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My Top Ten Music Countdown
My Top Ten Music Countdown

Day 11 of my special gratitude project has me thinking of music.  Music plays such a big part in most peoples lives, it is no different to me.  The music sets the mood and can latch on to a memory and allow you to be transported to a particular place and time simply by hearing the notes.  I almost always put a song at the end of every post, not because they need it, but it makes it better to read if you listen to the song as you read.  Try it.

My favorite songs change each and every week depending on the randomness of what is happening in life.  Since I am feeling particularly grateful for music I will give you my top ten songs of the week.  They are random and not specific to genre.  A song can be number 1 one week and gone from the countdown the next.  Enjoy!! Be grateful.

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  1. Wake Me Up- Avici-  This song just hits me right in the heart.  The message of looking for yourself, resonates.  Give it a listen and you will feel better!! Go ahead. Click it baby!
  2. Chillin’ It- Cole Swindell-  Any song that reminds me of my young self I can’t get enough of.  I am a country boy, I was raised in Maine, I had no choice.  This song reminds no music no lifeme of those those days a long time ago, spending time with that special someone, rollin’ with the music.
  3. A Message- Cold Play-  This song caught my mind this week and hasn’t let go.  I think we are all continually sending messages.  Some overtly like blog writing, and many more subtle ones.  I think we all want our message to be received and understood.  Get the message?  My song is love, is love unknown and I’ve got to get that message home!
  4. Radio- Darius Rucker- Not only am I a huge Darius fan, and have been for many years, this song, is one that again takes me back to my youth.  Really all we needed was a car with a radio to make us feel really cool.  It is great to feel cool. Even when you know you are not.  Go ahead go riding down that highway.
  5. Ships In The Night- Matt Kierney–  Aren’t we all just ships in the night, that pass without knowing anything about each other.  It is a waste of time to not connect, especially with someone you could be great friends with.  Don’t be a ship in the night.  Good song.
  6. Over You – Daughtry- This is an older song that I have been able to relate to lately. I never saw it coming, should have started running a long, long time ago, and I never thought I’d doubt you or be better off without you, more than you, more than you, more than you know!!   Give it a listen if you are trying to forget someone. It helps.
  7. Mine Would Be You- Blake Shelton-  Because we all have, guilty pleasures, and those that know us better than anyone else, and we don’t often say it when we have the chance. My finest hour, my wildest dream come true, mine would be you!

misic is safe8. Here I Stand- Sonny Rey–  I heard this song on an episode of touch, which is about how we are all connected.  I believe that for better or worse this is true and this song captures the essence of my feelings.  Here I am, I am just a man, here I stand.  I’m doing everything I can to show the world who I am.  Here I stand.

  1. A Drop in the Ocean- Ron Pope-  You never know why a song attaches to your mind, but this one grabbed mine probably because………it’s a drop in the ocean, a change in the weather. I was hopin’ that you and I would end up together!!  Whatever the reason, have a listen and be careful it will get in your head.
  • Sweet Annie- Zac Browne Band-  This is a beautiful song, that makes you want to know someone named Annie.  But haven’t we all known someone who makes us feel like this? Here’s to all the sweet, pretty, kind, beautiful women I have ever met.

    • There it is, take a listen and I hope you are as grateful for the music in your life as I am.

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    by Jonathan Hilton

    There are a lot of people who look at a book and make a judgement based on the cover and fail to even open the pages and read even a little of the story that is contained inside. That is something that I try to avoid doing all the time and I appreciate it when it is done for me.

    The insight about me that is offered here is to let you know what my guilty pleasures in life are. These are defined as interests and likes that you have that may be embarrassing for others to know about because of their low brow or uncultured appeal.  Everyone has these interests, here are my top guilty pleasures in life.

    The Big Bang Theory

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    There is a little Sheldon in all of us!

