{"id":213,"date":"2010-01-22T19:50:01","date_gmt":"2010-01-23T02:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/?p=213"},"modified":"2010-01-22T19:50:01","modified_gmt":"2010-01-23T02:50:01","slug":"song-of-the-day-e-verra-luomo-by-corte-dei-miracoli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/?p=213","title":{"rendered":"Song of the Day &#8211; &#8220;E Verr\u00c1\u00a0 L&#8217;Uomo&#8221; by Corte Dei Miracoli"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some things I have just found out from <a href=\"http:\/\/babelfish.yahoo.com\/translate_txt\" target=\"_blank\">Babelfish<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This band&#8217;s name translates as &#8220;Court of the Miracles&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>The song title translates as &#8220;And L&#8217; Will come; Man&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Things I knew before:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This is an awesome, majestic, dynamic, emotive song<\/li>\n<li>The band is from Italy<\/li>\n<li>The lyrics are in Italian, and I have no idea what the song is about<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Things I wish I knew:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The meaning of the lyrics<\/li>\n<li>Whether or not the rest of the album is any good<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I found this track on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.progarchives.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Prog Archives<\/a> site a few years ago.\u00a0 The track is still there as a streaming download&#8230; check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.progarchives.com\/artist.asp?id=495\" target=\"_blank\">this page<\/a> to hear it.<\/p>\n<p>Progressive Rock was big in Italy in the early 70s &#8211; maybe even as big as it was in England.\u00a0 Explain this then:\u00a0 The English can&#8217;t cook.\u00a0 The Italian&#8217;s have among the best cuisine in the world.\u00a0 What gives?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/spaghetti2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-214\" title=\"spaghetti2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/spaghetti2-300x234.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"234\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/spaghetti2-300x234.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/spaghetti2.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now I&#8217;m hungry.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the band looks like this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/cortedeimiracoli_pic.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-215\" title=\"cortedeimiracoli_pic\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/cortedeimiracoli_pic-300x230.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/cortedeimiracoli_pic-300x230.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/cortedeimiracoli_pic.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Par for the course for the 70s.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m so glad I went and spent a bunch of time listening to music on Prog Archives.\u00a0 The last time I was unemployed was quite literally the best year of my life.\u00a0 I spent my savings however&#8230; so here I am employed again.\u00a0 I blame my parents for not being filthy fucking rich when they had me.<\/p>\n<p>Of all the Italian Prog I listened to, this song sticks in my head the most.\u00a0 There it is right now, in fact, sticking out of my head with the sharp end jabbed into my skull.\u00a0 OUCH!!!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/spaghetti-head.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-216\" title=\"spaghetti-head\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/spaghetti-head-222x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"222\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/spaghetti-head-222x300.jpg 222w, http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/spaghetti-head.jpg 297w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 222px) 100vw, 222px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And that makes me sad.\u00a0 :(<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the melodies on this, it&#8217;s a fucking masterstroke.\u00a0 While I&#8217;m on a silly Google-Image kick, here&#8217;s the top search result for &#8220;fucking masterstroke&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/patchopsticks.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-217\" title=\"patchopsticks\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/patchopsticks-300x181.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"181\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/patchopsticks-300x181.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/patchopsticks.jpg 396w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Is the song done playing yet?\u00a0 You&#8217;d probably do well to listen to that wonderful song instead of reading this idiotic tripe and looking at the random images I&#8217;ve swiped from the internet to pad out the length of my blog, thus making it look like I have more to say than I actually do.<\/p>\n<p>Want another poem then?\u00a0 Sorry, too tired to rhyme, and I&#8217;m now out of time.<\/p>\n<p>Plus looking at that appetizing plate of spaghetti REALLY made me hungry.\u00a0 When I visited Germany, I was constantly lamenting the lack of good food.\u00a0 And fuck you if you try to tell me that sauerkraut and dumplings even fucking QUALIFY as food.\u00a0 I think that&#8217;s why Germany invented those two world wars.\u00a0 They wanted to invade to get better food.<\/p>\n<p>Didn&#8217;t work.\u00a0 We all know how THAT ended.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, enough typing.\u00a0 I wanted to have phone sex one more time, but god damn that is EXPENSIVE.\u00a0 Fun, and it boosts my mood and outlook on life for days, but I need to pay bills and such.<\/p>\n<p>I shall now make some spaghetti!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some things I have just found out from Babelfish: This band&#8217;s name translates as &#8220;Court of the Miracles&#8221; The song title translates as &#8220;And L&#8217; Will come; Man&#8221; Things I knew before: This is an awesome, majestic, dynamic, emotive song The band is from Italy The lyrics are in Italian, and I have no idea [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[101,131,132,557,57,130],"class_list":["post-213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-song-of-the-day","tag-70s","tag-corte-dei-miracoli","tag-food","tag-phone-sex","tag-progressive-rock","tag-spaghetti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions\/219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}