Me on the Ferris Bueller Soundtrack that Never Was
John Hughes didn’t think we’d want a “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” soundtrack, so we don’t have one. We can recreate, playlist or bootleg it, but we can’t possess something that never existed. Here’s the open secret of this movie and its soundtrack-that-never-was, three decades later: Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t waste time on something you never had, you won’t miss it.
Read the rest of my essay on Ferris Bueller's 30th birthday and the movie's missing soundtrack in Salon.