One Year

I should say something today, even though I'm extra tired and only want to sleep for about a week. As of today, I have been blogging for exactly one year, hooray! Including this one, in one year I have posted to this blog 78 times. I installed Google Analytics to track hits to this blog on June 26, and since then this blog has received 3425 visits from 86 countries, but I think most of those are random hits from search engines and not actual visitors who are interested in this blog. I have had 16 hits from Iceland, though, which is cool. What is interesting is where those hits land. By far the most popular post is Polar Bears: Number One Threat to America! with 1200 hits, followed by Me & Armeni about Emilíana Torrini's most recent album with 850 hits. My main page, surprisingly, comes third with 800 hits! All this means is that most people are finding my blog through Google searches for global warming and polar bears or Emilíana Torrini.

Speaking of Google searches, other than those, guess what the most popular keywords are that lead to my blog? There are many variations, but they all lead to my Eat Your Boogers post. Here are some examples: "effects of eating boogers", "i eat my boogers", "boogers and immunity", "are boogers healthy to eat", "eating your boogers", "does eating your boogers boost your immune system", "the effects of eating boogers", "eating your boogers is good", etc., etc. Oh yeah, someone got to my blog by Googling "rush limbaugh eats boogers". Someone also got here Googling "the lever that ends the universe". Interesting.

Well, that's about all the energy I can muster right now. Also, I have finally finished putting together my new blog playlist, now with 200 songs! These are the songs that best represent my taste in music. There were dozens that I wanted to put in there but there just wasn't room, but here's the list:

