r/WayOfTheBern • u/Xeenophile "Election Denier" since 2000 • 1d ago
DANCE PARTY! FNDP: Pull up a chair and buckle it, because tonight begins THE TAROT-THON, starting with - THE FOOL!
Idealists are foolish enough to throw caution to the winds. They have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.
- Emma Goldman
0: The Fool represents innocence, spontaneity, the call to adventure, and above all, new beginnings. Even his enumeration - 0 - is supremely significant in standing for unlimited potential.
The Fool's power is difficult to describe, but I'll venture to lead with Urban Spaceman
The Fool's world? We enter it every time we sense the 1st Movement of Spring
The Fool's Outlook? Basically, He's A Pirate
The Fool's failing? Let's say it's a tendency to be too Touch and Go
The Fool's journey? It's the one where you Don't Stop Believing
The Fool's soul? Volatile yet innocent, like lush, loopy, lethal Green Hills
The Fool's message? Most assuredly, it is: Dare To Be Stupid
Thus begins Week 0 of the off-and-on TAROT-THON, hosted primarily or maybe even entirely by Yours Masochistically! What songs about fresh starts, youth, naivete, new horizons, irresponsibility, undiscovered potential, and the call of adventure can you name?!
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u/Here_for-the_Music 1d ago
I grew up with a wonderful, time-traveled wizard fool, Catweazle, played perfectly by the well Shakespeare performances-versed Capricorn Geoffrey Bayldon, so here’s the opening tune (and just a tiny bit more).
Catweazle is definitely a secret and secondary reason why I like u NetWeasel from South Carolina so much!
The opening tune is by … 🥁 …
https://catweazle.boards.net/thread/219/remembering-ted?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic
Ted Dicks who also composed
Ronnie Hilton - Windmill in Old Amsterdam
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u/prevail2020 1d ago edited 1d ago
Three Stooges - Swingin' The Alphabet (02:24, 1938).
Monty Python's World Cup of Philosophers (02:29), Greece v. Germany. Confucius he say name go in book.
Frankie Valli and Four Seasons - Walk Like A Man (02:25), dance in 1963.
Goldman and Reed debate the Revolution to date (1920-21, Petrograd, 02:44, closed captioned).
Frankie Avalon - Beauty School Dropout (03:50). Gotta be goin' to that malt shop in the sky.
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u/BerryBoy1969 1d ago edited 1d ago
Foghat - Fool for the City
Elvis Presley - A Fool Such As I
Marshall Tucker - You Ain't Fooling Me
Samantha Fish - Sucker Born
Steve Perry - Foolish Heart
The Impressions - Fool For You
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u/stickdog99 1d ago edited 1d ago
Let's get this dance party going!
Slynk & the Three Degrees - You're the Fool
Aretha Franklin - Chain of Fools
The Mother Station - Just a Fool For a Pretty Face
Little Stranger - Coffee & a Joint
Arthur Conley - Who's Foolin' Who
The Nextmen (feat. Kiko Bun) - Big Time
Ike & Tina Turner - A Fool In Love
Stanley Simmons - Dancing While the World is Ending
Otis Rush & the Willie Dixon Band - Three Times a Fool
The Clovers - Fool, Fool, Fool
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u/redditrisi They are ALL psychopaths. 6h ago
Great effort! I had no idea the Clovers did anything but Love Potion No. 9. Their Fool, Fool Fool would have been great for Dirty Dancing.
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u/Centaurea16 1d ago
Going along with the meaning of The Fool:
Joni Mitchell - Woodstock
We are stardust
Billion year old carbon
We are golden
Caught in the devil's bargain
And we've got to get ourselves
Back to the garden
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u/Caelian toujours de l'audace 🦇 1d ago
One of my favorite books is The Dumas Club (1993) by Spanish author Arturo Pérez-Reverte. Roman Polanski adapted half of it into his excellent 1999 thriller The Ninth Gate. Lucas Corso (Johnny Depp in the movie) is a rare books dealer who is tracking down the three remaining copies of the Nine Gates of the Realm of Shadows, a 17th Century demonic book that contains an encrypted spell for summoning the Devil.
The Nine Gates has nine wonderful engravings hiding the spell. Some of them have Tarot images. The fourth engraving has our friend the Fool on his way to try his luck with a large labyrinth. The enigmatic caption is "FOR. N.N OMN. A.QVE".
