There are ten days to go in our Kickstarter to record a new CD of James Horner’s early TV movie scores for A Few Days in Weasel Creek, Angel Dusted and A Piano for Mrs. Cimino. We’re sitting at nearly $27K of the $45K ask—but that doesn’t include the stretch goal, which will be to add Horner’s 1985 Faerie Tale Theatre score for Nicholas Meyer, “The Pied Piper of Hamlin.” So please help! For $25 you can basically just pre-order the CD, which I have a good feeling most people w

Be here on Tuesday, May 12, at 10AM Pacific / 1PM Eastern for the next batch of titles from the Jeanne Jones collection at www.FSMCDs.com. We will finish the alphabet (V–Z titles), then start at the beginning again (A–Z) for 400 or so “re-files” that were left off the first time, plus CDs still sealed in their original longboxes (quite the time capsule) and odd-sized and oversized albums. I am working on listing the “slimlines” (see above) which include a lot of the For Your

As we continue our Kickstarter to record early 1980s James Horner TV movie scores—please contribute, if you have not done so already!—I wanted to share this interview from FSM Online that we also included in the Best of FSM book, thanks to Tim Burden. ### To say that James Horner is one of the best and most successful film composers of the past three decades is probably an understatement. Avatar is a monumental achievement in cinema, and the project was almost ten years in

The new May issue is live at FSM Online. Thanks to your help we were able to build a new site to host our 35+ years of film music coverage—and now we’re rebuilding the subscription rolls so we can continue the mission. If you are not a subscriber, please check out our free tour. Thanks!

My cousin David Kendall has died at the age of 68. This is such a cosmic injustice. He was one of the nicest, warmest, kindest men I have ever known. I don’t want to sound like I’m from The Manchurian Candidate but he really was such a good person. I was not aware he was ill and I am just reeling. He has a long list of credits as a comedy writer, showrunner, director and producer—and from the outpouring of affection on social media, he was much loved. As a kid, I remember my

Here’s another priceless James Horner interview archived on YouTube, his 1992 appearance at UCLA. I would have loved to have access to this stuff when I was getting into film music in the 1980s!

We are nearing the halfway point of our Kickstarter campaign to record James Horner’s early TV movie scores, and we’ve crossed the $25K mark—this is good! If you’ve never seen Horner’s 2005 TED Talk, it’s an interesting and very direct look at how Horner saw his work: Missing him all the time!

Years ago, Dennis Schmidt created an index (actually, a table of contents) for the FSM print edition that we used to made a search engine at the website. The search on the site is not functioning at the moment, but I realized I could just put the index on my Google Drive for people to consult. This will help you find articles in the print archive. I so want to have all this properly reconfigured on the site itself! It’s just expensive to have the programming done.

If you are not a subscriber to FSM Online, the paywall portion of our site (and continuation of the magazine, which started all the way back in 1990) please visit this FREE TOUR. Pretty cool stuff—thanks!

Congrats to US, I guess, for getting a “Projects We Love” badge from Kickstarter for our James Horner Television Music Recording campaign. We are over halfway to our initial goal, but we’ll need more than that to add our stretch goal, of recording Horner’s score for Faerie Tale Theatre. Thanks!

I have seen a lot of very early Varèse Sarabande pressings while processing the Jeanne Jones collection for FSMCDs.com. I came across two slightly different discs of the Fred Steiner Star Trek, Vol. 1 CD from 1985. Fortunately I knew who to ask, John Stroud, a very knowledgeable collector, and generous with his time! “They’re both Japan-for-U.S. pressings, but the top one is the original first pressing by Victor Musical Industries (as printed at the bottom on the label side!)

