A Hopeless Endeavor: A Joanna Newsom Podcast

We’ve got time-traveling soldiers from other multiverses invading our skies, but they’re actually just us in the future. We are colonizing ourselves, which means that you should buckle in.

Here is our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ahopelessendeavor?utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator.

Here is the Blessing All the Birds article by the brilliant Melissa Marturano and Rachel Parent: https://allthebirds.tumblr.com/post/139191098363/delving-into-divers-waltz-of-the-101st/amp.

Here is the Blessing All the Birds article by Melissa Marturano: https://allthebirds.tumblr.com/post/654790452239876096/re-waltz-of-the-101st-lightborne-and-divers/amp

Here is the Michael Hicks article on Medium: https://medium.com/@hexagn/understanding-joanna-newsom-s-waltz-of-the-101st-lightborne-26b921454fa1.

Our email is [email protected].

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.

“I saw his ship in its whistling ascension,
as they launched from the Capitol seat—
swear I saw our mistake
when the clouds draped like a flag,
across the backs of the fleet
of the Hundred-First Lightborne Elite.”

We’ve got time-traveling soldiers from other multiverses invading our skies, but they’re actually just us in the future. We are colonizing ourselves, which means that you should buckle in.

Here is our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ahopelessendeavor?utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator.

Here is the Blessing All the Birds article by the brilliant Melissa Marturano and Rachel Parent: https://allthebirds.tumblr.com/post/139191098363/delving-into-divers-waltz-of-the-101st/amp.

Here is the Blessing All the Birds article by Melissa Marturano: https://allthebirds.tumblr.com/post/654790452239876096/re-waltz-of-the-101st-lightborne-and-divers/amp

Here is the Michael Hicks article on Medium: https://medium.com/@hexagn/understanding-joanna-newsom-s-waltz-of-the-101st-lightborne-26b921454fa1.

Our email is [email protected].

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.

“I saw his ship in its whistling ascension,
as they launched from the Capitol seat—
swear I saw our mistake
when the clouds draped like a flag,
across the backs of the fleet
of the Hundred-First Lightborne Elite.”

We’ve got time-traveling soldiers from other multiverses invading our skies, but they’re actually just us in the future. We are colonizing ourselves, which means that you should buckle in.

Here is our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ahopelessendeavor?utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator.

Here is the Blessing All the Birds article by the brilliant Melissa Marturano and Rachel Parent: https://allthebirds.tumblr.com/post/139191098363/delving-into-divers-waltz-of-the-101st/amp.

Here is the Blessing All the Birds article by Melissa Marturano: https://allthebirds.tumblr.com/post/654790452239876096/re-waltz-of-the-101st-lightborne-and-divers/amp

Here is the Michael Hicks article on Medium: https://medium.com/@hexagn/understanding-joanna-newsom-s-waltz-of-the-101st-lightborne-26b921454fa1.

Our email is [email protected].

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.

“I believed they had got what they came for; I believed our peril was done, on the eve of the last of the Great Wars, after three we had narrowly won. (But the fourth, it was carelessly done.)”

We’ve got time-traveling soldiers from other multiverses invading our skies, but they’re actually just us in the future. We are colonizing ourselves, which means that you should buckle in.

Here is our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ahopelessendeavor?utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator.

Here is the Blessing All the Birds article by the brilliant Melissa Marturano and Rachel Parent: https://allthebirds.tumblr.com/post/139191098363/delving-into-divers-waltz-of-the-101st/amp.

Here is the Blessing All the Birds article by Melissa Marturano: https://allthebirds.tumblr.com/post/654790452239876096/re-waltz-of-the-101st-lightborne-and-divers/amp

Here is the Michael Hicks article on Medium: https://medium.com/@hexagn/understanding-joanna-newsom-s-waltz-of-the-101st-lightborne-26b921454fa1.

Our email is [email protected].

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.

“I believed they had got what they came for; I believed our peril was done, on the eve of the last of the Great Wars, after three we had narrowly won. (But the fourth, it was carelessly done.)”

We’ve got time-traveling soldiers from other multiverses invading our skies, but they’re actually just us in the future. We are colonizing ourselves, which means that you should buckle in.

Here is our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ahopelessendeavor?utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator.

Here is the Blessing All the Birds article by the brilliant Melissa Marturano and Rachel Parent: https://allthebirds.tumblr.com/post/139191098363/delving-into-divers-waltz-of-the-101st/amp.

