I am out of town this next week. FSMCDs.com is open for business but any orders that come in after this evening (Saturday, July 11) will ship the week of the 20th. Enjoy your summer!

I’ll be out of town for this, but the great Joe Hisaishi is at the Hollywood Bowl next weekend: “Join us July 21–23 at 8 PM for an unforgettable evening celebrating the legendary composer behind beloved Studio Ghibli classics like Princess Mononoke, My Neighbor Totoro, and Ponyo. As the Hollywood Bowl's 2026 Composer in Focus, Joe Hisaishi will conduct a breathtaking performance of his timeless music, accompanied by some of his favorite film clips.” Tickets here.

Check out this playlist for Lefties Symphonies Through Time, a recording project of Henry Mancini themes and arrangements by Nazareno Bicocchi meticulously reconstructed by ear from the original performances. I can’t imagine the time that went into this—lovely work! Much more at the playlist link. And here’s a behind-the-scenes article on how it was all made.

Thank you for your CD orders from yesterday’s new list. We will start the shipping at once! Here is an updated spreadsheet of our inventory. This is for browsing only, please use fsm.cds.com to order. Thank you!

NOTE 10:20AM: We seem to be having a snag with PayPal. Credit card payments are working. We will get PayPal straightened out asap!!! UPDATE: FIXED!!! ### We are live at FSMCDs.com with around 380 new listings from a few different collections. There are some hot Goldsmith titles, more sealed FSM releases from my mom’s basement (really!), Lorne Balfe promos, vintage cassettes (including sealed Varèse) and more—check it out! Here is a spreadsheet of the complete inventory. As a

Be here tomorrow, Tuesday, July 7, at 10AM Pacific / 1PM Eastern for nearly 400 listings added to FSMCDs.com, including autographed titles from the Jeanne Jones collection. Some fun stuff—thanks!

I happened to be on the road last night around 9:30 and couldn’t believe the amount of fireworks going off—not shows, but people lighting their own. We hear them at night every New Year’s Eve and Fourth of July but I didn’t realize how many there are, all over LA. It felt like I was driving through a warzone. I made a turn in Boyle Heights and there were some guys lighting off big ones from the middle of the street. We used to light off a few firecrackers as kids but never th

Have a good one, folks!

I watched the third season premiere of The House of the Dragon, or at least the first half of it...it was getting late... Boy is this a lot to keep track of!

Does anybody have any idea whose signature this is on a digipak reissue of El Greco by Vangelis? It is not Vangelis. I thought maybe the director, Iannis Smaragdis, but can’t find any examples online. Thanks folks!

Our street is being repaved today, after what feels like months of work. It’s been inconvenient and now the whole house is shaking when the roller goes by. I lived at the end of a dirt road as a kid so this is new for me. As annoying as it is, I appreciate that we are getting a free street! Our tax dollars at work.