A Hopeless Endeavor: A Joanna Newsom Podcast

The Divers song that is outside of the loop, aka the bleakest stuff you’ve ever heard, aka Make Hay. Here is our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ahopelessendeavor?utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator. Here is the Blessing All the Birds article on “Make Hay:” Here are three articles about “Make Hay” by Michael Hicks: (1) https://medium.com/@hexagn/joanna-newsom-make-hay-meaning-explained-part1-d078d7845dc2 (2) https://medium.com/@hexagn/joanna-newsom-make-hay-meaning-explained-part2-2efb3a8bb1cd?source=post_page-----d078d7845dc2-------------------------------- (3) https://medium.com/@hexagn/joanna-newsom-make-hay-meaning-explained-part3-f08cdd16be6 Our email is ahopelessendeavor@gmail.com. We are @ahopelessendeavorpodcast on Instagram, and we’re on Facebook too. Thank you so much, as always, to David Pizarro for his sick beats, and for doing the audio processing every single week. Here is a link to all his Joanna beats on SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/mA6TgWNi9EDhDt2C7. Thank YOU all so much for still being here with us.

The Divers song that is outside of the loop, aka the bleakest stuff you’ve ever heard, aka Make Hay. Here is our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ahopelessendeavor?utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator. Here is the Blessing All the Birds article on “Make Hay:” Here are three articles about “Make Hay” by Michael Hicks: (1) https://medium.com/@hexagn/joanna-newsom-make-hay-meaning-explained-part1-d078d7845dc2 (2) https://medium.com/@hexagn/joanna-newsom-make-hay-meaning-explained-part2-2efb3a8bb1cd?source=post_page-----d078d7845dc2-------------------------------- (3) https://medium.com/@hexagn/joanna-newsom-make-hay-meaning-explained-part3-f08cdd16be6 Our email is ahopelessendeavor@gmail.com. We are @ahopelessendeavorpodcast on Instagram, and we’re on Facebook too. Thank you so much, as always, to David Pizarro for his sick beats, and for doing the audio processing every single week. Here is a link to all his Joanna beats on SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/mA6TgWNi9EDhDt2C7. Thank YOU all so much for still being here with us.

Michael Hicks, author of a whole bunch of wildly insightful articles analyzing Joanna’s lyrics, was kind enough to join us for this two part discussion. We talk about big themes on Divers, his writing process, Finnegans Wake, and which dish each album would be. Thank you so much, Michael! You can find links to his articles here: https://medium.com/@hexagn. Here is our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ahopelessendeavor?utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator. Our email is ahopelessendeavor@gmail.com. We are @ahopelessendeavorpodcast on Instagram, and we’re on Facebook too. Thank you so much, as always, to David Pizarro for his sick beats, and for doing the audio processing every single week. Here is a link to all his Joanna beats on SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/mA6TgWNi9EDhDt2C7. Thank YOU all so much for still being here with us.

Here we are. Thrust into the end-beginning and probably weeping about it. Time DOES pass hard, ancient mysteries linger, death looms, a woman calls out, a bird receives the message, and we bleed out our days into the river of time in this series of light-hearted episodes. Here is our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ahopelessendeavor?utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator. Here is the “Delving into Divers” Blessing All the Birds article on “Time:” https://allthebirds.tumblr.com/post/177532661538/delving-into-divers-time-as-a-symptom/amp Here is the Blessing All the Birds article on “Anecdotes,” “Time, As a Symptom,” and chiasmus: https://allthebirds.tumblr.com/post/187610274378/re-anecdotes-time-as-a-symptom-and/amp Here are two articles about “Time” by Michael Hicks: (1) https://medium.com/@hexagn/joanna-newsoms-word-of-warning-9b26e5c131cf (2) https://medium.com/@hexagn/our-perfect-secret-keeping-mysteries-hidden-and-revealed-in-joanna-newsoms-time-as-a-symptom-3ef6f45ceccc Our email is ahopelessendeavor@gmail.com. We are @ahopelessendeavorpodcast on Instagram, and we’re on Facebook too. Thank you so much, as always, to David Pizarro for his sick beats, and for doing the audio processing every single week. Here is a link to all his Joanna beats on SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/mA6TgWNi9EDhDt2C7. Thank YOU all so much for still being here with us.