Here is the Blessing All the Birds article by Melissa Marturano: https://allthebirds.tumblr.com/post/654790452239876096/re-waltz-of-the-101st-lightborne-and-divers/amp

Here is the Michael Hicks article on Medium: https://medium.com/@hexagn/understanding-joanna-newsom-s-waltz-of-the-101st-lightborne-26b921454fa1.

Our email is [email protected].

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.

“I believed they had got what they came for; I believed our peril was done, on the eve of the last of the Great Wars, after three we had narrowly won. (But the fourth, it was carelessly done.)”

Happy 100 episodes! Absolutely bonkers.

Ready for some egg-sistentialiam? Come join these pioneering aeronauts as we navigate this giant thermally-sealed chamber called “life.” This is part 3.

Here is our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ahopelessendeavor?utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator.

Here are the brilliant Melissa Marturano and Rachel Parent of Blessing All the Birds on “Goose Eggs:” https://allthebirds.tumblr.com/post/137558223533/delving-into-divers-goose-eggs.

And here is the Blessing All the Birds article on the chiasmus between “Goose Eggs” and “Same Old Man.” (We’ll be talking about this article a lot more when we get to “Same Old Man.”) https://allthebirds.tumblr.com/post/639581478829899776/re-goose-eggs-same-old-man-and-chiasmus/amp

Here is the Michael Hicks Medium entry on “Goose Eggs:” https://medium.com/@hexagn/just-plain-vamoose-unidentified-falling-objects-in-joanna-newsoms-goose-eggs-f0e5f9d62dc1.

Our email is [email protected].

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.

“What’s redacted will repeat, and you cannot learn that you burn when you touch the heat, so we touch the heat, and we cut facsimiles of love and death (just separate holes in sheets where you cannot breathe, and you cannot see).”

Happy 100 episodes! Absolutely bonkers.

Ready for some egg-sistentialiam? Come join these pioneering aeronauts as we navigate this giant thermally-sealed chamber called “life.” This is part 2. All three parts are currently up on Patreon!

Here is our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ahopelessendeavor?utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator.

Here are the brilliant Melissa Marturano and Rachel Parent of Blessing All the Birds on “Goose Eggs:” https://allthebirds.tumblr.com/post/137558223533/delving-into-divers-goose-eggs.

And here is the Blessing All the Birds article on the chiasmus between “Goose Eggs” and “Same Old Man.” (We’ll be talking about this article a lot more when we get to “Same Old Man.”) https://allthebirds.tumblr.com/post/639581478829899776/re-goose-eggs-same-old-man-and-chiasmus/amp

Here is the Michael Hicks Medium entry on “Goose Eggs:” https://medium.com/@hexagn/just-plain-vamoose-unidentified-falling-objects-in-joanna-newsoms-goose-eggs-f0e5f9d62dc1.

Our email is [email protected].

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.

“And every season, somebody burns, downtown, taking turns— taking a bus, to take a train and just plain vamoose.”

Ready for some egg-sistentialiam? Come join these pioneering aeronauts as we navigate this giant thermally-sealed chamber called “life.” This is part 1. All three parts are currently up on Patreon!

Here is our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ahopelessendeavor?utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator.

Here are the brilliant Melissa Marturano and Rachel Parent of Blessing All the Birds on “Goose Eggs:” https://allthebirds.tumblr.com/post/137558223533/delving-into-divers-goose-eggs.

And here is the Blessing All the Birds article on the chiasmus between “Goose Eggs” and “Same Old Man.” (We’ll be talking about this article a lot more when we get to “Same Old Man.”) https://allthebirds.tumblr.com/post/639581478829899776/re-goose-eggs-same-old-man-and-chiasmus/amp

Here is the Michael Hicks Medium entry on “Goose Eggs:” https://medium.com/@hexagn/just-plain-vamoose-unidentified-falling-objects-in-joanna-newsoms-goose-eggs-f0e5f9d62dc1.

Our email is [email protected].

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.

“What we built, at the kiln that won’t be stilled, did not set well: The old veil of desire, like the vessels that we fired, fell thin as eggshells.”

Our closing comments on this devastating masterpiece of a song.

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.

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.

“Spring, deranged, weeping grass and sleepless, broke herself upon my window glass. And I could barely breathe, for seeing all the splintered light that leaked her fissures, fleeing, launched in flight: unstaunched daylight, brightly bleeding, bleached the night with dawn, deleting, in that high sun, after our good run, when the spirit bends beneath knowing it must end.”

This is the penultimate part of our discussion on Leaving the city! The last part is up as an early release on Patreon.

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.

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.

“But they'd alluded to a change that came to pass, and Spring, deranged, weeping grass and sleepless, broke herself upon my windowglass.”