[Thor Joachim Haga]

I remember going to the Narvesen kiosk asking for Soundtrack Magazine in the early 90s, lol. Of course they didn’t have it. Then I found their address in a film book at the library, sent cash to Luc in Belgium, and my subscribtion was on. My last issue was the December 1995 one, I had got fed up of those old men on the cover. FSM was the new thing then.

And this reminds me of something yet again.

In the early 90s, I thought I was the only person in the world interested in film music, at least in Norway (well, not really, I had an inkling there were others out there — but it’s what you think and feel when there is no one to share your interest with). The discovery of FSM, the magazine, helped a little, and then the messageboard even more. But they were still all ‘foreigners’, were there any Norwegians out there?

So I asked Lukas to see a list of subcribers from Norway, and lo and behold — there were some names! There was yours, Jon, and Nils. A couple of others too, but their names escape me at the moment (was Hans Offerdal one?). You both even had letters in the magazine. Today, of course, I know about several fellow film music ‘geeks’ in Norway, but different time back then. Norwegian film music fans were more rare than gold.

(I mean, I guess they weren’t THAT rare, but none of us knew about each other’s presence in the pre-information age period).