I just posted this update to our Kickstarter: Thank you for making our 2025 projects a reality!  The Best of FSM 35th Anniversary book is in the final stages of proofreading and we hope to get it printed ASAP—and then we’ll mail out all the perks together. If you have yet to do the Pledge Manager , please do! This means paying tax and shipping on the physical goods—and unfortunately Kickstarter's system is not smart enough to fine-tune some of the rates. So as I posted last t

I upgraded my desktop Mac to the new Tahoe OS—with trepidation because these major updates always foul up something in my routines. But I figured I might as well get it over with. The new Apple Music has inexplicably relocated the play bar to the bottom of the screen—and there seems to be no way to select a group of tracks and quickly get the playing time. This is a feature I use all the time—or should say, I used to use—especially when putting together CD productions. You te

Thumbs way up for Vince Gilligan—he’s done it again. Pluribus is wonderful. Rhea Seehorn stars as a cranky romance author who becomes somehow immune to an alien transmission that turns humanity into a (benign) hive mind. It’s a fresh and bizarre, but grounded, spin on Body Snatchers . So excited to watch something new that’s great!

Thanks to everybody for your patience in awaiting the new FSM Online. It’s almost ready to re-launch. As you’ve probably noticed, the new website has been a kind of “rolling soft launch” as we get it up on its feet. The board is reasonably working well now, although there’s more I’d like to do. Next will be FSM Online, and the blogs, then the print backissues—and I will keep investing in the programming as funds and time allow to get it where it needs to be. And it’s all than

We are in the final proofreading stage of the Best of Film Score Monthly 35th Anniversary book. It’s come together well and I think everybody will enjoy it. We are including the two-part Elfman interview I did circa 1995 but it reminded me of an incident at the time. I don’t know if I ever confessed this in the magazine or online? The reason this interview was published as prose, instead of a Q and A, was because I made one of the all-time, hall-of-fame amateur blunders: I h

The last of the living Star Trek: The Original Series directors, Ralph Senensky, has died at 102. Obituary here from Trekmovie . And here’s the one from Hollywood Reporter . He was a consistently excellent director in televison for a long time. He also stayed active until the very end, and his own website is full of memories from throughout his storied career, including of his Trek episodes . He was fired halfway through “ The Tholian Web ” because the new spacesuits slowed

The CD boxes are filling up again! We have two significant collections incoming that we have partially received. In the meantime, we’re still selling the small new batch we listed yesterday—plus another 4,000 or so titles. Visit www.fsmcds.com or see the spreadsheet on Google . Thanks!

FSMCDs.com is live with 195 titles added, around a third of those being Goldsmith CDs. Check out the site and/or here is a spreadsheet if it is easier to review . (Please remember: the spreadsheet does not update as items sell.) Please buy from us! I need to use these proceeds to continue/finish development work on the FSM website . We have the board largely up and functioning, though more work will help refine it. The programmers are now working on getting FSMOnline back u

That was quite the World Series. Congrats to the Dodgers. But I have to feel bad for the Blue Jays and their fans. They were so close and should have won several times. It reminds me of the agony of being a Red Sox fan prior to 2004. We hear the fireworks go off after their wins. My wife said, “Remind me, we destroy the city if they win or they lose?”

I’ve always loved the classic Z-A-Z spoofs: Airplane!, Police Squad, Top Secret . I loved them as a kid and they still hold up today. “Do you like movies about gladiators?” The imitators have never been any good, unfortunately. Mostly, they’re just not funny. But they fail from the get-go in trying to spoof things that are frivolous to begin with. The most important thing for any spoof? Source material that is stately, full of itself and totally asking for it. Which is, of co