For once it's all about you. Oh, and I guess me too.

[constance]

Straight from the lj of amelia_eve:

If you comment...

1. I'll respond with something random I like about you.
2. I'll tell you what song/movie reminds me of you.
3. I'll name something we should do together.
4. I'll say something that only makes sense to you and me (or just me).
5. I'll tell you my first/clearest memory of you.
6. I'll leave you a quote that is somehow appropriate to you.
7. I'll ask you something that I've always wondered about you.

You can specify which you want answered. Otherwise I'll pick two or three at random. And you should post this in your lj, if you feel like it, but far be it from me to insist or anything.

Comments

[amelia-eve.livejournal.com]

My apartment is tiny, run-down, and crowded, but very sunny and located in a fantastic neighborhood. The building is about 125 years old, a classic brick tenement house like the ones on Sesame Street. You have to walk up to the fifth floor to reach my place, and there you'll find a tumble of books, clothes, CDs, cooking equipment, and more books. The front room looks out a view of Manhattan rooftops, through a pair north-facing windows 6 feet high. The "kitchen" is a strip of appliances across one end of that room. A long hallway lined with book cases leads to the bathroom, home of my vast pink flamingo collection, and then the bedroom, which is very small and oddly shaped, and has one window that face the air shaft, receiving almost no light. My bed is a quasi-antique, formerly my granmother's, and is heaped with feather pillows and a big fluffy duvet. Everything else is storage for clothing, with a light layer of books on top. The whole place lists toward the center of the building at an angle now approaching 15 degrees.

The beauty of it really is location, location, location. I live on Manhattan's Upper West Side, a couple blocks from Central Park in one direction and Riverside Park in the other. The Museum of Natural History is my most famous neighbor, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art is an easy walk across the park, while the Metropolitan Opera House is a similar distance to the south. The neighborhood offers all local services -- library, post office, markets, cleaners -- within a few blocks, and there are rows of restaurants and bars along the big north/south avenues. Some of my neighbors are Jerry Seinfeld, Beverly Sills, and Nora Ephron. Actually, if you have ever seen the movie You've Got Mail, it was mostly filmed right around here.

[laurelwood.livejournal.com]

I love your description of your apartment- it sounds gorgeous!

[amelia-eve.livejournal.com]

I'm very fond of it, but it is quite messy. It makes Emerson a little bit nuts. He yearns to build shelves all over it to organize everything, while I just like to cook and look out the windows.

[(Anonymous)]

Ohhh, it does sound lovely. And it sounds as though you don't live so far from where another friend of mine used to live--on Amsterdam, between 95th and 96th. (In fact, he lived just a block or two from the cafe where they filmed You've Got Mail). On account of visiting him, your neighborhood's probably the one I'm most familiar with in NYC!

[tofty.livejournal.com]

Oh, that was me in the above comment--sorry!

[amelia-eve.livejournal.com]

Yep, you've got it right. That cafe (Cafe Lalo) is one block down my street -- I am closer to Columbus Avenue. It's also next to a really great, though rather expensive, bead shop (p://brucefrankbeadsonline.com/).