I am deep in the time-consuming work of CD data entry. Announcement to come!

I saw an A.I. video on YouTube, that I’m not going to bother to link to, that was just plagiarism of Star Wars clips—instead of getting shot in Empire , Threepio pulls out a bat and beats up another robot. The technical quality is getting better exponentially, but it’s still a world of crap. It really makes me think if the problem isn’t the technology but the operators. How many people in the world can really make a great film? A few dozen? A hundred?

I have not seen The Bride! I didn’t even know there was such a movie. I loved Maggie Gyllenhaal’s first film, The Lost Daughter . I guess The Bride! doesn’t really work but people sure are laying into it. The vitriol for it seems just so—I guess ugly is the word.

The March 2026 issue of FSM Online is live ! I particularly enjoyed the piece on Dan Romer and A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms , as I’ve really enjoyed that show and its music. We are working on additional functionality like article previews. We need subscribers!!! Thanks!

My least favorite morning of the year: daylight savings time begins. I think it’s necessary to have daylight savings time, but I don’t like how they changed it some years ago to start several weeks earlier. (Keeping it an extra few weeks in October for kids trick or treating on Halloween makes sense.) I’ll be awake eventually.

I’ve written before about how I read comic books as a kid in the 1980s. I loved the Marvel X-books and still have nostalgic fondness for that era. I stopped briefly into a comic book earlier this week...and it’s always a strange experience. It feels so far removed from what I knew and loved. I asked the guy working there if any kids buy comics now. He seemed surprised by the question. I think he said something about parents occasionally bringing in their kids while they shop.

Check out this very comprehensive transcription—with annotations—on the seminal “Linus and Lucy” by Vince Guaraldi: Very informative!

Thanks for all your orders from yesterday’s mini-sale at FSMCDs.com ! Today is shipping today. We have a lot of empty boxes around here! Here is the spreadsheet of our current inventory . You can review this list if it’s easier than browsing on the store itself . Thank you!

We have added a small lot of CDs to FSMCDs.com : around 60 John Williams CDs, and anoher 120 of all composers that sadly suffered from water damage—but in most cases, the discs themselves are fine, and they are super cheap! And remember, there are now thousands of CDs with SALE PRICES, including what we have left of Douglass Fake’s collection. You may want to browse this spreadsheet of our complete inventory (new items at top), and then go to FSMCDs.com to order. In other n

We will go live with a small lot at FSMCDs.com tomorrow, Wednesday, March 4, 2026, at 10AM Pacific (1PM Eastern). There are around 60 John Williams CDs (in great condition) plus another 115 CDs or so (all composers) from a different collector which unfortunately suffered water damage. So typically the booklets are shot—and sometimes there is even print matter stuck to the tops of the discs—but the discs themselves should be playable (your meager money back if not). So if you

Congrats to La-La Land for their Bad Boys and Bad Boys II CDs announced today. Check out the bundle here . Crazy to think that Bad Boys is 30 (actually 31) years old. Back in the 1990s, when I started FSM, that would be like us celebrating a reissue of a 1966 score—wow!

Harrison Ingemarson made this piano reduction of John Williams’ theme for Amazing Stories : I remember watching this for the first time with the imaginative title sequence: What can you say about master composer like John Williams, who knows how to create an instantly memorable tune, perfectly arranged? It’s like a lost art now. Although the show had a lot of promise—a Twilight Zone -style anthology, made by top filmmakers (Spielberg!)—outside of a few episodes, it just wasn’

There’s a new Star Wars movie in less than three months. The trailer: It’s a little hard to tell what the actual story is going to be. I have enjoyed the show but when the hero doesn’t show his face and the sidekick doesn’t speak, it is rather limiting to the drama.

It’s not films or film music, but my friend Dan Madsen is selling his incredible collection of Abraham Lincoln and Mark Twain materials . You’ll remember them, of course, from the episodes “The Savage Curtain” and “Time’s Arrow,” respectively.

Please see our Kickstarter campaign page for an update today —thanks!

I was very sorry to hear of the passing of Robert Carradine. He took his own life after years of battling bipolar disorder . My friend and I once saw him out at an L.A. restaurant. For whatever reason we introduced ourselves—we’re fans—and I remember him sweetly saying, “I’m Bobby” and shaking hands. He played the ultimate, iconic nerd in the Revenge of the Nerds films, but it was a total performance—I remember in person being struck at how cool and un-nerdy he seemed. The o

My hometown got absolutely walloped by a blizzard. Here in SoCal, it’s sunny atnd 75 degrees. I used to love the snow so much growing up, and I miss it. Of course, at a certain point, enough is enough!

As promised we received our final replacement books from Amazon of The Best of Film Score Monthly: 35 Years of Loving Soundtracks (some of the initial batch were dinged up) and we will spend today and tomorrow sending those to the final Kickstarter donors. Thanks for your patience! The dinged copies, by the way, are half-price on our website . The book itself is available worldwide from Amazon . If you’ve already read and enjoyed it, please consider leaving a review at Amazo

I was channel-surfing briefly yesterday and saw a few minutes of Superman: The Movie on pay cable. (Nowadays both the 2025 and 1978 films come up in the channel guide as simply “Superman” so it’s not always clear what you’re going to get.) This is one of my favorite movies and I just love it, always. I watched a few minutes of the initial Metropolis scenes. Donner and his team get everything so right. Even the little things, the character grace notes and humor—just so, so go

There will be a celebration of Jeanne Jones’ life next Wednesday: Jeanne Jones Celebration of Life Wednesday, February 25 10:30 am - Noon   The Church On The Way Hayford Prayer Chapel 14344 Sherman Way Van Nuys CA 91405   There is a large parking lot right next to the Prayer Chapel. Enter the lot from Sherman Way, just to the west of the building. Also, Jeanne’s friends are presently going through her apartment. There is a large amount of collectible material: books, scrapboo

The Nacelle Company has released a new, three-hour interview with Marcia Lucas. I haven’t watched it all but she is very candid about not liking the prequels or sequels. Cool lady!

We had a great week of sales to thin out the stock in my living room—thank you! Thousands of great titles still available. Here’s a spreadsheet , and order directly at www.fsmcds.com . Thanks!

Thank you to everybody who bought from yesterday’s clearance sale, we had a busy day! Here is a spreadsheet of what remains in inventory —and please go to FSMCDs.com to order. Doug Fake had one of the most impressive collections I’ve ever seen—and I would know! He was especially comprehensive with Italian soundtracks (Beat, Cinevox, GDM, etc.) and those rare titles are a lot of what we still have now—now at discounted prices. Hope you find some goodies. Thanks!

We are slashing prices on what we still have of the Douglass Fake CD collection —as well as some other collections that we’ve been selling for nearly a year. The reason is simple: we have MORE collections coming in, and we don’t have any room! Visit the store to order , or see this spreadsheet of the complete inventory —Doug’s titles start with “DCF” in the last column, and you can sort by that column as well. Other collections with sale prices are LAR, FED, PCL and a few oth