I didn’t post anything yesterday about the 25th anniversary of 9/11 because I didn’t see what I could meaningfully add. But I did find the various remarks and posts quite moving throughout the day.

Our friend Wade Riddick has been working on custom software designed to help collectors and fans manipulate their lawfully purchased music tracks. It’s a way to program your own sequences by using the software to reorder tracks into smaller musical selections and create new edit points. Here is a manual which explains it better than I can! He’s looking for beta testers, email me if you might be interested and I’ll connect you: LukasKendallMV@gmail.com. Thanks!

Above: Just a small portion of the upcoming collection we will be listing by the end of the month! Thank you to everybody ordered from yesterday’s email blast via La-La Land Records. We’ll get those shipped asap! Thousands of titles still in stock at FSMCDs.com! Here’s an updated spreadsheet for quick review. Thank you!

Welcome to everybody finding this blog column from the La-La Land Records email list! If you want to sign up for our mailing list, please go here. We typically do a new email blast every two or three weeks (usually on a Tuesday) to announce new listings. Most of you probably know me, but I am Lukas Kendall from Film Score Monthly. In recent years I’ve started a used film music CDs store, FSMCDs.com. It’s pretty straightforward: we take collections on consignment (we pay 50% o

It feels crazy that it is Star Trek’s 60th birthday today. (This is going by the U.S. premiere of the first episode—it was in the works as early as 1964.) It feels like we were just doing the 50th birthday. And for that matter, celebrating the 25th in 1991 with Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. And, for that matter, the 20th anniversary in 1986. I remember my earliest memories of Star Trek, as that space show on TV with the colorful costumes where everybody seemed to be

We’re heading on a Labor Day getaway so my next post will be Tuesday. It’s going to be a huge month at FSMCDs.com, see you on the other side!

There’s a news story about the next Star Trek movie in which the new filmmakers say their inspiration is Training Day or Crimson Tide—basically a two-hander where there’s some kind of bad apple or corruption within Starfleet. Of course I’ll keep an open mind, but it seems to be the same mistake that has been made with Star Trek since the 1990s: throwing out Roddenberry’s vision. Roddenberry’s vision was that humanity had perfected itself and there wasn’t conflict within the c

I am very glad to see that La-La Land Records has reissued half of the Double Indemnity: Film Noir at Paramount album that I produced for Intrada some years back, and which is now long out of print. They’ve included the two best scores, Friedhofer’s Ace in the Hole and Rózsa’s Double Indemnity, along with the shorter excerpts available from Desperate Hours (Kubik) and Union Station (Roemheld). I am fond of these films, having taken a film noir class at college way back in the

An update on our James Horner TV movie Kickstarter project: We are confirmed with Smecky Studios for October 8–10. Scores are prepped and ready! The schedule is: Angel Dusted October 8th, morning; A Piano for Mrs. Cimino October 8th, afternoon; A Few Days in Weasel Creek double session (morning and afternoon), October 9th; and then “The Pied Piper of Hamelin” from Faerie Tale Theatre October 10th (either morning or afternoon, TBD). Donors qualified to attend and interested in

I was happy to see Stu Phillips on YouTube with Mike Matessino and Deniz Cordell discussing the upcoming Intrada box set of the classic Battlestar Galactica: I have fond memories of working with Stu on the FSM Knight Rider album and am glad he’s involved and interested in this new BSG box set.

Soundtrack Gems is a pretty massive archive of film scores and composers—so massive that I asked its provenance and the owner described as human-created, A.I.-assisted. It has a YouTube channel as a companion, making it a pretty neat—and free—resource to explore composers and scores. I really appreciate these things because it takes me back to the 1980s when I was getting into film scores. Needless to say there were no soundtrackgems.com. There was me turning over the video b

AI script coverage is exploding and I hope people take it with a grain of salt. It’s genuinely useful to get free and instant feedback, but you have to know how to use it. For one thing, there is no reason to use a paid service when you can just use Claude (the smartest of the LLMs) for free or for a basic subscription. I hope people understand that Greenlight Coverage did not actually build an LLM themselves? They just run your script through ChatGPT, with their own “wrapper

Did you know there were two versions of Varèse Sarabande’s CD of The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, the Elmer Bernstein recording? (They released the OST some time later.) I didn’t until I came across both in this new collection we are prepping for sale in September. On the right is the first version, from 1985, then on the left is the revised tray card a few years afterwards when they had distribution by MCA. September will be HUGE at FSMCDs.com! Not only do we have this massive new c

So sorry to read, just now actually, that Peter Cullen has died—most famously the voice of Optimus Prime. But he had quite the career beyond that. As a Gen X kid, Optimus Prime was up there in wise, trustworthy authority figures—and Cullen’s deep but gentle tones were a huge reason why. It was so cool that they brought him back for the films, instead of recasting with a celebrity as is typical. Autobots...transform and roll out.

Thank you for buying from our new list at FSMCDs.com yesterday—tons of goodies still in stock! Here’s the spreadsheet of inventory—although you might find the search functions directly at FSMCDS.com faster and easier to use. Thank you!

We’re live at FSMCDs.com with, what else, film music CDs! Here is a spreadsheet for easy review, and then go to FSMCDs.com to order. We’ve added 425 new items with a lot of the “hot,” out-of-print collector titles: La-La Land, Intrada, Quartet, Kritzerland. Way less than at eBay! We’re also continuing to discount titles that have been in stock for many months. We are not previous about prices! Today 383 items have their prices newly slashed, and you’ll find them on the spread

I haven’t spoken about this before (I don’t think) but wow, I hope the Paramount acquisition of Warner Bros. does not go through. These consolidations are so bad for everybody except a handful of billionaires.

It’s insane what people make nowadays. Here is a walkthrough of the Discovery from 2001: Nicely done!

We will be going live with a small but excellent new lot of film music CDs at www.fsmcds.com on Tuesday morning, 10AM Pacific / 1PM Eastern. There are around 425 items, and some “hot” titles in there that I am sure will make some collectors very happy!

Above: The Time Tunnel, because it why not? I thought I had been blogging more or less every day for four years, but turns it it’s actually been five—I started around this time in 2021. As people probably noticed, I’ve run out of a lot of memoir-like stories that were fun to tell, but I can’t bring myself to stop blogging either. A friend of mine has a big-time social media presence, and he was turned down for an awesome job for which he was more than qualified at a big strea

I was very sorry to hear of the passing of Nick Glennie-Smith, at 74. Please see this write-up at Movie Music UK.

Our friends at the Hollywood Bowl have a giveaway offer for the upcoming annual John Williams concert—check it out! ### We're giving away a pair of tickets to Maestro of the Movies at the Hollywood Bowl! To enter: Follow @HollywoodBowl, @soundingpointla, and @FilmScoreMonthly (Facebook) Tag 2 friends in the comments One winner will be selected to receive a pair of tickets Experience the ultimate celebration of John Williams, the legendary composer behind the unforgettable sco

Here’s good news: the Intrada Battlestar Galactica (classic) albums by Stu Phillips are coming back as an 8CD box set. I love Intrada’s video trailers, wish we could have done them back in the day for FSM!

I did not expect to be operating a used CD store—or, when I did, to be sitting on 7,000+ film music CDs, with thousands available for under $5. If you’re looking to fill out your collection with stuff you always considered trying, you’d be shocked to see they’re available now for $1-5. It’s a great time to buy! Here is our store, and a spreadsheet of inventory for review. Thanks!