Thanks for all your purchases from FSMCDs.com this week! Thousands of items still in stock, here is an updated spreadsheet. Here’s an update I just posted to Kickstarter: THANK YOU! We’re one week into our 30-day campaign and have reached the halfway point of our initial goal of $45,000 to record James Horner’s early 1980s TV movie scores, A Few Days in Weasel Creek, Angel Dusted and A Piano for Mrs. Cimino—thank you! Want to watch these obscure movies, and hear the scores in

It’s our first shipping day out of our new office! Usually I would just snap a picture of the orders on the “staging” table, soon to ship, but I’m still working from my home office so they’re not here! So let me plug our James Horner Kickstarter again which is nearly halfway to our $45K ask after one week—a great start! Thank you to everybody who has contributed, and spread the word. We had a big sales day yesterday, but there are still thousands of titles in stock. Here is t

UPDATE: There was a problem this morning where the cart exclusivity (six hours) was not working. So people found items disappearing from their carts. This has been fixed. However, the fix is not retroactive. If you have something in your cart and you want it, please buy it asap. We always, as a matter of S.O.P., combine multiple orders to save on shipping. I can’t tell you how embarrassed and sorry I am that we have had these tech problems. You guys are such great customers a

As we continue to sell the CD collection of our late friend Jeanne Jones—the next batch of titles go on sale tomorrow at 10AM Pacific / 1PM Eastern—I’ve received a few inquiries about her very significant LP collection. Those are being sold by Soundtrackers at their Discogs and Amazon stores. The listings go live today! Thank you for all your support on our James Horner TV project Kickstarter, which heads into week two looking good—please keep it up! Thanks!

My mom found this in the crawlspace. I was nine years old. Page two: Would love to play with Pop Pop again!

We moved into our new office the past two days. It’s already out of room! So we’ll just have to sell more stuff!!! Back Tuesday with more from the Jeanne Jones collection.

Our James Horner Kickstarter is finishing week one—now the real work begins, the middle weeks where donations slow down, we’ll be stepping up outreach to meet our goal. I was happy to be a guest on the Pop Culture Classics podcast with Greg Ehrbar, which is now live wherever great podcasts are heard, like Spotify. Some of you have been curious what these ancient TV movies actually are. It’s pretty easy to find two of them on YouTube: Angel Dusted (complete with vintage ads):

Today is the day we get 10K CDs out of my house! Wish us luck. We have rented a small office space around 20 minutes south and we start the move...in an hour! But I don’t want to take focus away from our James Horner Kickstarter campaign. Please support if you have not done so! Thanks!

Thank you all for a great first day to our Kickstarter to record James Horner's early 1980s TV movie scores: A Few Days in Weasel Creek, Angel Dusted and A Piano for Mrs. Cimino. The way these campaigns work, you typically raise 1/3rd of your ask in the first few days, 1/3rd in the middle, and 1/3rd in the last few days. So with a $45K goal and almost $15K after a day, we’re in a good place. I am really hoping we can add stretch goals, like Faerie Tale Theatre, so I want to s

We are LIVE at Kickstarter with our campaign to record a new album of James Horner’s early 1980s TV movie scores: A Few Days in Weasel Creek, Angel Dusted and A Piano for Mrs. Cimino —plus more, let’s hope, as stretch goals! Please contribute, we need you !

Join us tomorrow, Tuesday, April 21, 2026, on Kickstarter as we launch our campaign to record a new album of James Horner’s early 1980s TV scores: A Few Days in Weasel Creek, Angel Dusted and A Piano for Mrs. Cimino —plus whatever we can raise as a stretch goal. Thanks!

Saw this on James Marsden’s back on Your Friends and Neighbors . That wavy diagonal line across his back, under the coat? That’s almost certainly the wire for the lav (lavalier), the microphone. I think I saw a Law & Order rerun a few weeks ago where you could actually see the black transmitting box inside one of the cops’ coats, when it momentarily opened.

I’ve been watching some returning TV series and I don’t want to say which ones (I know that’s annoying, sorry) but it just feels like they’ve gone stale. I find my mind wandering, and checking the timeline to see how much is left. It feels like the series architecture was never designed to go this long—that new crises are manufactured and thus not very interesting. Characters have long, static, sit-down scenes about their huge life dilemmas, and the filmmaking points towards

I have treated myself to a new office chair (right) from Uline. The old one (left) I think I’ve had since the late 1990s. It’s become so wobbly and infirm that it was giving me back problems. Exciting news, I know!

Mark your calendars! Our Kickstarter campaign to record a new album of James Horner’s early 1980s TV music goes live Tuesday morning, April 21, 2026. Here’s hoping! Thanks to everybody who has bought from FSMCDs.com as we continue to sell the Jeanne Jones collection. Here is an updated spreadsheet of available inventory . Thanks!

Thanks to everybody who bought from yesterday’s sale ! We are packing and shipping the rest of the week. Thousands of goodies still in stock! Here is an updated spreadsheet . And...we’re on the move! The CDs are bursting out of our house so we found the rare affordable L.A. office space. Here’s a little video we shot where I talk about it (don’t get your hopes up for any real entertainment): We’ll be moving next week so yeah, anything we can ship to YOU instead of lugging to

UPDATE 3PM Pacific: The site should be running at normal speed. There was a lot of bot traffic slowing things down, and some settings that needed to be reconfigured. I delayed sending out the email blast until these were resolved. There are already several hundred items from the spreadsheet that have sold. Remember, sales are every other Tuesday at 10AM Pacific (in this case, 11AM, because the items uploaded slowly). Thanks!!! UPDATE: Site is slow, I know. When plug-ins and a

I must have gotten on some mailing list because I recently received “offers” from some places to interview me and promote The Best of Film Score Monthly . I said, sure...but as I suspected, this was all a prelude to ask me for money. And some of these places seem to be, or claim to be, afilliated with the BBC and legit outlets. Weird! The emails are very pushy and look written by A.I. Even when I said, hey can you send me an email that seems written by a human please, I just

Everything’s on track for the Tuesday sale (4/14, 10AM Pacific, 1PM Eastern) and I’ve even managed to get the R titles listed. So we have copies of the original Varèse Sarabande RoboCop both with the barcode, and without—I didn’t even realize!

I’ve been so busy I didn’t take a moment to say how much I enjoyed the new La-La Land Diamonds Are Forever CD . More magnificent work from the team! Finally the long version of the title song can be heard—we had it way back in 2003 but the label and studio were unwilling to try to clear Bassey’s vocal on our tight schedule. A John Barry classic!