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We've got a theme song!

9:59 PM Monday, June 20, 2005

[The real sugar is at the bottom]

That's right, Jonathan's Coffeeblog now has a theme song, which you can play by clicking on the link above, or the smaller version in the "Go" section of the sidebar to the right. You will be sent to a web page in Italy, where a MIDI version of the Coffeeblog Theme Song will begin to play automatically, assuming your Internet karma is favorable. In addition, you will see the lyrics, with which you will be able to sing along if you are literate in Napuletano, the language spoken within a stone's throw, so to speak, of Mt. Vesuvius.

The song is 'A Tazz' 'e Cafe, Napuletano for La Tazza di Caffé (or as we Californians call it in Boonvillle, Mendocino County, a horn of zeese.) Best as I can translate it, the song, using a sexual metaphor, addresses humanity's universal existential despair upon confronting the bitterness of a cup of espresso which has been overextracted (see my former post entitled Yuck! on that very topic.) The song's protagonist compares his significant other's disposition to the aforesaid bitter taste, and her physical being to a cup of coffee, rhapsodizing over the fact that the real sugar is at the bottom.

In any case, the Coffeeblog's newly adopted theme song is a rollicking good tune, a tarantella I think. (Do they compose tarantellas in Naples, or only in Taranto? What about Toronto?)

Listen to it twenty or thirty times, then head for your neighborhood espresso joint, humming all the way, while you think of that sugar at the bottom.

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