"God I hope that's not some kind of museum...!"

Current location: NYC

Today we headed off to 53rd Street armed with the excitement of finally getting to go to MoMA (Museum of Modern Art) AND finally meeting Dick Mac (this really really cool guy I met off BowieNet but who's left but now keeps a very very interesting and informative blog). We were only to be completely devastated (my face went white) when we discovered IT WAS CLOSED. @(#^#@()!@_#$&^#*@(!@)@__(#$*&#&@*@!!!!

So Dick Mac, Robyn and I ended up going for coffee just to chat and get to know eachother (in real life this time!) and it was great. Dick Mac is such a friendly, articulate and entertaining person who knows a hell lot about art! It was a short lived meet up as he had to go back to work but was a lot of fun nevertheless! I hope to see him again this week when we can actually get into MoMA ;)

We spent the next few hours browsing the MoMA stores believe it or not! I bought myself an Andy Warhol ideas book and a MoMA pencil. COOL.

Being totally hungry as fuck, we then went to this gourmet supermarket around the corner and bought ourselves some yummy dill chicken wraps and walked over to Central Park for lunch.

Central Park - is stunning!!
Just imagine you're walking through these streets filled with tall buildings - concrete, glass, people, taxis and exhaust fumes surround - and suddenly entering this lush forest-like garden where you can't see any buildings sticking above it because you're directly on the south end (Central Park is a few miles long). It's so surreal!! And once you walk into Central Park, from the east and west sides you can see all this lush green-ness and beautiful tall buildings in the backdrop. It's like you're in peaceful paradise in the heart of the biggest city in the world. I found this extremely exciting and I was just bursting with happiness for being there.

After lunch we walked down 5th Avenue to 46th Street near Time Square to go watch Fantastic 4. 5th Ave - oh my god. Wow. On 5th we went into the Trump Tower right next to Tiffany's & Co. As seen on TV, Trump Tower is completely almost gold on the inside. You feel like you've walked into some kinda gold ingot and got stuck. Magnificant as it is, Trump is the biggest ego meister in the world. In the Trump tower you would feel as if he was God or something - his face everywhere, his name on everything (including bottled water which claims to be "the best bottled water in the world"). Sure he may own pretty much everything in New York but really there must be a limit to how many times your face appears on random objects! Should I buy a singlet top with Trump on it?

We made our to 46th Street to go watch Fantastic 4 at this massive theatre - the biggest cinema I've ever seen. 25 cinemas in one building.. and the building didn't even look that big!! They were just one on top of the other or something cos we had to go up a fair number of floors just to get to ours.

The film was your typical super hero film y'know - which played on less themes than Spiderman - but the reason why I watched it was because it was set in New York. It was so exciting watching scenes set in places you saw just that day! There's this scene shot in Time Square too. When the film finished, we walked out only to see the exact same Time Square!! SO EXCITING!!!

Time Square rocks!!

Anyways I have to go. We're going to The Metropolitan Museum of Art today! And as Dick Mac said yesterday - it is compared to the best art museums in the world such as the Louvre. WOOHOO!!

xoxoxox