A Hopeless Endeavor: A Joanna Newsom Podcast

We are somehow about to finish up our discussion of Have One On Me. Here is the first part of our two part episode on Does Not Suffice.

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.

“I will pack up my pretty dresses.
I will box up my high-heeled shoes.
A sparkling ring, for every finger,
I'll put away, and hide from view.

Coats of bouclé, jacquard and cashmere;
cartouche and tweed, all silver shot —
and everything that could remind you
of how easy I was not.“

BREAKING NEWS: We finished our conversation about Kingfisher, and documented it. Here is proof. Thank you so much if you’re still listening.

Thank you so much to Katie for the brilliant voice memo from the episode last week.

Here is the excellent Blessing All the Birds article: https://allthebirds.tumblr.com/post/171895685753/kingfisher-lie-with-the-lion-arthurian-threads/amp.

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.

“I saw that my blood had no bounds, spreading in a circle like an atom bomb, soaking and felling everything in its path, and welling in my heart like a birdbath.”

The penultimate episode of the longest series we’ve ever done on a song. Thank you so much if you’re still listening.

Thank you so much to Katie for the brilliant voice memo.

Here is the excellent Blessing All the Birds article: https://allthebirds.tumblr.com/post/171895685753/kingfisher-lie-with-the-lion-arthurian-threads/amp.

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.

“We came by the boatload, and were immobilized: worshipping volcanoes, charting the loping skies. The tides of the earth left us bound, and calcified, and made as obstinate as obsidian, unmoving, save our eyes: just mooning and blinking from faces marked with coal. (Ash cooling and shrinking cracks loud as thunder rolling.) I swear I know you. You know me. Where have we met before? Tell me true: to whose authority do you consign your soul?”

This is part 5 of the longest series we’ve ever done on a song. Thank you so much if you’re still listening.

Thank you so much to Sarah and Skyler for their absolutely gorgeous cover that you can hear at the end of the episode. Check out more of Sarah’s music here: https://hoonah.bandcamp.com/music.

Here is the excellent Blessing All the Birds article: https://allthebirds.tumblr.com/post/171895685753/kingfisher-lie-with-the-lion-arthurian-threads/amp.

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.

“I can bear a lot, but not that pall! Kingfisher, cast your fly. Oh, Lord, it happens without even trying, when I sling a low look from my shuttering eye.”

We talk about fishers! Kings! Fisher kings! Kingfishers! And more.

Here is the excellent Blessing All the Birds article: https://allthebirds.tumblr.com/post/171895685753/kingfisher-lie-with-the-lion-arthurian-threads/amp.

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.

“He was a kind, unhurried man with a heavy lip, and a steady hand, but he loved me just like a little child; like a little child loves a little lamb.”

We talk about fishers! Kings! Fisher kings! Kingfishers! And more.

Here is the excellent Blessing All the Birds article: https://allthebirds.tumblr.com/post/171895685753/kingfisher-lie-with-the-lion-arthurian-threads/amp.

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.

“And for the sake of that pit of snakes, for whom did you allay your shyness, and spend all your mercy, and madness, and grace in a day, beneath the bending cypress?”

A miracle: we actually talk about the lyrics!

Here is the excellent Blessing All the Birds article: https://allthebirds.tumblr.com/post/171895685753/kingfisher-lie-with-the-lion-arthurian-threads/amp.

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.

“In this life, who did you love, beneath the drifting ashes, beneath the sheeting banks of air that barrenly bore our rations?”

Look, you might expect us to talk about the lyrics to Kingfisher on the first episode about Kingfisher, but we do not do that. It’s an intimidating song!

Here is the excellent Blessing All the Birds article: https://allthebirds.tumblr.com/post/171895685753/kingfisher-lie-with-the-lion-arthurian-threads/amp.

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.

“Whose is the hand that I will hold? Whose is the face I will see? Whose is the name that I will call when I am called to meet thee?”

The last part on Ribbon Bows!

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.

“But, though I get so sad (could swear the night makes a motion to claim me, around that second verse), I reckon I've felt worse, and still held fast. But, later on, when I am alone, alone at last, well I take my god to task. I take my daggone god to task.”

It’s Ribbon Bows time, baby.

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.

“What a beautiful day to catch my drift, or be caught up in it. You want your love, Love?Come and get your love; I only took it back because I thought you didn't.”