I was sorry to hear the news that Bob Burns has passed away. He was an institution in the sci-fi/horror/fantasy community— read here —and so generous and kind. I was given a tour of his collection in the early 1990s and it blew my mind the stuff he had, and how open and friendly he was in sharing access with likeminded fans. He and his wife Kathy (who passed a few years ago) were such gracious hosts. He also, by the way, was the person who rescued the stereo master tapes to T

Above: A signed, framed LP of The Prize by Jerry Goldsmith we have in stock . Thanks to everybody who bought from our clearance sale yesterday! Still lots of discounted and free items available— check out the details . And here’s a spreadsheet of our total inventory . Thank you!

Update: Here’s a spreadsheet of the inventory . Prices listed are the sale prices but you need to use the site itself ( www.fsmcds.com ) to see which items have sale prices. I have drastically slashed prices on the oldest items at www.fsmcds.com . These are CDs that we’ve had for 18–24 months, and who knows if I priced them too high, or just nobody wanted them (or both?) but I have radically reduced them—anywhere from 25% to 75% off. And a whole bunch I’ve reduced down to $0,

I was able to stop by and see our longtime art director Joe Sikoryak at ComicArtsLA yesterday, where he is selling his work including When We Were Trekkers . Visit his website for more info . Joe and I just finished working in-depth on the Best of FSM 35th Anniversary book which is now at the printers, as well as the Filmation Music of Ray Ellis CD (both for our Kickstarter and to be fulfilled in January). It was really great to be collaborating again and tackling a new cha

My compliments to YouTube user “rmxmusicprojects” who has completed James Horner’s Star Trek II score. He also has Star Trek III and TNG’s “The Best of Both Worlds” on his channel—and lots more. Quite the investment of time—very well done!

I’ve carried the torch for a long time for the animation music of Johnny Douglas, whose jazzy, muscular writing for Marvel Productions in the early ’80s became a lifelong favorite. Thanks to his granddaughter, Louise Camby, at the family label, Dulcima Records , his music for Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends, The Incredible Hulk and Dungeons and Dragons has been rescued from oblivion, and is now available on CD and vinyl, as well as digital download. Check out the details

I have to beg everybody’s indulgence: we need to ship the Kickstarter donor rewards in mid-January. This is because we finally have the Best of Film Score Monthly book at the printers, but they can’t turn it around faster than that. The other perks are done and ready to ship, but I have to ship everything all at once, otherwise it’s not fair to the people also expecting the book. And if I double-ship (send items in more than one shipment), it’ll be several thousand more doll

Very sorry to hear of the passing of jazz artist Gordon Goodwin . He suffered a stroke while fighting pancreatic cancer. I emailed with him briefly when we were working on the Deluxe Edition of Star Trek: Nemesis ; he did the arrangement of “Blue Skies” for Brent Spiner at the Troi-Riker wedding. Super talented and super nice.

Was Tron ever cool? I remember in the ’80s it was this kind of also-ran sci-fi movie that had a unique look and cool concept—but dramatically, was pretty inert. It was this sort of intriguing flop that we’d revisit once in a while. I never would have pegged it as a franchise, but Disney has tried anyway, and, well, zzzzzzz . The original Wendy Carlos score is super cool and here’s a video on it which I enjoyed: It comes from a unique point in time when mixing synthesizers wi

I see that Paramount is now trying a hostile takeover of Warner Bros., to beat Netflix’s offer . I’m sure there are lots of corporate-merger subtleties to it that I don’t understand, but that’s the gist of it. This whole thing is depressing as all of these mergers will result in more consumer costs and less choice. That’s why we have monopoly rules. Or used to, anyway. The 1996 Telecommunications Act did a ton of damage. The concept is simple: when you allow vertical integra

Let’s hear it for the “white slavers,” as George jokingly called Disney after selling them Lucasfilm (and had to walk it back afterwards, so much fun): they have restored the original Star Wars Trilogy, without all the dumb changes, for theatrical re-release in 2027. And I’m sure for Disney+ afterwards. Clips have been leaking online: And here: Looks great! So strange—I feel like it was just yesterday that we were going to see the Special Editions. The new VFX were amazing,

