Today is Friday, which reminded me of one of my favorite obscure TV themes—which I’m not sure we’ve ever talked about on the FSM board....

Here is the tape box to part one of Elmer Bernstein’s masters to his glorious symphonic score to Heavy Metal (1981). This was one of my...

Yesterday I took potshots at the late Michael Wayne, who I thought deserved it. It made me think of some of the other folks who have...

I have a rule that I don’t use this blog to go after people I don’t like—especially if they have passed and are no longer around to...

This is page one of the “Film Tech Logs,” as we called them, for the masters for Miklós Rózsa’s score to the 1954 Grace Kelly film, Green...

When we started the FSM record label, we did our own fulfillment. This lasted until the fall of 2004 when I reached total burn out: if...

On December 1, 1993, I did a phone interview with Elliot Goldenthal, who I was excited to talk to because of his scores to Alien3 and...

Our social media overlord, Facebook, informed me that today is Andy Dursin’s 47th birthday. Happy birthday, Android! That’s a very old...

I feel like telling the story of when I met John Barry. Please be warned, it is hardly a consequential story. But it happened, so here...

This is page one (for reel one) of the music editing log to Logan’s Run (1976), which was given to us when we produced the expanded...

Yesterday on the FSM board, Thierry Schreurs posted a long list of rare Lalo Schifrin themes and cues, most from the 1970s. I had so much...

From 2006–2010 we made six sets of six “Film Composer Collector Cards,” 36 in all. We printed them up and Screen Archives gave them away...

When I created this blog, I used a bunch of Wix templates without giving it much thought. As a result, there’s a view counter on each...

Here’s a blast from the past: the “Soundtrack Handbook” I used to compile and send to first-time subscribers of FSM, or upon request (I...

I found a set of photos of a bunch of us film score geeks having a pre-concert dinner, I think at the W hotel in Westwood, before a Jerry...

I can’t say I’m proud of this, but apparently I drew this circa 1994 when we were covering Basil Poledouris’ score to the ludicrous...

I’ve been looking through the FSM “physical archives” (the boxes I scanned in 2014) for fun stuff to post—things that are interesting but...

Here’s a random scan from the FSM “physical archives,” which is the digital folder I created from several dozens of bankers boxes of...

I am not planning or preparing these daily blog posts, which is actually quite liberating. I post what I feel, and whoever reads it—well,...

Here’s an unhappy memory: taking Film Score Monthly overstock back issues to the recycling center. I always tried to print the FSM...