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

Check out this video of Vince Guaraldi (with bass and drums) playing “Linus and Lucy,” courtesy Lee Mendelson Film Productions: It’s billed as the earliest television recording, from 1964—but I actually don’t think I’ve ever seen a video of Vince playing. I have read that he had short fingers which led in part to his unique sound. It’s hard to describe, but his music just doesn’t sound the same played by anybody else.

YES!!! The weeks between the NFL playoffs and the start of baseball—or at least March Madness—are so boring. But Olympic curling is back! So sooooooothing....

We are continuing our work at FSM Online to make the decades-long library of backissues more easy to navigate. Subscribers, check it out so far—thanks !

Brent Spiner and Jonathan Frakes have a new podcast, Dropping Names with Brent and Jonny , which is terrific fun. Anybody who has seen them at conventions knows how good they are. The entire TNG cast was an extraordinary collection of good people who are genuinely decent and fun. It’s not a Star Trek podcast, but they have “resigned to fate” that Trek will come up a lot. Enjoy!

I like Christopher Nolan’s films, although I don’t spend days and weeks trying to figure them out. (I think even Nolan said Tenet is not supposed to make sense.) But this video on Inception does seem to provide the most conclusive interpretation about the ending: Well done, nerd!

I’m sad to report that longtime collector Jeanne Jones has passed. I mentioned her GoFundMe last month . Please see this thread on the FSM board with info on a remembrance in the L.A. area on the 25th—I’ll be there. I received this remembrance from longtime friend, filmmaker Willard Carroll, who asked to share a few words with the community: ### In the ’90s I purchased quite a few soundtracks from one J.J. Jones. After a couple of years of contact, I extended an invitation t

Today would have been Jerry Goldsmith’s 97th birthday. Check out this great piece by Tim Greiving on Goldsmith , informed by his time interviewing John Williams.

Happy 94th birthday to the Greatest Of All Time, John Williams, still going strong—looking forward to Disclosure Day! His birthday was yesterday. Also congrats to Intrada who made their Kickstarter goal to The Night of the Hunter ! And really, congrats to US who will get to hear it.

I was surprised to see a second season produced of The Night Manager , ten years after season one. The original was a very slick adaptation of the Le Carré novel. About season two—well, I dunno. I’ve always been annoyed by sequels where the original wrapped everything up, the hero vanquished the villain, and then in the next one, the villain comes back and they do it all over again. What was the point, exactly? Terrific cast, though.

It’s the final stretch for Intrada’s Kickstarter to make a new recording of Walter Schumann’s transcendent score for The Night of the Hunter . Please help support this effort! Thanks!

Artist Paul Shipper has made available the cover art from the Best of FSM 35th Anniversary book on his website . It’s beautiful work and I’m so honored to have it for our book!

Yesterday I gave an update on the Kickstarter fulfillment which is being held up by a number of defective copies of the Best of FSM book that Amazon sent us. Argh! I really appreciate how well everybody understood the update and offered their nice words. A few people expressed interest in buying discounted “scratch and dent” copies, and Amazon has confirmed they don’t need the defective copies back. So we’ve listed them on our website . To buy a pristine copy (we hope!) plea

Today’s update is going to be super annoying—it is for me! We used Amazon print-on-demand for the Best of Film Score Monthly book. It was cheaper and more convenient than a conventional printer. I do not have the funds to do a 1,000-copy print run (and then have to deal with ongoing warehousing, shipping, etc.). The book has come out really well...except for one problem. Out of the “author’s copies” I ordered to ship to the Kickstarter donors, 114 of them were dinged, perfor

Lots of updates today! We are almost done shipping out the Kickstarter items to donors, so we’re making live at www.fsmcds.com the extra copies that were manufactured: The Filmation Music of Ray Ellis , $20 The complete pack of 36 FSM Composer Collector Cards , $25 The FSM Original Logo Mug , $20 FYI: the Filmation CD will be available from other shops too, but for the time being, the cards and mugs are exclusive to www.fsmcds.com . (You don’t want to know what those cards c

Thumbs way up for Adolescence , which I only now just watched. Wow, what an achievement—just as a piece of storytelling, to say nothing of the one-take construction. I think people are going overboard with the one-take thing ( Birdman , The Studio ) but this has to be the most incredible use of it. In the first episode, I was thinking, wow the VFX to stitch this together is seamless—well, there wasn’t any. It truly was one take per episode. Here’s how they did it . I will say

I saw this YouTube video by Ryan Leach about five amateur composer mistakes: And what can I say? Yup—seems right to me.