warm April sunshine and a stroll on the beach.

…a whole house will need re-building and everyone I love in the house will recline on an analyst’s couch quite soon”.

Morrissey – Now My Heart Is Full.

Instructions…

‎1 – Go to Wikipedia and hit random. The first random Wikipedia article you get is the name of your band. 2 – Go to quotationspage.com and hit random. The last four or five words of the very last quote of the page is the title of your first album. 3 – Go to flickr.com and click on “explore the last seven days”. The third picture, no matt…er what it is, will be your album cover. 4 – Use photoshop or similar to put it all together. 5 – Post it with this text in the “caption” and tag the friends you want to join in.

Here’s mine…

One of the greatest, sweetest albums of all time (Harvest by Neil Young) covered respectfully by some great artists, a few of whom spent a great deal of time on my playlists last year (Phosphorescent, Doug Paisley, Danny and the Champions of the World and Sam Amidon).

If I’m honest, no one track stands out, they’re all belters.  An old familiar friend with a different swagger.

It was either this or a ham sarnie = £4.50 well spent.

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The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:

The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads This blog is doing awesome!.

Crunchy numbers

The Leaning Tower of Pisa has 296 steps to reach the top. This blog was viewed about 1,200 times in 2010. If those were steps, it would have climbed the Leaning Tower of Pisa 4 times

In 2010, there were 49 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 55 posts. There were 18 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 11mb. That’s about 2 pictures per month.

The busiest day of the year was September 14th with 36 views. The most popular post that day was Dont Look Now.

Where did they come from?

The top referring sites in 2010 were chesswithdeath.com, facebook.com, twitter.com, arthmanual.wordpress.com, and en.wordpress.com.

Some visitors came searching, mostly for iggy the eskimo, syd barrett, martin strel, syd barrett girlfriend, and iggy syd barret.

Attractions in 2010

These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.

Dont Look Now September 2010

Who’s that girl? January 2010

John Grant – Chicken Bones August 2010
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Cantos and Cans…………………….. February 2010
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Do You Realize – that everyone you know someday will die? August 2010

Lauren – Demonstrates The One Finger Refrigerator Snake Release Method In Her Kitchen w/ a Lambchop Sporting Augered Water Buffalo, Lounging Oven Raccoons, a Pot Bathing Hen, Uranus Above The Cabinets, A Search Warrant & an Assault Rifle Indicating…, originally uploaded by merkley???.

Such is the vast abyss of wonderfulity that is Flickr, something as brief and flirtatious as a casual browse before setting off to work can often turn something utterly mindblowing.

Ladies and gentlemen, Merkley??? …lovely ladies, religious iconography, stuffed cats, down home redneck weirdry,  colgate and Prince. What’s not to love?

p.s. I think you have to be a Flickr member to view.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/merkley

“Versions Of Joanna”, an album of Joanna Newsom songs covered by 21 artists from 6 countries to benefit Oxfam America‘s Pakistan Floods Relief Fund.s Of Joanna”, an album of Joanna Newsom songs covered by 21 artists from 6 countries to benefit Oxfam America’s Pakistan Floods Relief Fund.

http://versionsofjoanna.com/

M. Ward’s “Sadie”

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