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.