As a lifelong Trekkie I’ve always been fascinated by the “show that wasn’t,” Star Trek Phase II —which became Star Trek: The Motion Picture circa 1977–78 when Paramount decided to abandon plans for a fourth TV network and instead make a Star Trek film. Scripts were written and sets built, as chronicled in various books, magazine articles and websites. The TrekWorld YouTube channel has done an incredible job unearthing images from the aborted production, and debuted a new s

It’s crazy that Netflix is acquiring Warner Bros. So now there’s just, what? Disney/Fox/ABV, Paramount/CBS, Amazon/MGM, Netflix/WB, Universal/NBC. And Apple, where making movies is a hobby. And Sony, who will probably be gobbled up next. Years ago somebody explained to me why TV movies are never any good: because they don’t have to be . They make some sensational piece of crap, people tune in, and by the time they realize it’s junk, they’ve gotten the ratings. (This is circa

Today’s project on our end is getting the FSMOnline subscription/payment service to work right. There are a lot of moving parts on the “backend” as we say about websites: caching, e-commerce, “webhooks,” and a lot of other stuff I never thought I would learn about. It’s frustrating not to have a better grasp on this, personally, because I can’t get in there and help the way I could if it was, for example, editing a magazine article. But we’re confident in our tech folks to so

Thanks for all your orders from yesterday’s CD sale! We’re shipping them today. And there’s still a ton of great stuff in inventory! Check out the spreadsheet here (sorted with all the high-end goodies up top today) and go to FSMCDs.com to order. Proceeds are going to continued FSM website improvements—more fixes to the message board coming soon. Thank you!

We have added 115 listings to FSMCDs.com , including a lot of sealed box sets, like the La-La Land Lethal Weapon collection (above). Here is a spreadsheet of the available inventory , over 5,000 listings in all. Two special items today: an Elmer Bernstein concert program and a John Williams print . Here are photos of these items . Hope you find some goodies—thank you!

Our next CD sale will go live tomorrow, Tuesday, December 2, at 10AM Pacific / 1PM Eastern. Not a large number of titles, but some premiums collector editions and box sets. And a reminder that cool stuff, like La-La Land’s Die Hard With a Vengeance , is in stock now. There’s typically one copy of each, at way less than eBay prices. Thank you for supporting www.fsmcds.com !

We have a small lot of high-value items (100–200) we’ll be adding to FSMCDs.com Tuesday morning, 10AM Pacific time (1PM Eastern), 12/2/25. These are a lot of the hard-to-find collector’s items—most of them are sealed—and box sets, too. Some great stuff in here! And we still have in stock a significant number of the high-value CDs from our last sale, two weeks ago. Go to the FSMCDs.com site and then sort by descending value and you’ll see them on the first page. You can fi

David Newman is conducting John Williams’ score to Home Alone live to film at the Hollywood Bowl December 5–7. Go here for tickets , and use the code SPWDCH for 20% off select seats. Enjoy!

We have a whiteboard on the fridge to keep track of family schedules and appointments. My wife typically maintains it. One year for Thanksgiving, she drew a turkey—but as the world’s worst artist (by her own admission), she drew it with two wings AND four legs. So it looked like a bizarre, long-necked turtle. When the kids and I pointed this out, she drew a bunch more legs—and thus, the legend of the “Turkeypede” was born. She draws one on the board for every Thanksgiving no

Happy Thanksgiving, everybody, and here’s something to be thankful for: Thomas Newman is scoring the Star Wars: Starfighter movie . High hopes!

What an outstanding cliffhanger on Pluribus last night! Now I am annoyed I have to wait over a week for the next episode. Meanwhile, Stranger Things season 5 premieres later today, in which the kids schedule their first colonoscopies.

I am enjoying The Chair Company as it approaches its season finale next Sunday. I admire that it’s one of those things that’s so execution dependent that even describing it doesn’t make much sense. It’s a domestic drama, character study, a conspiracy thriller, and an absurd comedy—with surrealist Lynchian flourishes. Good work! It’s also a reminder that you can kind of make anything work as long as it’s grounded in humanity. Make the feelings relatable and you can get away w

Attention humans: we’ve put Cloudfare protection onto the message board. This is to keep out the bots that were trawling it and using up all the server resources. I know it’s annoying and apparently some people can’t get in—so sorry about that. All this will be done with in a few weeks, certainly by next year, as we get our next programming team on board. Sorry for the inconvenience.