Down In A Hole - Alice in Chains
Rooster - Alice in Chains
I Stay Away - Alice in Chains
Rotten Apple - Alice in Chains
Nutshell - Alice in Chains
Into the West - Annie Lennox
Eiri na Gréine / The Rising of the Sun - Anúna
Siúil A Riún - Anúna
Innisfree - Anúna
En Vie - Apocalyptica
Bittersweet (Instrumental Version) - Apocalyptica
Pray! - Apocalyptica
Nothing Else Matters - Apocalyptica
One - Apocalyptica
Seemann (ft. Nina Hagen) - Apocalyptica
Faraway - Apocalyptica
Helden - Apocalyptica
Worlds Collide - Apocalyptica
Peace - Apocalyptica
Play Dead - Björk
It's in Our Hands - Björk
Desired Constellation - Björk
I've Seen It All (ft. Thom Yorke) - Björk
Scatterheart - Björk
New World (ft. Massive Attack) - Björk
All Is Full of Love - Björk
Hyperballad (ft. The Brodsky Quartet) - Björk
It's Not Up to You - Björk
Gloomy Sunday - Björk
Oxygen - Björk
Það Sést Ekki Sætari Mey - Björk Guðmundsdóttir & Tríó Guðmundsdóttir
Wonderful Life - Black Box Recorder
Holyman - Blind Melon
Galaxy - Blind Melon
I Wonder - Blind Melon
I've Seen It All - Bonnie Prince Billy
Short Skirt/Long Jacket - Cake
The Distance - Cake
Rock 'n' Roll Lifestyle - Cake
Sheep Go to Heaven - Cake
Cool Blue Reason - Cake
Daffodil Lament - The Cranberries
No Need to Argue - The Cranberries
Dream On - Depeche Mode
Blasphemous Rumours - Depeche Mode
Enjoy the Silence - Depeche Mode
Only When I Lose Myself - Depeche Mode
Lento - Elliot Goldenthal
The Kiss - Elliot Goldenthal
Zeus Cannon - Elliot Goldenthal
Adagio and Transfiguration - Elliot Goldenthal
She Moved through the Fair - Elliot Goldenthal (ft. Sinéad O'Connor)
Crossroads - Elliot Goldenthal
Finale - Elliot Goldenthal
Today Has Been Ok - Emilíana Torrini
Next Time Around - Emilíana Torrini
Ten to Twenty (Sneaker Pimps) - Emilíana Torrini
To Be Free - Emilíana Torrini
Dead Things - Emilíana Torrini
Telepathy - Emilíana Torrini
Brazilian Sky - Emilíana Torrini
Sound of Silence (Simon & Garfunkel) - Emilíana Torrini
If You Go Away - Emilíana Torrini
Lay Down (Candles in the Rain) - Emilíana Torrini
Ruby Tuesday - Emilíana Torrini
Weird Friendless Kid - Emilíana Torrini
Tuna Fish (Acoustic) - Emilíana Torrini
The Sundown (Il Tramonto) - Ennio Morricone
The Ecstasy of Gold (L'Estasi del'Oro) - Ennio Morricone
Solitude (Your Secret Admirer) - Evanescence
Anywhere - Evanescence
Restless (Within Temptation) - Evanescence
The Dark of the Matinee - Franz Ferdinand
Darts of Pleasure - Franz Ferdinand
Is Jesus Your Pal (ft. Emilíana Torrini) - GusGus
Why (ft. Emilíana Torrini) - GusGus
Rome is the Light (ft. Lisa Gerrard) - Hans Zimmer
Gollum's Song (ft. Emilíana Torrini) - Howard Shore
What are You Asking Me? - James Newton Howard
I Cannot See His Color - James Newton Howard
If Six Was Nine - Jimi Hendrix
All Along the Watchtower - Jimi Hendrix
Castles Made of Sand - Jimi Hendrix
Little Wing The - Jimi Hendrix Experience
Hurt - Johnny Cash
Woodstock - Joni Mitchell
Blue - Joni Mitchell
Inkanyezi Nezazi - Ladysmith Black Mambazo
Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin
The Unfolding - Lisa Gerrard
The Man with the Golden Gun - Lulu
Angel - Massive Attack
Teardrop - Massive Attack
Dissolved Girl - Massive Attack
Group Four - Massive Attack
Future Proof - Massive Attack
You Brought Me Up - Méav
The Unforgiven - Metallica
Nothing Else Matters - Metallica
Extreme Ways - Moby
New Dawn Fades - Moby
Never Ending Math Equation - Modest Mouse
Dark Center of the Universe - Modest Mouse
Willful Suspension of Disbelief - Modest Mouse
A Different City - Modest Mouse
Butterflies and Hurricanes - Muse
Endlessly - Muse
Falling Away with You - Muse
Ruled by Secrecy - Muse
Starlight - Muse
Knights of Cydonia - Muse
New Born - Muse
Bliss - Muse
Space Dementia - Muse
Citizen Erased - Muse
Dark Shines - Muse
Sunburn - Muse
Uno - Muse
Dead Star - Muse
Muscle Museum - Muse
You Only Live Twice - Nancy Sinatra
99 Luft Balloons - Nena
Stormy Weather - Nina Nastasia
Something in the Way - Nirvana
Plateau (Unpluged) - Nirvana
Lake of Fire - Nirvana
You Know You're Right - Nirvana
Spirit in the Sky - Norman Greenbaum
Yeroushalayim Shel Zahav נהז לןש םילשורי - Ofra Haza הזח הרפע
Hold Your Hand (ft. Emilíana Torrini) - Paul Oakenfold
Behind Blue Eyes (Acoustic) - Pete Townshend
Too Much of Nothing - Peter, Paul and Mary
Roads - Portishead
Strangers - Portishead
Cowboys - Portishead
Western Eyes - Portishead
All Mine - Portishead
Over - Portishead
Seven Months - Portishead
Elysium - Portishead
Half Day Closing - Portishead
Plastic - Portishead
Threads - Portishead
Hunter - Portishead
Humming - Portishead
Who Wants To Live Forever - Queen
Killer Queen - Queen
Silent Lucidity - Queensrÿche
Nebel - Rammstein
Ohne dich - Rammstein
Halleluja - Rammstein
Benzin - Rammstein
Engel - Rammstein
Mein Herz Brennt - Rammstein
Sonne - Rammstein
Pretty Little Ditty - The Red Hot Chili Peppers
Aeroplane - The Red Hot Chili Peppers
Music Box - Regina Spektor
Fidelity - Regina Spektor
Mo Li Hua (The Jasmine Flower) - RHS Chamber Choir
Paint it Black - The Rolling Stones
Ich hab genauso angst wie du - Rosenstolz
Flugufrelsarinn - Sigur Rós
Hjartad Hamast - Sigur Rós
Ný Batterí - Sigur Rós
Viðrar vel til loftárása - Sigur Rós
Starálfur - Sigur Rós
Dánarfregnir og Jarðarfarir - Sigur Rós
Gong - Sigur Rós
Hún Jörð - Sigur Rós
Ebow - Sigur Ros
I Am a Rock - Simon & Garfunkel
Scarborough Fair/Canticle - Simon & Garfunkel
A Poem on the Underground Wall - Simon & Garfunkel
The End is the Beginning is the End - The Smashing Pumpkins
Tonight, Tonight - The Smashing Pumpkins
Muzzle - The Smashing Pumpkins
Disarm - The Smashing Pumpkins
Eye - The Smashing Pumpkins
Black Sheep - Sneaker Pimps
Grazes - Sneaker Pimps
Half Life - Sneaker Pimps
Lightning Field - Sneaker Pimps
Flowers and Silence - Sneaker Pimps
Splinter - Sneaker Pimps
Farewell Transmission - Songs: Ohia
Kill a Kitten - Stephen Lynch
Magic Carpet Ride - Steppenwolf
Creep - Stone Temple Pilots
Sober (Tool cover) - String Quartet
Highway Song - System of a Down
Spiders - System of a Down
Aerials - System of a Down
Toxicity - System of a Down
Until the Morning (ft. Emilíana Torrini) - Thievery Corporation
Ain't No Sunshine When She's Gone - Tom Jones
Enjoy the Silence (Depeche Mode) - Tori Amos
White & Nerdy - "Weird Al" Yankovic
New soul - Yael Naim
No No No - The Yeah Yeah Yeahs