I’m leaving in a few hours (30th college reunion, wow!) and back middle of next week, so this column will stay atop the blog. FSMCDs.com is open for business and here’s a spreadsheet of the current inventory, so please, if you want to order, order! Orders placed last week will ship this Friday the 29th. Orders placed this week will ship June 3rd at the earliest. Thanks! Please see yesterday’s column about the importance of new subscribers to FSM Online, and hope you can check

It’s about to be June, which is the month I use to celebrate FSM’s anniversary—I forget the exact date, but the first newsletter that became FSM is labeled “6–90 Update.” Since that time—36 years ago—there has been an uninterrupted publication of FSM, either in print or online. This sort of blows my mind. We started out by reporting that Alan Silvestri had returned to score Back to the Future, Part III. It feels like ancient history but we’ve been publishing ever since. And w

Just a heads up that our next CD sale will be Tuesday, June 9, at 10AM Pacific (1PM Eastern). I am going out of town this coming week—it’s my 30-year college reunion, what the heck happened?!? Rather than try to rush things, we’ll just pick June 9th and keep our usual Tuesday sale date. See you then, thanks!

I’ve been so busy with our Kickstarter that I haven’t had a chance to talk about how much I enjoyed the end of The Boys—and this entire demented, perverted show. No notes! Just loved it. Bravo to everybody involved.

We have finished our Kickstarter to record a new album of James Horner’s 1980s television music past the original goal and past the stretch goal as well—thank you! Truly, thank you to all the donors, and I also want to shout out everybody who helped spread the word—including friends at Neumation Music, La-La Land Records, Intrada, Screen Archives and BuySoundtrax who generously helped with the publicity. The campaign is set to enable late backers for anybody wanting to add yo

Thank you to everybody who contributed to get us past our $45,000 Kickstarter goal for the new recording of 1980s James Horner Television Music! The campaign ends tonight at 11:59PM, Pacific time, 5/21/26—and we are trying to get to our STRETCH GOAL of $50,000 to add Horner’s little-known 1985 score for Nicholas Meyer’s episode of Faerie Tale Theatre, “The Pied Piper of Hamelin.” Watch the episode here: To everybody who has supported—thank you! And for those still watching, w

It’s the final two days of our Kickstarter to record James Horner’s 1980s TV movie scores A Few Days in Weasel Creek, Angel Dusted and A Piano for Mrs. Cimino! We are at $37,406 and need $45,000 by 11:59PM Pacific time, Thursday night. Thank you to all the donors, and people who have increased their pledges, and helped spread the word—including my friends who have deployed their valuable mailing lists to our cause. Let’s close this! Pledge here.

It is the final two days of our Kickstarter 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. The campaign ends Thursday night at 11:59PM, May 21, 2026, and we have a little over $10K still to raise—so this may be a photo finish! We have 471 backers as I’m writing this Tuesday morning. We had 817 to our campaign last year at this time to revamp FSM’s website, do a Best of FSM book and oth

It’s our final week of the Kickstarter to record a new album of James Horner’s early 1980s TV movie scores, and I’m proud to announce a new partner: The album will be distributed and coproduced by my friends at La-La Land Records! This is a perfect match: I no longer have the infrastructure to handle the distribution and administration of soundtrack releases, while La-La Land (recently featured in The New York Times) has released hundreds of incredible original soundtrack rec

Four days left in our Kickstarter to record a new CD of James Horner’s early 1980s TV movie scores—please help! We are making a distribution announcement tomorrow—what will it be? Come back tomorrow! So much excitement!

We are in the home stretch of our Kickstarter to record early 1980s James Horner TV movie scores. We are touching $30K of our $45K goal—with the stretch goal (to add Faerie Tale Theatre) being $50K. Two things I want to share... One is what a lifelong fascination I’ve had with Horner’s music, which I am sure is shared by many. I’m especially drawn to his early works—maybe because of the more traditional aesthetics of the era, or nostalgia for my own youth, but I remember so v

We are six days away from the end of our Kickstarter to record early 1980s James Horner TV movie scores. Thank you to so many who have contributed—we are approaching the two-thirds point, $30K out of the $45K. However, to record the stretch goal, “The Pied Piper of Hamlin” from Faerie Tale Theatre, we’ll need to reach $50K. This will be tight! You can pre-order the digital and/or CD copy for not a lot of money, and every little bit helps. Thank you!

If you have never seen it, there is remarkable footage of young James Horner conducting Something Wicked This Way Comes, filmed by Disney for a documentary: This comes from the era we’ll record with our Kickstarter—one week to go!

We have eight days left in our Kickstarter to record early 1980s James Horner TV scores. We’re sitting just under $28K of our $45K goal—to say nothing of our stretch goal to add “Faerie Tale Theatre.” We need your support! Congrats to our friends at La-La Land Records for a super-cool article in a little paper called The New York Times—well done! And thanks to everybody who ordered from the new listings yesterday at FSMCDs.com. We’ll be shipping them the rest of the week. Her

We are LIVE at FSMCDs.com with 900+ new listings from the Jeanne Jones collection. We finish the alphabet, V–Z titles, then start over with extra titles that we had to re-file from A to Z, plus odd-sized and “oversized” titles, plus sealed longboxes—really! Here is the spreadsheet of available inventory. This does not update as titles sell, so what you find on the actual site to order, www.fsmcds.com, is the correct inventory. There are still titles yet to be listed in cardbo

There are ten days to go in our Kickstarter to record a new CD of James Horner’s early TV movie scores for A Few Days in Weasel Creek, Angel Dusted and A Piano for Mrs. Cimino. We’re sitting at nearly $27K of the $45K ask—but that doesn’t include the stretch goal, which will be to add Horner’s 1985 Faerie Tale Theatre score for Nicholas Meyer, “The Pied Piper of Hamlin.” So please help! For $25 you can basically just pre-order the CD, which I have a good feeling most people w

Be here on Tuesday, May 12, at 10AM Pacific / 1PM Eastern for the next batch of titles from the Jeanne Jones collection at www.FSMCDs.com. We will finish the alphabet (V–Z titles), then start at the beginning again (A–Z) for 400 or so “re-files” that were left off the first time, plus CDs still sealed in their original longboxes (quite the time capsule) and odd-sized and oversized albums. I am working on listing the “slimlines” (see above) which include a lot of the For Your

As we continue our Kickstarter to record early 1980s James Horner TV movie scores—please contribute, if you have not done so already!—I wanted to share this interview from FSM Online that we also included in the Best of FSM book, thanks to Tim Burden. ### To say that James Horner is one of the best and most successful film composers of the past three decades is probably an understatement. Avatar is a monumental achievement in cinema, and the project was almost ten years in

The new May issue is live at FSM Online. Thanks to your help we were able to build a new site to host our 35+ years of film music coverage—and now we’re rebuilding the subscription rolls so we can continue the mission. If you are not a subscriber, please check out our free tour. Thanks!

My cousin David Kendall has died at the age of 68. This is such a cosmic injustice. He was one of the nicest, warmest, kindest men I have ever known. I don’t want to sound like I’m from The Manchurian Candidate but he really was such a good person. I was not aware he was ill and I am just reeling. He has a long list of credits as a comedy writer, showrunner, director and producer—and from the outpouring of affection on social media, he was much loved. As a kid, I remember my