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

[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.