so i've had this one song going on-and-on round and round, looping my brain, so to speak, for the past several weeks.... you know that one that plays toward the end of the movie magnolia... when everyone's reaching the end of their rope... the corrupt, sad man dying on the couch alone feels his last few precious moments on earth and reaches out.... the brilliant wiz kid goes blank on the quiz show and accidentally wets himself on live tv... the promiscuous trophy wife drives fast down a rainy street and crashes her car.... phillip seymour hoffman cries quietly in the corner... The GIVE UP MOMENT has arrived.
all the while, in the background, Aimee Mann is humming an endless litany... "It's not going to stop.... no it's not going to stop!!!... no IT's not GOing to STOP.... ......
..... till you wise up....." whatever that means.
and then..... the skies open... and emits.. frogs. mother-effing frogs. and people are running around saying what?! and ducking for cover underneath benches and cars to escape the downpour of amphibians..
but when it's all over, the sky has cleared, and the frogs lay littered on the ground... well... when i first saw it.... it's a biblical reference of all things... When Moses is pleading with the Phaaroh to free the Jewish tribe, he sends plagues - blood, boils, locusts, darkness, hail, lice, death.... and FROGS.
and when it's all over.. Moses says to the Phaaroh... "Let my people go"... and the damn guy's just so friggin' tired he says.. "Know what? Take 'Em!"
And he lets those people go...
I guess my point is this.... with the pace my life has taken in the last few months.... I feel I'm right about at the locusts stage... "eagerly" awaiting the blood, boils, and the death of the firstborn..... I'm ready for those damn frogs. I'm ready to look up to the sky and say BRING IT!!!! and then to stand in the center of the street, surrounded by breathless amphibians and then....
make a little exodus all my own... Shit IS going to stop cuz it's time....
Let This Woman GO.
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