{"id":5172,"date":"2011-08-10T08:28:26","date_gmt":"2011-08-10T13:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/?p=5172"},"modified":"2011-08-10T08:28:26","modified_gmt":"2011-08-10T13:28:26","slug":"new-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2011\/08\/10\/new-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"New growth&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BzZBcqOe2lw?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>And while we&#8217;re on a grassy, shooty, growthy theme (and in the midst of a rare spurt of blog activity)&#8230; I&#8217;ve been wanting  for years to write a book about &#8220;Laughing Stock,&#8221; the stunningly  beautiful final album from Talk Talk, so many worlds beyond where they  started, and the epitome of a process-relational musical ethic. Perhaps  for the 33-1\/3 series. (I&#8217;ve suggested as much to a couple of  collaborators, including a Ukrainian friend who&#8217;s written a long piece  on the album already. Now it&#8217;s just a matter of finding the time to do it.)<\/p>\n<p>Since my take on the album is all about thirdness  &#8212; the generative emergence  of beauty from beauty, insight from insight, meaning from the shimmering percolation of lively interactivity &#8212;  feel free to email me your own experiences of the album. Some of the comments <a href=\"http:\/\/www.last.fm\/music\/Talk+Talk\/_\/New+Grass\">here<\/a> are a nice window onto this flowering world: for instance, the guy who &#8220;cr[ies] like a baby everytime i hear this song.&#8221; Or the one who finds it &#8220;very hard to keep myself together when new grass comes on.&#8221; Superlatives upon superlatives, and yet no 33-1\/3 book on the album yet. Must rectify.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And while we&#8217;re on a grassy, shooty, growthy theme (and in the midst of a rare spurt of blog activity)&#8230; I&#8217;ve been wanting for years to write a book about &#8220;Laughing Stock,&#8221; the stunningly beautiful final album from Talk Talk, so many worlds beyond where they started, and the epitome of a process-relational musical ethic. 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