121. Divers, Part 8

A Hopeless Endeavor: A Joanna Newsom Podcast

In the most monumental event of the decade, Joanna played a live show this week with new songs. We recorded this before that, but let us assure you that we will lose our minds with you all on next week’s episode. Did you know that humans can hold their breath for 22 minutes? Do you know the difference between phosphorescence and fluorescence? Did you know that birds have lung-air-sacs all over their bodies? Find out this and more with our first DIVE into Divers. Here is our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ahopelessendeavor?utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator. Here is the Critical Reactions video on “Divers”: https://youtu.be/CeSRLrzkK58 Here is Sarah’s website for some beautiful bioluminescence: https://www.sarahclough.com. Here is the first Blessing All the Birds article by the brilliant Melissa Marturano and Rachel Parent: https://allthebirds.tumblr.com/post/149510193303/delving-into-divers-the-title-song Here is the BAB article on the chiasmus between “Waltz” and “Divers”: https://allthebirds.tumblr.com/post/654790452239876096/re-waltz-of-the-101st-lightborne-and-divers Here is the BAB article comparing “Occident” and “Divers”: https://allthebirds.tumblr.com/post/643379032632721408/occident-and-divers#tumblr_notes And then one comparing “Colleen” and “Divers”: https://allthebirds.tumblr.com/post/153570321368/colleen-and-divers And an early BAB post on “Divers”: https://allthebirds.tumblr.com/post/28528429273/the-divers-wife-water-pearls-and-femininity Our email is [e-mail]. 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.