A Hopeless Endeavor: A Joanna Newsom Podcast

The first of three Ribbon Bows episodes! We hope you enjoy.

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.

“There is a spring not far from here. The water runs both sweet and clear - both sweet and clear, and cold: could crack your bones with veins of gold.”

Our final (for now, at least) thoughts on Autumn.

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.

“Wherever I go, I am snowbound by thoughts of him whom I would shun. I loved them all, one by one. Cannot gain ground, cannot outrun; but time marches along. You can’t always stick around. But, when the final count is done, I will be in my hometown.”

More about Autumn! Stick around to the end for a ridiculous blooper time.

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 lay low when I return, and I move like a gurney whose wheels are squeaking, alone, here in my home, and I laugh when you speak of my pleasure-seeking.”

We talk about Autumn! Which involves discussions of Persephone and Demeter, Joanna Newsom’s insane abilities as a lyricist, Nabokov, Only Skin, and, you guessed it, death all around.

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 may have changed. It’s hard to gauge. Time won’t account for how I’ve aged. Would I could tie your lying tongue. Who says that leaving keeps you young.”

The first episode about the criminally underrated Autumn. We spend a lot of time at the beginning of the episode talking about some super insightful listener thoughts and theories. Then we go on to discuss the first verse (especially the sentence structure of the first line).

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“Driven through by her own sword, Summer died last night, alone. Even the ghosts huddled up for warmth. Autumn has come to my hometown.”

The last episode on sweet Esme.

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“The phantom of love moves among us at will. Each phantom-limb lost has got an angel (so confused, like the wagging bobbed-tail of a bulldog): kindness, kindness prevails.”

The first episode on sweet Esme! Shockingly, we discuss water, and what it might MEAN.

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“I can feel a difference. Today, a difference: all of us, in our tents, fearing god like a mistress.”

Here is the last episode on Soft as Chalk! In this episode, we talk vaguely about the Bible. We will miss this gorgeous song, and we are sad to let it go. Please send us thoughts on it so that we can talk about it more.

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“I knew a little bit, but, darling, you were it, and, darling, now it is long gone.”

Hello sweet people! We thought we would release one of our bonus Patreon episodes to the main feed in case anyone needs a little something to get through the holidays. Also, as a thank you for being the best listeners in the whole entire world.

This is a silly episode where we take a quiz to determine which Joanna song we are. Hope you like it!

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.

This is the third and penultimate episode on Soft as Chalk! We mostly try to figure out what the black bear is up to.

There is a slight audio issue that gets better around the 20 minute mark. Sorry about that!

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 this 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.

“While, over and over - rear up! stand down! lay round! - trying to sound-out, or guess the reasons, I sleep like a soldier without rest. But there is no treason where there is only lawlessness.”