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Coming off the heels of her latest album Light, Dark, Light Again (one of our favorite albums from October), singer-songwriter Angie McMahon has converted into a fungi evangelist after watching the documentary Fantastic Fungi, directed by Louie Schwartzberg. By combining time-lapses, photos, CGI, and interviews, the film that covers the inspection of various fungi left an indelible impression on the musician.
On this episode of The Spark Parade, McMahon dives into her first experience viewing the documentary, gushing over the amount of information it is able to transfer to the viewer while not feeling like a mere list of facts. The film’s ability to draw emotions from its viewers struck her, but she does wish she could have learned even more.
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“That’s one of my qualms, that there’s not enough time to deep dive into all of the branches of what there is to talk about and learn about,” she says about the film. “They touch on so many different things and it’s like ‘What, you’re gonna throw that fact in, and just move on?'”
She goes on to speak more about the different ways to pronounce fungi, the transformative impact that the film has, and how her viewing of the film collided with when she first began to smoke weed.
Listen to Angie McMahon talk about Fantastic Fungi in this episode of The Spark Parade. Please also take the time to like, review, and subscribe to The Spark Parade wherever you get your podcasts, and keep up to date with all our series by following the Consequence Podcast Network. For more of McMahon, be sure to check out her absurd playlist creation on the latest edition of Mixtapes, which you can watch below.
Host Adam Unze (The Opus) explores creativity in all its forms on The Spark Parade by asking musicians, artists, comedians, and other creators to share the single cultural work that has most inspired them. Whether it comes from the world of music, film, comedy, visual art, or literature, we all have something that sparks our own creative desires. On The Spark Parade, guests reveal the single piece of art that ignites within them to fire of creation.
