15. Black on Both Sides (Femmepire Records Part 4)

S2 E5 The Band is Back

Content warning: there are discussions of mental health, substance abuse, and brief discussion of suicide (42:48-48:55). Take care of yourself first; this may not be the episode for you. We address some experiences we've had together over the past several months and as individuals. Mara finally talks about The Band, specifically the songwriting of Richard Manuel. She also gets into some Band/Dead connections and her interest in how creative relationships fall apart. Anna frames songwriting as a conversation between contemporary female singer-songwriters, and talks Lawrence Lessig and Kendrick Lamar. Also, we could never stop talking about patron saint of the pod Owsley Stanley, "step on me, Mommy Janis," and a very extra college party.

S2 E4 Mere and Anna's MindSpace Presence

Mere (@stimtok [https://www.tiktok.com/@stimtok] on TikTok) returns to talk about autism, cat costume school, dog language and that time we met up for the Taylor Swift concert. We get a song write-in from Mara. We don't try to boil the ocean. But if you need an Autism 101 [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BXqAoTMj2VmsOaNR8jaQZw69KwVm-TjuXbduNZv-KHY/edit?usp=drive_link] breakdown, here's one Anna wrote for friends and family with lots of handy resources.

S2 E3 View from the Vault / We Talk About Dolly

Today we give you a piece of friendship ephemera that we had thought was lost to time. 15 years ago, yr intrepid hosts planted the seeds of Iovis via a little podcast called House of the Winds. Anna and Mara (feat. a red-dirt Georgia poet named Shelly) freestyled a bit on country music's relationship to capitalism and Christianity, and sang songs of their own. The sound isn't great - we were all speaking into the hardware mic of a Macbook Pro from various feet away, and the servers could only hold so much. But the spirit, cadence (in spite of Mara's stronger Michigan accent and higher pitch), and content feels like an episode we would record today. Anna tries valiantly to get everyone to focus for five seconds while also kind of doing an audio version of cinéma vérité, Mara's obsession with hillbilly cultural appropriation apparently goes way back, and we were celebrating Dolly Parton's impact well before it was trendy for non-Appalacians. Give it up for the 2008 Smoothbrain World Champions

S2 E2 fool of flowers / brain in a vat

This month Meredith (stimtok [https://www.tiktok.com/@stimtok?_t=8bphppjDw8E&_r=1] on TikTok) returns and Lyndsey (blankspacebeliever [https://www.tiktok.com/@blankspacebeliever?_t=8bphvydOj2A&_r=1.] on TikTok) joins us for a serious discussion of clowns, fools and dialectics. Not a single thing was fact checked. Mara is on hiatus (temporary) so we talked brit lit. We need her to come back and remind us why empire is garbage. Some links: * Taylor Swift - Trouble (Goat Remix) [https://youtu.be/-aLYvZ5sX28] * 7 super common chord progressions and why they work [https://youtu.be/Vyc8lezaa9g] * Anna-lante shit (Kendrick edition) [https://www.tiktok.com/@stimtok/video/7219153294931922219?_r=1&_t=8bpimUhVPz9] * Our mysterious playlist: Songs of Innocence and Experience [https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1kdYHzoBwCaefDrcPMZCOq?si=944d2b68f9bf4f11]

15. Black on Both Sides (Femmepire Records Part 4)

When your March "episode" turns out to be a phone call with your best friend instead [https://twitter.com/iovispodcast/status/1639080847574806528?s=20] Just a short and sweet episode for an album Anna loves