Who's Crazy? Me or You?

Ugg Boot

Atleast once a day, usually 5 to 10 times, someone says I'm crazy. Who's to say that I'm not the normal one and everyone else is mentally or chemically imbalanced? It's all based on perspective. Perspective is everything.

Did you know that today is a holiday? It's called Trafalgar Day. Click on it to read about it.

Did you know that in this week in history:

1883, New York sees the grand opening of its Metropolitan Opera House...

1908, Columbia takes out an ad in The Saturday Evening Post touting their new two-sided records...

1956, "Love Me Tender" is the first song to enter the pop charts at #1 ... Elvis' slow dance tune also appears on the Country and Western chart and the R&B chart, not to mention the Top 100 chart...

1961, 20-year-old Bob Dylan records his eponymous debut album accompanied only by his guitar and harmonica ... studio cost is a whopping $400 ... filling out the studio's tax reporting form, he lists his name as "Blind Boy Grunt" ... the young folkie goes on to become one of the most important musical figures of the 20th century...

1962, Live at the Apollo," one of James Brown's most brilliant performances, is captured in Harlem ... the LP will outsell all previous R&B albums with over a million copies sold ... the artist soon to be known as Little Stevie Wonder makes his first recording ... Steveland Morris Judkins doesn't have instant success with this first record, but the accolades are not far away...

1964, a London band known as the High Numbers is rejected after an audition with EMI ... formerly known as The Who, the four young rockers have recently come under the influence of manager Pete Meaden, who suggested the name change and dressed the boys in mod suits ... Meaden's all wet, but the kids are alright ... they'll resume their name and climb to fame...

1973, Keith Richards gets slapped with a £205 fine and is given a conditional discharge after his trial in London with actress Anita Pallenberg ... the bobbies arrested them after raiding their Chelsea home on June 26 and finding pot, smack, mandrax, an unlicensed S&W revolver, and an antique shotgun ... Pallenberg walks, too...

1977, Lynyrd Skynyrd fans take a gut shot this week when they learn that band members, Steve Gaines, Cassie Gaines, and Ronnie Van Zant have died along with three members of their entourage in a plane crash in the swamp near Gillsburg, Mississippi ... the band is flying between Greenville, SC, and Baton Rouge, LA, when their chartered plane goes down, probably due either to mechanical failure or lack of fuel ... the whole band is aboard and the surviving members are all severely injured ... three days earlier marked the release of their sixth album Street Survivor, the cover of which featured the band members surrounded by flames ... the cover is changed after the catastrophe ... the crash marks the end of Lynyrd Skynyrd until the survivors reform the band a decade later...

1978, Keith Richards receives a suspended sentence of one year after pleading guilty to heroin possession in Toronto ... also this week Sid Vicious attempts to off himself at Rikers Island Jail, where he's awaiting trial for the murder of his ol' lady, Nancy Spungen ... the bad Pistol will get out and O.D. before he can be prosecuted for the crime...

1980, Paul Kantner's brain starts bleeding one night between recording sessions for Jefferson Starship ... the degree of brain hemorrhage he suffers almost always results in death or brain damage ... but, amazingly, a few weeks in the hospital is all it takes to bring him back to 100% ... apparently a hole in his cranium left over from an earlier motorcycle accident provides enough release of pressure to prevent permanent damage...

1988, Fantasy Records, after more than a decade of rancorous relations with John Fogerty, launches a suit claiming he plagiarized his own song, "Run Through the Jungle," during the composition of "The Old Man Down the Road" ... it will be 1995 before it is finally decided that Fantasy is fantasizing...

1992, long before her career as a writer of children's books, Madonna releases Sex--a steel-bound book of erotic photos of herself and other beautiful people that sells out the first run of a half million copies in no time ... she also releases her album Erotica this week ... it will sell over two million copies...

1998, the company with publishing rights to Alice Cooper's "Eighteen" files suit against Cooper's primary make-up rock emulators, KISS, claiming they ripped off his song "Eighteen" for their song "Dreamin'" ... Cooper has nothing to do with it and hasn't even heard "Dreamin'" when the suit is filed ... asked about the outcome years later, Cooper says, "I think we all forgot to show up at court. Paul Stanley bought me a cheeseburger to make up for the whole thing"...

2001, VH1 hosts its Concert for New York, which raises over $30 million for victims of 9/11 with performances by such heavy hitters as The Who, David Bowie, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, Elton John, and Bon Jovi...

And that rocks.

What happened today in history? Well I'll tell you.
1824 - Joseph Aspdin patents Portland cement.

1879 - Using a filament of carbonized thread, Thomas Edison tests the first practical electric light bulb (it lasted 13 1/2 hours before burning out).

1945 - Women's suffrage: Women are allowed to vote in France for the first time.

1957 - The movie Jailhouse Rock , starring Elvis Presley, opens.

1959 - US President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs an executive order transferring Wernher Von Braun and other German scientists from the United States Army to NASA.

1966 - A coal tip falls on the village of Aberfan in Wales, killing 144 people, mostly schoolchildren

1967 - Vietnam War: More than 100,000 war protest ers gather in Washington, DC. A peaceful rally at the Lincoln Memorial is followed by a march to The Pentagon and clashes with soldiers and United States Marshal s protecting the facility (event lasts until October 23; 683 people will be arrested). Similar demonstrations occurred simultaneously in Japan and Western Europe.

Births:
1833 - Alfred Nobel, Swedish inventor and benefactor of the Nobel Prize (d. 1896)
1917 - Dizzy Gillespie, American jazz musician (d. 1993)
1940 - Manfred Mann, musician
1941 - Steve Cropper, musician
1942 - Elvin Bishop , musician
1942 - Judge Judy Sheindlin, American judge, television host
Lee Loughnane of Chicago (1946)
Go-Go's guitarist Charlotte Caffey (1953)
Eric Faulkner of the Bay City Rollers (1955)
1955 - Rich Mullins, American musician (d. 1997)
1956 - Carrie Fisher, actress, writer
studio six-string slinger Steve Lukather of Toto (1957)

Deaths:
Bill Black (bass guitarist for Elvis from '56 to '57)(1965)
1969 - Jack Kerouac, American beat novelist
Blind Melon singer Shannon Hoon of Lafayette Louisiana (1995)