Earlier this year, I complained about how I lived in DC for 5 years without ever seeing a politico; soon afterward, I found myself sitting next to James Carville at a Nationals game. Recently I was talking to a coworker about how a lot of tv shows and films shoot in DC, but I've never seen one (other than purposely going to an O's game that they were using in The West Wing). Well, that changed this weekend.
As I walked from Metro Center to the American History museum, I noticed some odd cordons and banners near the Federal Triangle Metro stop. There was nobody around, and it kind of looked like there was some sort of flu shot clinic happening later on. After hanging out in the First Ladies exhibit for a while, I headed back.
Police were preventing cars from entering that block of road, but pedestrians were OK. I noticed a line of buses and there seemed to be a LOT of people milling about. And there was a huge line, stretching well past the cordons. I was about to ask the t-shirt vendor what was up when I saw the sign saying that The Visiting was filming and that if I didn't want to be included, I should stay out of camera range. And the scene apparently was people lining up for vaccinations--from some sort of alien infection. A couple of people even had on those face masks. There were a lot of production people milling about with headsets on, and some official person was saying something over a loudspeaker about setting up. No, I didn't see Nicole Kidman, or the new James Bond, or Jeremy Northam, but it was still neat. I would've stayed longer, but was feeling a bit ucky (maybe I should've had something to eat that day), so hastened home.
Very neat. Now I need to think of something else that I haven't experienced around here, casually mention it, then wait for it to happen.
Current song in my head:
"The Real Slim Shady" by Eminem