Slog - Comments on Photograph of You http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/06/photograph_of_you The spaceship is at the edge of the galaxy. It's in hyper-drive. Stars and gas clouds appear, approach, and pass at the speed of light. Out here where no one can hear you scream, the lead singer of A Flock of Seagulls, Michael Score, is suffering because he doesn't have a photograph of the woman he loves and will never see again. She is on Earth; he is in deep space. And the deeper he flies into the great abyss, the harder it is for him to recall her face--the end of her nose, the lids of her eyes, the... Copyright 2007 Tue, 13 Jun 2006 10:58:12 -0800 Tue, 13 Jun 2006 15:34:40 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by seattle98104 someone broke slog, and I think it was you.

]]> seattle98104 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/06/photograph_of_you#c339380 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/06/photograph_of_you#c339380 Music Tue, 13 Jun 2006 11:27:25 -0800 Comment by Amy Kate Is it better now? It seems Charles's post broke Slog for Firefox users (and it seems I've fixed it...)

]]> Amy Kate http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/06/photograph_of_you#c339406 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/06/photograph_of_you#c339406 Music Tue, 13 Jun 2006 11:32:28 -0800 Comment by seattle98104 nope still f'd up.

]]> seattle98104 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/06/photograph_of_you#c339413 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/06/photograph_of_you#c339413 Music Tue, 13 Jun 2006 11:34:03 -0800 Comment by seattle98104 i'd try encapsulating the youtube embed with p tags.

]]> seattle98104 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/06/photograph_of_you#c339425 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/06/photograph_of_you#c339425 Music Tue, 13 Jun 2006 11:38:40 -0800 Comment by seattle98104 ah it's better now!!

]]> seattle98104 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/06/photograph_of_you#c339431 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/06/photograph_of_you#c339431 Music Tue, 13 Jun 2006 11:39:30 -0800 Comment by Amy Kate Charles inadvertantly f-ed it up again (he's trying to perfect his final graph...) Better now?

]]> Amy Kate http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/06/photograph_of_you#c339434 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/06/photograph_of_you#c339434 Music Tue, 13 Jun 2006 11:40:03 -0800 Comment by seattle98104 nutch better

]]> seattle98104 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/06/photograph_of_you#c339444 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/06/photograph_of_you#c339444 Music Tue, 13 Jun 2006 11:42:17 -0800 Comment by nipper I like his 'if wolverine was a fag' hair style, bub.

]]> nipper http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/06/photograph_of_you#c339506 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/06/photograph_of_you#c339506 Music Tue, 13 Jun 2006 12:02:11 -0800 Comment by Mike Charles T. Mudede, you rock my world.

]]> Mike http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/06/photograph_of_you#c339508 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/06/photograph_of_you#c339508 Music Tue, 13 Jun 2006 12:02:24 -0800 Comment by COMTE Thank you Charles. I've never seen this video, never having had much interest in FOS, but that was a very touching exploration of what I've always imagined must be a terribly difficult situation that only a handful of human beings have ever experienced: the knowledge of being completely, and perhaps irrvocably cut off from the rest of humanity.

Gargaran and Glenn must have had some fleeting inclination of it on their first solo flights; surely Leonov and White did when they first stepped out of the relative security of their flimsy metal capsules to behold the magnificence of the planet and the immensity of the universe beyond; a feeling Apollo 10 Command Module Pilot John Young must have briefly and profoundly experienced on the far side of the moon, as the first human being to be completely isolated from the entire human race; the exhillaration Bruce McCandless must have felt being the first human to float free and untethered in the vastness of space; or the solitude of Sergei Krikalev, after three months of isolation aboard the MIR space station.

It's one thing to feel alone; to endure the sensation of isolation that defines the gap between one human being and another, but few of us dare to imagine that tremendous sense of seclusion brought about by the knowledge that every single human being one has ever known, or will know, is unreachable, perhaps forever, separated from us by the vast emptiness of space.

]]> COMTE http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/06/photograph_of_you#c339523 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/06/photograph_of_you#c339523 Music Tue, 13 Jun 2006 12:05:24 -0800 Comment by DrewVsea Is it always 4:20 on Mudede's office clock?

]]> DrewVsea http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/06/photograph_of_you#c339581 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/06/photograph_of_you#c339581 Music Tue, 13 Jun 2006 12:20:39 -0800 Comment by genevieve I absolutely loved this video when it came out. And though FOS has become nothing more than a stereotype of fluffy '80s bands (actually, they kind of were back then, too), they had several songs that evoked images of lonely intergalactic life, which I still love to listen to.

]]> genevieve http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/06/photograph_of_you#c339812 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/06/photograph_of_you#c339812 Music Tue, 13 Jun 2006 13:12:41 -0800 Comment by pgreyy I'll admit it, proudly. I'm a fan of A Flock of Seagulls. (I can't seem to call them FOS--that drops the "A"--as they aren't "THE" Flock of Seagulls.)

Most people think of them as an all synth band--like Human League, Soft Cell, Depeche Mode...but really, they were a post-punk rock band...with treated echo drenched guitars that has more in common with early U2 and The Cure than, say, Howard Jones.

And I love the fact that Mudede loves this song... I always thought that when the childhood music of hip hop producers moved from the late 60's soul and 70's funk...into the weird pop of the 80's, that someone would loop the discordant clank and the chorus vocal hook from this record and use it for a "I miss my dead homies" track... (I mean, if Puffy could rewrite Matthew Wilder's "Break My Stride"--is it THAT much of a leap to sharing the cold loss of a loved one from post-punk to some hip-pop?)

Afrika Bambaataa certainly loved his electropop...but maybe the new wave loving African-American music producers chose house & techno production over hip hop (--think Derrick May, Juan Atkins, Kevin Saunderson...Detroit...)

Anyway...excellent work, Charles.

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