A Hopeless Endeavor: A Joanna Newsom Podcast

We’ve got your motes; we’ve got your beams. And we hope you enjoy this second episode on Soft as Chalk.

As always, our profound gratitude goes out to Blessing All the Birds writers, Melissa Marturano and Rachel Parent. Here is a link to an article of theirs that we discuss in one of the Soft as Chalk episodes: https://allthebirds.tumblr.com/post/1092411853/when-bear-stepped-clear-of-bear/amp.

Thank you all so much for listening, and thank you to David Pizarro for the audio processing and for the sick beats.

Here is our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ahopelessendeavor?fan_landing=true. Our email is [email protected]. We are @ahopelessendeavorpodcast on Instagram, and we’re on Facebook too.

“Tell me, honey, was your heart at rest when, darlin’, all the mourning doves were howling us a song of love’s godawful lawlessness?”

Come join our discussion on goats, theodicies, and some good old fashioned righteous anger.

Thank you SO MUCH to Rachana for a truly *breathtaking* cover of Soft as Chalk that we’ve included at the end of the episode. Be sure to listen to it. We promise that it’s worth it.

As always, our profound gratitude goes out to Blessing All the Birds writers, Melissa Marturano and Rachel Parent. Here is a link to an article of theirs that we discuss in one of the Soft as Chalk episodes: https://allthebirds.tumblr.com/post/1092411853/when-bear-stepped-clear-of-bear/amp.

Thank you all so much for listening, and thank you to David Pizarro for the audio processing and for the sick beats.

Here is our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ahopelessendeavor?fan_landing=true. Our email is [email protected]. We are @ahopelessendeavorpodcast on Instagram, and we’re on Facebook too.

“So, so long ago, and so far away, when Time was just a line that you fed me when you wanted to stay, we’d talk as soft as chalk till morning came, pale as a pearl: No time! No time! Now, I have got all the time in the world.”

Our final episode on the second record of HOOM. We talk about loose, sodden, spread, rushing and unhinged universes.

As always, our profound gratitude goes out to Blessing All the Birds writers, Melissa Marturano and Rachel Parent. Here is a link to their super insightful post comparing Occident to Divers: https://allthebirds.tumblr.com/post/643379032632721408/occident-and-divers

Thank you all so much for listening, and thank you to David Pizarro for the audio processing and for the sick beats.

Here is our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ahopelessendeavor?fan_landing=true. Our email is [email protected]. We are @ahopelessendeavorpodcast on Instagram, and we’re on Facebook too.

“The universe is getting loose: sodden spread from some leaden disuse, rushing, unhinged, towards diminishing lights, like a headless caboose.”

The first episode on the last song on the second record of HOOM. Bonkers. We talk about small talk, about battering elements baiting kin, and a lot about death.

As always, our profound gratitude goes out to Blessing All the Birds writers, Melissa Marturano and Rachel Parent. Here is a link to their super insightful post comparing Occident to Divers: https://allthebirds.tumblr.com/post/643379032632721408/occident-and-divers

Thank you all so much for listening, and thank you to David Pizarro for the audio processing and for the sick beats.

Here is our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ahopelessendeavor?fan_landing=true. Our email is [email protected]. We are @ahopelessendeavorpodcast on Instagram, and we’re on Facebook too. “All my life I’ve felt as though I’m inside a beautiful memory, replaying with the sound turned down low.”

The final episode on Go Long! We will miss this life-changer of a song. Thank you all so much for listening, and thank you to David Pizarro for the audio processing and for the sick beats. Here is our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ahopelessendeavor?fan_landing=true. Our email is [email protected]. We are @ahopelessendeavorpodcast on Instagram, and we’re on Facebook too. “There’s a man who only will speak in code, backing slowly, slowly down the road. May he master everything that such men may know about loving, and then letting go.”

It’s the penultimate episode on Go Long! We wonder what lodge, and why the woods are the probable cause of… what? Thank you all so much for listening, and thank you to David Pizarro for the audio processing and for the sick beats. Here is our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ahopelessendeavor?fan_landing=true. Our email is [email protected]. We are @ahopelessendeavorpodcast on Instagram, and we’re on Facebook too.

In our 50th episode (!), we talk about the Mekong, football moves, and what else “you” could be covered in. Thank you all so much for listening, and thank you to David Pizarro for the audio processing and for the sick beats. Here is our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ahopelessendeavor?fan_landing=true. Our email is [email protected]. We are @ahopelessendeavorpodcast on Instagram, and we’re on Facebook too. “You burn in the Mekong to prove your worth. Go long! Go long! Right over the edge of the earth!”

In the second episode of our long go at Go Long, let us tell you how Jessica Simpson is relevant to the song! Princess Diana comes up again too, because obviously. We also learn about odalisques, and we wonder if they have been a theme this whole time. Thank you all so much for listening, and thank you to David Pizarro for the audio processing and for the sick beats. Here is our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ahopelessendeavor?fan_landing=true. “We both want the very same thing. We are praying I am the one to save you. But you don’t even own your own violence. Run away from home - your beard is still blue.”

In this episode, we spend over an hour not making it past the first verse! We talk about Bluebeard, obviously. But like a lot. And also about Princess Diana. Thank you all so much for listening, and thank you to David Pizarro for the audio processing and for the sick beats. Here is our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ahopelessendeavor?fan_landing=true. “Last night, again, you were in my dream. Several expendable limbs were at stake.”

This is Jackrabbits, so we talk about some dark, heavy stuff! Also, we stumble over some Bible business. Thank you all so much for listening, and thank you to David Pizarro for the music. Here is our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ahopelessendeavor?fan_landing=true. “I’m squinting towards the East. My faith makes me a dope. But you can take my hand, in the darkness, darling, like a length of rope.”