Like a lot of people I’m watching closely the midterm election results from yesterday. Crazy! I try not to talk about politics too much...

I wish people in entertainment would treat their work like a business. Maybe I’m old-fashioned. Or maybe I was conditioned from my...

The Kickstarter for Rod Serling’s Night Gallery: An After-Hours Tour finished strong for Creature Features Publishing: $48,161. I was...

I’m not a big holiday person, or even a big Halloween person. I don’t love the macabre or horror or enjoy being frightened, or...

I have a dilemma and want your feedback. It concerns a couple of (mostly complete) sets of FSM CDs I have. I would love to get these to...

Tomorrow, Saturday 10/22/22, is Peter Hackman’s annual Fans of Film Music event. The 10AM composer panel is sold out but you can watch...

We took our twin girls (they’re eight) to the eye doctor. It was all routine, everything’s fine. The optometrist was an old pro, good...

I don’t have a plan for this blog so sometimes I don’t know what to write—and the answer is always the same: nostalgia! I loved Legos as...

I say “Hi Joe!” to my friend Joe Sikoryak, who designed all of our CDs and pretty much everything I worked on from 1997 until,...

Don’t we all hate clickbait? It’s so depressing—in part because it works. I can’t count how many times I’ve seen one of those sci-fi...

I finished watching Get Back on Disney+. I am so glad this exists. It took me a while to get through because I could only watch so much...

Here’s a stupid picture of me with Quincy Jones circa 2012. It was some film music gathering, I remember where it was (on the Sunset...

It’s been a slow time for, well, a couple of years, which has been a bit of a drag. But I suddenly have a lot to do. None of which I can...

I had a column here about paying for reads on scripts in progress. I just deleted it because I felt it was too grumpy. Sorry folks! But I...

I am watching the Disney+ documentary Light and Magic, about the formation and early years of visual-effects powerhouse ILM, and loving...

Earlier this week I drove through Culver City, for the first time in years. The Film Score Monthly office was located at 8503 Washington...

Recently I posted an essay about the appeal of Star Trek. I’m glad it was generally well received. At the time, I got a question—how...

Above is a random page—and I mean random, I just went to anyplace in the pdf—of Tony Gilroy’s script to The Bourne Supremacy. I DID NOT...

I remember the Cold War, thinking that at any moment I’d go outside and see something like the above (a screen cap from The Day After)....

I don’t have a lot of regrets over my time at Film Score Monthly. Sure, I made a lot of mistakes and had embarrassing moments—but that’s...