Category: Scott B. Pruden

• In the Wake of Charleston, Waiting for Tomorrowland

  Wow – what a weird couple of weeks. A few major Supreme Court decisions that permanently turned things in the U.S. in a dramatically different direction, preceded by the tragedy…

• Download It and Turn It UP! My Summer 2015 Playlist

  Summer music is a genre unto its own, and can’t be easily qualified or quantified as a particular “type.” But I’ll give it a shot. Bright, breezy, pop or soul…

• Monday Motivation: The Writer and the Altered Mental State

  Back when I wrote a weekly column for my home town’s newspaper, I took it upon myself to occasionally add a hefty dose of weird to my readers’ lives. Many…

• Funky Friday: Finding the Funk in Surprising Places

  Anyone who’s spent more than 10 minutes reading past posts from this blog know that I’m a fan of fusion – both literary and musical. Some of the best examples…

• Because It’s Monday, Classic ‘Star Trek’ Characters Rendered in Pixar Style

  It’s hard to recall that there was ever anything wrong with Pixar, but anyone who watched the short subject Tin Toy, which preceded the release of Toy Story by seven…

• Funky Friday: How Groot Got His Groove Back

  If you don’t get it, it’s because you haven’t seen it. And if you haven’t seen it, you really, really should.

• Entirely Biased and Totally Subjective Movie Review: ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’

  What is it about the beach that makes everyone’s attitude improve? Think about it. Everything good in life seems a little bit easier when you’re breathing sea air and basking…

• Power Pop Wednesday: Yes, Please Do Go All the Way

  In 1974, when this song came out, I was 6 years old, and yet I find that memories of it playing on AM radio still bubble up from way back…

• Funky Friday: The Power of the Writing Remix

  Witness Big Audio Dynamite II, culled from the wreckage of The Clash and infused with funk, hip hop and the earliest 1990s incarnations of electronic dance music. What you might…

• Funky Friday: God Bless America … And James Brown

    Because the Funk would not exist without JB, and without JB America wouldn’t be the same.