Here we are. Thrust into the end-beginning and probably weeping about it. Time DOES pass hard, ancient mysteries linger, death looms, a woman calls out, a bird receives the message, and we bleed out our days into the river of time in this series of light-hearted episodes. Here is our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ahopelessendeavor?utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator. Here is the “Delving into Divers” Blessing All the Birds article on “Time:” https://allthebirds.tumblr.com/post/177532661538/delving-into-divers-time-as-a-symptom/amp Here is the Blessing All the Birds article on “Anecdotes,” “Time, As a Symptom,” and chiasmus: https://allthebirds.tumblr.com/post/187610274378/re-anecdotes-time-as-a-symptom-and/amp Here are two articles about “Time” by Michael Hicks: (1) https://medium.com/@hexagn/joanna-newsoms-word-of-warning-9b26e5c131cf (2) https://medium.com/@hexagn/our-perfect-secret-keeping-mysteries-hidden-and-revealed-in-joanna-newsoms-time-as-a-symptom-3ef6f45ceccc Our email is ahopelessendeavor@gmail.com. We are @ahopelessendeavorpodcast on Instagram, and we’re on Facebook too. Thank you so much, as always, to David Pizarro for his sick beats, and for doing the audio processing every single week. Here is a link to all his Joanna beats on SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/mA6TgWNi9EDhDt2C7. Thank YOU all so much for still being here with us.

Here we are. Thrust into the end-beginning and probably weeping about it. Time DOES pass hard, ancient mysteries linger, death looms, a woman calls out, a bird receives the message, and we bleed out our days into the river of time in this series of light-hearted episodes. Here is our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ahopelessendeavor?utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator. Here is the “Delving into Divers” Blessing All the Birds article on “Time:” https://allthebirds.tumblr.com/post/177532661538/delving-into-divers-time-as-a-symptom/amp Here is the Blessing All the Birds article on “Anecdotes,” “Time, As a Symptom,” and chiasmus: https://allthebirds.tumblr.com/post/187610274378/re-anecdotes-time-as-a-symptom-and/amp Here are two articles about “Time” by Michael Hicks: (1) https://medium.com/@hexagn/joanna-newsoms-word-of-warning-9b26e5c131cf (2) https://medium.com/@hexagn/our-perfect-secret-keeping-mysteries-hidden-and-revealed-in-joanna-newsoms-time-as-a-symptom-3ef6f45ceccc Our email is ahopelessendeavor@gmail.com. We are @ahopelessendeavorpodcast on Instagram, and we’re on Facebook too. Thank you so much, as always, to David Pizarro for his sick beats, and for doing the audio processing every single week. Here is a link to all his Joanna beats on SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/mA6TgWNi9EDhDt2C7. Thank YOU all so much for still being here with us.

It’s Jack time, BABY. Please stay tuned right until the end of the episode because you will not be disappointed. Our lovely listener, Jack, was kind enough to submit a gorgeous and really insightful voice memo about the musicality of this song. It’s like, ascension in the chords to counteract the falling of the flight attendant which is triumphant and maybe a transcendence of death while at the same time being totally in keeping with the themes through the album of binaries pulling against each other. Maybe. I dunno. Also, droning, obviously mirroring the way we drone on about these songs. In this series of episodes, we discuss light as life as pinholes as camera obscuras as distorted perspectives as illusions, etc. We consider whether we are plummeting towards our deaths across horizontal planes just as flight attendants plummet to theirs across vertical planes, from planes. Buckle in. Thank you SO MUCH to the brilliant Lise for her invaluable insights in this episode’s featured voice memo. Here is our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ahopelessendeavor?utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator. Here is the “Delving into Divers” Blessing All the Birds article: https://allthebirds.tumblr.com/post/172532945483/delving-into-divers-a-pin-light-bent/amp Here is the Blessing All the Birds article on “Sapokanikan,” “A Pin-Light Bent,” and chiasmus: https://allthebirds.tumblr.com/post/630971003500101632/re-sapokanikan-and-a-pin-light-bent-and/amp Our email is ahopelessendeavor@gmail.com. We are @ahopelessendeavorpodcast on Instagram, and we’re on Facebook too. Thank you so much, as always, to David Pizarro for his sick beats, and for doing the audio processing every single week. Here is a link to all his Joanna beats on SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/mA6TgWNi9EDhDt2C7. Thank YOU all so much for still being here with us.

In this series of episodes, we discuss light as life as pinholes as camera obscuras as distorted perspectives as illusions, etc. We consider whether we are plummeting towards our deaths across horizontal planes just as flight attendants plummet to theirs across vertical planes, from planes. Buckle in. Here is our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ahopelessendeavor?utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator. Here is the “Delving into Divers” Blessing All the Birds article: https://allthebirds.tumblr.com/post/172532945483/delving-into-divers-a-pin-light-bent/amp Here is the Blessing All the Birds article on “Sapokanikan,” “A Pin-Light Bent,” and chiasmus: https://allthebirds.tumblr.com/post/630971003500101632/re-sapokanikan-and-a-pin-light-bent-and/amp Our email is ahopelessendeavor@gmail.com. We are @ahopelessendeavorpodcast on Instagram, and we’re on Facebook too. Thank you so much, as always, to David Pizarro for his sick beats, and for doing the audio processing every single week. Here is a link to all his Joanna beats on SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/mA6TgWNi9EDhDt2C7. Thank YOU all so much for still being here with us.

