We all have them, songs that seem to touch a secret place in your soul – sometimes secret even from you. They can grow and occasionally fester like an open wound, or they can fill you up, inspire you, and occasionally even heal you. Sometimes they don't even reflect your musical tastes. They can be shameful secrets that you keep from family and friends. You feel like a drug addict craving your next fix. At times like those you thank the powers that be for MP3 players - the syringe of those suffering with this affliction.
This is the eleventh installment of songs that touch my soul and as always this edition is full of passion, desire, and lust. This is a form of therapy, this sharing of my neuroses, my secret inner lunacy, the big ball of crazy that is me. I know it's been awhile, but this edition marks the end of writers block.... I hope.
"Flower of Scotland" - Various
This is an ode to my adopted home country Scotland. A country that has given so much to our modern world; to quote Voltaire "We look to Scotland for all our ideas of civilization." Scotland is a country of amazing people and achievements. It is because of the Scots that we enjoy so many conveniences and necessities in life, as the Scots are the inventors of much of the modern world. Things we take for granted from, tarmac, the telephone, television, the post office, radio, and the fax machine; to things you couldn't live without like, antiseptic, anesthesia, penicillin, the MRI machine, hypodermic syringe, and beta-blockers.
It was during the Scottish Enlightenment of the 18th century, that the fathers of many of the modern sciences (geology, economics, chemistry, engineering, and medicine among many) lived, thought, and worked in the heart of Edinburgh's New Town - which they also designed and built. Men like Francis Hutcheson, David Hume, Adam Smith, Thomas Reid, Adam Ferguson, John Playfair, Joseph Black, and James Hutton are some of Scotland's greatest sons. Even the American Constitution can find most of its ideas and ideals in the philosophy of David Hume and America's economic principals (capitalism) are based on the works of Adam Smith. Quite a resume for a country that has never had a population of much more than five million people.
Article comments
1 - Josh Hathaway
I absolutely adore "Seven Years." That song just destroys me every time I listen to it.
2 - Josh Hathaway
Oh, and please breathe fire on that Bedingfield twerp and the other Bedingfield. My contempt for them both knows no bounds.
3 - A.L. Harper
Ah.... Josh you're such a softie!
It brings a tear to my eye too.
4 - A.L. Harper
*laugh* I like the girl Bedingfield.... well I like some of her stuff. The boy is vile, I admit it. Blech!
5 - Mark Saleski
really great to see both the pensive and the firebreathing andrea back in action.
p.s. Ysabeau is a beautiful name
p.p.s. can somebody please give me back the 50 seconds i just wasted looking at a daniel whateverthehellhisnameis video? yeesh!!
6 - A.L. Harper
Thank you very much Mr Saleski! It's lovely to be welcomed back into your loving embrace.
I'm glad you like my daughter's name. *smile* She loves it too, she thinks it sounds like a vampire name. *laugh*
Why on earth, after I said how cack that Bedingfield song is, would you go and listen to it?! Impressive that you lasted 50 seconds though. I tip my hat to you.
7 - Mark Saleski
if josh has contempt for something, i feel compelled to check it out. let's call it morbid curiosity.
8 - A.L. Harper
*laugh* I would agree, in most cases this is a very healthy attitude. As Josh feels contempt for most things in life and if you avoided them all you would have to lock yourself in a padded cell; even then the sound of barking puppies would still occasionally waft in through that high, bar covered window.
But in this case he was right. I mean if you hate everything well... even a stopped clock is right twice a day (unless of course it's on military time).