{"id":3701,"date":"2024-09-13T16:13:37","date_gmt":"2024-09-13T16:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigheadamusements.com\/wordpress\/?p=3701"},"modified":"2026-01-06T07:42:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T07:42:29","slug":"podcast-conversation-with-composer-musician-filmmaker-spookey-ruben","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigheadamusements.com\/wordpress\/?p=3701","title":{"rendered":"Podcast: Composer \/ Musician \/ Filmmaker SPOOKEY RUBEN"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>As a prelude to the soft launch of BHA+ &#8211; my nascent Vintage Video Review &amp; How-To Patreon channel \u2013 the first post is a lengthy podcast conversation with Canadian-born musician, composer, producer, and filmmaker Spookey Ruben, whose 2024 tour hits Toronto today on gloriously ominous Friday the 13<sup>th<\/sup> at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/s\/spookeys-friday-the-13th-live-\/496622143100471\/?mibextid=9VsGKo&amp;rdid=mMSE5W4DmlwkRVap&amp;share_url=https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/T1wixrHH6DkHNag7\/?mibextid=9VsGKo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BSMT 254<\/a>, Toronto.<\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/s\/spookeys-friday-the-13th-live-\/496622143100471\/?mibextid=9VsGKo&amp;rdid=mMSE5W4DmlwkRVap&amp;share_url=https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/T1wixrHH6DkHNag7\/?mibextid=9VsGKo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3704 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/bigheadamusements.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/SpookeyRuben_Toronto_Poster-e1726242971276.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><\/p>\r\n<p>As we discuss Ruben&#8217;s shift from music to film to music videos whilst building a career as prolific songwriter after time at York University, I&#8217;ve interpolated numerous samples of his work, as well as some underscore from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JGXfl2XCMJ0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>Puzzleface<\/b><\/a>, his short film that&#8217;s also notable as featuring an appearance by filmmaker Ken Russell (<strong>Billion Dollar Brain<\/strong>, <strong>Altered States<\/strong>, <strong>Lair of the White Worm<\/strong>) as, what else, God.<\/p>\r\n<p>The podcast interview \u2013 the first of what&#8217;ll be a monthly feature at BHA+ &#8211; is available through <a href=\"http:\/\/bigheadamusements.libsyn.com\/bha-episode-01-interview-with-recording-artist-filmmaker-spookey-ruben-2024-09-10\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Libsyn<\/a> and other fine streaming services, and a Visual Version on BHA&#8217;s YouTube channel:<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0fgfIA3_evw?si=nm3DMSXd_fygbw3o\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe> \u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>Special Thanks to Spookey Ruben for his generous time, and David Daniloff &amp; Daniloff Productions for facilitating our Q&amp;A. Visit <a href=\"https:\/\/spookeyruben.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spookey Ruben&#8217;s website<\/a> for links to his numerous music videos, and <a href=\"https:\/\/spookeyruben.bandcamp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bandcamp<\/a> to sample and purchase his music.<\/p>\r\n<p>You can also follow us on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/big_head_amusements\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BigHeadAmusements\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a> for further alerts and teasing images and video.<\/p>\r\n<p>Thanks for reading,<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p><strong>Mark R. Hasan<\/strong>, Editor<br \/><strong>Big Head Amusements<\/strong> \/ BHA+<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BHA+ soft-launches with a lengthy podcast interview featuring Canadian-born musician, composer, producer, filmmaker SPOOKEY RUBEN, whose 2024 tour is in mid-flight, spanning the Eastern U.S. and Canada, and select cities in Germany.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3708,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[417,277,419],"tags":[420,421,426,422,424,423,117,427,425],"class_list":["post-3701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bha","category-editors-blog","category-podcasts","tag-bha","tag-bigheadamusements","tag-concert","tag-filmmaking","tag-filmmusic","tag-musicvideos","tag-podcast","tag-podcastinterview","tag-torontolivemusic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigheadamusements.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigheadamusements.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigheadamusements.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigheadamusements.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigheadamusements.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3701"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/bigheadamusements.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3948,"href":"https:\/\/bigheadamusements.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3701\/revisions\/3948"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigheadamusements.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigheadamusements.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigheadamusements.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigheadamusements.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}