July 21, 2009...8:31 am

plus ça change

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A classic Jacques Brel moment, just to set us up. I very much hope you’ll find the Dutch subtitles amusing. (I thought of giving you “Mathilde” but the Scott Walker overtones were a little dusturbing so early in the day…)

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  • Ahhh… I love Jacques.

    (I love Scott as well, but doing his own stuff.)

  • Banquo Calhoun

    Fabulous. Even his suit is sweating. Next week, ‘Maurice Ponk and his Orchestre Fromage’ . . .

  • we’d never heard of jacques brel until alex harvey gave the british middle classes and me a nasty shock …

  • Tristan: oh my God! He’s given me a bit of a shock too. But I urge everyone to watch all of it. And then this:

    And Cap’n Calhoun: thought you’d like that.

    Oh, and Tristan, I bet the middle classes heaved a sigh of relief when they discovered that the original was by a nice young man in a suit.


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