We will go live on www.fsmcds.com with the next batch of CDs from Jeanne Jones collection—the L through P titles—on Tuesday, April 14, at 10AM Pacific / 1PM Eastern. Then a week later, Tuesday, April 21st, we will launch the Kickstarter to record early TV scores by James Horner . And be back a week after that, Tuesday, April 28th, for more Jeanne CDs. Busy!

The new April issue of FSM Online is now live at our site . We continue to make improvements in every way: navigation, fixing broken links, enabling “teaser” intros of articles for non-subscribers. And we’ve started a new feature, Collector Spotlights, to profile people who have spent so much of their lives loving and collecting film music. The first installment profiles our friend Henry Stanny, written by Chris Hadley, check it out ! Do you have a long history with film musi

I was pleased to see the reaction to yesterday’s announcement about our imminent Kickstarter to record early James Horner TV movie scores. Yes, A Few Days at Weasel Creek will be on there! I appreciate the message board conversation —I’m reading it!

Time to commit ourselves to our next Kickstarter, which I am planning now: A recording of previously unreleased James Horner TV movie scores from the early 1980s! That’s right, it’s FSM’s first recording project, in conjunction with Leigh Phillips, whose work I admire so much, and the fine folks at Neumation Music who are invaluable with the music research and prep. Can you guess the three scores we’re looking at? I am building the campaign now.

As I wrote before, I’ve been rewatching the Star Wars films by showing one of my daughters (she asked to see them). We got to the sequels and at one point she asked, “Do these movies make you angry?” I think she was responding to my grumpy answer to one of her questions about who was who and what was what. I think the only fair thing to say is that there are some things that disappoint me, and probably disappoint most fans, mostly having to do with the change of directors an

I wish I understood Tenet . It hurts my head. This video tried to help: I’m still struggling. I do think it’s time to retire the “good guys have to help the bad guys achieve their goals in order to trick them into thinking they’ve succeeded so they really lose” plot. That last Mission: Impossible movie did it in.

What a time to be alive! A quintessential John Williams 1970s disaster/cue faithfully transcribed and performed on piano by Harrison Ingemarson: Always loved this piece, recycled in to the tracked end credits. Harrison also did this propulsive gem by Goldsmith recently: Always amazing to see the scores from these master composers, and find out the notes are simpler than you think—or I think, anyway. (I’m not very good!)

I read the Scriptshadow blog, and I’m not always sure why. Today he had a mega-rant about The Secret Agent , which is 98% fresh at Rotten Tomatoes . This is somebody who charges like $500 for script consultations. I would really take all these script gurus’ advice with a very large heap of salt.

Thanks for all the orders this week! Here is our inventory as of this morning. You can review this list , then go to FSMCDs.com to order. Thanks!

We sold over 1K CDs yesterday, thank you! Around 6K still here if you want to check the updated spreadsheet . And visit FSMCDs.com to order. Next sale April 14th, thanks!