June 07, 2010

Correction

Khil, upon reviewing the tape, compares himself to 'Dassin'.   He can only mean Joe Dassin, arguably the finest New York-born University of Michigan graduate to ever hit the French pop charts.  And he hit them like the fist of an angry god, putting up hit after hit before his untimely passing in 1980.

Dassin was the quintessential musical chameleon, producing songs in a bewildering variety of languages, always with impeccable taste and confident technical perfection

If you ever wonder if there can be peace between our nation and our Gallic cousins, I'd urge you to take the time to reflect on Dassin's syncretic masterpiece of robbery, wrongful conviction, serving hard time, and how life is just like that - Comme la lune:



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