Being Boring: A Lament for Friends Lost
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The Sundance Channel has just launched the first online exhibition from acclaimed filmmaker and photographer Bruce Weber, entitled “Gone Fishing: A Little Journey in My Backyard.” The exhibition includes more than 70 photographs, videos from many of his films, as well as a wealth of information about Weber himself. The exhibition also presents the Bruce Weber-directed Pet Shop Boys’ video “Being Boring,” in its entirety.
“Being Boring” may well be the most beautiful thing the Pet Shop Boys ever recorded, a song that deals with youth, beauty, sex and the intimation of death in the face of the devastation wrought by the AIDS crisis. Over a lush musical soundscape of warm basslines and sustained strings, Neil Tennant opens up lyrically, but it’s with the last of the three verses that “Being Boring” really makes its magic felt, as the tone shifts from one of gentle reminiscence to become a lament for friends lost. That verse takes on an extra sense of poignancy with the knowledge that Tennant had recently lost a close friend to AIDS, but in spite of that the song retains an air of positivity: it’s more a celebration of life than a mourning of death.
This piece includes a number of B&W photographs from the video, as well as the Pet Shop Boys’ music video “Being Boring.”
Please visit my website to view these photographs, as well as to watch the very touching music video:
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2010/01/25/being-boring-a-lament-for-friends-lo...
“Being Boring” may well be the most beautiful thing the Pet Shop Boys ever recorded, a song that deals with youth, beauty, sex and the intimation of death in the face of the devastation wrought by the AIDS crisis. Over a lush musical soundscape of warm basslines and sustained strings, Neil Tennant opens up lyrically, but it’s with the last of the three verses that “Being Boring” really makes its magic felt, as the tone shifts from one of gentle reminiscence to become a lament for friends lost. That verse takes on an extra sense of poignancy with the knowledge that Tennant had recently lost a close friend to AIDS, but in spite of that the song retains an air of positivity: it’s more a celebration of life than a mourning of death.
This piece includes a number of B&W photographs from the video, as well as the Pet Shop Boys’ music video “Being Boring.”
Please visit my website to view these photographs, as well as to watch the very touching music video:
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2010/01/25/being-boring-a-lament-for-friends-lo...
