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What brought you to the Film Score Monthly Board?
I was young and I needed the money.
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I think I joined in 1994 under my old account. But I never participated in the thread.
Still not going to. ;-)
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Apr 21, 2015 - 1:10 PM
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Howard L
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Good one, Justin. 
Interesting that my response in Part I did not get past the rudimentary stage. I would have thought otherwise, in retrospect. Suffice it to say today that I came to FSM to celebrate music's contribution to film and got far more than I bargained for. It started off with the endless supply of favorite moments/entire scores within the context of the marriage between film and music and turned into an outright study of those marriages and the composers. A study that seems to have run its course after so many years but still has me looking for more.
My favorite threads are those that celebrate, whether the OPer is me or someone else. One of my personal faves was back in 2005 when I attended a NY Philharmonic concert devoted to film music. There was much to celebrate and I responded on a thread of someone else's creation. But I also met John Barry who had been sitting fairly close. That spawned a thread of its own. It was a celebratory two-fer that gave me great pleasure to have a part in.
Earlier that same year, I had the privilege of attending a concert at the Brooklyn Academy of Music conducted by John Mauceri. It too was so much fun to write about, both the program itself and hitting it off with the conductor post-concert.
Barry, Mauceri, Jarre, Goldsmith, Conti...probably some more I'm forgetting...who'd have thought I'd be doing all this and writing, writing, writing.
You start with celebrating and from there go on to getting educated as to the whys and hows and maybes and end up loving the folks behind the notes and loving the folks who love their music.
If there were one thread that, for me, is as close to an early turning point in all this, it's this:
http://www.moviemusic.com/mb/Forum1/HTML/002407.html
It would have been posted here but we were all "there" since "here" was still undergoing a makeover. And not a bad little "there" it proved to be. 
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Apr 21, 2015 - 3:51 PM
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Thor
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OK, so the 2002 thread that Joan linked to pretty much covers my history of the FSM Messageboard from 1997 up to that post. So I'll just refer to that thread for anyone interested, instead of repeating myself here.
Of course, at that time I was far more enthusiastic about this place, and the topics were more versatile, aesthetic and to my liking. These days, it's very rare that I find something that I'm truly interested in. Not only because we've seemingly exhausted every conceivable topic over the course of 17-18 years, but also because the discourse itself has changed radically over the last 10 years. With the advent of the specialty labels and the plethora of expanded releases and whatnot, there are so many "collector"-type threads that I've never been particularly interested in.
Unfortunately, the page listing some of my old favourite threads are no longer available (as Celluloid Tunes has gone from site to webcast), but in this thread I list some of my favourite TOPICS, i.e. threads that will get me to click on them and possibly participate even in this day and age:
http://www.filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?threadID=40112&forumID=1&archive=1
Also listed there are topics that DON'T interest me, many of which are sadly very popular these days.
For more specific favourites, I would be here forever. So many good discussions, especially in the period between 2000 and 2005 in this incarnation of the board.
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Are you rich now, Nicolai? Hope so.
Well, let's say at least I'm somewhat past the "young" part. ;-)
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