Crystal Clear insights from Cris

I strongly suggest a trip over to my sister Wall-nut's profound prose. Here is merely a sample of the lovely musings she provides us. As a fellow academic, I attest that one can find the world of writing a banal, disenchanting landscape. For a moment, Cris takes us away from the pressures of peer reviewed journal discourse and stacatto sentiments of the social media sphere to a lovely space exploring the music of our dear Wally. Take some time for this one, it is well worth it..... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "It seems pretty preposterous to “introduce” or even begin to discuss someone who’s spent a lifetime (or, at least, his adult life and about half his complete life) making music, and at least ten years doing so professionally, but April 18, 2012 may be a promising day to begin, on this blog, a discussion about Belgian-born, Melbourne-dwelling Wouter / Walter “Wally” De Backer (his parents and he moved to Australia for a better life and opportunity when Wally was two), also known by his performing/recording name Gotye. Taken from Mrs. De Backer’s pet-name for her son (she is a French teacher and speaker), it’s pronounced like the French “Gaultier” or “Gautier.” (Go ahead. Take your time. I’ll wait while you practice pronouncing it with your best foreign-sounding inflection.) Sampling sounds, “investigating the sort of underground world of music,” hunting through dust bins, and “searching through artwork from our [the De Backer family’s] past” (De Backer, qtd. in Bentley): Gotye’s frame of artistic reference and creative process—tackled in this blog entry—is infused with the sorts of quirks and habits of someone deeply-rooted in a sense of sentimentality. And sentimentality, the inward and backward turn towards nostalgia, and even the perverse sense of clinging to old pains and wounds for fear of forgetting any memory whatsoever are key interests of mine, especially when it comes to recreating these interests in various artistic media..." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ More loveliness at http://certainhalf-desertedstreets.blogspot.com/2012/04/somebody-whom-you-need-to-know.html photos: Google (diggin' deep)