I’m in the mood to write and I’m generally torn between two different versions of “100,000 Fireflies,” so I’m going to write about both.  Off to write!

This is my third attempt to write a beginning of the year / thank you post, so I will be brief.

Thank you to everyone who read, subscribed, reblogged, shared, and otherwise visited Some Songs Considered in 2009 (and in the first two thirds of January 2010).  Running this blog is a labor of love (in the fullest sense of both words) and without the support of so many kind people.  Specifically, I want to thank Tristan from A Post Punk Tumblr and Tom Ewing for early links to the blog, The Hype Machine and Tumblr for indexing the blog, and all of the wonderful people on Tumblr I’ve interacted with as a result of writing this blog (please forgive the general thank you).

In particular, thank you to the folks at Tumblr for listing Some Songs Considered on the new Directory page (in addition to previous versions of the directory and recommendations pages).  I’m in debt to their platform and community that makes this blog so enjoyable to run.

To all of the new people here - welcome!  In short, I write about a song a day.  In 2009 I wrote about a different artist every day (I recommend the search box or the random button at the left if you want to get a sampling of what I’ve written about before).  I don’t think I’m going write about a different artist every day, but I’m going to keep to very limited repeats.

I always want to hear from you, whether it’s sharing a story about a song, voicing an opinion, or giving a suggestion for the blog.  Here’s some ways to get in touch:

• Email: somesongsconsidered-at-gmail-dot-com
• Twitter: @somesongs
• Some Songs Considered on Facebook
• Subscribe to the RSS Feed
• Follow SSC at the Hype Machine

Again, I’m extremely humbled to be a small part of your day and can’t wait to hear from you!  Tonight’s post will be up in a little bit.

Happy Sunday, Internet!

A few new wrinkles I wanted to point out this afternoon.  First, I reorganized the sidebar slightly.  While doing this, I added a search box that searches the 300+ posts this year.  If you’re looking for something new, try typing in something you like and see what comes up!

Also, I added a “shuffle” button that brings up a random post.  I don’t know how to make the Streampad player shuffle through my posts (it plays from the most recent in reverse chronological order), but feel free to use this to shuffle through the songs and posts on here.

I’d love to hear if you have suggestions as well - please let me know!

Again, I’d like to say thank you to everyone who comes by, reads the posts, and listens to the songs.  Whether you come here via Tumblr, The Hype Machine, a search engine, or any other way, I’m humbled to have you spend part of your day here.

Monday was the single highest trafficked day to Some Songs Considered ever (largely thanks to being #2 on the Hype Machine’s popular tracks over the weekend!), so I briefly wanted to say hi to all of the new visitors and offer a few ways to keep up with SSC.

I’m on Twitter - follow me @somesongs and say hi.

SSC is on Facebook too - if you want to get updates in your Facebook newsfeed.

Of course, you can always join Tumblr and follow me there or subscribe to the RSS feed in a reader (Google Reader being my personal choice).

Thanks for visiting and don’t be a stranger - comment, reblog, tweet and share your own stories about these songs!