OH, THE DAY I WAS BORN

The day that I was born

Which aster reigned over the world?

Just forsaken and forlorn

My star makes me be always hurt

Actually, this is not what Imperio Argentina used to sing, as she used to sing in Spanish. It's just my own English version, in case you want to sing it in a different way. Why not? The easiest ones out of which to make an English version are, precisely, those by the so-called 'folclóricas', including Rocío Jurado's. Ms Argentina actually sang it like this:

El día que nací yo,

¿qué planeta reinaría?

Por donde quiera que voy,

¡qué mala estrella me guía!

Would you like to see her? 

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ga_dAY6h6Bs

Whether you believe in astrology or not, pop music teems with lines referring to one’s birth and fate: I was born to be alive, I was born to love you, I was born in 1981 / And to me / My life has just begun / We are the 80s …

Well, I was born on 25 March, 1962, and not many people can boast of having been born on the same day as Espronceda con diez cañones por banda, viento en popa a toda vela, or rather, on the same day exactly 154 years later, lucky me! Well, but then again exactly 20 years earlier than David Bustamante, which means that while he was in hospital because he had this important task to do, I was also in hospital … recovering from a car accident!

So, this is the truth and nothing but the truth. Who was born on this day in history?  On March the 25th, these less relevant people – than good old Busta, I mean – started to cry, sleep, suck, burp, and make their mothers busy:

• 1867 – Arturo Toscanini, Italian conductor, (d. 1957)
• 1881 – Béla Bartók, Hungarian composer (d. 1945)
• 1908 – Sir David Lean, English film director (d. 1991)
• 1921 – Simone Signoret, French actress (d. 1985)
• 1942 – Aretha Franklin, American singer
• 1943 – Paul Michael Glaser, American actor
• 1947 – Elton John, English singer and songwriter
• 1962 – Marcia Cross, American actress
• 1962 – Fernando Martín, Real Madrid basketball player (d. 1989)
• 1965 – Sarah Jessica Parker, American actress
• 1982: David Bustamante, Spanish Singer and ex mason

Which means that I share my birthday with the singer of some songs you know very well (The moment I wake, before I put on my make-up, make-up, I say a little prayer for you, forever and ever …), as well as the man who played Starsky in Starsky and Hutch, Sir Elton John, S. J. Parker and Busta! As regards my exact date of birth, however, I share it with an actress that very few Spanish people know, and a handsome, tall Spaniard (like myself) who died in a car crash (unlike me) and you may not have heard about.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STKkWj2WpWM

Talking of dead people, Spanish flamenco guitarrist Fernando de la Rosa  passed away at the age of 30 the day my grandfather commented I looked like a gypsy after his daughter (my mother) showed me to him, while my father was attending customers in the ‘shop-section’ of the very old house …  at 7 a.m. on a Sunday!

What else? Well, nothing much. I mean, yes, of course, one of the major events was an attack carried out against Algerians by the OAS (Organisation de l'Armée Secrète), at the time when Algeria was involved in getting its independence from France. 110 people died and 147 got injured that day.

What about your date of birth? What about famous people whose birthday is the same as yours? Please share your info! Oh, and sign your comment, please.

HEALTHY HUMOUR

                            

The British Medical Association has weighed in on Prime Minister David Cameron's health care proposals. The allergists voted to scratch it, but the dermatologists advised not to make any rash moves. The gastroenterologists had a sort of a gut feeling about it,  but the neurologists thought the Administration had a lot of nerve. The obstetricians felt they were all labouring under a misconception. Ophthalmologists considered the idea short-sighted. Pathologists yelled, "Over my dead body!" while the paediatricians said, "Oh, grow up!" The psychiatrists thought the whole idea was madness, while the radiologists could see right through it. The surgeons were fed up with the cuts and decided to wash their hands of the whole thing. The ENT specialists didn't swallow it, and just wouldn’t hear of it. The pharmacologists thought it was a bitter pill to swallow, and the plastic surgeons said, "This puts a whole new face on the matter...."  The podiatrists thought it was a step forward, but the urologists were pissed off at the whole idea. The anaesthetists thought the whole idea was a gas, but the cardiologists didn't have the heart to say no.

In the end, the proctologists won out, leaving the entire decision up to the arseholes in London.