Buttkickin’ Halloween Songs: “A Little Piece Of Heaven” — Avenged Sevenfold (2007)

‘Cause I really always knew that my little crime Would be cold, that’s why I got a heater for your thighs And I know, I know it’s not your time But bye-bye And a word to the wise, when the fire dies You think it’s over but it’s just begun Baby, don’t cry You had…

Noshing In Wonderland #5: Whispering Canyon Cafe vs. Kona Cafe, or: “I can hear old guitars a playing, on the beach at Hoonaunau…”

Boots & I recently hit the 2013 International Food and Wine Festival at Epcot in Walt Disney World, but we couldn’t let our Lake Buena Vista excursion pass us by without a few other miscellaneous adventures in Disney Dining. So this time around, we decided to check out two restaurants at their Deluxe resorts: the…

Buttkickin’ Halloween Songs: “Moon Over Bourbon Street” — Sting (1985)

One of these days I’m really going to have to talk about Sting’s 1985 debut album The Dream Of The Blue Turtles because not only is it one of my favorite all-time albums based on the quality of the music alone, it was one of those “Got Me Through High School” records that I ridiculously…

Buttkickin’ Halloween Songs: “Keelhauled” — Alestorm (2009)

It’s metal. It’s Pirate metal! It’s Scottish Pirate metal!! It’s Scottish Pirate metal with a Keytar!!! Not only is Keelhauled a perfect Halloween song to get you in that dress-up-and-gut-a-deserving-swine mood, it pretty much has one of the catchiest sing-along choruses ever recorded. I know we don’t all have Sid Meier-esque daydreams about raiding towns…

Buttkickin’ Halloween Songs: “Wicked Annabella” — The Kinks (1968)

In a dark and misty house Where no Christian man has been Wicked Annabella mixes a brew That no one’s ever seen… From the magnificent The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society album comes this spooky little number written by Ray Davies and sung by brother Dave. Between the thunder of Mick Avory’s percussive…

Album Review: “Misfits” — The Kinks (1978)

Misfits was another commercial success for The Kinks, following the same trajectory as their previous album, but this time they even managed to score a Top 40 single (and sometime AOR-radio staple) A Rock & Roll Fantasy. Their label Arista was probably moderately pleased with the results; RCA, their previous label, must have been FUMING! I…

Noshing In Wonderland #4: The 2013 Epcot International Food & Wine Festival, or: “Before you know it, we’ll be down to our last dime…”

Or yet another episode of “This Is Why I Run”… In what’s become a celebrated annual tradition for Ziggy-Piggy Foodies at Walt Disney World, Epcot presents their International Food and Wine Festival every fall. Between late September 27th and November 11th of this year, a virtual whirlwind of culinary activity takes over WDW’s second theme…

We interrupt this blog to bring you Hokeyboy’s FM voice, or: “No static at all…”

So call me crazy and self-serving but I’m over the moon they used my voice in the Mickey Miles Podcast show opener (about 0:38 seconds in) for Episode 107… Check it out here! This was recorded August 31st at the Downtown Disney Haagen Dazs in Disneyland, California, during their podcast meet-up. Very cool. 🙂 And for…

Film Review: “Metallica: Through The Never” — Nimród Antal (2013)

Rating: 10 / 10 (if you’re a Metallica fan) Rating: 8 / 10 (otherwise) During the opening scenes of the new concert / video montage / Anarchy-gone-berserk film Metallica: Through The Never, a young roadie named Trip (Dane DeHaan) is making his way backstage before a Metallica show. He first passes singer/guitarist James Hetfield, who glares at…

Odds ‘n’ Sods, Bits ‘n’ Pieces, Various ‘n’ Sundry, and so on, or: “And still it begins, needles ‘n’ pins…”

Howdy fellow Space Travelers. I really don’t have a whole lot of content for today, but I thought I’d put up some brief updates about what’s going on with things in Downtown Hokeyville, Population: Us. So without further ado: 1. Anagrammatics! I recently discovered that if you rearrange the letters of my full name, you…