At Pilates today, my teacher explained that before she moved in with her boyfriend, she used to sublet her apartment (just for a weekend or week) when she went away, and make $150-$300 a night. She found subletters through Craigslist. Part of me thinks this is a smart, enterprising idea; the other part of me envisions the scene in every teen movie (Shag, Girls Just Want to Have Fun) where the party crashers burst through the plate glass window (miraculously, no one is injured, despite the shards of glass flying everywhere) and trash the place thoroughly (top to bottom). Sometimes they even chant, "PURPLE JESUS." In short, I don't want to open our home to hooligans.
Netflix continues to supply us with an array of movies. Last night we watched A Midsummer Night's Sex Dream, which was kind of disappointing. It was Woody Allen's take on the Shakespeare play. I read in Wikipedia that the Mia Farrow role was intended for Diane Keaton, so I just kind of sulked throughout and thought how Diane would have done a better job. Also, it wasn't clear what time period it was set in. That annoyed me. D liked it, however.
I might also see Because I Said So, which is opening this weekend.
Netflix continues to supply us with an array of movies. Last night we watched A Midsummer Night's Sex Dream, which was kind of disappointing. It was Woody Allen's take on the Shakespeare play. I read in Wikipedia that the Mia Farrow role was intended for Diane Keaton, so I just kind of sulked throughout and thought how Diane would have done a better job. Also, it wasn't clear what time period it was set in. That annoyed me. D liked it, however.
I might also see Because I Said So, which is opening this weekend.
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I remember reading about the subletting idea in the Post a while back. I think I would be reluctant to let strangers stay in my house, too.
oddly enough, the pilates teacher said everyone treated her apartment "beautifully." but i'm not sure if i'm trusting enough...i know from my first/only experience living with roommates in NY that there are some freaks out there!
There is one exception, The Purple Rose of Cairo which I thoroughly enjoyed. I think I liked it because Allen wasn't in it, he just wrote and directed it.
The worst movie Allen has ever done was Match Point which was just a blatant plagiarism of elements of both Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy and Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment.
Perplexio - I'm actually a big fan, though I like some of his movies better than others. I enjoyed Match Point. I thought it echoed his prior film, Crimes and Misdemeanors, but I didn't mind.
We couldn't rent our house for the weekend. They might find my chocolate stash. That would be bad.
You could keep the stash under lock and key.
D points out that the co-op board would kill us if we subletted.
But when they come in for a night or two or three, you just never know. I'd pass and try to find some other way to make up the dough.
Then again, I don't live in a city where cupboard-sized apartments rent for more than I spent on my first very used car.