What a treat to wake up and listening to our new recording of James Horner’s “Pied Piper of Hamelin” score from Faerie Tale Theatre, being recorded live in Prague. Wild! This is going to be a terrific album and I’m so looking forward to getting it completed!

Our James Horner TV music sessions are underway in Prague and going spectacularly well! I appreciate the videos and photos from the donors attending. I have been ambushed by Wix changing some of the settings and costs involved in this blog. Let me get this sorted out and I’ll share some images and further updates. Thanks!

Posted today to the Kickstarter page: Hello Kickstarter Supporters! Thank you for your support of our James Horner TV music album. The moment is about to arrive as the recording sessions kick off tomorrow morning at 9AM at Smecky Studios in Prague—which is actually midnight tonight Pacific time in the U.S. Angel Dusted and A Piano for Mrs. Cimino will be recorded on the 8th, A Few Days at Weasel Creek on the 9th, and then the "Pied Piper" score from Faerie Tale Theatre on the

Terribly sorry to hear of the sudden passing of George Fenton. Deadline obituary here. BBC coverage here.

A plug today for my longtime pal Robert Meyer Burnett who is raising money on Kickstarter for a collection of Star Trek essays, The Future of People. He’s over halfway towards his goal, please check out the campaign!

These entertainment conglomerate mergers are so depressing. It feels like we are living in Succession, which I guess we are (and always were). Superman and Star Trek are now owned by the same company. And so many thousands of people are about to lose their jobs. Sigh.

The review embargo has lifted on Behemoth!, the new film by Tony Gilroy, so I can finally say how much I truly loved it. I was lucky to see a press screening in August. Pedro Pascal stars as a cellist in a love letter to movie scoring. He literally records the music to his own flashbacks—it is so cool. The actual music was written by numerous composers including James Newton Howard and Alan Silvestri. You’ll be reading about all of this—including in the virtual pages of FSM O

We will be packing and shipping CD orders from this week’s sale through next week. Still a copy of Young Guns II from Intrada! Here is the updated spreadsheet of inventory. Thanks and have a great weekend!

Thank you for making this a huge week for us at FSMCDs.com! I truly appreciate it. And I hope everybody understands—I think you do—I love this music! It never loses its appeal for me. We still have a lot of goodies that I would not expect to be around for long, like the FSM Knight Rider. Here’s a spreadsheet to review, if it’s easier—then you can buy at FSMCDs.com. Thanks!