Hollywood Comes to 14 Dunham Place

So I was awoken yesterday at 7:00am to the sound of a film crew prepping for a shoot. There were little pink flyers posted up and down the street on Friday to prepare me for the inconvenience, but I figured I might as well start my day. I travelled down the street to get a cup of coffee before the crew locked me inside my building, and settled in to a few episodes of Knots Landing.

After things had settled down with Val and Gary Ewing, I actually started to pay attention to the noise outside. It sounded rather familiar, like a really good Matchbox Twenty rip-off. I checked their Wikipedia entry and checked out the lyrics to their latest single.

Yeah, Rob Thomas and the band was performing right under my fire escape at 9:00 in the morning. Sweet!



After standing and freezing for an hour, my roommate and I went back inside. I jumped in the shower to get ready for a brunch date, but was interrupted by a knock -- the producer wanted to scout out my room to possibly shoot inside. Of course, I'm mid-shampoo, so I rinse quickly, dash to my closet, and put on some clothes. After quickly doing the dishes, I need to leave before I throw up from the anxiety of having a camera crew in my living space.

I get back from brunch at 3:00pm, and turn the corner to still find Matchbox Twenty filiming. Yeah, now they're going on nine hours of shooting for what will probably be edited into a three minute video. I guess production values are high, since they have to repeatedly coordinate women walking down the street and a kid bouncing a basketball.

Anyways, I enter my building after the director yells "Cut" and find my roommate really disappointed that our room isn't good enough for the video. However, our neighbor has a visitor -- McLovin from SuperBad. It turns out that the producer called my roommate to arrange for Rob and the band to meet the guy, and my roommate was able to meet everyone.

Yep, just a typical day in the southside of Williamsburg...

Oh, and if anyone's curious, the song is "These Hard Times." I'll be sure to post a copy of the vid the minute it hits the airwaves.