Buttkickin’ Halloween Songs: “Down in the Woods” — Valhall (2014)

Come and take my hand Human child Come and see my land Human child There is nothing to fear Human child You’ll never be alone This will be your home… This could be the most Halloween song we’ve shared in a long time. Maybe ever. I’m not even kidding. Norwegian doom metal band Valhall’s Down…

Buttkickin’ Halloween Songs: “King Tut” — Steve Martin (1978)

Dancin’ by the Nile The ladies love his style Rockin’ for a mile He ate a crocodile… What, more novelty songs this soon? Sure. It’s not like we have hard and fast rules when it comes to Buttkickin’ Halloween Songs. This is our seventh year of presenting Halloween songs that aren’t on every hack playlist…

Buttkickin’ Halloween Songs: “Some Velvet Morning” — Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood (1967)

Flowers growing on a hill Dragonflies and daffodils Learn from us very much Look at us but do not touch Phaedra is my name… Lee Motherf***in’ Hazlewood?? Some Velvet Morning, the Nancy Sinatra/Lee Hazlewood psychedelic-pop duet from 1967, used to terrify me as a kid. Mostly because I had no idea what was going on…

My Boots can MOVE yo

Buttkickin’ Halloween Songs: “Living Dead Girl” — Rob Zombie (1999)

Who is this irresistible creature Who has an insatiable lust for the dead? Living Dead Girl! Even if he hadn’t directed two Halloween movies, Rob Zombie would still be infinitely associated with All Hallows Eve. The man and his music, his entire aesthetic if you will, is what you might expect to find if a…

Buttkickin’ Halloween Songs: “The Cockroach That Ate Cincinnati” — Rose and the Arrangement (1973)

I must offer to you a confession I like movies that give me a fright If the subject is horror, I got to see more or I won’t be contented all night You may call it my ghoulish obsession It’s a subject on which I get chatty But the worst one it seems, haunting all…

Buttkickin’ Halloween Songs: “Master of Darkness” — Star One (2010)

Don’t be afraid, I won’t stray down the dark path My conviction is strong Those who’ve sinned will answer to my wrath I will right what is wrong That’s not the way, the dark will absorb you You should never attack You will be lost like many before you There will be no way back……

Race Review: 2019 Best Damn Race Jacksonville Half Marathon (1/12/2019), or: “Drop dead beauties stompin’ up a storm…”

The holidays. Holy Hannah Haberdashery and Her Henpicked Hasbro Huckleberries, the FREAKIN holidays. Welcome to our first race review of 2019, the 2019 Best Damn Race Jacksonville Half Marathon, in which our intrepid narrator — which I guess is me, and I’m really going to stop talking in the third person here — spins an…

2018 On The Run, or: “Gypsy sons, all were born to run…”

Oh hey. I used to blog once. Once… So hello again fellow space travelers, and I’m hoping anyone still reading this blog had a most amazing holiday season, which is now receding into the shimmering mists of the recent past like trees in the rear-view mirror during the Chickie Run sequence in “Rebel Without A…

Race Review: 2018 Miami Beach Halloween Freaky 4-Miler (10/27/2018), or: “Don’t stand there watching me, follow me…”

Oh hey lookee here, Hokeyblog’s got a new race review! The first in like eight months or something! What gives? Can I pretend that I am just like the dude in the movie Summer School who was in the bathroom this entire time? No? Oh… Well… let’s just move on and talk about the 2018 Miami Beach…

Buttkickin’ Halloween Songs: “Twilight Zone” — Golden Earring (1982)

Is… is it over already? Damn. Another year, another October, another round of Buttkickin’ Halloween Songs have come upon us and, with a heavy heart, have come to an end. And like clockwork, and as usual, ending right on Halloween. This always makes me a bit sad. I kind of look forward to Buttkickin’ Halloween…