because it coincided with the one time in my life—college and right after—when I didn’t have a television set. Yes, really—I was such a huge TV junkie as a kid, it seems crazy to think I went cold turkey, but I did. Our college, at the time, only had a few dorms wired for cable, and aerial reception w

If you’ve ordered CDs from us since late last week, just hang on please—my associate who does the mailing has been out sick. We’ll resume shipping Monday. Thanks!

I’ve been prepping the credits for our James Horner TV music Kickstarter album, meaning going through the contributor lists and alphabetizing names. If you’re a qualifying contributor and haven’t seen my Kickstarter update yet, please check it out? Thank you! (The credits in the booklet start with the $59 donations. Otherwise we’d have 700 names in there!) Thanks!

Congrats to artist Paul Shipper on his writeup from the BBC. Paul did some art for FSM, the print mag, early in his career, and recently came back to do our 35th anniversary book cover. Beautiful work!

I have been looking into A.I. filmmaking for its capabilities to do space-oriented visual effects. It seems inevitable that a lot of VFX will soon be done with A.I. being utilized to some degree. I’ll reserve my judgments as I’m still learning. But I do want to say that some of my all-time favorite space imagery comes from anime, and in particular the 1984 Macross film, Do You Remember Love? (This is the Japanese feature film encapsulation of the Macross series that was later

Congrats to Intrada on their mega box set of the original Battlestar Galactica! Truly the kind of item I would expect to see on eBay for $500 in a few years, so I suggest picking it up now. And check out their talk about it in the YouTube link above.

I finished watching Lanterns, which was better than I expected—which for me means more serious. There was some fan backlash for turning the DC comic book into True Detective—which it sort of does, with the story unfolding in multiple time periods, and the nested flashbacks ultimately explaining very human motivations (which I liked). Great casting, by the way—Kelly Macdonald is always wonderful. When I was a kid, even before I read comics, I was familiar with the two sets of

In recent days, Wix changed their website so I have to go through extra steps in order to post and edit a post. Why? No idea. Not only that, but now they want more money if I continue to upload a new photo for every blog column—apparently I ran over my storage limit some time ago and need to bump up to the next tier in service. I’ll have to pay them at a certain point, but for now, here’s a picture of Buddy—I love that crazy movie. There are Substacks I’d like to read, Patreo

Here is a short video from our Prague sessions for the James Horner Kickstarter album. Thanks to our executive producer John Bijl for filming this, a take of part of the main title to the 1981 TV movie about the perils of teenage drug use, Angel Dusted. Adam Klemens conducts session musicians at Smecky Studios in Prague, 10/8/26. In case you’re unfamiliar with the project, it is full of early 1980s James Horner goodness! You’ll hear flavors from Krull and all those wonderful

We have added nearly another 200 CDs to FSMCDs.com. Here is a spreadsheet of the total inventory—but keep in mind this does not update as items sell. But it may be faster and easier to search than the site itself. Please log into FSMCDs.com with your account info before putting anything in your cart! Sometimes gremlins will play games if you do it the other way around. A reminder to U.S. customers: FREE SHIPPING starts with orders of $50 or more. So if you’re going to order $

Just a heads up that we’ll post a small lot of CDs tomorrow at the customary time (10AM Pacific, 1PM Eastern). No more than 200, but some neat collector items and box sets. Thanks!

Congrats to Juan Carlos Jiménez on his new interview with Danny Elfman for his new YouTube channel about film music. Watch it above!

What a treat to wake up and listening to our new recording of James Horner’s “Pied Piper of Hamelin” score from Faerie Tale Theatre, being recorded live in Prague. Wild! This is going to be a terrific album and I’m so looking forward to getting it completed!

Our James Horner TV music sessions are underway in Prague and going spectacularly well! I appreciate the videos and photos from the donors attending. I have been ambushed by Wix changing some of the settings and costs involved in this blog. Let me get this sorted out and I’ll share some images and further updates. Thanks!

Posted today to the Kickstarter page: Hello Kickstarter Supporters! Thank you for your support of our James Horner TV music album. The moment is about to arrive as the recording sessions kick off tomorrow morning at 9AM at Smecky Studios in Prague—which is actually midnight tonight Pacific time in the U.S. Angel Dusted and A Piano for Mrs. Cimino will be recorded on the 8th, A Few Days at Weasel Creek on the 9th, and then the "Pied Piper" score from Faerie Tale Theatre on the

Terribly sorry to hear of the sudden passing of George Fenton. Deadline obituary here. BBC coverage here.

A plug today for my longtime pal Robert Meyer Burnett who is raising money on Kickstarter for a collection of Star Trek essays, The Future of People. He’s over halfway towards his goal, please check out the campaign!

These entertainment conglomerate mergers are so depressing. It feels like we are living in Succession, which I guess we are (and always were). Superman and Star Trek are now owned by the same company. And so many thousands of people are about to lose their jobs. Sigh.

The review embargo has lifted on Behemoth!, the new film by Tony Gilroy, so I can finally say how much I truly loved it. I was lucky to see a press screening in August. Pedro Pascal stars as a cellist in a love letter to movie scoring. He literally records the music to his own flashbacks—it is so cool. The actual music was written by numerous composers including James Newton Howard and Alan Silvestri. You’ll be reading about all of this—including in the virtual pages of FSM O