ecosophia | Feels Good Man: The Movie

I have to say that being a bit part player in an award-winning movie was never something on my to-do list. Still, odder things have happened. Something like two years ago now, I fielded an email from a filmmaker named Arthur Jones who wanted to talk to me about Pepe the Frog and his magical metamorphoses during the 2016 presidential election. That conversation eventually landed me in the Providence Athenaeum after hours, with film cameras rolling as I talked about the chans, the alt-right, the Egyptian god Kek, and topics of that sort -- and the footage ended up in Feels Good Man, a documentary about cartoon artist Matt Furie's creation of Pepe the Frog, and what happened next.

Apparently critics and audiences like the result -- my few minutes on the screen certainly didn't keep Feels Good Man from winning a slew of awards, including best US documentary at the Sundance Film Festival. Now it's on its way to the little screen, at the 10 pm time slot on Monday the 19th on your local PBS channel -- https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/films/feels-good-man/.

The weird thing is that this isn't even my first appearance on the screen. I've appeared on a TV movie, American Collapse, and a documentary about a Pennsylvania faerie festival, Glen Rock Fae -- I even have my own IMDB page, of all things, though they don't have a photo, and didn't have a bio until I sent them one. Kind of an odd experience for someone who doesn't take in much visual media...

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It gave me a lot to think about -- especially because of JMG's comments about there always being some magic involved in major elections (or however he said it).

For years I've been interested in "the madness of crowds", mass psychology, and, more specifically, how the major governments of Rome, France, Russia, and Germany were all toppled by relatively small groups provoking much larger groups.

Maybe you could write a book about that specifically, John? I should think it would sell and I think you could give a unique perspective with your command of history, philosophy, and magic.

Specifically about the madness of crowds, and the way that small groups can cause large changes? Hmm. I'll put that in the hopper and consider it.

Feels Good Man: The Movie

Thanks to the heads up, I was just able to catch it streaming this evening.

Re: Thanks to the heads up, I was just able to catch it streaming this evening.