Attention Deficit Delirium

TOP POSTS

1. Peter Facinelli: New Moon Rising — This has been number one on ADD’s Top 5 posts for four straights month. Peter Facinelli + Twilight = lots of Google traffic.





2. Bubbly Busy Philipps Takes An Odyssey Into Cougar Town — You may best remember her from Dawson’s Creek, but Busy wants you to love her as much as Courteney Cox’s gal pal in Cougar Town. And it seems that many people do.





3. What’s A Sweet Gal Like You Doing In A Bloody Show Like This? — No matter what she’s acting in — Saw V, Dexter or Rambo — Julie Benz keeps people watching. This story is a perennial ADD favorite.





4. Spreading The Gospel Of Filth — Dani Filth discusses the new Cradle Of Filth book, which delves into everything dark, devious and dangerous. This story has spent four months in ADD’s Top 5!





5. Emilie Autumn’s Personal Asylum, Parts One and Two — Emilie’s highly personal interview with ADD is one of our most refreshing and intriguing entries.







HONORABLE MENTION

Dark Illusions – My interview with HIM frontman Ville Valo spread rapidly across Twitter.







TOP TAGS / KEYWORDS

1. Emilie Autumn — Her traffic shot up this month, and much of it may have to do with her book.

2. Busy Philipps — Busy is busy with the hit show Cougar Town.

3. Cradle Of Filth — This British metal battalion keeps generating sonic thunder. And ADD visits.

4. New Moon — I guess I need more Twilight coverage.

5. The Twilight Saga: New Moon — Like I said…



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Here are my top blog posts and keywords/tags for January 2010.

Traffic and unique visitors continue to rise. The archives continue to grow. Life is good.




TOP POSTS

1. Peter Facinelli: New Moon Rising — With over 40,000 accumulated visits, this blog entry makes me think that if I just had a site devoted to Twilight that it’d be huge. But then that would defeat the purpose of what I’m trying to do here.




2. What’s A Sweet Gal Like You Doing In A Bloody Show Like This? — Julie Benz may be departing Dexter for Desperate Housewives, but this career-spanning interview is an evergreen piece.




3. Spreading The Gospel Of Filth — Cradle Of Filth fans keep flocking to this story. And I don’t mind one bit.





4. You Sherwood Not Want To Make A Mochrie Out Of These Two -- Chatting with comedy veterans Colin Mochrie and Brad Sherwood was enlightening and entertaining.




5. Emilie Autumn's Personal Asylum, Parts One and Two -- Emilie's highly personal interview with ADD gave us deeper insight into her beguiling music.







TOP TAGS / KEYWORDS

1. New Moon -- The Twilight Saga is a Google favorite.

2. Amanda Palmer -- The enigmatic lead singer of the Dresden Dolls has suddenly become an ADD favorite.

3. Busy Philipps -- Busy is busy with the hit show Cougar Town.

4. The Twilight Saga: New Moon -- I can hear Harry Potter griping, "Twilight, Twilight, Twilight!"

5. Dexter's Julie Benz -- Ms. Benz is quite popular lately.



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One of the perks of my job: Interviewing (l to r) Kaisa Jouhki, Liv Kristine, Sandra Scherelet and Lisa Johansson backstage at the Metal Female Voices Fest V in Wieze, Belgium. Okay, so this took place in October 2007, not 2009, but it's still a cool shot. (Photo © 2007 by Rudy De Doncker.)

It’s been seven months now.

After my best friend and screenwriting partner Stephen Montagna bugged me for two years to do a blog, I finally caved, and in June 2009 Attention Deficit Delirium was born. It’s been a successful venture. Unique visitors to my website are up 95 times over pre-blog months. Page views are up 45 times. I reached 50,000 unique visitors in December. And all of this done without advertising. My links get posted on Reddit, Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Blabbermouth and other social media and news sites, and the traffic grows. As the cliché goes, if you build it, they will come.

Two of the challenges of maintaining a blog, beyond regular updates, are to determine who your audience is and specifically what content they like, from your subjects to the angles you take on them. Luckily my fifteen years of experience as a freelance writer, not to mention my solid contacts in the entertainment business, are helping me to find my focus and also to deliver the best and most varied content that I possibly can. I get to cover everyone from big stars to offbeat artists that fly beneath the radar of mainstream media, and somehow their endeavors all seem to gel under this one forum. They all have a home here.