In this series of episodes, we discuss light as life as pinholes as camera obscuras as distorted perspectives as illusions, etc. We consider whether we are plummeting towards our deaths across horizontal planes just as flight attendants plummet to theirs across vertical planes, from planes. Buckle in. Here is our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ahopelessendeavor?utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator. Here is the “Delving into Divers” Blessing All the Birds article: https://allthebirds.tumblr.com/post/172532945483/delving-into-divers-a-pin-light-bent/amp Here is the Blessing All the Birds article on “Sapokanikan,” “A Pin-Light Bent,” and chiasmus: https://allthebirds.tumblr.com/post/630971003500101632/re-sapokanikan-and-a-pin-light-bent-and/amp Our email is ahopelessendeavor@gmail.com. We are @ahopelessendeavorpodcast on Instagram, and we’re on Facebook too. Thank you so much, as always, to David Pizarro for his sick beats, and for doing the audio processing every single week. Here is a link to all his Joanna beats on SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/mA6TgWNi9EDhDt2C7. Thank YOU all so much for still being here with us.

Does the way we’re barreling toward the end of this album perfectly mirror the way we’re all barreling toward death? Does You Will Not Take My Heart Alive help us grapple with with both kinds of intolerable angst? You’ll have to tune in to find out. Here is our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ahopelessendeavor?utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator. Thank you to Gabby (@gabbybernthaltattoo on Instagram) for the gorgeous episode artwork. Here is the “Delving into Divers” Blessing All the Birds article: https://allthebirds.tumblr.com/post/167197387293/delving-into-divers-you-will-not-take-my-heart/amp Here is the Blessing All the Birds article on “Leaving the City,” “You Will Not Take My Heart Alive,” and chiasmus: https://allthebirds.tumblr.com/post/630971003511734272/re-leaving-the-city-and-you-will-not-take-my/amp Our email is ahopelessendeavor@gmail.com. We are @ahopelessendeavorpodcast on Instagram, and we’re on Facebook too. Thank you so much, as always, to David Pizarro for his sick beats, and for doing the audio processing every single week. Here is a link to all his Joanna beats on SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/mA6TgWNi9EDhDt2C7. Thank YOU all so much for still being here with us.

Does the way we’re barreling toward the end of this album perfectly mirror the way we’re all barreling toward death? Does You Will Not Take My Heart Alive help us grapple with with both kinds of intolerable angst? You’ll have to tune in to find out. Here is our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ahopelessendeavor?utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator. Thank you to Gabby (@gabbybernthaltattoo on Instagram) for the gorgeous episode artwork. Here is the “Delving into Divers” Blessing All the Birds article: https://allthebirds.tumblr.com/post/167197387293/delving-into-divers-you-will-not-take-my-heart/amp Here is the Blessing All the Birds article on “Leaving the City,” “You Will Not Take My Heart Alive,” and chiasmus: https://allthebirds.tumblr.com/post/630971003511734272/re-leaving-the-city-and-you-will-not-take-my/amp Our email is ahopelessendeavor@gmail.com. We are @ahopelessendeavorpodcast on Instagram, and we’re on Facebook too. Thank you so much, as always, to David Pizarro for his sick beats, and for doing the audio processing every single week. Here is a link to all his Joanna beats on SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/mA6TgWNi9EDhDt2C7. Thank YOU all so much for still being here with us.

It’s the same old ladies coming at you with some “Same Old Man” content. Here is our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ahopelessendeavor?utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator. Here is the “Delving into Divers” Blessing All the Birds article: https://allthebirds.tumblr.com/post/155530858898/delving-into-divers-same-old-man/amp. Here is the Blessing All the Birds article on “Goose Eggs,” “Same Old Man,” and “Chiasmus:” https://allthebirds.tumblr.com/post/639581478829899776/re-goose-eggs-same-old-man-and-chiasmus. Our email is ahopelessendeavor@gmail.com. We are @ahopelessendeavorpodcast on Instagram, and we’re on Facebook too. Thank you so much, as always, to David Pizarro for his sick beats, and for doing the audio processing every single week. Here is a link to all his Joanna beats on SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/mA6TgWNi9EDhDt2C7. Thank YOU all so much for still being here with us.