Time goes by so slowly for those who wait // no time to hesitate

Glory! It is snowing outside. Well ever so lightly, that sort of raindrop snow that blows in on a frosty gust and that doesn't accumulate on the ground whatsoever. BUT it still counts as the first snow in this part of the year.

It was a very welcome exclamation point to this day as I have been awake for all but 3 hours of it. I've worked and schooled almost double the hours I've slept the last 2 days. Double-plus ungood. But don't cry for me Argentina, I snuck in another viewing of 'Me and You and Everyone We Know' for a midnight snack. I really cannot describe my care for this film. If someone walked up to me on the street (or perhaps just let the biting wind blow them over to me at this point) and asked "how would you describe this film?" I would probably say that is a film version of a poem.

So does anyone have an opinion on Madonna?

I see myspace giving her the push and I clicked on it to hear her new song that I hear blends ABBA into it. And it has been playing for like 40 min straight now (!!) It has more hooks than your x-mas tree full of ornaments (only 39 away....) Amazing that she can keep releasing songs that make you stand in attention/dance uncontrollably. And how she reinvents not only her musical path, but her total style (some for the better, others maybe overreaching her grasp) and leaving the video on the repeat at the moment makes me believe a.) it will be a long time before anyone choreographs greater dances in videos, but probably never will her dancing be surpassed b.) there may not be another more seductive pop musician who uses every psychical (those mysterious sneers...), emotional and psychological trait she possess or 3.) no female pop star will push as many buttons and strive for "the new" like her. No matter what hot tabloid story comes out I will respect her for at least those 3 reasons.

Her new incarnation as "80's new disco vixen" is pretty sharp. But does it damage her to go back to the image that she basically created at the start? Or is it the circle completing itself? Either way it seems like even to argue over it gives her another victory for yet again 'stirring the pot'. She still knows what she's doing out there though. How her voice delivers that line in the middle 'I can't keep on waiting for you // I know that you're still hesitating // Don't cry for me 'cause I'll find my way // you'll wake up one day, but it'll be too late' is right perfect.

I'm not sure where this hidden fixation is buried or how it surfaces like this. To put myself on the couch and analyze it, I'm almost sure it is one of those few things that I'm afraid to say I inherited from my ma. As kids we actually had a tape of her singing karaoke 'True Blue' that was our "clean up song" for downstairs. But then she took it away.