Tarot Playlist

[featherynscale]

Today, my how-to of the day (courtesy of Google) is How to use your iPod as a tarot deck. I haven't got an iPod, of course, but the concept is entertaining enough to me that I want to play with it.

The core of the exercise is this: Assign a song to each card in a 78-card tarot deck (the original poster is using a Rider-Waite style, but one imagines that the Thoth and its descendents would work just as well). The original poster's playlist is here.

I'll probably drop my complete list in a post in a few days. For now, there are some possibilities floating about in my brain. If you were to compile such a list, what might be on it?

EDIT: Also, [attention whore] Love me! [/whore]

Comments

[sepiachord.livejournal.com]

Neat!

[starwyse.livejournal.com]

Uh Oh. That looks like a fun concept to play with.

The Tarot musically scored, what would different readings sound like? Tarot, The Musical...

[fionnabhar.livejournal.com]

Something to work on during Silent Sustained Reading the rest of the week! Praise be!

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Glad to be of service. Also, glad to hear you're less full of doom today.

[fionnabhar.livejournal.com]

Much less doom, thanks. About damn time.

And you know, maybe I'll do ogham. Just to be contrary.

Very clever, you are.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

That would go quicker, anyway. I can't recall off the top of my head how many ogham letters there are, but it's certainly less than 78.

Re: Very clever, you are.

[fionnabhar.livejournal.com]

Depends on the system, really. I use 29 total, five aicme + four extra. Saff doesn't have those four, but adds three others. It's just that I know the system better, for one thing. Coming up with a song for, say, the 7 of Cups would be like, er, um. Yeah.

I'm thinking it would be fun to burn them to a CD and put it on random sometime. In the car or something.

[lexpendragon.livejournal.com]

It's fun watching the randomness of a computer slowly replace the randomness of shuffling cards or throwing things.

I coded up a tarot deck in my virtual world, but I only coded it so I could make a bot that played Dragon Poker. However, as a lark, I coded the parts to actually draw and deal the right amount of cards for specific spread. Playing with it, it actually worked. I was shocked.

[lexpendragon.livejournal.com]

That reminds me, K.U.R.S. (What does that stand for, exactly, anyways) seems like the beginning of Dragon Poker.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

It stands for Kemetic Unorthodox Rat Screw. The rules were cribbed from Egyptian Rat Fuck, but made more pagan... or something like that.

I don't know Dragon Poker. How does that work?

[lexpendragon.livejournal.com]

This gives a good description:

Dragon Poker is a fictional card game from the "MythAdventures" series by Robert Asprin, featured primarily in the book Little Myth Marker. The game is an absurdly complex poker variant, with the same basic rules as stud poker (but with different names for the suits and face cards), adding on the concept of conditional modifiers. A conditional modifier is a modification to the rules based on variables such as the day of the week, the number of players, chair position, which hand of the game it is, etc. As a result he game quickly gets ridiculously complicated.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Random is random, right? Why not get inspiration from code? It's all the same.

[lexpendragon.livejournal.com]

But is it truly random when they're getting it from someplace within the CPU? The computer doesn't have the ability to be truly random, does it?

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

*shrug* Complex enough systems....
Shuffling the deck probably isn't truly "random" either -- there's probably some effect of the skill level of the shuffler, the size of his fingers, whether the cards are new and crisp or old and bent, whether or not some of them have, say, coffee stains on them, and so on. Best one can do, though, under the circumstances.

[zylch.livejournal.com]

This is why I like random.org for all of my random number needs. Random numbers available anywhere you can connect to the internet, sourced from realtime atmospheric randomness.

[fionnabhar.livejournal.com]

I'm going ogham, but somebody could totally use Elton John's "Solar Prestige A Gammon" for The Fool. Just saying.

http://www.eltonography.com/songs/solar_prestige_a_gammon.html