Exotic Petshop

The Pet Shop Boys have recorded a new score for Sergei Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin. This may not be important to anyone else, but as a fan of both silent films and the Pet Shop Boys, it is a nice bit of news for me. An article explaining the pairing (as well as outting Eisenstein -- I didn't know he was gay!) is available through The Moscow Times. It's not so strange a pairing, either; on most of their albums, there have been songs with lyrics that are narrative histories (most relevant, in this case, "My October Symphony" off of Behaviour). As much as I rationalize it, though, in the back of my mind rises a spectre, a vile abomination that fills me with terror, three simple words that should inspire fear in the bravest of movie-goers: Giorgio. Moroder's. Metropolis. I'm pretty certain the Pets have enough sense not to employ the AOR cockrock of Loverboy or Billy Squire for Potemkin, so I'll keep an open mind.

In other strange PSB news, it turns out that they've done two remixes for a Rammstein single, including one called the "There Are No Guitars on This" Mix. This follows the remix work they did a year or two back on Yoko Ono's classic, "Walking on Thin Ice". I do believe the Boys are going daft in their old age. I love it.

I got all my work done early, so I'm heading down to the campus and doing the Science Citation Index homework I've been putting off for two weeks. Wish me luck navigating Physics Abstracts.

Song: "Positive Role Model" by Pet Shop Boys, natch.