Thanks for all your purchases from FSMCDs.com this week! Thousands of items still in stock, here is an updated spreadsheet. Here’s an update I just posted to Kickstarter: THANK YOU! We’re one week into our 30-day campaign and have reached the halfway point of our initial goal of $45,000 to record James Horner’s early 1980s TV movie scores, A Few Days in Weasel Creek, Angel Dusted and A Piano for Mrs. Cimino—thank you! Want to watch these obscure movies, and hear the scores in

It’s our first shipping day out of our new office! Usually I would just snap a picture of the orders on the “staging” table, soon to ship, but I’m still working from my home office so they’re not here! So let me plug our James Horner Kickstarter again which is nearly halfway to our $45K ask after one week—a great start! Thank you to everybody who has contributed, and spread the word. We had a big sales day yesterday, but there are still thousands of titles in stock. Here is t

UPDATE: There was a problem this morning where the cart exclusivity (six hours) was not working. So people found items disappearing from their carts. This has been fixed. However, the fix is not retroactive. If you have something in your cart and you want it, please buy it asap. We always, as a matter of S.O.P., combine multiple orders to save on shipping. I can’t tell you how embarrassed and sorry I am that we have had these tech problems. You guys are such great customers a

As we continue to sell the CD collection of our late friend Jeanne Jones—the next batch of titles go on sale tomorrow at 10AM Pacific / 1PM Eastern—I’ve received a few inquiries about her very significant LP collection. Those are being sold by Soundtrackers at their Discogs and Amazon stores. The listings go live today! Thank you for all your support on our James Horner TV project Kickstarter, which heads into week two looking good—please keep it up! Thanks!

My mom found this in the crawlspace. I was nine years old. Page two: Would love to play with Pop Pop again!

We moved into our new office the past two days. It’s already out of room! So we’ll just have to sell more stuff!!! Back Tuesday with more from the Jeanne Jones collection.

Our James Horner Kickstarter is finishing week one—now the real work begins, the middle weeks where donations slow down, we’ll be stepping up outreach to meet our goal. I was happy to be a guest on the Pop Culture Classics podcast with Greg Ehrbar, which is now live wherever great podcasts are heard, like Spotify. Some of you have been curious what these ancient TV movies actually are. It’s pretty easy to find two of them on YouTube: Angel Dusted (complete with vintage ads):

Today is the day we get 10K CDs out of my house! Wish us luck. We have rented a small office space around 20 minutes south and we start the move...in an hour! But I don’t want to take focus away from our James Horner Kickstarter campaign. Please support if you have not done so! Thanks!

Thank you all for a great first day to our Kickstarter to record James Horner's early 1980s TV movie scores: A Few Days in Weasel Creek, Angel Dusted and A Piano for Mrs. Cimino. The way these campaigns work, you typically raise 1/3rd of your ask in the first few days, 1/3rd in the middle, and 1/3rd in the last few days. So with a $45K goal and almost $15K after a day, we’re in a good place. I am really hoping we can add stretch goals, like Faerie Tale Theatre, so I want to s

We are LIVE at Kickstarter with our campaign to record a new album of James Horner’s early 1980s TV movie scores: A Few Days in Weasel Creek, Angel Dusted and A Piano for Mrs. Cimino —plus more, let’s hope, as stretch goals! Please contribute, we need you !

Join us tomorrow, Tuesday, April 21, 2026, on Kickstarter as we launch our campaign to record a new album of James Horner’s early 1980s TV scores: A Few Days in Weasel Creek, Angel Dusted and A Piano for Mrs. Cimino —plus whatever we can raise as a stretch goal. Thanks!

Saw this on James Marsden’s back on Your Friends and Neighbors . That wavy diagonal line across his back, under the coat? That’s almost certainly the wire for the lav (lavalier), the microphone. I think I saw a Law & Order rerun a few weeks ago where you could actually see the black transmitting box inside one of the cops’ coats, when it momentarily opened.

I’ve been watching some returning TV series and I don’t want to say which ones (I know that’s annoying, sorry) but it just feels like they’ve gone stale. I find my mind wandering, and checking the timeline to see how much is left. It feels like the series architecture was never designed to go this long—that new crises are manufactured and thus not very interesting. Characters have long, static, sit-down scenes about their huge life dilemmas, and the filmmaking points towards