114. Divers, Part 1

A Hopeless Endeavor: A Joanna Newsom Podcast

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 in our first episodes on “Divers”. FYI, we don’t get into the lyrics until episode 2. 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 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.