When we started the FSM record label, we did our own fulfillment. This lasted until the fall of 2004 when I reached total burn out: if...

I am halfway through watching “Squid Game” and this show is the real deal. I wish it hadn’t taken me two episodes to figure out I needed...

On December 1, 1993, I did a phone interview with Elliot Goldenthal, who I was excited to talk to because of his scores to Alien3 and...

Our social media overlord, Facebook, informed me that today is Andy Dursin’s 47th birthday. Happy birthday, Android! That’s a very old...

If you were a sci-fi fan in the 1980s, pre-Internet, your access to the larger “worlds” behind your favorite franchises (Star Wars, Star...

There was something yesterday called “Screenpit” (short for “Screenpitch”) which was meant to be a free showcase for screenwriters to...

When you try to break in as a screenwriter, you quickly discover that nobody wants to read your script. You also learn that, if they do...

I loved Marvel Comics in the 1980s. I read them religiously from 1985–1989 and they were a huge part of my life. I’ll write more about...

I feel like telling the story of when I met John Barry. Please be warned, it is hardly a consequential story. But it happened, so here...

I’ve talked about the “Daily Music Report” that was part of M-G-M’s music scoring paperwork from the 1930s through the 1970s. This is an...

This is page one (for reel one) of the music editing log to Logan’s Run (1976), which was given to us when we produced the expanded...

Yesterday on the FSM board, Thierry Schreurs posted a long list of rare Lalo Schifrin themes and cues, most from the 1970s. I had so much...

From 2006–2010 we made six sets of six “Film Composer Collector Cards,” 36 in all. We printed them up and Screen Archives gave them away...

The nightly reruns of Star Trek: The Next Generation on H&I have rolled over from season one to two, and it’s as good a time as any to...

This week is the 25th anniversary of my move to Los Angeles. I had to ship out my 1995 Subaru Impreza, as I don’t have the constitution...

When I created this blog, I used a bunch of Wix templates without giving it much thought. As a result, there’s a view counter on each...

I graduated college in May 1996. I spent the summer at home on Martha’s Vineyard working on Film Score Monthly, and some time in August,...

Here’s a blast from the past: the “Soundtrack Handbook” I used to compile and send to first-time subscribers of FSM, or upon request (I...

I found a set of photos of a bunch of us film score geeks having a pre-concert dinner, I think at the W hotel in Westwood, before a Jerry...

Yesterday I talked about my early attempts writing Star Trek: The Next Generation spec scripts circa 1991, when I was 16–17. I went to...

This is the first script I ever wrote, a spec submission to Star Trek: The Next Generation circa 1991. I was 16. I think I found it in my...

I can’t say I’m proud of this, but apparently I drew this circa 1994 when we were covering Basil Poledouris’ score to the ludicrous...

I’ve been looking through the FSM “physical archives” (the boxes I scanned in 2014) for fun stuff to post—things that are interesting but...

Here’s a random scan from the FSM “physical archives,” which is the digital folder I created from several dozens of bankers boxes of...