When Cold + Creepy = GOOD

This morning a group of people from Hollywood and the Greater Philadelphia Film Office came to scout our house as a possible location for the upcoming Mos Def movie Bury Me Standing. I’d spent all day yesterday scrubbing every inch of 3000 sq. ft. (conveniently my folks are coming for the weekend, so the glossy woodwork won’t go to waste). So. The movie folk came this morning and everyone was lovely and my husband and I spent several minutes chatting pleasantly about the EAGLES and pets, giddy with excitement thinking WOW what if they choose OUR HOUSE? Unfortunately it took them all of 5 minutes to decide it was not going to work. We are out the (imagined) 10 grand we would have made, plus the excitement and adventure of being moved to a hotel or apartment for a month and eating out and maybe meeting famous people and getting to go to a premier and yell “HEY! That’s MY HOUSE!!” It’s all good though. Turns out what they’re looking for is an ideal home for the lead character, someone they described as being distant, cold, even a little creepy. So I guess I’m really glad they didn’t choose us. “Warm and inviting” is a good thing, right? Right?