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 Posted:   Nov 30, 2015 - 11:58 AM   
 By:   Sean Nethery   (Member)

Pretty sure I found out about FSM by finding the magazine somewhere in the mid nineties at a magazine shop we used to have in Denver. Found the site online shortly after I started surfing the internet in 1998. But focused mostly on the articles, and wrote in oncet a while (You can still find some of my argumentative gems under Sean Carpenter or Nethery, changed my name in the middle there). Didn't start following the board much probably until the site got updated less frequently, and then didn't post for years, until finally had to start spouting off in 2009.

 
 
 Posted:   Nov 30, 2015 - 5:38 PM   
 By:   OnyaBirri   (Member)

I used to find used and/or promo copies of several FSM CDs in the late 1990s. I then started looking for info on them on the interwebs, and somehow stumbled on this message board. I've never seen or read their publication either in hard copy or online.

 
 
 Posted:   Nov 30, 2015 - 6:13 PM   
 By:   jonathan_little   (Member)

I think somebody on the MovieMusic.com forums pointed me here around 1998 or '99. This is definitely one of very few sites from that era which not only still exists but I still visit on at least a weekly basis.

 
 
 Posted:   Nov 30, 2015 - 6:18 PM   
 By:   pete   (Member)

I first came across FSM through its mention in the liner notes of the Star Wars box set when it was released. I was living in Canberra at the time. I went straight to my local newsagent and asked if they could order copies. No luck^.

Then in 1997, while simply walking through the streets of London, I cam across a record shop by chance, and there in the store window was the issue with Darth Vader on the cover which explored the expansions released in early 97.



 
 
 Posted:   Nov 30, 2015 - 8:08 PM   
 By:   joan hue   (Member)

PLAYBOY MAGAZINE. SERIOUSLY.

I know we’ve done this before because I remember writing this story. In 1999, my husband’s best friend
gave him a one year subscription to PLAYBOY. Of course his friend knew I’d disapprove of that monthly “literary tome.” (Cheez, who wants to pale by comparison?wink) I always got the mail first and would bury it in the garbage. (I know. Some of you guys must be horrified.) However, I did know there were always movie reviews in the magazine with one, two, three or four “bunny ears” for movie rankings, and I did read those before tossing that rag. One month FSM Monthly Magazine was advertised at the bottom of a movie page. I immediately ordered that magazine. Then I got on the Internet, lurked for a while, and finally joined.

I can’t remember if there were any other female members at that time. Any old timers like Thor, Chris, Howard or others remember if there were lady members way back then? I do remember that my first topic was about why we should not feel guilty about loving certain kinds of music.

Oh, yeah, I was lucky that my husband forgot about that gift, so I was never caught. smile

 
 Posted:   Nov 30, 2015 - 11:15 PM   
 By:   Tom Servo   (Member)

I found FSM back before it was even called that, responding to Lukas' letter to the editor in an issue of STARLOG magazine, sometime in 1989. A number of us old timers (including Andy Dursin, I believe) replied back to Lukas' request to start an appreciation club and we started sending him stamps so he could print up the newsletter and mail it back to us. He even compiled a film music fan directory which had us listed along with our favorite composers and scores. I still remember waiting eagerly for those stapled pages of the newsletter in 1990, reading reviews of DANCES WITH WOLVES and TOTAL RECALL, etc. I think was during the next year or 1992 when Lukas upgraded the newsletter to FILM SCORE MONTHLY.

 
 Posted:   Dec 1, 2015 - 12:17 AM   
 By:   Ray Worley   (Member)

Originally found the magazine either in a letter or an ad in STARLOG. The magazine was more of a newsletter at the time, and I've stuck with it as it evolved into a glossy mag, a bulletin board, a (much mourned) record label, and now a digital magazine.

 
 
 Posted:   Dec 1, 2015 - 3:26 PM   
 By:   John Black   (Member)

I'm thinking that I first found a copy of the FSM magazine at either Tower Records in Seattle or at Intrada on Polk St. in San Francisco, circa early 1990's.

 
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