{"id":631,"date":"2007-03-23T09:24:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-23T09:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/2007\/03\/that-rising-sinking-spring-feeling\/"},"modified":"2007-03-23T09:24:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-23T09:24:00","slug":"that-rising-sinking-spring-feeling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/2007\/03\/that-rising-sinking-spring-feeling\/","title":{"rendered":"That Rising, Sinking Spring Feeling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/funk.co.uk\/blogpix\/trombone.gif\" align=left width=200 \/>When Stravinsky wrote the <i>Rite of Spring<\/i>, he wasn&#8217;t referring to some gentle warming, nascent buds prying apart moist soil to peek colours charmingly into the mundane; he was referring to the violent crack of change from ice-locked and barren to fertile and frantic, the fierce struggle for survival, the battle for nesting grounds, the savagery of the fight to feed. When this ground-breaking symphony premiered in Paris, at the moment the trombones made that tearing, descending minor noise, riots broke out.<\/p>\n<p>Women have it easier in spring. Men veer like the seasons from immobility to movement. Here comes the sap; there goes my flatlining winter testosterone. It takes courage and a degree of resignation to take the flow with the ebb. Men ride a rollercoaster of awakening, and it takes the entire gamut of civilised procedures to hold us in reasonable check. I could shag three times a day, and I want to shout at the spring-singing birds to <i>shut the fuck up<\/i>, so that I can hear myself sink. Think.<\/p>\n<p>Stability left unbroken becomes stratification, and while I know that the old structures stultify our natural desire for change and must be replaced by the new, progress can seem like chaos, and spring often is exactly that. <\/p>\n<p>We never do think of the trombone as being a revolutionary instrument, but in Igor&#8217;s hands and ears, it was. Who would have thought that the rite of spring would sound like this? <br \/><a HREF=\"http:\/\/deekdeekster.com\/podpress_trac\/web\/21\/0\/boring_bird.mp3\"><img SRC=\"http:\/\/deekdeekster.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/podpress\/images\/audio_mp3_button.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><font SIZE=1><a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/spring\" rel=\"tag\">spring<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/innit\" rel=\"tag\">innit<\/a> <\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Stravinsky wrote the Rite of Spring, he wasn&#8217;t referring to some gentle warming, nascent buds prying apart moist soil to peek colours charmingly into the mundane; he was referring to the violent crack of change from ice-locked and barren to fertile and frantic, the fierce struggle for survival, the battle for nesting grounds, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[780],"class_list":["post-631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funky-original","tag-funky-original"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}