Music Mondays – Childish Gambino – “Redbone”

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The manuscript Blue Lines is the fictional coming of age narrative of a young California woman Key Yemaya Walker, and her 2 year growing journey through school, love, and life period piece, written by Kenneth Suffern, Jr., taking place at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill between the years of 1997 – 1998. Loosely based on true events, and experiences during that time, told through the eyes and voice of the main female protagonist, a freshman first attending the school.

Music Mondays – Valentine’s Day Edition (Afternoon)

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Amel Larrieux, Andre 3000, Another Rainy Day, Corinne Bailey Rae, Duke Ellington, In A Sentimental Mood, India.Arie, John Coltrane, Make Me Whole, My Love, Norah Jones, OutKast feat. Norah Jones, Ready For Love, Sia, Take Off Your Cool

The manuscript Blue Lines is the fictional coming of age narrative of a young California woman Key Yemaya Walker, and her 2 year growing journey through school, love, and life period piece, written by Kenneth Suffern, Jr., taking place at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill between the years of 1997 – 1998. Loosely based on true events, and experiences during that time, told through the eyes and voice of the main female protagonist, a freshman first attending the school.

2010 in review

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Above The Clouds, Blue Lines, facebook, Fugeez, Gangstarr, Inspectah Deck, Kanye West, kanyewest.com, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, My Love, Nappy Heads Remix, Nicholas Rogers, Sia, Souls Of Mischief, twitter, Without You, Wordpress, Yael Naim

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 on fire!.

Crunchy numbers

A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 1,500 times in 2010. That’s about 4 full 747s.

In 2010, there were 244 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 283 posts. There were 347 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 169mb. That’s about 7 pictures per week.

The busiest day of the year was November 21st with 57 views. The most popular post that day was Album Review Kanye West – My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy.

Where did they come from?

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

Some visitors came searching, mostly for gang starr quotables, prazwell fugees, sia my love, yael naim boyfriend, and souls of mischief 93 til infinity.

Attractions in 2010

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

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Album Review Kanye West – My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy November 2010
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Blue Lines Blog – En Memoriam, “Without You” from the Manuscript Blue Lines May 2010

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Musical Inspiration Sia – “My Love” June 2010

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Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays Gangstarr “Above the Clouds” June 2010

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Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesday – Fugees “Nappy Heads (Remix)” July 2010
The manuscript Blue Lines is the fictional coming of age narrative of a young California woman Key Yemaya Walker, and her 2 year growing journey through school, love, and life period piece, written by Kenneth Suffern, Jr., taking place at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill between the years of 1997 – 1998. Loosely based on true events, and experiences during that time, told through the eyes and voice of the main female protagonist, a freshman first attending the school.

Blue Lines Blog – Issue Conversations…Names…Titles.

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Björk, blog, Blue Hurt, Blue Lines, California, inspiration, Joga, Key Yemaya Walker, manuscript, music, My Love, Seattle, Sia, UNC Chapel Hill, When We Were Babies

This last week has been phone week…and I always think I have all the answers…
Like normal, I start with a basic idea, and then events, music, whatever manifest into something that changes the focus of the post. Today was almost a 2 post day, but then I took a moment to look, and notice that it is quicKey Yemaya Walker approaching the 1 year mark of starting this blog, which’s primary objective is to aid in the eventual publishing of my currently titled manuscript Blue Lines.
During what is almost one year, maybe I’ll save that as the anniversary post…focused on current thoughts, in speaking to my dearest friend last night (thank goodness for no long distance charges on cell phones) I forgot to iterate my thoughts on a possible serialization of Blue Lines. Possibly splitting and expanding the novel into four books that play upon the four seasons on my characters’ relationship development. Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter.

Musical Inspiration Sia – “My Love”

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Blue Lines, My Love, Sia, Starbucks

Yes, I know today is Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesday’s…you’ll get your fix, but I was floored by this, and thus I must share. I stumbled across this song waiting for my coffee today in Starbucks. This songs just “get’s it,” literally it get’s it. It is amazing to me. Lyrics, construction, everything. I really feel that if Blue Lines were a song, this would be it, in more ways than one.

Sia – “My Love”

My love, leave yourself behind
Beat inside me, leave you blind
My love, you have found peace
You were searching for release

You gave it all, into the call
You took a chance and
You took a fall for us