What a better day for me, to stay in (like it or not), than the day the mischievous hurricane Irene has made plans to visit New York City and to watch for the 315th time (roughly) one of my favorite movies: "You've got mail!" with Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks....
I've seen this movie for the first time back in 1998,when it just came out, while I was still living in Europe and I absolutely loved it. I loved it that much, that I saved it on my computer, so I could watch it "instantly" whenever I want to...And that "whenever" turned out to be like 200 times between the 1998 and 2001. After that, somehow it happened to me not to watch this movie again for about 9 years....when I just picked it up, again... watched it ...and fell in love with it all over again!.....
Going back to 1998....
I loved the movie "at the first sight"!....Beside that it's about a girl who loves books and she even owns a little bookstore: "The shop around the corner", it is a lovely romantic story about two lovely people.
Little that I knew back then what a book superstore like Barnes and Noble (a.k.a. FOX, in the movie) looks like nor a cappuccino, mocacino from Starbucks means; let alone that it would have never really crossed my mind that I would be living in New York, full time, just a half of a decade down the road, falling in love with the mega-book-store and every single morning having to fight the urge of buying a Starbucks frapucino (my favorite).
Well, Oscar Wilde said it before I did:
And when I look at a good chunk of my life, I must agree with the man. And if so, well,...than "Iam in" for a lovely, happy end, isn't it?
Going back to 1998....
I loved the movie "at the first sight"!....Beside that it's about a girl who loves books and she even owns a little bookstore: "The shop around the corner", it is a lovely romantic story about two lovely people.
Little that I knew back then what a book superstore like Barnes and Noble (a.k.a. FOX, in the movie) looks like nor a cappuccino, mocacino from Starbucks means; let alone that it would have never really crossed my mind that I would be living in New York, full time, just a half of a decade down the road, falling in love with the mega-book-store and every single morning having to fight the urge of buying a Starbucks frapucino (my favorite).
Well, Oscar Wilde said it before I did:
"Life imitates art far more than art imitates life"....
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One day I was waking Isis, my dog, up and down Madison Avenue, when.....Oh my God!...I saw this store, at 1313 Madison Avenue.....and I stared at it like I've seen a ghost....yes, a ghost of how New York mom-and-pop store used to be, a ghost of what made New York, New York.... and I imagined that the entire movie was based on a true story which happened right here:
