Terry Rossio is a big-time screenwriter with a good blog, Wordplay. Here’s his latest about “Money People.” It’s funny because it’s true.

Be here Monday morning at 10AM Pacific time as we go live with the next batch of used soundtrack CDs for sale at www.fsmcds.com. We have...

I really enjoyed this new Hans Zimmer interview at Curzon.com. We used to give Hans a lot of crap in the pages of FSM. I was wrong!

I wrote a few years ago about my interactions with the late, great composer Leonard Rosenman. I am glad that people find it from time to...

Thumbs way up for the new version of Shōgun, which I finished watching last night. I have never read the book, or seen the 1980...

Hooray! One of my favorite John Williams setpiece cues is now on YouTube as piano reduction by “leibniz154”: “The Basket Game” from...

I used to watch MacGyver in the 1980s, as did a lot of us. The star was likable and it was fun watching him make all those gadgets out of...

I have a problem. I cannot un-see the colored contact lenses they are putting on actors in certain shows. The new Shogun is absolutely...

Look for another 1,200–1,500 CDs to be added to the FSM store the week of the 29th. Maybe on that Monday if we get them processed in...

I didn’t realize what a big deal last week’s eclipse was. We only got a little bit of shade in the L.A. area, and I experimented with...

Above: Star Trek actors on strike in front of Paramount last September. Everybody I talk to in the entertainment industry says it’s the...

Way back in 1999—25 years ago, crazy!—we released a 2CD set of Gerald Fried horror scores: The Return of Dracula, I Bury the Living, The...

Nothing important today, just a funny site I came across: McMansion Hell. We have more than a few of these on Martha’s Vineyard and I’ve...

Found on YouTube! An extremely rare intersection of obscure William Shatner projects and obscure Jerry Goldsmith projects: the 1974 TV...

I don’t like A.I. art because it sucks. Sorry to be puerile. I’m not talking today about the economic and moral reasons why writers,...

The great recording engineer Dan Wallin has died at 97. Please see this excellent obituary by Jon Burlingame at Variety. The above pic is...

Store update: The issue with Norton antivirus software flagging www.fsmcds.com has been resolved. It was a mistake on their part and we...

It’s going to be a busy day—and probably rest of the week—shipping all your orders. Thank you! And thanks to everybody who came here from...

We had a big day yesterday selling the new lot of film music CDs. Thank you everybody for your orders and your trust! However, there were...

UPDATE 4/9/24: Here is the present inventory as of Tuesday morning. ### We have added a new lot of 890 CDs to www.fsmcds.com: 840...

It’s hard to believe 1984 was forty years ago. I remember in the 1980s looking at old black and white movies and thinking they were...

Congrats to Tokyo Vice on Max for an outstanding season two. I wrote about season one some time ago. Season two was even better! Having...

Be here Monday at 10AM Pacific when we’ll be adding 840 new (as in used!) CDs to the fsmcds.com store. Please see yesterday’s column...

We have finished processing the last part of Tim Knapp’s collection, his music-related books, including many film music books. (Although...