Peter Gabriel

I took technical theater in high school because I had to have a fine arts elective. The guy who taught it was crooked. He told me once that he made theater classes easy to get as many people as possible to take them. The theater program looked like it had a lot of participants, which made him look good in front of the administration and school board. He also told us that he had been a volunteer youth minister at one of the churches in town for a while. He also recommended which porn we should rent and told us stories about two lesbian teenagers who were in the youth group in his old church/town. I thought it was all bluster and that no one could possibly believe that he was a Christian, but years later, my Latin teaching friend, who I respect more than just about any other Christian I know, told me he had been taken in.

Anyway, we did very little technical theater in technical theater. Instead, we played darts and watched arthouse movies and music videos. He especially liked Peter Gabriel.

Here’s one I remember:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6twhsq8Qvo

I was re-watching it just now. One thing that is pretty neat about it is that it was done all in one take. The camera never looks away. Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush just stood on a rotating platform, embraced, and sang for six minutes.