133. A Pin-Light Bent, Part 5

A Hopeless Endeavor: A Joanna Newsom Podcast

It’s Jack time, BABY. Please stay tuned right until the end of the episode because you will not be disappointed. Our lovely listener, Jack, was kind enough to submit a gorgeous and really insightful voice memo about the musicality of this song. It’s like, ascension in the chords to counteract the falling of the flight attendant which is triumphant and maybe a transcendence of death while at the same time being totally in keeping with the themes through the album of binaries pulling against each other. Maybe. I dunno. Also, droning, obviously mirroring the way we drone on about these songs. In this series of episodes, we discuss light as life as pinholes as camera obscuras as distorted perspectives as illusions, etc. We consider whether we are plummeting towards our deaths across horizontal planes just as flight attendants plummet to theirs across vertical planes, from planes. Buckle in. Thank you SO MUCH to the brilliant Lise for her invaluable insights in this episode’s featured voice memo. Here is our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ahopelessendeavor?utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator. Here is the “Delving into Divers” Blessing All the Birds article: https://allthebirds.tumblr.com/post/172532945483/delving-into-divers-a-pin-light-bent/amp Here is the Blessing All the Birds article on “Sapokanikan,” “A Pin-Light Bent,” and chiasmus: https://allthebirds.tumblr.com/post/630971003500101632/re-sapokanikan-and-a-pin-light-bent-and/amp 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.