Buttkickin’ Halloween Songs: “Black Sabbath” — Black Sabbath (1970)

The very flames in which the darkened blade of heavy metal was forged… The first track from their first album… The song Black Sabbath from the album Black Sabbath by the band Black Sabbath… Yeah I think that sets up our penultimate Buttkickin’ Halloween Song song pretty well, but you have to admit that it’s one of the…

Buttkickin’ Halloween Songs: “Over At The Frankenstein Place” — The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)

When it comes to The Rocky Horror Picture Show, most of these sort of playlists begin and end with “Time Warp”, and that nearly makes me puke my guts out. Let me back that up a bit… Going to see midnight screenings of RHPS during your teens and twenties, every Saturday night for God knows…

Halloween Race Tunes playlist

I can’t run without my tunes. No way, no how. So for the 2013 Miami Beach Halloween Half Marathon, I thought I’d put together a Spotify playlist that combines uptempo hard rock/metal with a spooky Halloween theme (much akin to my list of Buttkickin’ Halloween Songs; they do overlap). Not all of the songs are…

Race Review: 2013 Miami Beach Halloween Half Marathon (10/26/2013), or: “There’s a lot of honey in this world, baby this honey’s for me…”

You know, for all the Disney running I do, I am not a “running in costume” sorta guy. Don’t get me wrong now, I love Halloween. As North Americans, pound for pound it’s our coolest holiday. Yes, even cooler than Arbor Day, so cool your jets. The only time in the year you (as an…

First race of the season tomorrow, or: “Ya know I’d like to keep my cheeks dry today…”

Well it can’t ALL be buttkickin’ Halloween songs all the time, can it? So I suppose the running season begins for me (and many others in South Florida) with the 2013 Miami Beach Halloween Half Marathon, and I can’t wait to run it tomorrow (Saturday 10/26/2013). Weather conditions look pretty decent. It’s been a bit…

Buttkickin’ Halloween Songs: “Party Of The First Part” — Bauhaus (1982)

Who are you?  My card, pretty lady.  Devil May Care Music Production, Beelzebub Scratch, President.  I like your style, too bad you’re not a singer.  Oh, but I am, I am a singer!  Hmm, no fooling.  No, no listen…  Fantastic, different.  I want to be a star, of please!  You’ve talked me into it. Contract! …