The journey begins...

So, here we have a begining of a new journey; not the first and certainly not the last, but definatly the first thourough and intentional one with this fair city I call home. In all my years here I've come to know more than a few intresting tidbits about her, and have accumulated a history with the big apple that at times certainly mirrors, as Timothy 'Speed' Levitch said, a tumulous love affair...
Right now we're good; She loves me and I play in her world to my heart's content. This summer promises to be a grand one, with events everywhere and in a wide range of experiences. The heat itself has proven greatly to my taste, and seems to have energized many into putting even more enterrtaining events for one to lose oneself in...

Purpose: So the very simple purpose of this blog is to document my road from a well walked new Yorker, to becoming a well walked New york City tour guide. How well that turns out, only time will tell. In the meantime this blog will serve as a place to put some ofthe adventures down; perhaps for prosperity, prehaps as future refference, and/or maybe to just entertain a few people as to my goings ons....

NY Tidbit: So here we go, a little bit of something to chew on while we start the journey, a bit of street meat to entertain as the bus begins to move a long...

Here are some of the movies about ny I've enjoyed throught out the years...
Miracle on 34th St (1947), On the waterfront (1854), Guys and Dolls (1955), Breakfast at tiffany's (1961), Planet of the apes (1968), Shaft (1971), Deathwish (1974), King Kong (1973), New York, New York (1977), The Wiz (1978), The Warriors (1979), Escape from new york (1981), Heavy Metal (1981), Trading Places (1983), Ghostbusters (1984), The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984), Berry gordoy's The last dragon (1985), Desperately seeking susan (1985), Crocodile Dundee (1986), Highlander 1986), Three men and a baby (1987), Big (1988), Coming to america (1988), Short Circuit 2 91988), Working girl (1988), Ghostbusters II (1989), The Freshman (1990), Ghost (1990), gremlins 2, the new batch (1990), Joe vs the volcano (1990), King of new york (1990), Teenage mutant ninja turtles (1990), three men and a little lady (1990), New Jack City (1991), Regarding Henry (1991), Teenage mutant ninja turtles 2 the secret of the ooze (1991), Freejack (1992), Home alone 2 lost in new york (1992), Scent of a woman (1992), Carlito's way (1993), Last action hero (1993), Sleepless in seattle (1993), Teenage mutant ninja turtles III (1993), Leon (1994), The Shadow (1994), The Ussual suspects (1995), Die hard w/ a vengance (1995), Money Train (1995), Rumble in the bronx (1995), Independance day (1996), As good as it gets (1997), Devil's advocat (1997), The Fifth Element (1997), Men in Black (1997), Mimic (1997), Spawn (1997), Antz (1998), Armaggedon (1998), Godzilla (1998), You've got mail (1998), Analyze this (1999, Big Daddy (1999(, Eyes Wide shut (1999), Stuart Little (1999), The Thomas crown affair (1999), Meet Joe Black (1999), Cruel Intentions (1999), X-men (2000), AI: Artificial Intelligence (2001), Kate & Leopold (2001), K-Pax (2001), Vanilla sky (2001), Zoolander (2001), Catch me if you can (2002), Gangs of new york (2002), Men in Black II (2002), Panic Room (2002), Phone booth (2002), Spider-man (2002), Stewart Little 2 (2002), Two Weeks notice (2002), Daredevil (2003), X-2: Xmen United (2003), The day after tomorrow (2004), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless mind(2004), Maria full of grace (2004), Sky captain and the World of tomorrow (2004), Spiderman 2 (2004), Hellboy (2004), The Terminal (2004), Fantastic Four (2005), Hitch (2005), In good company (2005), Madagascar (2005), Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005), War of the Worlds (2005), King Kong (2005), The Producers (2005), Rent (2005), 16 Blocks (2006), My super ex-girlfriend (2006), The Devil wears prada (2006), X-men: The Last stand (2006), The Nanny diaries (2007), Spider-Man 3 (2007), Fantastic Four: Rise of the silver surfer (2007), Rush hour 3 (2007), I am legend (2007), Autumn Rush (2007)

Reading back, i guess I should clarify that this list is by no means comprehensive, as it only reflects moevies I have personally seen. It also does not guarantee the any of the films included were very good... lol

And on that note....

Welcome to my Journey.

ps- for a full list of any NY flicks, check Wikipedia