I have ended up with a sampling of romantic love songs that is… uhm… rather wide; from Ornella Vanoni’s “L’appuntamento”, over to Dean Martin, and on to “Kiss the girl” and “Part of your world” from Disney’s The Little Mermaid.
But I think my favorite song is “It had to be you” from When Harry Met Sally. I put it on, crank up the loudspeakers… and spend the next three or four minutes dreaming and lost in an almost unbearable nostalgia. “It had to be you” carries with it the sense of throwing yourself into someone’s arms, kissing the one you love as the music reaches its climax… a real movie moment. I can play it over and over again.
It’s kind of hard to snap out of. It usually takes switching over to a Marine Corps running cadence or the audio sequence from storming Omaha beach in Saving Private Ryan.
You don’t get much work done when you’re lost in nostalgia, I’ve noticed.
And who is in your thoughts? A certain Miss Northern Island or maybe a former co-worker? :)
No. :)
At this point it’s just … I don’t know, somebody.
Meg Ryan put it just right in another movie, You’ve Got Mail, as her ex-boyfriend asks “well, what about you? Is there someone else?” She replies, “uhmm… no. No, there isn’t. But… there is the dream of someone.”