Today is the 72nd annual Republic Day in India. Usually, spectators line up to watch dancers from all over the nation gather in New Delhi every year on this day to dance in the huge National Arena and all along a five mile parade route, (not so much today though.)
It’s Australia Day today (formerly known as Foundation Day in Australia) as well and commemorates the establishment of the first settlement at Port Jackson, now part of Sydney, in 1788. (The fleet was led by Captain Arthur Philip, who went on to establish the Colony of New South Wales, the first penal colony in Australia.) The day is filled with drinking, merriment and sodomy – Remember Australia: Where men are men and sheep are nervous.
On January 26, 1979, Le Freak was on the top of the American charts.
It’s nice to think there’s a connection.
The Haus of Dcaligari 