I woke up to a few very confused emails from people who logged into the new message board only to find other people’s posts/account/history were coming up as their own. Fun! It was a “caching” issue, having to do with memory short-cuts the site uses to work faster. There is no danger of your info actually being combined with anybody else’s, or security problems—just data that was scrambled in the outputs. Nonetheless I can see how this is concerning. The site is down today wh

I’ve written before how much a fan I am of Yoko Kanno, particularly Cowboy Bebop , Macross Plus, Ghost in the Shell and Wolf’s Rain . Wolf’s Rain was a weird anime show created by Keiko Nobumoto from the Cowboy Bebop team, about mystical wolves in a post-apocalyptic fantasy world who can appear as human...very strange and beautiful. So the thing about Yoko Kanno—she’s a genius, but she does use a lot of other music as models. You can hear—oh, that’s the Sting track, that’s

It’s Saturday morning and I know the FSM site is down. They’re working on it and it’ll be back soon. It’s just going to be a couple of weeks as all the site functionality is implemented. We will get there, I promise! Thanks for your patience and understanding.

I watched the first episode of The Chair Company , a weird new HBO show that mixes comedy and thriller—a combo I don’t remember seeing before. I need to watch more to say anything useful. I was struck by the opening music of the pilot, which they use at least one more time, and I knew it must be a needle-drop. Not because I recognized it—it’s the opening of the classic 1970s instrument “Breezin’” by George Benson—but because the silky orchestration comes from another era enti

Above: Our trusty shipping manager gets YOUR orders out today! (This is not me.) Many thanks to everybody using the Kickstarter pledge manager to finalize their address and pay for the postage on their swag. We’re at 68% complete after two days—keep them coming! Any questions or rants, email me: LukasKendallMV@gmail.com . Here’s an updated spreadsheet of goodies at FSMCDs.com . If you sort by price from lowest to highest you’ll see there’s still a bunch of free stuff—please

Hi everybody. I just posted this to Kickstarter: Hello FSM Supporters! Thank you for funding our Kickstarter. Because of YOU we have launched the redesigned website at www.filmscoremonthly.com . It's not done, and we are making improvements daily, but it is up and running. All donors should have received the Kickstarter “pledge manager” yesterday, asking for your address and to collect postage and (for non-U.S. donors) duties as well.  I have an explanation, a favor, and a pr

UPDATE 1:30PM: Our Pledge Manager was approved by Kickstarter so we’ve launched it to begin collecting addresses, shipping and tax for the campaign. Thanks! Things are moving and a lot to announce! First, I have quietly added 440 new listings to www.FSMCDs.com . I know I have always given advance warning as to when these would go up. For a bunch of timing reasons, I didn’t have a “runway” to do that this time. So an experiment (and because I need the sales, I’ll explain below

I just saw that Klaus Doldinger has passed, age 89 . His scores to Das Boot and The NeverEnding Story are excellent. I love his “flying” music to the latter. I’m sure he did many more wonderful things that I’m just not aware of. Farewell.

You can expect to see daily progress on improving the message board . I know it’s frustrating when things don’t work. Nobody is more frustrated than I am, because I’m responsible for it all and took YOUR money on our Kickstarter to make it work. But we will get this resolved, I promise! One thing I want everybody to keep in mind please: When we went out to various web companies to get a quote on making a new message board, the idea of saving our 25 years’ worth of posts was a

The new FSM site is live but obviously there’s a lot of stuff not working right. This is not how I wanted this transition to go. In fact, it’s the opposite. The tech guys are doing their best and are behaving with the utmost professionalism. None of this would be happening if they hadn’t been willing to take us on at a significant discount of what programming usually costs. And I have no doubt they’ll get everything straightened out and we’ll have a first-rate board for our

Thumbs up for the new John Candy documentary. I forgot how young he was when he passed. Website work is continuing—thank you for your patience!

The new FSM site is live and functional. It is by no means done! Please see the feedback post on the new board and contribute your thoughts. The tech guys have a lot they are doing, but it’s on our list to go through methodically and address all of the questions and issues. Thank you!

Folks, sincere apologies. No, your password doesn’t work on the new FSM site, it needs the admin password and they are still fixing some things. You know the production triangle: fast, cheap or good, you can have two. So we’re foregoing fast. We’re so incredibly lucky to have this web company do this for us (I’ll introduce them later) because otherwise it would have been completely unaffordable. Thanks for your patience. I think the site should be up soon but I’m waiting for

They’re working on the new website, I promise. It’s real! Stay tuned... UPDATE: Sunday late—they’re still working. If you see a password...

The tech guys are working on getting our new site up. It’s not my field so I’m actually uninvolved except to watch the emails go back and...

As I write this we have TOP PERSONS working on getting the new, Kickstarter funded, redesigned FSM website up and running. ETA is...

Whoa! One of my all-time favorite cues, “Surprise Attack” by James Horner from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan , comes to YouTube in a...

I was asked yesterday on the FSM board when the new site will go live—we had mentioned October 1st as a target date, and obviously...

The FSMCDs.com site is updated with 129 new listings: some scores, some Broadway CDs, and just so we’re honest, it is almost all...

We will go live with a small lot of film music and Broadway CDs tomorrow morning, Tuesday, October 7, 2025, 10AM Pacific. Just so you...