Feast your eyes on this messy stack of boxes under the stairs—that’s (most of) my CD collection. You can also snoop the spines of some of...

John Williams turns 90 today—wow! Check out this photo I have with the Great Man himself circa March 2006 (more on this below). Gee, we...

I treated myself to two of the newest releases from Tim Rodier’s Omni Music Publishing: Poltergeist and Sneakers. James Horner’s Sneakers...

We watched The Lost Daughter on Netflix. It’s fabulous. High recommend. (By “we,” I mean my wife and I.) If you only like comic book...

Check it out—their new single, from their upcoming album. Apparently it’s made by the band’s current members using archival recordings by...

I was wondering what to post today. This blog is not thought-out at all. By chance, a longtime reader wrote a few moments ago to ask if I...

Would you folks like to see the list of my most-played music tracks in Apple music (formerly iTunes)? I don’t subscribe to their service,...

I was going through the scans I made of the FSM “physical archives,” looking for something quick and fun to post. I used to have bankers...

We interrupt our regularly scheduled programming to give you this YouTube video of an orangutan driving a golf cart, which longtime FSM...

A YouTube user named leibniz154 has been posting piano reductions of film cues, including a great many from the Star Wars films. I love...

Here’s a 1990 interview with John Barry about Dances With Wolves for, I presume, a press junket, by a longtime entertainment journalist,...

I want to give a shout-out today to one of my favorite people, John(ny) Bender, and one of my favorite Facebook groups, The Retro Euro...

I watched Being the Ricardos on Amazon and liked it. I always watch and enjoy Aaron Sorkin’s work. He operates at such a high level, it’s...

Here’s a good topic for your post-Christmas hangover: “Do You Know How Christmas Trees Are Grown?”—the John Barry–Hal David Xmas song...

We were going to visit my wife’s parents in Chicago over the holidays. Omicron put an end to that plan. It would have been our first trip...

I got my new CD player for the computer so I am happily catching up with Quartet Records’ latest releases. So great! Piero Piccioni...

I got a huge package of CDs from Quartet Records and I am so excited to listen to them! But I am waiting on a new CD player to hook up to...

UPDATE 3/8/22: Wow, was I grouchy when I wrote the below! So many negative ways to express things. Sorry!!! But for posterity’s sake,...

I’d like to do a little music theory today. Maybe somebody smarter than I am will read this and offer some wisdom? I love James Horner’s...

If you’re like me, you love Jerry Goldsmith’s score to Capricorn One. But did you love it enough to choreograph and produce a ballet...