    This is a show that I just recently became infatuated with. It is the tale of four nerds and their good-looking female neighbor.  Pretty basic plot lines, but I seem to enjoy watching Sheldon Cooper struggle through life.  From his fear of birds to being unable to understand sarcasm.  If this is on and I have a moment I will watch it. I can’t stop myself.

    The Music of Taylor Swift

    taylorI would not mention this anywhere else, but for some reason the music of Taylor Swift that is about nothing I can relate to, I really like. It has been going on for years and I have secretly liked songs as old as Tim McGraw and as new as We’re Never Ever Getting Back Together.  Her act of continually getting dumped is going to have to end eventually. If it never does, that will be fine with me.

    Red Sox Baseball

    red sox fightThis is not a shock to anyone who knows me but I love the Red Sox. I watch a part of most games and follow the side stories that the team provides.  Even though I have never played Major League Baseball I am like many people I think that I know what is best for the team.  I have always been infatuated with the statistics of certain players and am not ashamed to say there were a few tears when they won it all in 2004.

    Duck Dynasty

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    “Everybody, happy, happy.”

    Another show that I happened to accidentally see and now I watch them quite often. There is something interesting about watching Grandpa Phil try to kill beavers and talk about the old times being , “Everybody, happy, happy!”  I was born and raised in Maine so there is a bit of red neck in me that I can’t escape from. This show touches this. A lot of the situations are clearly created just for television but that is OK, it entertains anyway.

      Country Music

    country MusicUp until I turned 39 I believed that all country music was really a joke. I was one of those that laughed about playing a country song backward, you get your wife, your dog and your truck back.  Then it all suddenly changed as I was listening to a song once and thinking, “Wow, that makes a lot of sense.”

    From that day on I was hooked, and even though I enjoy all types of music, country music is high on my list.  Kenny Chesney, Dirks Bentley, Tim McGraw,  you name it and if they have a good song I probably like it.  I think my rural heritage has a lot to do with this, but there is something about a country girl that is indescribably beautiful!

    Romantic Comedies

    shaI hate to admit this but the more of them I see the more I think I am a hopeless romantic. Recently a fellow blogger had been reviewing her favorite romantic comedies which got me to watch a few. The more I watched the more I liked them. Not all of them but most of them.  I did have someone in my past who liked those types of movies and I would watch them with her.  If I am by myself and Sweet Home Alabama is on I can’t help but watch it.  There are a thousand others but lets suffice it to say this is a guilty pleasure of mine. Don’t tell anyone!!

    Learning Stuff

    Learning stuffThis is one thing that makes me kind of a super nerd because I find learning new things fascinating.  Especially in the realm of psychology, human behavior, quantum physics, string theory or any science what so ever.  This is not only in substance but I like learning how to do new things as well, particularly in the field of technology.

    I am old enough to remember life before there was an internet and having access for the first time and asking,”What do you do with it.”  Even though no one gave a satisfactory answer back in 1996, we figured it out.  I am not one of those who sees technology as something you fear but I see it as something new to master.  I enjoy learning how to do things from working on new platforms to building websites. Learning stuff is fun!

    Reading and Writing are a Good Time

    reading and writingAlong with the learning new stuff revelation is my love of reading and writing. It probably wouldn’t come as a shock to anyone who reads this blog, but to people who just know me from any endeavor in my life, it would be a shock.  Reading to me is not done to read a story or something like that, it is done to teach me something. Expose me to a new idea. I can’t remember that last book I read for “fun”, it seems I just don’t have time.

    Writing is an ongoing process for me, as I expand my comfort with words and let the emotions and thoughts I have in me, flow freely without a filter.  That has been the biggest challenge of writing for me.  The fact that I have a biggest challenge of writing would surprise many of my “friends” from the past.

    I am sure that I can come up with about fifty-five more but I am out of time for this writing experience.  So  that will have to do.  I am sure that I am not the only one who has embarrassing interests.

    What are your Guilty Pleasures?