What does Iovis mean? Take that wild and expansive Jupiter energy (one of us is a Sag sun, the other a Sag rising), make it femme-ish, build a better and more open-hearted world.
What does it mean to be friends for 20 years? How might we define the intimate and blurry spaces between romantic love, family, friendship? We'll discuss the art that helps buttress our life narratives, the places that anchor us to earth, the versions of ourselves we were and are and might be. Just two babies in the upper midwest figuring out everything and nothing in our 40s. It's IOVIS, kids
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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.
13 Jul 2023
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.
16 May 2023
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.
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