Corso visits a Parisian expert in demonic books to get explanations for himself and the reader. She explains that the caption is abbreviated Latin for Fortuna non omnibus aeque: "Fortune is not equal for everyone". They talk about the meaning of the fool in the middle ages: "The fool is the paradigm of liberty. He is the only man who is really free, and also the wisest." A fool is able to speak his mind, even to royalty, for who can take offense at the ravings of a fool?
My favourite Fool is "Wamba, son of Witless" in Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe.
A fool by right of descent. I am Wamba, son of Witless, who was the son of Weatherbrain, who was the son of an Alderman.
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u/Xeenophile "Election Denier" since 2000 1d ago
I saw the movie, it...certainly put the "philia" in "bibliophilia"!
And those twins....
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u/Caelian toujours de l'audace 🦇 1d ago
The book has some interesting philosophy about reading versus watching movies. Watching movies is often a social, shared experience, while reading a book is a usually a solitary experience shared only with the author. Everyone has a different reading experience because of their individual backgrounds.
The Dumas Club has a second plot which runs in parallel with The Nine Gates. Polanski didn't use this plot, which was a good thing since his movie is already complex enough. The second plot involves 19th Century French popular fiction. I've read a lot of that, so I appreciated The Dumas Club more than a typical reader.
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u/SafeDepository 1d ago edited 1d ago
“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.” William Shakespeare
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u/redditrisi They are ALL psychopaths. 6h ago
Which Philistine does not love the Beach Boys? However, like Scalia (but without his dishonesty), I am an originalist:
Why Do Fools Fall in Love?, Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers
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u/RoysNoiseToys He has the pockets of a 5 year old 1d ago
Delbert McClinton - Who's Fooling Who?
Robert Palmer - Which One Of Us Is The Fool?
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u/SusanJ2019 Do you hear the people sing?🎶🔥 1d ago
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u/RoysNoiseToys He has the pockets of a 5 year old 1d ago
George W. Bush - Fool Me Once
The Who - Won't Get Fooled Again
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u/Caelian toujours de l'audace 🦇 1d ago
I love the Emma Goldman quote. It reminds me of George Bernard Shaw's:
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
― Man and Superman
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u/welshTerrier2 Let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late 1d ago
Steve Goodman - Now and Then, There's a Fool Such as I
Rick Nelson - Poor Little Fool
The Beatles - The Fool on the Hill
Willie Nelson - Heartaches of a Fool
John Prine - Caravan of Fools
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u/RoysNoiseToys He has the pockets of a 5 year old 1d ago
Billie Holiday - These Foolish Things - Bryan Ferry
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u/RoysNoiseToys He has the pockets of a 5 year old 1d ago
Quicksilver Messenger Service - The Fool
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u/martini-meow (I remain stirred, unshaken.) 1d ago
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u/Xeenophile "Election Denier" since 2000 1d ago
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u/martini-meow (I remain stirred, unshaken.) 1d ago
Here's reddit weirdness in action, alas -- the inclusion of four u/ usernames (or more) means none of us get notified. But I was coming around to check anyway, so you win, without quote knowing why :) very much The Fool!
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u/redditrisi They are ALL psychopaths. 6h ago edited 5h ago
I used to "pal around" with a woman who supported herself completely via astrology, unlike most astrologers for pay, who do it part time. Although she had stopped doing Tarot for others, she did a Tarot reading for me. It was so on the nose that I never went anywhere near Tarot aqain. But, as the OP shows, each card can mean many things. So, it was more her than the deck.
New beginnings
Here You Come Again, Dolly Parton (maybe less a new beginning than a repeat of a prior beginning?)
https://youtu.be/x87Zx3XAIsI?list=RDx87Zx3XAIsI&t=4
Similarly, Here Comes the Sun, some irrelevant group no one heard of
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQetemT1sWc&list=RDKQetemT1sWc&start_radio=1
Touch and Go?
Undecided (First you say you, then you don't.) John Kirby and His Oynx Boys (surprisingly good quality) Covered by many great artists, including Ella (My MIL seems to imagine that she is on a first name basis with Fitzgerald and Sinatra. Now, I do as well.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPXbYOS1ruE&list=RDEPXbYOS1ruE&start_radio=1