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This section of Sound of a Shot has been put aside to accumulate whatever less formal, wild-card bits of trivial writing we may decide to share with the reader. Sound of a Shot might possibly have been my second book, but it needs video to do its job. I never intended to start a blog but thought maybe I could get these ideas about old movie soundtracks to work by concocting some combination of video and blogging. So, it was going to be a Vlog. But, no, it wasn’t, because that would be a series of people’s highly personal videos, such as are currently clogging the drain of You Tube. Maybe it would have been a podcast. But podcasts seem to me a kind of audio incarnation of a writer’s nonfiction articles and are often highly informative talks and interviews. I’m old enough to call that “Radio.” Nope. Not a Vlog, not a podcast. I wanted to write another book about movie sound, but with video. All right, then, let’s call it a Vlblook. Nope, that one doesn’t work at all.

Because my early conception of what might be the best container (for these attempts to analyze old movie tracks) were so vague and indefinite, so amorphous in fact, I thought we could call this whole project a “Blob-cast”.

What does that mean? Surely BLOBCAST is the acronym for “Book Leaving Out the Baloney of College-level Academic Sound Theory.” But you knew that.

So, now Sound of a Shot has been realized as a web site. How very 1993!