A Hopeless Endeavor: A Joanna Newsom Podcast

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39. On a Good Day, Part 2 Aug 28, 2021

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In this last part of our On a Good Day episodes, we talk about how we talk a lot about this one minute and forty-something second song, ruined mills, wills, and water, because of course water. Thank you all for listening. Thanks to Simon for his Instagram insights! Thank you to David Pizarro, as always, for his gorgeous (new) beats. Here is our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ahopelessendeavor?fan_landing=true. “Will you leave me be so that we can stay true to the path that you have chosen?”

38. On a Good Day, Part 1 Aug 21, 2021

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We have made it to the second record of HOOM! It’s a short song, but don’t let that fool you into thinking we don’t have much to say. Here is our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ahopelessendeavor?fan_landing=true. Thank you all so much for listening. Thank you to David Pizarro for his sick beats (there’s a new one this week!), and for processing our audio. Thank you to Sam for recording our Zoom conversations, which is the only reason we still have this recording. “I saw a life, and I called it mine. I saw it drawn so sweet and fine. And I had begun to fill in all the lines, right down to what we’d name her.”

37. Baby Birch, Part 4 Aug 14, 2021

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The final part of Baby Birch. We will miss this song, but also, oh my god, what a relief. Since we are talking about the last verse this entire episode, it is obviously… heavy. Here is our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ahopelessendeavor?fan_landing=true. Thank you all, so much, for listening. Thank you to David Pizarro for the sick music, and for the audio processing of every single episode. “I saw a rabbit as slick as a knife and as pale as a candlestick, and I had thought it’d be harder to do, but I caught her and skinned her quick: held her there, kicking and mewling, upended, unspooling, unsung, and blue; told her, ‘wherever you go, little runaway bunny, I will find you.’ And then she ran, as they’re liable to do.”

36. Baby Birch, Part 3 Aug 07, 2021

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This is a very heavy episode because… Baby Birch. Part 4, the final part, of our discussion of this song is up now on Patreon. Here is our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ahopelessendeavor?fan_landing=true. Thank you all for listening. Thank you so much to David Pizarro for the sick Joanna beats, and for all the time he spends getting the audio just right for every single episode. “You poor little cousin. I don’t want your dregs (a little baby fussing over my legs).”

35. Baby Birch, Part 2 Jul 31, 2021

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We talk some more about this masterpiece of a song. The topics we cover include stars, cars, engines, brakes, breaks, and probably more because the episode is somehow an hour and a half. Here is our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ahopelessendeavor?fan_landing=true. “We heard the rushing slow intake of the dark, dark waters and engine breaks (sic? Maybe not. But maybe).”

34. Baby Birch, Part 1 Jul 24, 2021

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Well, guys. We’re here. We have somehow made it. Thank you all so much for listening. Check out our Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/ahopelessendeavor?fan_landing=true. Thank you to David Pizarro for the music, and for processing the audio for us week after week. “This is a song for Baby Birch, though I will never know you.”

33. No Provenance, Part 3 Jul 17, 2021

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Our final part of this criminally underrated song. Please let us know what you think! Here is our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ahopelessendeavor?fan_landing=true. “And you, with your ‘arrangement’ with Fate, nodded sadly at her lame assault on that steady old gate, her faultlessly etiolated fishbelly-face; the muzzle of a ghost.”

32. No Provenance, Part 2 Jul 10, 2021

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We talk some more about waking up, about finding yourself, about change arising from nothing… Ya know. Thank you to everyone for listening. Thank you to David Pizarro for the music and audio processing. Here is our Patreon where you can find all three of the No Provenance episodes, along with two bonus episodes: https://www.patreon.com/ahopelessendeavor?fan_landing=true “I’m afraid of the Big Return. There’s a certain conversation lost, and that loss incurred with nobody remaining to register who had passed this way, in the night, in the middle of the night (negating their grace and their sight), till only I remember, or mark, how we had our talk…”

31. No Provenance, Part 1 Jul 03, 2021

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Listen. If you are a person who is not sold on this song, please give us the chance in the next three episodes to convince you of its absolute greatness. In this episode, we talk a lot about myths, barns, and betrayal! Thank you to you for listening; thank you to David Pizarro for his sick beats and audio processing skills. Here is our Patreon where all three of our No Provenance episodes are already up (along with a bonus episode!): https://www.patreon.com/ahopelessendeavor?fan_landing=true. “I have died happy, and lived to tell the tale to you. I have slept for forty years, and woke to find me gone.”

30. Good Intentions Paving Co., Part 2 Jun 26, 2021

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More hell talk! More fog talk! More gender roles talk! Also, happy happy happy birthday to Sam, who is obviously completely incredible. Thank you all so much for listening. Thank you to David Pizarro for the lovely music and his audio processing skills. Check out our Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/ahopelessendeavor?fan_landing=true. “And I know you meant to show the extent to which you gave a goddang- you ranged real hot and real cold, but I’m sold, I am at home on that range.”

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