Following is the list of ADD’s Top Ten Posts for 2009, and I think they are a pretty good indicator of what my readers crave. And while I clearly love horror, sci-fi and metal, I really do enjoy many different genres in all artistic mediums, so I’ll always be tossing in something unexpected to keep things interesting. After all, that is why I call my blog ADD, because it represents the diversity that I embrace in my own life, as surprising as it seems to some people.

Here’s to a prosperous 2010!


1. Peter Facinelli: New Moon Rising — Twilight was one of 2009’s cultural phenomenons, and it boosted this item to the status of being ADD’s biggest post ever. Ironically it’s a write-up about an interview I did for Moviefone, but hey, traffic is traffic! I’m not complaining.



2. What’s A Sweet Gal Like You Doing In A Bloody Show Like This? — Julie Benz made a stir for four seasons on Dexter. (And now she’s going to shake up Desperate Housewives!) In this exclusive Q&A we journeyed through her dark and varied career, from Two Evil Eyes through Saw V.



3. Journey: The Biggest Classic Rock Band Ever? — While I first posted this essay in July, its readership swelled in October when the band played on Oprah. And I’m sure Glee helped, too.



4. Movie Review — Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen — It’s only natural that when you review one of the biggest movies of the year it draws a lot of eyeballs to your site. Here’s to you, Optimus!




5. Sanctuary Defiled: Parts One and Two — This lively, down-to-earth chat with Sanctuary stars Amanda Tapping and Robin Dunne was full of fun and surprises, including the revelation of a long-running prank that Dunne played on producer Martin Wood.



6. Spreading The Gospel Of Filth – Cradle Of Filth frontman Dani Filth spilled his guts about their long-awaited tome, The Gospel Of Filth: A Bible Of Decadence And Darkness.




7. The Original Cylon And The Original Droid – When I visited London’s Tate Modern museum this past June, I discovered a sculpture from 1914 that resembled a Cylon. It also looked a bit like Star Wars villain General Grievous. My resultant ruminations about these similarities ignited some interesting debate.



8. Dickens, You Say? — My one-on-one chat with Gerald Dickens, the great-great grandson of famed author Charles Dickens, was  a good precursor to watching his mesmerizing performance of A Christmas Carol in NYC.




9. 9-9-9: The Number Of The Beatles – With the release of The Beatles: Rock Band videogame, I took some time to reflect on the legacy of the Fab Four and the state and future of the music industry.




10. Bubbly Busy Philipps Takes An Odyssey Into Cougar Town — She has been best known for her role on Dawson’s Creek. Now Busy is becoming best known for co-starring role in ABC’s new hit comedy Cougar Town.





Here are my top blog posts and keywords/tags for December 2009.

We’ve ended 2009 on a positive note. My website traffic (measured in numbers of unique visitors) has jumped up a whopping 95 times over pre-blog levels.  Nice.




TOP POSTS

1. Peter Facinelli: New Moon Rising — For a second straight month, this Twilight-related post remains at #1. Am I surprised? I guess I’d be surprised if it wasn’t!




2. What’s A Sweet Gal Like You Doing In A Bloody Show Like This? — People can’t seem to get enough of Dexter co-star Julie Benz, especially after the show’s shocking Season Four finale!





3. Dickens, You Say? — It is apropos that my interview with actor/storyteller Gerald Dickens hits the Top 5 this month. Scrooge would be pleased.

4. Spreading The Gospel Of Filth — As anticipation for the paperback edition of the Cradle Of Filth book builds, so does interest in this interview with band frontman Dani Filth.





5. Emilie Autumn’s Personal Asylum, Parts One and Two — Emilie’s highly personal interview with ADD resonated strongly with her devoted following.








HONORABLE MENTION

Jeff Daniels: Working In And Around The System — Bonus content connected to my Stage Directions cover story was popular on Reddit and brought this post in close to the #5 story.







TOP TAGS / KEYWORDS

1. New Moon — The Twilight Saga…’nuff said.

2. Dexter’s Julie Benz — Ms. Benz currently appears in the popular cult film The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day.

3. Busy Philipps — The Cougar Town co-star is a hot commodity.

4. Amanda Palmer — The lead singer of the Dresden Dolls has a big cult following. And she went to my high school!

5. Dexter Season Four — What did you think of the Season Four finale?

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